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20 musical artists came together to contribute 28 original songs
featured in the movie "Alien Secrets".
Alien
Secrets Composer
Hanz Stiritz
Hanz wrote the score to the film Alien Secrets. Born in Paris,
France to a German mother and American father, Hans grew up in the
U.S.A. in Arkansas, where he began his musical career playing classical
piano and the French horn. Hans graduated from the Indiana University
School of Music with a degree in music recording, after transferring
from Washington University at St. Louis, where he studied contemporary
music composition with Rich O'Donnell of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Hans
formed his independent music production company, Musikhaus, in 1988
after two years as staff composer and producer for a commercial recording
studio. He has composed scores for several independent feature film
productions, including CHASING THE WIND (directed by Charles B. Pierce),
STAY TUNED FOR MURDER and TOO SCARED TO LAUGH. I also scored a short
film, SERENDIPITY LANE (starring Wes Bentley of 2000 Oscar winner
"American Beauty"), which was a finalist in the 1995 Academy
Awards' Student Film Competition. Video and film productions with
his scores have won dozens of Addy and film festival awards in the
Mid-south region and around the country, including Best of Show (1989)
and Best Music Score (1993) awards. A United Airlines video that he
scored, WORDS ABOUT SAFETY, won a Bronze Reel in the 1996 ITVA International
Golden Reel Video Festival. Hans
also done extensive work in live theater, composing original music
for stage productions including OTHELLO, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and
OLEANNA. He composed the music for a lyric theater piece, THE MIRROR
OF TRUTH, commissioned in 1998 by Wildwood Park and Arkansas Blue
Cross/Blue Shield,
which had
over 120 performances that year.
Songwriters
The
Intergalactic Diva
PAMELA STONEBROOKE
When Los Angeles-based jazz singer Pamela Stonebrooke began billing
herself as the "Intergalactic Diva," the smoky-voiced chanteuse
was not yet renowned for mingling with non-human life-forms. A sign-up
sheet for a jazz showcase overseen by a drummer friend asked participants
to list their names and instruments--"and just as a joke, I put
my name down and I put 'the Intergalactic Diva' under instrument,"
Stonebrooke remembers. "And that was it: From then on, whenever
I went to sit in anywhere, that's what people called me. So it was
just a little fluke that stuck with me." She adds, "Oddly
now, it kind of works." And how. On Experiencer, her latest album,
Stonebrooke delivers Sade-smooth, Grace Jones-demanding tunes that
deal with her alleged communions with aliens. But such esoteric lyrical
content has not rendered her a difficult-to-acquire taste. Indeed,
she is much in demand; she played the wedding of Hustler publisher
Larry Flynt and entertained at several birthday parties for the late
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who sat in front of Stonebrooke's
band and applauded the solos even after most of the guests had gone
home. Moreover, she recently inked a cherry publishing deal with Ballantine
Books for Experiencer: A Jazz Singer's True Account of Extraterrestrial
Contact, a tome she's in the process of completing. In other words,
her career is boldly going where it's never gone before. According
to Stonebrooke, her earliest "conscious contact" occurred
five years ago, whereupon she found herself aboard an alien vessel
in the middle of the night. "It was pretty typical," she
grants. "Although I don't know how typical this is: I was taken
into a room and presented with my four hybrid daughters who called
me 'mommy.'" The event leveled her pre-existing life like a hurricane,
she says: "The first year and a half that I had these contacts,
I literally couldn't do anything else. I let my music go. As far as
I was concerned, I had to figure this out, and it was a primary motivating
force in my life. I stopped doing clubs, I stopped doing gigs, stopped
writing, and even though I missed it and felt bad that I didn't have
that spark of inspiration, there was something more pressing for me
to deal with."
Fritz Heede
Fritz brings a very personal touch to the film, having himself had
UFO experiences. He accounts a possible alien abduction and witnessed
along with Brandon Scott and his brother Ed a UFO
while on a camping trip in Mexico. Fritz Heede's music is interwoven
with world music influences , combining the European symphonic tradition
and rock / pop with Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian and tribal traditions.
He has created the atmosphere and majesty of ancient civilizations,
as heard on his soundtrack for Mystery of the Sphinx, the Emmy-award
winning NBC special. Born in Mexico City, Fritz's earliest musical
training was flamenco guitar. First ignited by the Beatles, his inclination
towards the guitar focused his attention on rock artists like Cream,
Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Yes and Genesis which lead
him to symphonic music (e.i. Stravinsky, Debussy) which inspired him
to study synthesis and piano. In L.A., Fritz began to study film scoring
having also been influenced by Miklos Rozsa and Bernard Herrmann.
