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From Alien Skin's highly anticipated third album, Ghost In The Rain: a work which is, as one reviewer writes, "a collection of fleeting images caught in the corner of your mind, clinging to the darkest threads of your subconscious". The eerie, cinematic mystery of the first two albums continues to be refined with the present "Vampyra" and other superb stand out songs.

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Lee Negin is an international composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and recording engineer. A prolific composer and videographer, he has released several videos and recordings in his career. 2012 will see the release of several CDs, videos and more, collaborations with leading Korean performance artists, and a solo tour of Europe and some Asian cities. Lee Negin’s music is available for purchase at iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Reverbnation, Vibedeck, IndieRhythm, Bandcamp, etc.

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"Concrete Vibe is an eclectic mix of influences and personalities that collectively refuses to play “inside the box” and is totally bereft of sanity. It took 4 years to put this band together. We knew from the start we didn’t want the drama, baggage or sound of anyone else. We spent quite a while jamming, trying to get the feel of how the music was going to sound and we just turned on the recording deck and went for it."

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artwork by Artur Rosa
music by Fabrizio Paterlini

ArthurBlue does not consider himself an artist. He claims not to know exactly what art is and to have a feeling that it's more than what he does. For him, computer graphics is just a hobby that started in September 2006 and resulted in his first "half-decent" image in December 2006. This may well be, but the splendid images that he continues to produce rarely fail to draw a response of sublime appreciation from those who have the good fortune to encounter his work.

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By day a finance manager, by night a composer-singer-musician-producer, Alberto Arcangeli has been making his presence felt on the independent music scene for almost a decade with a very personal music style that seamlessly blends folk-rock, country and pop with a delightful splash of seventies psychedelia.

Max Maffia & the Empty Daybox

Review by Gianmaria Consiglio
(translation by Tony Lawson)

Is it still possible in this technocratic age to rediscover your own roots? Do we still conserve something of our natural essence, or is all lost? “Happiness is a tree” comes the answer from Max Maffia (ma-féar) and his Empty Daybox. And an answer like that, coming from an information technology expert hailing musically from the areas of rock and new wave and from artists such as Hendrix and Syd Barrett, really says it all. It is even more surprising if we look back over this artist’s distant origins.

It all started in Salerno (southern Italy) with a funky-rock band called the Peanuts, on the Italian music scene from the end of the 80’s to the mid-90’s, and then continued with brief appearances in the ska group Appesi A Un Filo (Hanging from a Thread) and Delirio (Delirium). It was during this period, with the inauguration of his own independent label “Daybox Records”, that Max unplugged his electric guitar for the first time and the first branch of the tree began to bud with a series of surprising in-house productions such as “An Afternoon Like This”, the improvised “Seasons” series, and two original soundtracks. Then, from 2000 to 2004 back to some more electric shock treatment with the Irish folk, dub, and space-rock band “Il Pozzo di San Patrizio” (Saint Patrick’s Well), followed by a brief period from 2005 to 2006 with the electronica band “Nicodemo” (Nicodemus).

Meanwhile Max was also busy founding and acting as first president of the cultural association “Anima Mundi” one of whose initial projects, in the spring of 2007, was the courageous production “The Right Compilation”, supported by the FAO. It was not, however, until after the production of a number of young independent bands that it first became evident that the tree had actually taken root and was growing up big and solid and that it carried a name bequeathed to it by Daybox Records which shut up shop in 2009.

Suddenly, everything becomes crystal clear. All the traces of an intense and courageous choice of direction, both on an artistic and a personal level, become visible, and the deeper reasons that led Max to choose such a direction become comprehensible.

And so the first fruits have begun to ripen on the tree, holding within them small jewels that seek a reconciliation with the world and ask for total abandonment on the part of the listener’s ear. Each one has a story to tell, like “Arabia” for example, which speaks of a fascinating and at the same time dangerous world and attempts to redesign it more as it ought to be, or “Rain” which, with the notes of its arpeggio, lets us feel every falling drop like a purification. Then there is “In volo” (On the wing) with the sound of the cello that is the air beneath us and the rest that is us ourselves, poised at the window, surprised to catch ourselves dreaming. “Sunday will be five” with its lopsided rhythm lets us know that something is not right but also searches for a solution and, notwithstanding everything, manages to find one. There is also “Dancing on a gray day”, of course, that dances to the cycle of life and, on closing the circle, waits for another one to open.

This is the Empty Daybox now, and this is what Max Maffia has become today at the opening of a new circle.

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New Yorker by adoption, Atilla Jelinek has developed an eclectic musical style which, while remaining fundamentally guitar-driven and upbeat, refuses nonetheless to recognize genre boundaries and wanders freely from lounge to world to jazz/melodic rock and upbeat dance tunes with an easy elegance that never fails to delight his audiences everywhere.

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Respected by both fans and peers across the globe and often referred to as a blend of music icons such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Ron Sexsmith & Neil Finn – late bloomer DC Cardwell has only just begun his foray into the world of music. A “triple threat” singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (not to mention producer!) he recently sealed his credentials by taking out BOTH top prizes in the national Australian Catapult Song Contest.