Showing posts with label Firefall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefall. Show all posts

2/3/23

Love and Valentines Songs

  

LAST CUTE MINUTE  by Robin Lane  country female electric "Maybelline"-styled guitar. A fun song about coming in touch with her own "fading beauty"--looking for a man with nothing wrong with him, and then admitting that she's got wrinkles. hook "This could be my last cute minute." 



ALL THAT RAZZ by Robeone - flutters, has a smooth jazz chime…. And synthesizer flow that sometimes feel like wailing vocals, Gershwin and Dave Brubeck meets Space influences.



Emily Hurd's "Kiss Me Outta My Right Mind" is a finalist and honorable mention winner in the USA Songwriting Competition.  This old-school country song is about believing love will make it right, while she's trying so hard to do the right things and watching it all fall apart.  

 

Yulia Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius (Instrumental)  Gypsy jazz fusion, like John Coltrane meets Jean Luc Ponty. “Pat Metheny on violin.” goes from moody to orgasmic and major colors.  



Love Killer Jaclyn Bradley  lush, slow tempo, dream pop female vocals, theme of fear as a love killer, let it all hang out, I'm here for the dream of love.   


   There She Is by Firefall:  Commercial pop yacht rock song that elevates an energetic and beautiful woman. "She keeps me inspired. She's taken my breath away. She's got me on fire, and I'm on my best behavior every night and day." 


 

12/10/20

Winter 2021 songs - Seasonal & New Music

 

Mask  Phoebe Legere  Rock and roll, female vocals, going out with parents, and wearing a mask. “I love my mask, I love my mom, I love my dad.” 



Everybody’s Single Ezra Doner  male vocals, countrypolitan--everybody's single tonight a flirtatious song about a guy going to a bar after his “sweet darlin’ wife got tired of married life.” He went to the bar “to do some drinkin’”...and some flirtin'! Ezra’s songs are on SoundCloud under pseudonym Oliver Duplass.

 https://soundcloud.com/oliverduplass/everybodys-single-tonight

Only One  Joe Matera Male Tenor, rock & electric guitar like Nils Lofgren, The Heartbreakers “No one sees your struggle and how careful you are when you ultimately make it.” Multi-faceted songwriter/guitarist Mr. Matera is playing with pop and rock legends for future releases, hosting music segments on Australian radio, and writing for Guitar World and Goldmine magazines. 


Storm Surge  Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius  hard rock/orchestral prog-power ballad with bold baritone/tenor and strings, flute, rock guitar. Storm Surge is about anxiety, a storm that’s raging inside of us. Queensryche-ish.  Special guest leadsinger is Michael Sadler from Saga (Canadian content).  

There She Is  Firefall male tenor vocal, hooky jingle-like, horns, guitars, classicrock, yacht rock, 1970s sounding, Inspired, his little angel lifting him up, good fortune, cloud 9, looking so pretty, head over heels.  

 There She Is | Firefall (bandcamp.com)

Santiago  Sharon Katz   female vocal in English & Spanish, "land meets the water" it is about Santiago, Cuba. Spanish guitar, horns, traditional festival music. Sharon is working with border children and migrant workers in Tijuana and San Diego.


Home Orleans Packing the childhood up and setting out. male singer, a gentle version of the prodigal son, childhood, grownup, becoming a child. "when I need someone to talk to" Orleans’ upcoming EP, of new music in 2021, will include Home. 


11/15/20

Legendary Rock Band Firefall’s New Song & Music Video, “Way Back When” Out

Classic Hit Band, Firefall Available for Interviews to support new video and upcoming album, Comet, due December 11 on Sunset Blvd. Records 

 
Firefall’s “Way Back When” music video opens with the band’s original bassist  Mark Andes comparing the turbulent 1960s with challenges people are going through nowadays. He ends his observation with the hope of “Maybe music will help us get through this storm together.” Then we hear  chiming chords, and see Firefall lead guitarist/singer/co-founder Jock Bartley singing about life and love, recalling many classic musicians of the 1960s--the Beatles, Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, the Rascals, CSN, Credence Clearwater Revival…..   Jock says, “The first verse and first chorus are set in 1965. The second verse and chorus are ‘67, and the third verse and chorus is ’69.  It’s a loving retrospective of how great the music was back then.”  
 
Produced by Jock’s son Jamey, the “Way Back When” video shows memories of screaming fans, war and hate, Woodstock, and photos of 45 RPM singles and artists, interspersing with a band performance.  Watch the video at 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WfrgogTXM

 
Jock and his bandmates: bassist Mark Andes, multi-instrumentalist David Muse (sax, flute, keys), drummer Sandy Ficca, and singer/guitar player Gary Jones are heralding their latest album, COMET on Sunset Blvd. Records--out December 11, 2020.  Since the release of their last new album, 1994’s MESSENGER, Firefall has kept up a hectic touring schedule of 80 plus dates a year, appearing at Performing Arts Centers, festivals, fairs and casinos.  Since 2012, with original members Muse and Andes returning to the Firefall family, the band has been writing and recording as time permitted around tour dates.

 
Over the last ten years their 70’s chart-topping singles “You Are The Woman,” “Just Remember I Love You,” “Strange Way,” and others, have continued to delight perennial fans as well as a younger audience captured by the popularity of the Yacht Rock genre.  The goal with COMET, was to recreate the elan of the original records in a contemporary format.

 
COMET was recorded in Colorado and Nashville, in conjunction with appearances in those markets.  COMET was a group effort and allowed every member to shine.  Highlights include Jock’s “There She Is,” a positive love song, “Before I Met You,” and “New Mexico” reminiscent of the group’s 1976 FM radio hit “Mexico,” a fan favorite.  Firefall’s newest member Gary Jones wrote “Never Be The Same” about his mother passing away. “Hardest Chain” was co-penned by Sandy Ficca and Colorado songwriter Tony Rosario. The band recorded Spirit’s “Nature’s Way,” an environmental anthem song about the end of the hippie movement; Mark Andes (originally in Spirit) sings lead with the Eagles’ Timothy B. Schmit singing along and the Doobie Brothers’ John McFee playing guitars.   


Nashville’s Gary Burr wrote “Younger.” “Ghost Town” is a Tony Joe White original from the 1970s. The late Virginia rocker Robbin Thompson (a member of Bruce Springsteen’s first band and a longtime friend of Firefall) wrote, “A Real Fine Day.” 
 
The cover of the new album is Comet NEOWISE, which lit up the Oregon coastline’s nighttime sky in July 2020. That image is reminiscent of the striking artwork on the band’s 1976 debut album, Firefall, which Jock helped design!


Firefall formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. After their first album, the group toured with Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, The Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Loggins and Messina, Chicago, Cheap Trick, Marshall Tucker, and many others.