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New Blues Festival VIII at Shoreline Aquatic Park

Announcing "New Blues Festival VIII," the only year-ending Blues Festival in Southern California, taking place at Shoreline Aquatic Park, 200 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA Saturday, November 13.

Gates open and Music Starts at 9:00am. Tickets: $50. (General Admission to the Festival); $100. (Gold; includes Assigned Stage Front Seating; Waitress Service; Access to Exclusive Bottle Service; Preferred Parking; Merchandise Discounts from the New Blues Festival Merch Booth; Access to Food Vendors; Merch Vendors Bar, and Beer Trailer); and $150. (VIP; includes Special Access to Backstage Area; Artist Meet-N-Greets; Stage Front Viewing Area; Catered Food; Non-Alcoholic Beverages Provided;

Exclusive VIP Lounge with VIP Happy Hour; Preferred Parking; Discounts on all Merchandise from the New Blues Festival Merch Booth; Access to Food Vendors; Merch Vendors Bar, and Beer Trailer). Tickets/Info: (707) 57-Blues or visit https://newbluesfestival.com. New Blues Festival is presented in conjunction with the Long Beach Blues Society "Preserve the Past, Promote the Future."

New Blues Festival VIII's strong lineup features recently-Signed Gulf Coast Records Recording Artist and R&B Legend, Tito Jackson; Blues Vocalist Extraordinaire and Multi-Blues music Award winner, Sugar Ray Rayford; Los Angeles longtime Blues Guitar Great, Laurie Morvan; Newly-Formed Bill Grisolia & the New Blues Festival All-Stars; New Orleans transplant and longtime blues guitarist, Lester Lands; SoCalbased award-winning multi-genre guitaristvocalist, Corday; eclectic blues-rock trio, The Disciplez; She Wears Black featuring Long Beach's very own blues diva, Shy But Flyy; tasty Tex-Mex Blues from Redd House; Musician/ Surfboard Shaper/SoCal Surf Legend, Dano Forte; and blues harp player known as the "OneMan Band," originally from the UK, TJ Norton.

This year's Master of Ceremonies: Southern California blues deejay legend, Ann The Raven, formerly of KPCC-FM in Pasadena who can now heard Sunday nights as "Ann The Raven's Blues" from 7pm-9pm on KCSN 88.5/Cal State Northridge.

New Blues Festival VIII & Shoreline Aquatic Park: Some History

"This is the eighth New Blues Festival, the sixth in Long Beach, and the first time the New Blues Festival will be held in the prime Entertainment Destination of Shoreline Aquatic Park, which is a

One side of the Peninsula is located in the Pacific Channel, which leads to the Los Angeles River tributary. The other side Is Rainbow Harbor, which includes both working Fishing and Charter Boats as well as all types of pleasure crafts. Across from the tip of the Peninsula is the tip of Shoreline Village, with it’s iconic Lighthouse Restaurant.

Shops and restaurants highlight the Shoreline Village experience including the original Yard House Restaurant. Next to the park is the Aquarium of the Pacific, with its recent $53 million Pacific Visions addition. The Aquarium is known throughout Southern California for its Rescue and Rehabilitation efforts and it to work with school children from across the Los Angeles and Orange

"The Festival will seek to add a kick-off event on Friday, November 12 to be arranged to perhaps with a Host Hotel," adds Grisolia, who besides fronting the New Blues Festivals All-Stars, is also the longtime vocalist-pianist and front-person for well-known Long Beach mainstay, New Blues Revolution.

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Headliner Tito Jackson

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DAVID BROOKINGS EXAMINES THE “HARD TIMES,” WITH TRACKS FROM UPCOMING ALBUM ‘MANIA AT THE TALENT SHOW’

The latest music from David Brookings is a magnificent collection of introspective, and often thorough inspiring musings of the “New Normal” in which we are living. The songs revolve around his masterful creativity and composition, showing that his talent is undeniable.

His music has transformed over time, like a living being. It has now come into its own and is not only well received by his fans, but harkens to what is the next wave of music,. If I could create a genre for this new music, I would call it “Electric Folk.” With inspiring lyrics and experimental textures based on classic styling, this album looks to pave the way for a new type of artist, and a voice for the new generation. Mind you, I don’t hear fear or complaining in his work, but a mind trying to rationalize what is going on, trying to make sense of it all and making a safe passage in the journey for all who come into contact with his music.

Long before David Brookings launched his recording career in 2000, he tracked three albums at the legendary Sun Studio and regaled fans for years in the Bay Area with the One of two infectious preview tracks being released in advance of the LP “Mania At The Talent Show” drops November 12. The dreamy, atmospheric mid-tempo tune “Hard Times” may have been the last one written for the project, but it perfectly captures the zeitgeist of 2021 and the latest stage of the pandemic era –where we’re moving about freely but cautiously, waiting to emerge fully from the anxieties, fears and challenges of the past year and a half.

Brookings sets the personal, yet universal tone and the clever rhyme scheme of the tune in the first verse: “How much more can I take? I’ve been trying not to break in the hard times/Feel the wind through the trees/Heaven help you if you sneeze in the hard times.” Between the main verses, he inserts bridges that address the fraught reality but ultimately offer encouragement: “These are strange days / There’s an outrage / Everything’s fine – it’s just hard times.” Similar tracks on the album that carry this 60’s pop theme are “Keep It Real, “ “Driving to Ojai” and “One of Us is Crazy (The Other One is Me).”

