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So, this happened… 2018

2018 has been a pretty busy year and we are incredibly grateful to all of the amazing creativity, talent & spirit that has graced us.

Here are few of the highlights, in no particular order:

Earthstar began 2018 Dane Sandborg (Foxtrails) & Amanda Espy (Ritual Gold) completed their unique & beautiful EP, entitled Gold & Odin.

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A short, but highly formal writing session with Busbee & Lennon Stella

Our Earthstar family has been the busiest bees of all –  Space Babies released “Spaceportâ€, “The Space Babies Show: A Song in a Dayâ€, “Love Song†(The Cure cover), “White Bird (It’s A Beautiful Day cover), “Fly Like an Eagle†(Steve Miller Band cover), a fun remix of “Touch a Humanâ€, “Life is a Doorwayâ€, “Child of Nature†(John Lennon cover) & “Book of Lightâ€. Most of the songs listed here also have a music video, all available for viewing at https://spacebabiesmusic.com/videos/

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The 12 legged groove machine from Manchester, UK artist The Winachi Tribe has visited twice this year while working with JX on a few songs for their upcoming album

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Earthstar’s very own GregJam (Greg Beylerian, Michael Vest, John X Volaitis, Nico Borromeo & Hal Cragin) & special guest/Armenian woodwind master Norik Manoukian have completed a beautiful merging of worlds in an upcoming triple album entitled “Highland Revolutionâ€.
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Warren Cuccurullo (Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, Duran Duran) completed his newest CD entitled “Missing Personâ€.
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Farmer Dave Scher, Nico Borromeo & Team Mar Vista ArtWalk – Steppin into Art got deep in an all-niter to complete the KCRW #RadioRace and this is how it turned out!

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Team MVAW

Chris Monti (guitarist – Big Nazo) stopped in to record a love song for his fiancé while she was out shopping for a wedding dress – both completed their missions in less than 2 hours.

Indonesian surfer/DJ/electro whiz Dully Wave threw down some magnificent magic with his cool toys & guitar.

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Dully Wave

Experimental vocalist Sussan Deyhim & songwriter Jeannie Lurie were still smiling after Sussan came in and sang 55 stellar tracks in 3.5 hours!!

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During the summer, Little Monarch graced us with their trifecta of talent, while playing dress-up with found objects.
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Singer/songwriter Greg Pulier visited to record a whole bunch of his great songs. Artwork by Gregory Beylerian
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Engineer Ben Kernion & artist JDub (https://www.akajdub.com/) dropped the bass on a mighty track.
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Had a great session here with Manchester, UK locals Tom Ash & Jack Carpenter (The Luckies). These 2 played about 20 acoustic guitar & vocal songs while standing & facing each other… and laughing most of the time
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play with this 360° panorama of Matt,Aaron & Stephen
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Aaron Wills aka Peanut (311) and friends Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Kaveh Rastegar (Kneebody and Dakah) & Matt DeMerritt (Macy Gray, De La Soul) joined forces for an all-star instrumental journey.
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Mark Lewis & Monalia Ventress aka Guarro Martinez recruited a colorful crew {Lauren Wood,  Mike Tempo (Bonedaddys), Paul Lacques (I See Hawks in LA)} to join them for Canto de Lluvia (Rain Chant), La Moncha & Feel My Body Throb
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Alanis Morissette popped in to do some writing with the talented Julian Coryell & keyboardist Mike Farrell for the musical theater presentation of Jagged Little Pill
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John Schneider, Dan Lippel & Mac Grgic graced us with some microtonal guitar magic as only they can do.
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John Schneider also joined us with Jesse Flowers for some classical magic.
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A bunch of really fun jams and a couple of voiceovers for Gimlet Media (featuring Nando Villa) & Dotted Music – (Featuring Kellie Sue Peters)

We are also proud to announce that 2 members of our Earthstar family received Grammy nominations this year – so we shoutout P!nk & Beck with congratulations!

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We have been been compiling what has proven to be some extremely diverse playlists of all of our recent guests’ releases. Catch them here on Apple Music & Spotify!

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