Bill Mazur

With the advent of affordable, professional quality home recording equipment and the proliferation of music sites like MySpace and iSOUND, there are now many opportunities for grass roots musicians to record and have their music heard by a worldwide audience. I am very happy to see these developments and to be able to be small part of that big universe.

My primary current project is called Azure Blue Skies. I have recently created a new MySpace page dedicated to the music I am creating for that project. Azure Blue Skies is instrumental music in the vein of 60s/70s European progressive music and contemporary ambient music. Please follow this link to explore the Azure Blue Skies page. I have also included a few additional pieces from that project on the iSOUND player above.

Ken Ruppel , my dear friend and keyboard player on Katheleen Michaels' "Faces, Traces and Timelines", and I collaborated together on the piece entitled "Twilight". Please give it a listen.

There a several links below to other musical projects that I have been involved with over the years. I am including songs on the MySpace player here from other projects that are not reflected elsewhere. I hope that you enjoy these pieces. These include my work with "of the Arcane" and another project called "Dare to Dream". To get more detail, please read my Blog posting about the subject.

The following is an excerpt from my personal web site:

Born William Paul Mazur in Oakland, CA on April 6, 1953

I am a semi-professional musician and independent producer from the San Francisco Bay Area who recently relocated to the Central Valley of California. I have been playing in bands and recording in home and professional studios for many years.

I have performed with artists that have opened up for rock legends like Dave Mason (of Traffic) and new "up and coming" artists such as Vienna Teng and Terami Hirsch . Ihave been involved in co-producing several Bay Area artists at my friend's recording studios, Emeryville Recording and Weightless Audio.

Other Highlights

I have been a part of an Internet community called Ecto forthe past ten years and I am proud to be an Ectophile . The community celebrates the musicof Happy Rhodes and other ectophilic artists. Katheleen Michaels and I contributed music to acollection called Ectopia , which is a compilation of original music from members of the community. Phil Hudson and I contributed music to the 10th Anniversary Happy Rhodes tribute CD. We also collaborated with Cyoakha Grace from Land of the Blind on the Happy Rhodes song "Save Our Souls" .

In June of 2001, Phil Hudson and I wereinvolved as a co-promotors, with a one other person, for the Ectofest West concert, with Happy Rhodes headlining. The Ectofest house concert was held the following day (you can see pictures of the event in my photo gallery at my personal web page) at Phil's place in Boulder Creek. Phil and I were among the performers at the house concert.

In 1981, I was a member of the progressive rock ensemble known as The Providence Project. We received airplay on the Greg Stone1970s/1980s KOME radio show "Stone Trek". The "Stone Trek" show featured progressive rock music fromestablished seminal artists of the genre such as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and ELPalong with less well known prog artists from around the world. In addition, Greg Stone showcasedlocal San Francisco Bay Area progressive rock artists. He also promoted local progressive rockshows.

Please check out these sites to hear other
projects I have been involvedwith:

Here are a few video clips from YouTube of performances with my musical compatriots.My wife, Billi, filmed all of these video clips.

Please visit my YouTube siteto see more video performances.

With Phil Hudson and John Kozak

At a benefit put on by our friend Demetrius Martin for the Acting ShakespeareCompany
called Sonnets and Song at theACT Theater in San Francisco on March 17, 2003.

Performing Phil's song entitled "Fisherman's Daughter"

With Katheleen Michaels and Ken Ruppel

Performing "Where Did He Go" from Katheleen's CD release
entitled "Faces, Tracesand Timelines"

With Phil Hudson

At the Ectofest West house concert
Dragondale (Boulder Creek, CA) on June 10,2001

Performing a cover version of Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street"