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On a Inconspicuous street located on the south side of Storm Valley lives an anti- Hero by the name of Relly Santiago aka The Postman.    Being a hip hop artist by day, the dishonest music industry leads the Postman on his own agendas.    The half cyborg rap phenom has a knack for overthrowing the industry rules and standards.    Guided by his intelligent brother Christobal The Vision he seeks revenge in the favor of the nobody’s.    On a Friday night trouble is brewing on the south side.    Political ties leads the Postman down a path of anger and destruction!    A knock at the door begins the night of terror.    “Who is it?” Relly responds “It’s your cousin Boom!”    Boom rarely comes out at a time like this so the postman knew it was trouble!    “Come in” he announces.    Boom entered the house with a face of disappointment.    “Somebody hit my Cafe around 7:30 pm”....
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Shades of Brazil - Here Come's the Sun


A Canadian electronic/rock singer, a Canadian drummer, and an American Jazz legend singing some Bossa Novas from Los Angeles to Ottawa over Skype? Lets start at the beginning...

This project began as a small dream between friends Emily Florence, Allyson Rogers and Jelsa Palao. 

Canadian singer/songwriter Emily Florence (of Los Angeles based Big Black Bugs) and Canadian musician Allyson Rogers had been childhood friends and had recently reconnected over possibly playing together on a project. At the same time, Los Angeles based grammy nominated singer and songwriter Jelsa Palao and Emily Florence had been discussing how wonderful it would be to sing together. Florence played Palao's "For the Love of Carmen" album for Rogers, and the path was set!

All three artists connected on several Skype calls to figure out how they were going to work together, and discovered that they all shared a deep passion for the Brazilian Bossa Nova & Samba, and "Shades of Brazil' was born. Palao and Florence would trade off tunes and perform a few duets, and Palao would also produce the album.

It was decided that Florence would fly from Los Angeles up to Ottawa to record the bed tracks with Rogers and her musician friends Karen Rauh on Keys, Adrian Matte on Sax, and Dave Schroeder on bass, at Morning Anthem Studios. Palao attended the sessions from LA via Skype, and sang her live guide vocal over some of the tracks.

Florence then brought the bed tracks back to Los Angeles, where award winning engineer and musician Robert Martin recorded Palao and Florence's vocals. Martin himself also played on many of the tracks as the album evolved, along with artists such as Octavio Bailly (of Brazil 66), Frank Potenza, David Moscoe, and Rogers, who'd flown down to LA to add a few additional songs.

It has been as unusual as it has been joyful to explore these beautiful classic songs and bring to you our impossible, across borders interpretations of them.


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