About the Tracks
Mad World
Written by Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears), this custom version is arranged by Peter Joseph and Jared Meeker; sung by Rachael Jane
The Great Debate
Written and performed by Jared Meeker
Omar
Written and performed by Lili Haydn
Spectacle
Written by Peter Joseph and performed by Peter Joseph and Jared Meeker
The Island
Written and performed by Jared Meeker
Off the Rails
Written and performed by Jared Meeker and Blake Colie
The Academics
Written and performed by Sumeet Sarkar
Welcome to the Freakshow
Written by Peter Joseph and Blake Colie. Performed by Kellee Maize
Did Your Mama (Teach You How to Share)?
Written and performed by Lili Haydn.
*Please note this track is not included in the full album but as a separate download. Go here to support Lili!
About the Artists
Jared Meeker
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Los Angeles-based guitarist, composer, producer, educator, and author Jared Meeker has performed throughout the world, playing blues, rock, Latin, reggae, metal, R&B, funk, hip- hop, and soul. Jared graduated from California Institute of the Arts and has taught workshops at USC, UCLA, Seattle Pacific University, SUNY, Los Angeles Music Academy, Crown of the Continent, and the National Guitar Workshop. The diverse roster of artists Jared has worked or toured with include Jump with Joey (ska), Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Myka 9, N.A.S.A. / Squeak E. Clean, Karen O, Salvador Santana (son of Carlos Santana), the Lions, and Hollie Cook (daughter of Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols). Jared has released several instrumental albums of original music, and his compositions were featured in the Sundance award-winning Fuel and in Sunken City, which won best music at the Dubuque International Film Festival. His music can also be heard on the hit television shows Dexter and Smash, as well as on various programming on MTV, Showtime, NBC, VH1, CBS, and TNT. Jared has appeared in music production video courses for Producertech and appeared in dozens of guitar, bass, and mandolin videos for Alfred Music.
Rachael Jane
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Rachael Jane was born in Zambia, Africa. Her Welsh mother and English father then immigrated to Alberta, Canada after living in Zambia for 3 years. Rachael received her Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Psychology from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At college, she was a member of a popular musical sketch comedy troupe called the Queens Players. After college, she moved to Los Angeles to study acting, music and dance at various schools such as UCB, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, Musicians Institute and The Edge Performing Arts Center. In the last 10 years, she has acted in a number of Independent films, web series, music videos and pilots. She is also a singer-songwriter with an album on Itunes and Spotify. Rachael has recently co-written a web series which is in development.
Sumeet Sarkar
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Born in South Africa, Sumeet Sarkar started playing the violin at the age of four with various musical influences in the Western Art tradition. Having performed across the world at some of the most prestigious stages, he has been exposed to many genres of music. Known to be South Africa’s first Indian orchestral violinist, after performing with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and South African National Youth Orchestra where he had been awarded the Protea Award for outstanding abilities by Archbishop Desmond Tutu 2011, Sumeet has come a long way and looks forward to the continuous journey. Sharing the seed from his interest bloomed, Sumeet says, “Having grown up as a child listening to A.R Rahman one day, Bach another day and then Miles Davis or Bobby McFerrin, put me in an undiscovered land the more time proceeded. There have always been influences from those I have worked with or look up to in the industry, but my personal sound has been something I aim at organically. I love making my own instruments through synthesis and surrounding myself with machines and modern music tech, but at the same time practicing my violin and recording myself 100 times in the studio to sound as a symphony orchestra.”
Kellee Maize
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Kellee Maize was born in central PA in the 1980's. Her mom always says she was singing and dancing before she could talk and walk. She moved to Pittsburgh to go to college with a dream of making an impact on the world. While attending the University of Pittsburgh she began performing live with hip hop bands.
She was drawn to performing hip hop as an outlet for activism. After experiencing many life challenges including coming to terms with being adopted, watching her adoptive mother battle lung cancer, her adoptive father dying, and her birth mother rejecting her attempts at connecting, Kellee turned to music as a means to cope with depression and anxiety she faced. She also found inspiration from various metaphysical and new age teachings, like Zen Buddhism, which motivated her to share this wisdom to help others through her music.
Kellee has performed alone, with a DJ, and with various live musicians, artists, and dancers at over 300 concerts.
Lili Haydn
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Child prodigy classical violinist/actress turned GRAMMY winning jazz/rock violinist, singer, recording artist, film composer, Lili Haydn had a dream at 7 years old that she could play violin, but her mom and she were on welfare, so Lili started working as an actress to pay for her violin and education. She graduated from Brown University in Political Science and started jamming with bands, ultimately leading to her legendary collaborations with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Roger Waters, Sting, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Josh Groban, Robert Plant and Jimi Page for whom she opened on their entire last US tour, and George Clinton, who called her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin." Haydn’s six critically acclaimed records have been favorites on Public Radio, and featured in TV and film, and described as "A mix of neo-psychedelic flower child and rock star virtuoso...Heifetz meet Hendrix." Haydn has performed on the Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live, as well as all the major concert venues in the US and Internationally (Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, Vienna Opera House, etc). Lili's fourth album, LiliLand, was released in late 2014.
Blake Colie
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Blake Colie is an experienced, in-‐demand drummer and percussionist, whose stage and session work have brought him from national tours to television appearances to some of the most legendary studios in Los Angeles. In this last year Blake has become the drummer/MD of UK-‐based Tropical Pop artist Hollie Cook and was part of her very successful first American tour at the end of 2014. On the stage, Blake finished multiple national and international summer shows and tours with Hollie Cook, The Lions, his new group Jamaican/Brazilian Soul Jazz group Crucial 5, as well as Salvador Santana, son of 8-‐ time Grammy winner Carlos Santana, having opened on multiple West Coast shows for Carlos for his 2014 Corazon World Tour. As composer/producer, Blake was a key member in the creation and production for the soundtrack of the 2013 indie-‐ movie “Sunken City”. The movie and soundtrack would go on to win the “Best Use of Music” Award at the 2014 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival in Iowa. Blake’s projects and his own works have been featured on TV shows such as “Breaking Bad”, “The Wire”, and “Eastbound & Down”, on feature films such as “Ruby Sparks”, “Young Adult”, and “This Means War”, and on the television networks AMC, Style, Bravo, MTV, VH1, Oxygen, Showtime, Logo, USA, Spike, and the BBC