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Kutamusic, 12711 Lee Ben Rd., Kingsville, MD 21087

New Artist:

Golden Boy (Fospassin) - "Another Day to Go" and "Sexy Sexy" Golden Boy (Fospassin) is the ultimate singer/songwriter for the 21st century music lover. Great artist, he is a hero in the new way hip hop with world music. Originally, he incorporates a wide range of influences that makes his songs unique. Surrounded by energy, emotions and people from all over the world, Golden Boy (Fospassin) is bringing to the world something hot for people to forget their worries, while his lyrics stir the deepest universal emotions. Tight rythmes, great chorus and excellent productions brought his music at the top level of arts and entertainment. Fantastic composer and energetic singer-dancer, he has been awarded more than 15 times in 2 years and Golden Boy (Fospassin) receives more than 15000 weekly radio airplay reports worldwide. His music is a fusion of hip hop,reggae,pop and world music.Enjoy the new way hip hop.

Alexx Calise - a female rock singer, guitarist and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Currently, her music is in heavy rotation on several MTV/VH1 reality programs. She has been featured in such magazines as Guitar World, Singer and Musician and Blender, and is currently touring all over the States. Listen for "Pull It (Bullet) on Kutamusic." Additionally, you can visit www.myspace.com/alexxcalise or www.alexxcalise.com if you'd like to hear/learn more about her.
 

     - NEW NOBILITY BAND - Social activism and musician non-conformist band which fight for global justice. New nobility band is international band established in Sarajevo 2005. After releasing CD-singl Make a better world in Europe band continued work in Australia. 2007.

      - Michael Stollaire, Mike is an established songwriter from California. We are streaming three  of his  best   songs - Knock Down the Walls, Just Like Yesterday and Watch Her Walk.

     - Be sure to read about - "Recording Acoustic Guitars".

A Message from the 80's Rock God... 

Here it is songwriters and original music fans – a place you can call home. There are many websites for music but none quite like this. Introducing the original artist’s haven – a streaming internet “radio station” for those with talent trying to make a name for themselves.

When I was young, I remember my passion for music. I received my first guitar when I was seven. I struggled with it at first and became discouraged because I wanted to be able to do it so badly, but my adolescent fingers just wouldn’t fit around that fat neck. It sat in the attic for several years until I pulled it out again sometime around puberty. I wiped the dust off and removed the strings that had broken over the years. Maybe that’s what helped me stick with it – I started out with only two of the six strings.

 My brother was heavy into KISS at the time and I quickly learned to play those two strings along with Deuce, Strutter, and Firehouse from KISS Alive!. I saved any money I could to buy more strings. Soon I had a whole set. My sister’s boyfriend showed me some bar chords and a couple of AC/DC tunes. I spent the next six months banging out Sin City. High Voltage and Let There be Rock.

Soon, Van Halen came onto the scene. At that time two things happened. First, I met up with a drummer whose brother was an excellent lead guitarist in a local band called Basement Floor. He would be upstairs riffing on scales I had never heard before. Occasionally, he would come down to the basement where we were jamming and show me some licks. He helped me “see” the next level. Second, a friend of mine gave me his sister’s old record player. Back in the day records would play at 33 1/3 speeds. This one had a switch for 16 ½ speed. I figured out right away that the fast leads Van Halen and Angus were playing were now ½ speed for me and a full octave lower. That helped me “get” to another level. I was on my way, but to where?

I was soon good enough to join a local Baltimore band called "Jammer" in Essex, Maryland. They were older then I was at the time. They were more seasoned and “well” connected. Which basically meant, they had gigs. While the rest of the kids in Perry Hall High School were heading to the Friday night football game to watch the Gators play, I would be loading my stuff up to set up at one of the local bars. I was seventeen then and the drinking age was eighteen.

I jumped ship after a while to another band called "Unity". We played the local circuit for a while and developed a decent following. After a while, playing cover tunes wasn’t happening for me and I found a bunch of guys that were interested in doing the same thing as me - creating our own sounds. We spent hours at each others houses milling over ideas, writing phrases, rewriting chorus, lyrics, transitions etc. We started mixing some of them in our live shows and received pretty good feedback. Soon, we were off to the recording studio forking over more time and money to get our ideas on tape and possibly shop them around.

We wrote our cover letter, hired a photographer, duped our tapes and mailed them off to any address we could find. I wonder now if anyone even heard those tapes. Occasionally we’d get our hopes up when we’d score some minimal airtime on the local radio station for battle of the bands. Once, we had a live interview with some songs mixed in between questions. That was cool, but limited to that event. It was difficult back to get the vital exposure you needed. There was no way to listen to your favorite local bands like Kix, Crack the Sky, and The Ravens (Rob Fahey) at your house or at work.

 In the internet age just about everyone has there own website or Myspace page with their music available. But we still needed a way to link it all together - to make it easy to find a local band they hadn’t known about previously but like the chops. That’s where Kuta Music comes in. Kuta music streams the original music randomly so everyone gets equal airtime all the time. We provide links to your site so that if someone likes what they are hearing, they have a way to find out more about you or get your contact information, sort of like an audio songwriters market. Now, the right musician’s are accessible to the right people. The record producer in L.A. can tune into the website while filling out his paper work. No need to go through the backlog of CD’s stacked in an oversized laundry bin in the corner of his office. No need to empty the trash bin every few hours of discarded CD’s not to his liking. No need to sort through endless streams of paper to find contact information. It’s all here on Kuta Music. As soon as he hears that first lick from Kuta – “I Like Girls”, he’ll fumble through he papers on his desk to find his mouse to wake up the computer monitor that has fallen asleep. He’ll see that its vintage “KUTA” playing that song and be able to find them easily by clicking on the links page. It will be at that time my friends that I will have to abandon my website to tour the world with the first of my many CD’s bringing back that 80’s sound. So, jump aboard now while the going is good and the price is right (free). Because you never know where or when that opportunity is going to come.

Greg Kuta

80’s Rocker Dude