Music score for "Locked Out"... a documentary by Joan Sekler. Mixed at RH Factor post production studio.

Over the past 2 weeks I have been in my studio, with fellow composer Daniel Walker, scoring a new documentary called Locked Out. This film, produced by Joan Sekler, is about the mining community of Boron California where workers fought and won to keep their "union" jobs from being taken away by an international corporation named Rio Tinto. Here is a photo of us (Joan Sekler, me, Peter Kelsey) at the final mix session.

Selling my 1978 American Made Strat!!!

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I am selling my 1978 Fender Stratocaster, Made in America, Custom wiring (3 toggle switches), Seymour Duncan pickups (2 Hot Rails & JB Humbucker), Floyd Rose bridge (currently blocked, easily reversed if desired), Custom paint job (blue), Ebony neck, Vintage tweed case. This is the ULTIMATE studio guitar... For sale by session guitarist Terry Wollman, previously owned by Dean Parks.


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CIty of Darkness-The Walled City of Kowloon

Hak Nam, The City of Darkness, in Kowloon China was a cultural masterpiece. What started as a collection of squatter's shacks became a massive group of buildings connected together at some points up to 14 stories high. This "city" within a city occupied 6 1/2 acres and housed 33,000 people.

My good friend, and composer, Daniel Walker has written a musical about this city that was eventually taken down by the Chinese government. We had 10 people working in my studio (a new record for Ollie Llama Studio) to record the vocals for this new show. I will definately keep you posted on this one.

(For background read "City of Darkness" by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, and "Kowloon Walled City" by Ryuji Miyamoto.)

Gregory Manning CD promotional performance at Borders

Last weekend I performed with recording artist Greg Manning to promote his new CD "The Calling." Vocalist Melanie Taylor (just off the road with John Mayer) joined us on a cool version of Bonnie Raitt's "Nick of Time." Thanks everybody for coming out. We will be doing another performance this Saturday at the Borders on Westwood Boulevard from 2-4 pm. If you live in Los Angeles come on out and say hi.

Abbey Lincoln - Memorial Service

Just recorded Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" in my studio with bassist Reggie Carson for Abbey Lincoln's memorial service, being held on October 1st in New York City. Reggie performed a 3 bass accompaniment for chanteuse Ms. Evelyn Mason (Abbey's niece) who will be performing it at the memorial.

Sharing great art... Nina Shortridge-award winning quilt maker

I believe it's important for Artists to support each other. I just saw the beautiful and vibrant artwork of quilt-maker Nina Shortridge. Let me tell you about this Artist I just had the pleasure of meeting.

Nina Shortridge is a Marin County textile artist, whose award winning artwork has been displayed in numerous publications as well as juried exhibits and galleries throughout the United States, Europe and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is displayed in corporate buildings and museums and is included in several private collections. Ms. Shortridge can be seen in the documentary film “Woman’s Work: Making Quilts – Creating Art”, a film by Charlotte Grossman featuring the Faultline Studio Artists, of which she is a member.

www.ninashortridge.com

Memphis Beat with Keb' Mo'

I've been working with multi-talented TV composer Keb' Mo' on the new series Memphis Beat. If you want a good dose of authentic Memphis blues surrounded by a cool new hour long cop drama featuring Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, DJ Qualls, Sam Hennings, Leonard Earl Howze, Abraham Benrubi, and Celia Weston... tune into TNT on Tuesday nights. The show features some great writing, superb guest stars, and the music of Keb' Mo'. We've been giving my studio a run for it's money.