The Boat People

The Boat People is an Indie pop band from Australia. It was formed in 2000. The band was playing even today. The current members of the band are James O’Brien (vocals and bass), Robin Waters (vocals and keyboard), Charles Dugan (vocals and guitar) and Tony Garret (drums). They used the instruments such as keyboard, and tambourine mixed with two part harmonies, ironic lyrics and pop inspired melodies.

Crowded House, Jeff Buckley and The Beatles are their main musical success. They previously played in a band called four on the Floor as friends in high school. They played in many including St. Ursula’s College. They signed with MGM Records and recorded many EPs. Tours to Australia, the East Coast, saw the band hold up acts such as The Shins, David Byrne, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, and Idlewild. In August 2005, they released their first album titled “yesyesyesyesyes” on Shock records. The band will popular the studio in June to begin recording on “yesyesyesyesyes”.The producer was J.Walker of “Machine Translations” on Board. The band have been in precast over recent weeks at Wavelength Studios in Brisbane. 20 tracks will be reduced into the album. In April last, the band released the first single from “Chandeliers” by the name of “Awkward Orchid Orchard”. It was co-worked by a video created by paul

Underwood who has worked on previous videos from the band. 52 bands are found amongst the display used to illustrate suggestions by the viewers, in the video. In July, 2008 their second album “Chandeliers” was released. The singles of the band were, in 2002 “Supernova”, in 2002 “From The Corner”, in 2003 “Arms Length”, in 2004 “Tell Someone Who Cares”, in 2005 “Clean” and “Unsettle My Heart” , in 2005 “Irony” and “Awkward Orchard Orchid” released. The band was awarded as Belowground Music Video Awards for the single “Tell Someone Who Cares”, Q Song Awards and The Courier- Mail Peoples Choice Award for "Unsettle My Heart" ,Q Song Awards, The Song of the Year for "Unsettle My Heart".

HOWLING BELLS

HOWLONG BELLS is an energetic Indie Rock band, featuring four talented young musicians. It was formed in November 2004, in Sydney.

They have been in action from past 4 years, and their previous releases have been quite successful in the market.

Band Members—

· Brendan Picchio on bass,

· Juanita Steon on Rhythm guitar and Vocals

· Glenn Raonbow Moul on drums and

· Joel Steon on Lead guitar

· This band have composed and released two albums till now,

· Howlong Bells on 8^th May 2006, was recorded by Bella Union

· Radio Wars on 9^th February 2009, was recorded by Ondependient Records

Single tracks—

· “Blessed Nights”

· “Low Happenong”

· “Settong Sun”

· “Wishong Stone”

· “Onto the Chaos”

· “Cities burnong down”

Hirokazu

Hirokazu is a Japanese band headed by Tanaka. Tanaka entered into a college for engineering in the electronics branch, but was interested more to know about electronics musical instruments. Professors also helped him in this field and he has got degree as a sound engineer in 1980.

The video game company Nintendo hired him as soon as he completed his graduation; it was a secured position for him in this field. But on the other side the current company of Tanaka was competing for the finals of music competition.

It was a great demand of time for Tanaka to choose any one of both, either band or Nintendo. Tanaka left the band.

The Nintendo work was great; he had got the Arcade machine. He started working on sound mixing and effects.

The job was to compose sound in the phase of program and recode it into binaries and install them into the actual sound machine called Arcade machine.

Later, Tanaka incorporated the Hirokazu band, and the group gained widespread popularity over time, and so did Tanaka as a solo musician!

HUBERT LAWS

Hubert Laws was a famous flute player. He started playing flute from his childhood days. In 1960, Hubert won scholarship from his school Julliard School of Music of New York City.

He was dedicated to music and his learning hunger was up to an extreme.

He used to learn music in both places, in home by Master Julius Baker and in classroom as well.

He also played music in both places, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in his season of 1969-72. During this period, he got widespread publicity and established his rapport in the world of music.

HUB CITY STOMPERS

Current members—

· Jenny Whiskey in tenor sax and vocals

· Rev. T Sinister in vocals

· Reggae Bob in bass

· Mattie Glock in guitar

· The Goblin in drums

· Slim Jim Jones in Trombone

Former Members—

· Dustin Kreidler (DK) in baritone alto sax, sax and melodica

· Adam X in guitar

· Maniac Mike in keyboard and organ

· Chris Finnegan in bass

· Erik Schroeder (Lord Skoochie) in tenor sax

· Kevin Turner in MC

· Ambrose (Michael Ambrose) in keyboard and organ

· Chris Jaffe in guitar

Discography—

· Blood, Sweat and Beer released in 2004, under the label of Megalith Records

· Mass Appeal EP was released in 2005

· Dirty Jersey was released in 2006, under label of Megalith Records

DANNY YAMAMOTO - Hiroshima

Another member of the Hiroshima band is Danny Yamamoto, who graduated from Dorsey High School, Los Angeles. Danny has had a deep love relation with music.

He started his music career with Accordian, Danny played the instruments virtually in a band and refracted his eclectic taste in music and art. He found Drums as the key and a tool to express the self-expression. He played the battle of the band in his high school but got second place. It was just the rising of a star musician. He made a group with a Jazz trio including most popular musician-producer and bassist Larry Klein, famous pianist and downbeat award-winning Jazz keyboardist Billy Childs and himself.

After a luminous start, he settled in music major field at UCLA, but involved more and more with Hiroshima gradually. Later he became principle member of Hiroshima and left the school to give fulltime to world of music. Danny kept his interest toward traditional Japanese music while giving his total time to other bands.

Other then just a drummer, he is learning and playing other instruments like taiko in his music workshop, and also in concert in Hiroshima. He also plays synthesizers with his friends and June Kuramoto. He studed drum from his drum teacher Freddy Gruber and expanding the collection of ethnic instruments.

DAN KURAMOTO - Hiroshima

Don Kuramoto was an art student from the college of East Los Angeles. Dan was working for Recreation and County parks and L.A. to earn money and also working as a sports specialist. Dan used to play flute in his Hippy style. Peoples call this Post-Hippy style pf flute playing. He was highly qualified too, with the knowledge of evaluation of ethnic studies on the campus; he held a bachelor degree in fine arts like drawing and painting too.

He set as the first department chairman at Cal State University at Long Beach, for Asian-American studies. He started teaching music as an Asian-American and as an artist, for three years. He found university life is not big enough to open his wings. He also found that playing music for various fund-raisers community was a kind of expression, which became his passion.

Music was his whole-soul and music also provided a great forum for communication and art that was his desire. Fueled by musical work of Jazz artists that he loved most, and the incredible creative and destructive energy of the artist like Wind, Fire and Earth, Jimi Hendrix; Den assumed music as a vehicle to voice and music of Japan and America was mixed and both heritage of music get together and build a greater sound that will touch the soul of all creatures. He felt that the greatest source of America is its diversity.

Later on, he met June and found the answers of his questions and destination of his journey. She was a famous Japanese classical musician and her high desire to create a “new music” inspired Dan a lot. This inspiration helped them to make collaboration and here was the birth of Hiroshima. They had short music background but had a endless ideas and imagination with persistence. Dan became the lead music composer, leader and producer of the band.