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          VISIT MELODEON MEWS

 The Birth of a Studio: It was January 16th 1991, we were down in Will’s cabin overlooking the rocky shores of his peaceful little sea cove. It was a place of nature and tranquility. Inside those cedar walls we planned sweet music to soothe the wounded soul, old forgotten Celtic melodies seeped through the cracks...  Read More

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The Russian Connection: The city of Khabarovsk in The Russian Far East is the Sister City to Victoria in British Columbia. For some time now these two cities have been exchanging their cultures with each other. Here at Melodeon we have successfully completed three recording projects so far, first going to Russia to do the recording and then hosting each artist here in Victoria to showcase their wonderful musical abilities. Slava Sobolevsky is one of Russia's best kept secrets and as a solo pianist he has performed in many countries around the world. He last visited Victoria in 1996 when he stayed at my house along with his wife Irina and Granddaughter. When I visited Khabarovsk for the first time I stayed with Slava & Irina in their lovely apartment, Slava and I went to the recording studio "New Mix" every day for two weeks and had a great experience, one that changed my life completely. Listen to some of his beautiful works...   Read More

MELODEON MEWS (First Edition) plus more... Publisher / Editor, John Ellis. Circulation unknown...  This E-Magazine is put together for the purpose of promoting Melodeon clients, you will find useful information about each artist and can even write to your favorite performers, the editor will make sure he passes all your correspondence along to each client.

Note from the editor: First allow me this chance to say, after years of recording this miscellaneous group of wandering souls, "I need a shrink". It's been a weird wild and wondrous musical odyssey working with the artists you are about to read about and it never ceases to amaze me, the physical differences in people. Tall, short, muscular, fat, thin, funny, beautiful, distinctive, fashion conscious, confused, spaced out and sometimes sober, and they actually want to play their music in equally contrasting ways. It doesn't take very long for the mind to get fried with this kind of exposure, but hey, what do I know? I just hope and pray that at the end of it all, there's a special place for engineers to check into where they can be saved. Seriously though, if you ever have the pleasure of being in the same room with one of them like I was,  I know that you too will come out a better person. I wish them all the best...  Read More...