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(Message started by: nmf016 on Nov 25^th, 2005, 2:46pm)

Title: new Robby article
Post by nmf016 on Nov 25^th, 2005, 2:46pm

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051125/2019417.asp

Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac and his Music Is Art Foundation have teamed with Summit Educational Resources and released "Music Is Hope," a compilation album featuring performances by the Goos, Klear, Ani DiFranco, Terry Sullivan and Katrina Carlson, among others. Proceeds from the sale of the disc are earmarked to fund the MIA/Summit initiative, which aims to research the effect of music on children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
The project is a natural outgrowth of Takac's mission to strengthen the presence of music education in area schools. Most recently, the bassist/record producer toured local high schools offering a blend of live music performance and self-empowerment-centered motivational speaking during midday assemblies.

Happily, Takac and Goos songwriter John Rzeznik contributed a live version of their wrenching, confessional alt-rock nugget "Here Is Gone" to the project, thereby raising the commercial profile of "Music Is Hope." DiFranco contributes her Amungus collaboration "Napoleon," a track remixed by Takac with the added contributions of his Amungus partners Brian Schulmeister and Greg Suran.

"Music Is Hope" is further bolstered by contributions from Takac's roster of Good Charamel Records bands, including Last Conservative, the Juliet Dagger, Klear and Terry Sullivan, all of whom offer previously unreleased tracks for the disc.

Good Charamel has also issued the third installment in Takac's "Music Is Art" live compilations disc sets, this one documenting last summer's art/music festival in Allentown, held in the parking lot and surrounding environs of the bassist's Chameleon West studios. "Music Is Art 2005" would make a fitting inclusion in a time capsule; it's vast and sprawling, and it ably documents the agility and diversity of the Buffalo original music scene over the course of four discs.

There are plenty of standouts here including Klear - with brand new vocalist Adrian Lewis - stomping through the soulful, rootsy "Circa 73"; Sullivan's soul-drenched ballad "Walk Alone" (with David Kane's barrelhouse piano and Donny Farmer's slide guitar providing sweat-drenched atmosphere); Takac leading a group of high school student-rockers through a spirited take on the Dead Boys' timeless "Sonic Reducer"; the Global Village Idiots' airy, textural "Children in the Well"; and Fold in Half Cat's bold and jubilant "Between the Pub and the Pink."

"Music Is Art 2005" is ultimately a celebration of a vibrant rock scene, and perhaps, a reminder of what takes place in our own front yard pretty much every night of the week. There's a rich abundance of styles in full evidence here, from pop to punk, art-rock to blues-based rock 'n' roll, metal to ambient, funk to frankly freaky. And it's all Buffalo music. A little civic pride is in order.

Takac will be signing copies of the "Music Is Hope" disc between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. today in Media Play, 3054 Sheridan Drive, Amherst. For more information on this project, as well as the "Music Is Art 2005" box set, visit www.musicisart.org or www.chameleonwest.com. Information on Summit Educational resources can be found at www.summited.org.

And the link has a Robby picture.

Title: Re: new Robby article
Post by DrPepperGoo87 on Nov 26^th, 2005, 11:08am

great article! :) thanks for posting it. ;D

Title: Re: new Robby article
Post by Saz_Goo on Nov 26^th, 2005, 3:11pm

Thanks for that, a very interesting read! I didn't realise Greg was part of Amungus too, very cool! :thumbsup: