Los Einstein
Los Einstein is an eclectic group of musicians that formed in the waning months in 2009.
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It all started with the musical vision by gruff & soulful singer Matt Einstein and composition master guitar player Chris Vazquez. After the two met, they immdediately began writing tunes with vibin’ Latin and Rock n Roll riffs. With the addition of Enrique, Aideen and Toby, Los Einstein has become an overnight sensation in Los Angeles.
Jillian Speer @ Stronghold Sat 4/24
Come see Jillian play an intimate yet rockin’ set featuring Jaclyn Strong and Yonatan Elkayam.
This Saturday at The Stronghold in Venice, CA. See jillianspeer.com for more info.
House of Blues // April 27th
Come join us in the Parish Room at the House of Blues Sunset Strip for an unforgettable night of live music.
First Fridays at AC Supper Club
The Codega Group presents First Fridays at AC Supper Club in Venice CA. Come join us May 7th!
Poster design by chris@thecodega.com
Death of Fear
New paintings & multi-media visions by Carlito Dalceggio, featuring Mercan Dede. 29 avril @ the Magic Theater, Montreal.
Nektare
Nektare’s music is a unique style of rock with a juicy undercurrent of blues, funk, soul and psychedelia.
Influenced by the music 60’s and 70’s, their music has retro vibe, with a fresh appeal. Their strongest influences are the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix and Zeppelin. Outrageous and mesmerizing in concert , their live shows captivate every audience and whip the crowd into a frenzy, they have incredible synergy as band and charisma that is undeniable.
Naomi Nektare’s vocal capabilities are incredible; this petite beauty belts out a deep soul that rocks you to the core, likened to Janis Joplin, Joan Osborne and Grace Slick. Naomi sees her self as the shaman, her band as the sweet soul medicine and the audience as the tribe , uniting together to rise to higher consciousness through music.
Nektare, has received awards for Best New Artist, Best Live Show, Best Song-writing, Best Solo Artist, and Outstanding Psychedelic Band from Rock City News & the L.A. Music Awards. Nektare also won “Best Live Stage Show”, from the prestigious Hollywood Fame Awards and first-place in the “Battle of the Bands,” from R.K.O. Records, showcasing the best bands from the O.C. and L.A. area. Two Songs from their last EP have been placed in feature films-”I Want U 2 Luv Me” is the opening song for an upcoming HBO movie and “New Day” is the title song for an independent film playing in festivals world wide.
This year Naomi is nominated for “Best Female Vocals,” and “Best Female Front Woman”-you can catch her performing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in their hit video, “Tell Me Baby.” Nektare is currently recording their first full-length album.
Naomi Nektare – VOCALS, SONG WRITING AND PERCUSSION
Richie Vaccaro – GUITAR
Brandon Criswell – BASS
Todd Nosek – DRUMS
Jaclyn Strong performs Sunday 4/11 @ AC
This Sunday, April 11th The Codega launches Roots Revival at “Air Conditioned”, or AC Supper Club, in Venice CA.
This night is a bouquet of folk, blues, rock & jazz featuring dear, talented friends Annmarie Solo, Maetar, Richie Onori & Blues Divine – whom I have the honor of performing with @ 8:15pm…
Join us in welcoming vinyl vixen DJ Imagika & Afro-Polynesian dancers Nohea Soul.
Sunday, April 11th, 2010 {$12 cover, $8 w/ flyer} Doors 7pm {21+}
7:30pm Annmarie Solo
8:15pm Blues Divine (featuring Jaclyn Strong)
9:30pm Richie Onori
10:15pm Nohea Soul
10:30pm Maetar
12:15am DJ Imagika
RSVP to be on The Codega’s House List for FREE entry
Roots Revival
The Codega proudly presents Roots Revival at the AC Supper Club in Venice, CA.
Come on out for our first RR show on April 11! Flyer by chris@thecodega.com
Sat. 3/20 at the foundation room
Come join us at the House of Blues Sunset Strip on Saturday March 20th for an unforgettable evening of live music.
We’ll be celebrating Elizabeth Upton’s 28th birthday with Connie Lim, Andy Frasco and The Dirty Diamond. $10 w/ flyer. 21+. Dress to impress.
Poster design by chris@thecodega.com
Michael Pukac
Michael Pukac’s unique blend of seductive, classical imagery is cross-pollinated with a witty, contemporary edge of subtle satire – all doused in reflective paint.
This Alabama born and Los Angeles based artist has quickly established himself as one of the more prolific live painters as well as made a name for himself by exhibiting constantly and relentlessly throughout the LA art community.
