my good friend david tauler is the guy (on the left) who played sax at our wedding on our opening tune, sting's "
brought to my senses". The song is in 11 and the original solo is played by branford marsalis. dave was all over it like ugly on a gorilla.
dave aka echO, also fronts a band called
House of echO.
the band is a remarkable fusion - it's currently composed of two white guys and two black guys. forced to pick a genre, we'd hafta say: rock meets soul. what i mean by that is, clearly this a rock band - they sound as big as say maroon 5. but they just won the
grand prize in the john lennon songwriters competition... in the R&B category.
let me say that again: meltingearth is proud to announced that our band House of Echo (H.O.E.), entered one of their songs in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, the most prestigious of them all and WON THE GRAND PRIZE in R&B!!!
at this point we must also thank brad and leslie at
studio 51 for the incredible investment they've made to get the band this far. as well as the incredible business development efforts of
teo and the rest of
meltingearth. of course, this would mean nothing if dave couldn't write a damn song and the band couldn't play. turns out, he can. and they can.
so, we've gotten this far, but the the grand prize winners will now compete head to head to determine the 12 Lennon Award Winners. and just like american idol, this vote is open to the public. now is the time we need your help!!!
Please go here to find out more, and
please vote as often as you can, up to once per day!
//a dear friend of ours named Carmen Calhoune (also out of studio 51, congrats again brad and leslie!) is competing for best Gospel song, so please vote for her "daily" while your there.
Labels: HouseofechO, meltingearth, songwritting
