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CD/DVD Releases: New Fernwood CD ''Almeria'' March 1, 2008

Posted on Monday, January 21 @ 07:14:17 UTC by nightowl

The new Fernwood CD Almeria will be released March 1, 2008. Fernwood is Gayle Ellett (of Djam Karet) and Todd Montgomery, who compose contemporary acoustic music on traditional World instruments. They are releasing their debut CD Almeria in March 2008. Recorded in Malibu and Topanga, California, these 12 instrumental tunes are frail and haunting, beautiful and dreamy, with a strong cinematic and pan-cultural feel. All music played by hand, on instruments made out of wood! Their all-acoustic music is performed on Greek and Irish bouzouki, sitar, ruan, mandolin, harmonium, guitar, oud, bulbul tarang, dotara, gobijen, piano, upright bass, and other instruments. This is a Limited Edition CD, there will only be 500 CDs made.

Fernwood will be featured on an up-coming "Echoes" radio show, hosted by John Diliberto. Fernwood will be performing LIVE as part of his Living Room Concert Series, for later broadcast. Not surprisingly, this will be recorded in the living room of Fernwood's Gayle Ellett. The radio show "Echoes" is broadcast on over 150 stations nationally, and has an active listenership of 300,000 people, so this is an important performance for Fernwood.



Currently they are recording some tracks on a new CD by Italian psych-folk group The NIHIL PROJECT. And they are also working with numerous film directors from around the world, on different projects, and some of these films can be currently viewed at Fernwood's website.

You can hear complete songs from their new CD Almeria at their website site: www.virb.com/Fernwood

BIOGRAPHY INFO: Gayle Ellett's (of Djam Karet) music can currently be heard on MTV-International, and on network TV. Playing traditional Japanese music on his 13 string Koto, these compositions can be heard in the animation "Fuggy Fuggy," and in some "Priceline" TV commercials with William Shatner. He has performed on over 50 CDs, and on numerous Film and TV shows, animations, commercials, computer games, and an infomercial! You can find more info at: www.virb.com/GayleEllett.

Todd Montgomery has studied the sitar for 3 years with a real sitar master, Harihar Rao, who is Ravi Shankar's oldest student. He performed on Irish bouzouki and mandolin for the movie, Chasing The Dragon, The Veronica Guerin Story, and has been performing professionally for over thirty years. You can find more info at: www.myspace.com/tjmontgomery.

[Source: Topanga Music]

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