FUTUREMAN of Grammy award winning group, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, continued recording part of his orchestral series, THE AMERICAN and SECRET KINGS at Kalimba Studio in the December. This piece honors one of classical music's greatest and forgotten talents from the 18th century, Le Chevalier de Saint-George, termed the "BLACK MOZART". This epic work consists of 2 multi-media works of 8 and 6 movements respectively. Futureman conducted an octet reading of most of the pieces by area professionals and string majors. He also recorded a 17 year old prodigy, bassist KEVIN JABBONSKI, a student from Rice University who was recommended by bassist, EDAR MYERS for the session. Kevin added solo bass and section parts for other mixed classical media works that also include rap, electronics and synthesis.
18 year old artist, ALANA RAE of Brentwood, TN did a song demo of her tune, "In My Hand" at Kalimba Studio in December. In the style of Michelle Branch/ Avail Lavigne, this was Alana first studio recording which was used for a song writing contest for 8 Williamson County Schools. Alana is a powerful, natural singer and an up-and-coming songwriter. It is the first collaboration by MICHAEL NELSON and JIM ROBERTS and it resulted in an additional 3 song collaboration/production deal starting in Jan of 2006.
