SCI Fidelity

The ascension continues for Chicago's Umphrey's McGee, not only in terms of their commercial success but in creative accomplishment and instrumental achievement as well. Their performance on Live at the Murat (SCI Fidelity), the band's first official live release, is as impressive as anything they've recorded to date, with the power and finesse, the yin and the yang, that have come to characterize their by-now classic material.
Recorded in Indianapolis in April 2007 and produced by longtime sound caresser/honorary seventh member Kevin Browning, Live at the Murat is innovative without being indulgent and exhilarating without losing control. Clearly, logging 120 gigs a year, "live" is where UM lives.
Visit www.umphreys.com/murat for streaming tracks, video, news and album info!
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The Greyboy Allstars first formed almost 15 years ago to realize the vision of rare groove luminary DJ Greyboy: an original sound reminiscent of `70s soundtrack music. What Happened to Television? (April 17, 2007/SCI Fidelity), the group’s first studio album in nearly a decade, finds them reunited with Greyboy for the first time since their seminal 1995 breakthrough, West Coast Boogaloo.
What Happened to Television? features all of The Greyboy Allstars’ original members: Hammond organist and keyboardist Robert Walter, guitarist/composer/producer Elgin Park (aka Michael Andrews), horn player Karl Denson, bassist Chris Stillwell and drummer Zak Najor. The album also includes contributions from Inara George and the vocal trio The Living Sisters (Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark and George).
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On April 3, 2007, Umphrey's McGee releases a brand new double disc studio album – a spontaneous and intriguing follow up to their highly touted spring 2006 studio release Safety In Numbers.
Titled The Bottom Half , disc one features ten tracks that were originally recorded during the SIN Sessions, while disc two offers outtakes, alternative versions of songs, a cappella recordings, and other bits from the band's 2006 studio sessions. As with Safety In Numbers , famed album artist Storm Thorgerson designed the artwork for The Bottom Half.
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On February 6th, 2007, SCI Fidelity Records will release dream, the ninth studio album from singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams.
A word from Keller:
welcome to my dream come true. the concept of this recording was to collaborate with my heroes and make a record that i would be proud to crank in my pimped out golf cart when i'm 80.
The resulting album features 16 tracks, with the usually one-man-band backed by a dream team of musicians including Béla Fleck, Bobby Read, Bob Weir, Charlie Hunter, Derrek Phillips, Fareed Haque, Fleming McWilliams, Jeff Sipe, John Molo, John Scofield, Martin Sexton, Michael Franti, Modereko, Samir Chatterjee, Sanjay Mishra, Steve Kimock, The String Cheese Incident, and Victor Wooten.
Check out dream eCard containing 2 full streaming tracks from dream, the incredible music video for "Play This", the dream podcast, track listing and additional information! You can also purchase the CD online.
http://www.kellerwilliams.net/dream
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“Making Rock and Roll is an art form best performed with an understanding of its tradition.”
Such are the words of Tea Leaf Green's guitarist Josh Clark, as he discusses their musical approach during the creation of their SCI Fidelity Records debut, a live DVD and companion CD, entitled Rock 'N' Roll Band, available in stores October 31st, 2006.
SCI Fidelity is excited to welcome this band of youthful San Francisco gypsies who put their own original spin on rock & soul.
Check out the Rock ‘n' Roll Band eCard containing 2 full streaming video tracks from the DVD and 3 full streaming audio tracks from the CD, along with track listings and additional news & information.
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During the band’s 28 years, The Radiators have come tantalizingly close to making the “Great New Orleans Rock Recording.” Now, with the release of their new record, Dreaming Out Loud ( October 3, 2006) they’ve done it. Dreaming Out Loud is the definitive studio recording by one of New Orleans’ best Rock bands.
Almost three decades after their formation, The Radiators have emerged from the studio with an accurate self-portrait of where the band is today; heartbroken by the devastation Hurricane Katrina brought to their beloved New Orleans, but not hopeless. Determined to record the album in their hometown, The Radiators teamed up with producer Mark Bingham at Piety St. Recording N.O.L.A. during the city’s historical 2006 Mardi Gras celebration, when the New Orleans community gathered together to remind the world that the city and its traditions would in fact survive. There and then the band laid the tracks for Dreaming Out Loud – a New Orleans-flavored “war cry” that only The Radiators could assemble.
The album’s title track sets straight those who ever doubted the city’s legacy would continue; Malone sings - “Our music is all we’ve ever had.”
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Bill Nershi , guitarist/singer/songwriter from The String Cheese Incident, proudly presents HONKYTONK HOMESLICE - a mostly-acoustic collaboration with his wife, singer/songwriter Jilian Nershi, and accomplished multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter Scott Law (of the Scott Law Band, Tough Mama, Hanuman & Melvin Seals Melting Pot).
"This band takes the music back to its roots; back to the kind of shows String Cheese did when it began," Bill explains. "Honkytonk Homeslice invites listeners into our living room (not literally) for an intimate performance that everyone can participate in." These songs were recorded the old time way. The trio sat in one room around open mics with no separation between their voices and instruments. All three members of Honkytonk Homeslice contribute original songs to the album.
The self titled debut from HTHS , to be released September 5, 2006, delivers 13 songs of down-home Americana music.

ZILLA [The String Cheese Incidents Michael Travis (drums, percussion, keyboards, sampler, mallet Kat) Jamie Janover (hammered dulcimer, Mini-kit, electric kalimba, mini-sitar, sampler, percussion, tamboura, tongue drum, water) and Aaron Holstein (bass, keyboards, sampler, vocals/vocoder/beatbox)] always keep the live musical experience in mind. A 100% organic, improvised creation, each ZILLA concert proves to be a completely unique occurrence, with even the band members having no idea where the music will take them night after night. Relying on their uncanny ability to listen and incorporate their individual talents into a group focused brand of live electronic dance music, ZILLA is sweeping the country with their rare breed of beats, bass and uncontrollable musical fury.
all iZ, the bands first studio release, which is due to hit streets on September 5, 2006, offers two full discs of musical spontaneity, flow, grooves and a damn good dance party! Its 13 tracks were improvised live in the studio in Boulder, Colorado in February 2006.
Visit www.zillamusic.com , where you'll find audio, video, news and album info.