ASPIRATION – LaRue / Fantacone
Progressive rock keyboardists Lisa LaRue and Federico Fantacone, have
collaborated on a Christmas release titled "Aspiration." The track
was originally a piano piece written and performed by LaRue, for which
Fantacone wrote, arranged and performed orchestrations. The artists
are releasing the track December 1, with the wishes, "May you reach
all of your dreams this holiday season." It will be available as a
free download on the artists' various web pages, listed below.
LaRue and Fantacone plan on completing a full-length album together in 2013.
Lisa LaRue, who has released 7 albums, is a progressive rock
keyboardist who has worked extensively with John Payne (Asia featuring
John Payne) with her band 2KX, and collaborated and worked with many
others including Nikki Squire (Esquire), Michael Sadler (Saga), Ryo
Okumoto (Spock's Beard), David Mark Pearce, and her husband,
singer-songwriter John Baker (Mars Hollow, The Little Girls). She is
a two-time Oklahoma Music Awards' Native American Artist of the Year,
and her band 2KX has been nominated as Best Instrumental Band at the
Los Angeles Music Awards as well as other nominations.
Federico Fantacone played in the band Frigo in the late 1970's-early
1980's, along with Marco Croci who is now the bass player for Italian
prog band Maxophone, and Paolo Dolfini who also played keyboards for
well-known Italian prog band Jumbo. Fantacone's cover of the Flower
Kings' instrumental "The Rain Maker" appears on the boxset "A Flower
Full of Stars," a tribute to the Flower Kings compiled by Marco
Bernard (Samurai) for Musea Records. Fantacone has also recorded
four albums under the moniker "Orchestre Celestri", most recently the
album "Four." He has also recently contributed a cover of Steve
Hackett's "Transylvanian Express" which will be included in the
forthcoming "Family Snapshop." A 3 CD box to celebrate the solo
careers of Genesis members being issued by Mellow Records.
Lisa LaRue
Official website: http://www.lisalaruemusic.com
ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/lisalarue
Federico Fantacone:
Bandcamp: http://orchestrecelesti.bandcamp.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/orchestrecelesti
ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/orchestrecelesti
Aurovine: http://orchestrecelesti.aurovine.com/
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