He learned recording skills and started composing/producing scores
for films and documentaries. Influences like Peter Gabriel, Dead Can
Dance, minimalist John Adams and world music then took hold and he
expanded his pallette and learned turkish saz, sitar, hammered dulcimer
and ethnic percussion. He has also been performing with the world
music ensemble Mystic Journey. Other works by Fritz include the soundtracks
to the NBC special Mysterious Origins of Man hosted by Charlton Heston,
and a television special about the secret chamber located under the
Sphinx in Egypt, part of which was recorded inside the King's Chamber
in the actual Great Pyramid. He also scored Sacred Fire an Irish Television
special hosted by John Hurt which featured Celtic influenced orchestrations
and folk instruments. Having a strong interest in film production
Fritz created a post-production facility along with editor/multi-media
wiz Jason Stelzel, where the two worked on numerous projects for the
U.N., the Whaleman Foundation, Julian Lennon, Lauryn Hill at the Grammys,
Academy for Future Science, etc... They posted the award winning documentary
expose Hidden Wars of Desert Storm narrated by John Hurt, for which
Fritz also served as Associate Producer, and which is currently being
shown worldwide as well as Plan Colombia narrated by Ed Azner. He
is now working independently focusing on socially conscious projects
as well as the more purely artistic like Illuminated Manuscripts done
in collaboration with animator John Banks . Fritz's other interests
include macro-economics, geo-politics, metaphysics, and his lovely
Lithuanian wife, Nijole Sparkis.
Gailyn Addis
Author
of the new book Be Marilyn: A Glamourous Guide to Living Blonde, (Sourcebooks
Publishing) now available in stores everywhere, Gailyn Addis landed
her first acting job when she was an exchange student in Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1994 she moved to Los Angeles to study acting and voice. Her physical
resemblance to Marilyn Monroe was soon discovered as well as her ability
to impersonate the voices and looks of Marilyn, Liza Minnelli, Madonna,
Faith Hill, Judy Garland, Olivia Newton John, Alanis Morissette and
many others. She has since stacked up an impressive list of credits
in film, T.V., and music video portraying Marilyn in Showtime's "Out
There," the Disney Channel's "Munchie Strikes Back,"
the T.V. shows "Clueless," "The Other Side," and
"The To Tell the Truth," the music videos of "The Rembrandts"
and "Ministry," and most recently a commercial for Toyota.
She has appeared on numerous overseas broadcasts and has been the
subject of newspaper articles and TV interviews both locally and internationally.
Overseas venues where Gailyn has performed include the Olympic Stadium
in Seoul, Korea, the Genting Highlands Resort in Malaysia, the Bangkok
Royal Sports Club, the Prince Hotels in Japan, American military bases
in Japan, Spain & Italy, and Star Cruises in Hong Kong with the
award winning show "Legends in Concert." In the United States,
she lights up the stage portraying both Marilyn and Liza in: "A
Really Big Shew" at the Tropicana in Atlantic City and the Reno
Hilton; "A Tribute to the Divas" in Palm Springs; and Ron
Stein's "Hollywood Stars"at venues in the U.S. and abroad.
She has also made special appearances for Legends in Concert, Mercedes
Benz, McDonalds, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and the Debbie
Reynolds Hotel & Casino for which she modeled the original "Seven
Year Itch" dress worn by Marilyn Monroe (It was a perfect fit!).
As if that isn't enough, Gailyn also writes and produces her own original
music. With her own sultry, risktaking style, she has produced a CD
in the alternative pop rock genre that is generating a stir on the
L.A. music scene. So no matter how you see her, Gailyn Addis is an
artist/singer/entertainer of extraordinary talents on the way to the
top!
Mumbo Gumbo
Despite their roots in any musical style you might care to name -
did we mention "psychedelic voodoo mambo"? - the group's
increasing stature is rooted in two distinctive traditions that are
as old as the rock era itself: the journeyman coverband roadwork ethic
that produced the Beatles and the freeform dance party lifestyle that
produced the Grateful Dead. Mumbo Gumbo sounds like neither - hey,
MG sounds like no one else - but they have developed their musical
craft the way few new bands are doing these days, through hard musical
work, gig by gig, year by year. And they have developed a connection
with their audience that comes from their over-arching desire to make
sure that they leave their audiences dancing and smiling, a radical
notion in the ego-centered, my-way-or-the-highway attitude of many
contemporary performers. At the same time, Gumbo is no mere party
machine. It is fronted by two remarkable singer songwriters, Chris
Webster and Tracy Walton, whose songs are insightful, tuneful, personal,
and most importantly, build on the bond they've established with their
audience. In writing about their own lives and experiences and reactions
to this "big life," Webster and Walton are finding, much
to their delight, that they are doing the same for their listeners.
With "Seven" and a host of festival and concert gigs all
around the Western U.S., the members of Mumbo Gumbo are realizing
just how big and coherent their nilly-willy, kitchen-sink vision -
which they still can't quite describe - has become in the American
Melting Pot of the new millennium.