Michael has participated in over four dozen art shows, starting from the age of 19, with close to a dozen solo exhibitions, and holds a BFA from Ringling School of Art & Design. He has live painted at events by the MOCA Contemporaries, Thinkspace Gallery, Create Fixate, the Downtown LAArtwalk, Lucent Lamour, MoonTribe, The King King, Club Nokia, Area 33, Montalban Theater, and Cannibal Flower. He has exhibited with Thinkspace Gallery, The Hive Gallery, The CAVE Gallery, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Melt Gallery, 01 Gallery, BoxEight Studios, and more.
The Codega Group is pleased to present Michael at many of our live shows.
Saturday 3/27 at the foundation room
Come join us at the House of Blues Sunset Strip on Saturday March 27th for an unforgettable evening of live music.
We’ll be rockin out with DJ Bliss Beats alongside Danielle Stori, James Kenney, Ryan Sallis and Brittney Bouchard. $10 w/ flyer. 21+. Dress to impress.
Poster design by chris@thecodega.com
Adam Labov
“Adam is West Indian Girl’s number one soundman. He’s got great ears and perfect pitch.”
Whether mixing eclectic artists in the heart of Hollywood at the Hotel Cafe and Nico Vega at the LA Detour Fest or tour managing/ F.O.H. for Crash Kings, Adam Labov is not your typical sound engineer. He’s not one to “set it and forget it”. Adam’s approach to live sound begins with the understanding that the mixing console is his instrument, and his way of contributing to a performance. His priority is properly interpreting the musicians’ sound, and relaying that message to the audience. This requires feeling the music and making adjustments as necessary, focusing on getting great tone & balance and adding tasteful effects.
You can find Adam not only mixing, but booking some of his favorite bands here in Los Angeles, including West Indian Girl, Travis Warren with Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon, Trevor Hall, Until June and Chris Shinn of Unified Theory.
CARLITO DALCEGGIO & SECRET SILK SOCIETY
“Painting with the modesty of a dervish and the excitement of a poet, Carlito Dalceggio, who paints the world of sound with color.”
– Mercan Dede
Artist Statement
By the act of painting, I transcend my human state. I search for other ways. I seek for a universal pattern, the ultimate strokes of freedom. I reach a visionary state and totally leave reality to give shape to another world.
I breathe to paint, I paint to breathe.
Art does not try to reproduce nature, art is nature.
Every painting is a key, a window to the inner world:
To live a mystic life in the modern world
Eroticism, freedom, seeking for new ways
I paint an imaginary mythology, in a constant research of new forms, new techniques and new medias.
From the ancient calligraphy, seeking for a new iconography, an alchemic and modern wedding of sacred iconography with vernacular symbols of consumerism, giving new senses to archetypes. It is the deconstruction of the known world to rebuild a free world. Art = Science and intuition.
Art is a multi-media existence laboratory; the exchange and collaborations between artists of different medias push the limits and create a new language. Technology becomes a tool for the concretization of the vision. I always want to gather strong opposite creative souls from different cultures together (Secret Silk Society: a creative laboratory of research to bring back mysticism into modern life).
Tribal art, street art, guerilla art influenced, and propaganda, spreading the vision out of the gallery walls: posters, walls, films, happenings… My art is a bridge to the consciousness of humanity, where communication is vital, open. A channel. My art is an imaginary propaganda for an unknown kingdom, a parallel universe outside reality.
With my extensive painting travels and live performances, I provoke the encounter with the viewer at the moment of creation, transforming the ritual of creation. Painting is a liberating act for the artist and also for the viewer. Transforming the vision into reality should be a tactile and emotional experience for the viewer. A sensual relation with the medium, an emotion.
I paint Labyrinths of dreams and visions. I rewrite myths and legends. I capture their essence to transmit an invisible but tactile knowledge. I am a Descendant of the Avant-garde and cobra movements: art without limits, everywhere at every moment. Expression of the irrational. A fragile balance between excess and purity: art as a way of life, constant ritual. Only in chaos can really exist freedom.
I paint the images we should dream of at night: before we were contaminated by modern life. My Art is a pure intuitive and spontaneous way of expression.
The desire to paint all objects of the daily life is to bring art to a higher level, in a constant interaction with our daily life; to bring beauty at all moments, to uplift the human existence.
Fernando Del Sol
We’d like to welcome Director, Producer, Writer, Actor Fernando Del Sol to The Codega Group. We’ll be following his next release, Destiny of the Spirit.
