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Rufus Cappadocia Releases "Songs For Cello"

New Album: "Songs For Cello"
Music Produced By: Glen Marshall

Video "Transformation" Directed By: Jone Fine

Featuring Free Style Dancer Sheila Anozier

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By: William Dale	Wednesday January 09, 2008

LP out February 12th, 2008 on Velour Music Group

Meet cellist Rufus Cappadocia, a multi-lingual musician, performer, composer and recording artist of incredible range and diversity. From the modalities of Middle Eastern, West African and pan-European folk forms to blues, rock and jazz along the way, adding elements American roots, Mediterranean textures, and Caribbean percussion for good measure, Cappadocia’s effortless and natural embrace of all music is awe-inspiring.

Cappadocia is both a musical maverick and one of the leading voices of cutting edge cello today. After years of experimentation and creative revision, Rufus plays a self-designed five-string electric cello that extends the bass range of the cello down to 41 hz, and through amplification expands its tonal possibilities, creating new sounds by what was once known only as a classical music instrument.

“I’ve studied a lot of different musical vocabularies,” Rufus Cappadocia explains. “And I’ve played with musicians literally from around the world. But, in the end, music all comes down to a single source. You can be pulled this way or that, but essentially it all converges on the same location. Every doorway leads back to one place,” adding with a laugh, “I guess you could say my whole life has been an attempt at getting to that place.”

New York Newsday hailed a Town Hall performance by Rufus (at the Black Rock Coalition’s Tribute to Hendrix Concert) as “the evening’s most mesmerizing moment,” and Rufus has made a career of going where few cellists have gone before, appearing on CD’s with Ross Daly, Kif with David Fiuczynski, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Esma, The Paradox Trio, Odetta, Michael Blake, and Tamalalou, among others. Rufus has also performed with Kasse Mady, Aretha Franklin, The Black Rock Coalition, Theodossi Spassoff, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Michael Hill, Vernon Reid, and Bethany Yarrow.

New album of unaccompanied solo cello compositions by NYC avant-cellist

• Official Velour Music Group Website

1. Prayer
2. Melodie
3. Lament
4. Transformation
5. Forgiveness
6. Element

Vibewrangler Records the Original Puff's Daddy

Vibewrangler Producer Glen Marshall has just returned from a recording session in NYC with Folk Legend Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary fame. Peter is hard at work on a follow up to the 2007 collaboration with his daughter Bethany and
and Canadian Expatriate Rufus Cappadocia which has sold over 500,ooo copies. The new album has Peter revisiting folk standards with long time friends and fellow musicians Dick Kniss and Paul Prestopino.

"Working with Peter one has to really be on their toes". cites Marshall. "He's got an incredible ear and musical intuition." "He knows when to listen to input and when he has to go it alone. He's a very heroic figure." " I feel honored to work with such a
huge talent". "Peter is a perfectionist and really knows his way around a mixing board, he hears everything...he's truly an amazing person."

Dick Kniss and Paul Prestopino are perhaps best known as the fourth and fifth members of the legendary folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. Dick has been the group's bassist since their 1962 beginnings and still plays for their reunion concerts. When Peter, Paul and Mary stopped touring regularly in the '70s he became bassist for John Denver, with whom he co-authored classics like "Sunshine On My Shoulder." Over the years Dick has performed with such jazz greats as Woody Herman, Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams and Zoot Sims.

Paul Prestopino is a multi-instrumentalist, skilled on guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro and harmonica. Beginning in 1961 he was accompanist for the Chad Mitchell Trio and has performed on stage and on recordings with such diverse performers as Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Bela Fleck, Laura Nyro, Livingston Taylor, John Denver and Aerosmith. As a recording engineer Paul has contributed to the "Concert for Bangladesh" and "No Nukes" albums.