Ian McCalman was born in Edinburgh, 1946. He was one of the founder members of "The McCalmans" which was formed in 1964. Originally studying Architecture and Photography, he has toured all over the world with "The Macs" with whom he has recorded 24 albums ...
Kevock digital recording studio, specialising in acoustic music.
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WWW.MIRAGETOWN.COM
Mirage Town was formed by its leader Amir Badamchi in 2005.
MIRAGE TOWN is the former Iranian Alternative Metal music band.
Their indie debut Album Mirage Town includes both English and especially Persian (Farsi) tracks.
More: www.miragetown.com
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José Carlos Matos; guitarplayer.
José Carlos Matos was born on the 29th of June 1973, Johannesburg, South Africa. His father was a musician [drummer] and as you can imagine, this had a profound effect on his life. He grew up listening to Santana, George Benson, Queen and Earth Wind & Fire and frequently assisted his father´s gigs. JCM had piano lessons at the age of 8 and that gave him some basis in music theory.
The family decided on leaving South Africa due to the crisis that was headed towards the country during the mid '80s. They arrived in Portugal on the 4th of Febuary 1984 and have been residing there ever since. As a teenager he played keyboards at home with his father and the joy of jamming was taking over him very quickly. He then discovered a band called Europe that blew him away, and after that he was already air playing electric guitar on a tennis racket.
After that he started listening to Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and eventually stumbled onto a band that changed his life forever... the band was Van Halen.
He just flipped out with Eddie's guitar playing and wanted to be just like him, so he went to a Musical Instruments' shop in the summer of 1990 to search for an electric guitar and found an Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" replica [Vester] and bought it. He spent about 2 years literally locked in his room practising and jamming to Van Halen records. During this time he discovered Joe Satriani, Nuno Bettencourt and Steve Vai. He considered these musical giants as his virtual teachers and set out to learn the best he could off "Surfing with the Alien", "Flying in a Blue Dream", "Pornograffitti" and "Passion and Warfare". He spent hours and hours playing with the albums from begining to end, perfecting his interpretation of the songs and was living the dream he set out to do, so he basically taught himself how to play guitar from records, music books and listening carefully to all types of music, learning the sense of phrasing, improvisation, dynamics and music theory ...
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Kelly Mcguire-Singer/Songwriter: Not long ago, someone asked me why I've chosen music to be my life, and I couldn't answer the question, because if the truth be known, the music chose me. In the begining It was a distant drumming, my mother's heart beating, then my brother's transistor radio wafting late night motown hits through our shared bedroom, but I was fated even then to some day discover the Instrument of my lifelong passion ...
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