Filmography:
1997 : Where’s the Fire? – Burning Man Festival
2002 : Camino Rojo, Red Road – Peyote Rituals in Mexico
2005 : Caravan of Light, Initiation – Zoroastrian Fire Speaks
2006 : Footsteps in Africa – Nomadic Music of the Tuareg in the Sahara Desert
2007 : Invocation, Kumbha Mela – World’s largest human gathering in India
History:
As a first time filmmaker, Fernando del Sol passionately decided to finance his initial project by selling a successful San Francisco business named in honor of his Grandmother…Momi Toby’s Revolution Café. To fulfill his Vision of shooting a documentary on the Burning Man festival in 1997, he first founded Peyote Pictures and rose out of the desert ashes with fin de millennium Alchementary, Burning Man, Where’s the Fire?
After a four year journey traveling around the world showing this message driven piece to alternative communities around S.E. Asia, Japan, India, Europe, and Mexico, Fernando began the long process (2001 & 2007) of documenting the World’s largest human gathering, the Kumbha Mela. With an estimated figure of 50 to 80 million Hindu pilgrims arriving at the confluence of India’s three sacred rivers in a town called Allahabad, he and his crew documented ancient fire rituals & bathing ceremonies performed by wandering tribes of Holy Men called ‘Sadhus’.
Unable to stay in one place, Fernando made his way back to his original inspiration for Peyote Pictures film company, Real de Catorce, Mexico, where indigenous Aztec cultures believe the Sun was born in a mythical desert called ‘Wirikuta’, where the magical psycho-tropic cactus Peyote grows. There, he was given the rare opportunity by a Mexican-Lakota Roadman to document a Peyote tipi ritual and the Temascal-sweat lodge ceremony facilitated by Chichimeca Indians.
Soonthereafter, Fernando was sought out by a Persian Visionary Sufi Mystic named Sahar Farmanfarmaian to help guide her through the filmmaking process developing and completing a personal project she envisioned called Caravan of Light. A Zoroastrian message driven film shot in the deserts of Iran giving the element of Fire a compassionate female voice speaking to humanity’s abusive use of Fire on the Planet. He successfully worked as assistant director and co-wrote narration with his good friend Sahar.
Always being called back to the desert, in 2006, Fernando traveled to the Sahara desert outside of Timbuktu, Mali, Africa to work as creative director with Swiss director, Kathi von Kurber, documenting the indigenous blues music of the nomadic Tuareg tribes. Footsteps in Africa is currently on tour in theaters and museums around the world.
Fernando has recently returned to Los Angeles, where he begins Pre-Production on his first feature-narrative film entitled Destiny of the Spirit.
Fernando may be reached at fernando@thecodega.com.
Ben Morrison
Having been a performer since conception, Ben Morrison really wants you to look at him.
Currently residing in Los Angeles, Morrison is best known as Ashton Kutcher’s right-hand-man in the final season ofMTV’s hit show Punk’d, currently in heavy rotation on MTV and FOX. In addition to making famous people cry, Morrison is a national headliner, packing out clubs and colleges across the country with his electryifying act. When in LA, he is can usually be found at the Hollywood Improv, where he has a time-share.
Morrison has also been seen playing a Gaelic bad-ass on CSI:NY, getting front-seat-laughs on NBC’s Last Comic Driving, and soon you can seem him playing comedian Robert Schimel’s son in the new pilot HOBOS for FOX.
Morrison is also the lead and creator of THOUGHTROCKET, a series for Al Gore’s Current TV, and his groundbreaking multimedia One-Man show “SIGNS” continues to to tour clubs and colleges after it’s hilarious launch at the Comedy Central Stage. In addition, his previous One-Man show Pain in the Ass continues performances all over the world for it’s 7th fantastic year. Most recently, his new charity-benefit-series A Cause for Comedy has been heating up the Hollywood Improv, and is now being broadcast live on The Huffington Post.
Ben is a graduate of NYU’s TISCH school of the arts. With an unforgettable blend of stand-up and storytelling, Ben Morrison is a crowd favorite all over the world. For how much his theater degree cost, he better be…
Jeanine Strong
JiJi’s signature style: Urban Melodic Soul
Jeanine Strong, aka JiJi, is an unsigned singer/songwriter seeking label distribution and representation. Her music fits several genres and is ideal for TV/Film/Radio placement.
Jeanine’s first and only piano teacher put it best when she said: “My other students will always be good, but Jeanine~ she has the music in her!” Jeanine could not avoid the music; it followed her wherever she went. She formed her first all-girl band CLOVER at the age of 19, which consisted of five girls who harmonized over two acoustic guitars. The experience only added to Jeanine’s ambition to tour the world as a famous singer. During college, Jeanine was fortunate to meet her producer & partner Mike Corvington (aka DJ Leviathan). Together they make a powerful team with Mike writing and producing all of the music and Jeanine writing all the lyrics and melodies. The duo create the unique sound that is Jeanine Strong’s signature style: Urban Melodic Soul.
myspace.com/jeaninestrongmusic
songplacements.com/jeaninestrong
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