Inspired by his musical heroes and the music of the prior generations, David Brookings weaves a tapestry of verse that stays in the mind, and imprints itself, like memories, to be resident in your head and heart forever. The music takes a variant departure with a very grooving track on the forthcoming album titles “The Words Come Back To Haunt You”, where it is said “words can be left like burses on the body. “

The other preview tune, the spirited and jangling, 60’s-early 70’s influenced “Get Off (My Mind)“ harkens back to the youthful melancholy feeling of never quite getting over that first love and pining for her and the past like “a ghost” that’s still “flying strong.” Catchy as the song is, it’s certainly ironic coming from a guy who’s been happily married for 16 years – but that’s the genius of Brooking’s great ability to fashion relatable characters and put them situations we can all relate to.

“I enjoy taking artistic license with stories inspired by my life,” he says, “and on ‘Mania at the Talent Show’ I’m proud of my development as a songwriter and the fact that I don’t just write about girls. I try to always write about different interesting things, projecting myself as a character in various situations and creating an interesting musical movie around that.” “Mania At The Talent Show” touches on many topics, and some, in review, are hilarious, but have a strong footing in our reality. The ridiculous is found in the foundation of life, like the track “Women of L.A.” an upbeat and rhythmic song which takes a moment to point out the ludicrous behavior of being “in the know” - one lyric that caught my attention was “These women with name brand shades that covers up half of their face, some that look like Ewoks that went overboard on Botox but their friends tell them you look so great” - this is masterful writing and a realistic view of the daily dose of insanity in which we live. Another very thoughtful track is “Kill Shot,” with a killer line “I used to adore you but there’s a breaking point, would you rather be Happy or Right, tonight” there are so many catch phrases in this song, many that all of us use, but David has taken off hand comments and cliché phrases and turned into a song that can explain the apathetic path of the social norm that has developed.

The title track “Mania at the Talent Show,” in which, like the musical poets Jim Croce, Don McLean and Harry Chapin would tell a story in such detail and colorful analogy, that you can see it happening in your mind.

Followed by the song “Hide Your Crazy,” this is just a really fun and rocking album and a tribute to the inspiration music can bring into life. The final track on this album “Mystery of Time,” is magical, and as I mentioned before, touching, it reminds you of your youth and what life could be, should be, a ride into the cosmos on a silver rocket, heading for the stars.

David Brookings has created in “Mania at the Talent Show” something we need, a look in verse, at a state of calm in a crazy and ever changing world.

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BRIAN KASSAN’S MODE OF EXPRESSION AS BLOOMFIELD MACHINE

A PROGRESSIVE INSTRUMENTAL PROJECT INJECTING INFECTIOUS MELODIC COOL INTO A TASTY MULTI-GENRE FUSION first three albums “Arguing with Success” (2017), “Dopamine Drift” (2019) and “Frequency Illusion,” which was released in January 2021. He is setting the stage for the release of his next opus “Units of Uncertainty” with the drop of a four track EP featuring four provocatively titled representative tracks –“Cultural Treason,” “MicroAgression,” “Race to Indifference,” and “Unfavorable Semicircle.”

After years of playing everything from pure pop, as an early member of Brian Wilson’s backing band The Wondermints, to Beatlesque pop/rock as a founding member of the critically acclaimed Chewy Marble, and surf, spy jazz, and supersonic lounge music with The Tikiyaki Orchestra, veteran SoCal composer/musician Brian Kassan started doing a deeper dive into his lifelong passion for electronic music. The moody, hypnotic edgy rock/hip-hop influenced “Cultural Treason” borrows a bit from Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s allegorical masterwork the “Peer Gynt Suites,” representing the perfect blend of Kassan’s classical and hip hop influences. The intense, edgy guitar and industrial groove driven “MicroAgression” has a powerful sci-fi feel that caught the attention of an animator friend, who is using it as the opening and outro music for a sci fi series bout robots stuck on a ship interviewing frozen brains in a talk show format. “Race to Indifference” is an expansive, atmospheric and laid back track directly influenced by the famed Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada; it starts off melancholic but evolves uniquely with a funky backbeat and chill flow. “Unfavorable Semicircle,” the seductive, aurally mind-bending final track on the promo EP also draws from this important influence.

His immersive journey has led him over the past four years to create some of his trippiest, most progressive vibes ever as Bloomfield Machine –a one man instrumental tour de force fusing modern electronic beats with fresh melodic and richly cinematic soundscapes sculpted with handcrafted textures and tones. The ever prolific artist’s unique compositional trademark is balancing darkness, melancholy and contemplative pieces with others that are upbeat, joyous, groovy rock and jazz lounge. Kassan introduced adventurous listeners to his colorful mix of prog rock, psychedelic and neo-psychedelic sounds, hip-hop, down tempo vibes and electronica via Bloomfield Machine’s “I had always liked electronic music – Eno, Gary Numan, New Order, Kraftwerk, Ultravox – and I started discovering the psychedelic side of Instrumental hip hop and electronica at one point – which opened up a whole new rabbit hole for me,” says Kassan. “It started with Boards of Canada, J-Dilla, Flying Lotus, Amon Tobin, Tycho, Casino vs Japan, Caribou and others. They were inspiring to me in that they were solo creators of this more modern, but nonetheless progressive/psychedelic sounding music—but with beats. Once I found a computer program which met my needs—ease of use, ways to quickly create my own sounds with unlimited sonic software and hardware tools—Bloomfield Machine started to take shape as a new vehicle for new ideas. I could use drum loops and machines to record the one instrument I don’t really play.” On a personal level, the MicroAggression collection expresses a lot of the chaos that Kassan has experienced over the last few years.