Henry Iglesias
Henry Iglesias is a dynamic soulful singer, a virtuoso on the piano,
the guitar, and the harmonica, and easily one of the most versatile
and prolific contemporary Singer-Songwriters of today. Born in Mexico
and brought up in Los Angeles, The Iglesias family once again introduces
another new talent into show business. Henry is the son of Latino
television and radio pioneers Roberto and Helena Iglesias and has
been compared to being a contemporary bi-lingual cross between Billy
Joel and Sting. His debut U.S. CD “3 Billion Seconds” is still being
applauded by the critics as well as featured in the hilarious Romantic
film comedy now on Showtime“The Sky is Falling”. Henry recently completed
a passionate and complex CD titled "Circle of Souls" featuring
the dark haunting lyrics of west coast poet Muse with music produced,
performed and composed by Iglesias to fit the voices of some of the
hottest new artists on the wings of the music world, Shayna, Janet
Robin, Bridgett Bryant and Mosh. Another Iglesias project “Extranjera
en America” (Stranger in America) is also his most ambitious. Henry
composed all the music and wrote the entire book, the Broadway style
musical and the script with acclaimed playwright Victor Cabrera. It’s
a dramatic musical in Spanish and English with 30 great original songs.
His newest music album has been performing, arranging and producing
a brilliant music Cd for Catman Cohen titled “The Catman Chronicles”
Iglesias is also a very funny actor/comedian voted as one of the top
20 Latino comedians in a nation wide poll of producers and industry.
Sean
Crayton
Crayton is a radical musician who created one of the AlienSecrets.com
theme songs. He is as well a very important member of the A.S.I. team
as a Primary
Field Operative and world renowned UFO investigator. He has co- developed
with John Bro a technique manual “How To Capture UFOs.
Brandon Scott " UFOMAN"
The movie Alien Secrets was taken in
part form the journals of Brandon's investigations. After interviewing
over 100 individuals who where abducted by aliens, Brandon incorporated
the primary emotional plea from most victims into the lyrics of the
theme song, "We are not alone ...leave me alone !". With
the help of veteran composer Michael Murphy, best
known for REO Speedwagons's hit" RIding the Storm Out".
They co- created the Rock Opera style song "We Are Not Alone"
for the opening theme music to the film. Brandon
has written over 200 songs,ranging from POP to Mariachi. He began
playing violin when he was 7 and now plays guitar, piano, flute, bongos,and
dijiridu. His first album "Catharsis" was recorded while
still in High School, around the same time he became a Paranormal
Investigator.
Michael
Murphy
Michael composed and performed the music for “We Are
Not Alone”.
He grew up in a steel and farming town (Sterling) in Illinois. Forced
into piano lessons by his father,
loved it right away. In his teens, he was exposed to Ray Charles and
then the Beatles. In the seventies, toured with regional and national
bands. In 1981 played keyboards with Joe Walsh. Also co- wrote a song
on Joe’s "But Seriously Folks” record. In 1992 he toured as keyboardist
with Seals and Croft HE composed music for films and video including
features, shorts, documentaries, and industrials.
Michael remembers seeing a UFO once.
Robby Longley
As
a child, I strummed the guitar unconsciously. As a young man, I endeavored
to strum it consciously. Now some 25 years later, I strum the guitar
as I did as a child—unconsciously. That is to say, “it plays itself”
through me. If
someone throws a ball at you, you catch it. You walk into a dark room
and without conscious thought, you turn on the light switch. A child
runs out in front of your car and you jam on the brakes. Someone takes
a swing at you, and you side-step away from harm. You don’t stop to
think about it, “it” just happens. I play and compose on the guitar
as it calls to me—without conscious thought, yet being fully conscious
all the time,” admits Robby Longley. After hearing Robby’s orchestrated
guitar music, categorization becomes irrelevant, thus breaking down
known musical borders. He weaves a very distinctive style indeed;
it is a beautifully orchestrated neo-classical/flamenco fusion of
world music in which Robby uses flamenco technique to produce guitar
music that is not traditional flamenco. The listener will instantly
discern that Robby's approach is both heartfelt and seductive, leading
one on an emotionally filled journey. To date, Robby has produced
eight CDs. In every generation there comes a musician who defines
an era—one who brings something unique to his musical style. At once
it is clear that Robby Longley is not only a recording artist and
guitar hero for aficionados, but also a live performer with great
mainstream appeal whose capabilities reach the totality of fine musicianship.
Anna Trevino
Singer/ guitarists/songwriter
Anna Trevino has recorded 3 albums. When she is not creating music,
she spends time on her ranch taking care of her horses,dogs and cats.
As a black belt in Hapkido, she trains every day to keep in shape.
Her songs “Microscope ” and "Supersonic World"
caught the attention of the producers of Alien Secrets, who ended
up using 4 of her songs in the film.
David Winans
A
talented singer and musician, David has recorded with Steve Wonders,
Michael Jackson (Man in the Mirror) Quincy Jones (BAD) , Yellow Jackets
and dozens more. Classically trained he started with the violin and
viola before mastering the guitar. .He was raised in gospel music
with mentor rock and roll legends like Led Zeppelin, and YES. David
co- wrote and performed with Ana Trevino the song " I saw your
face in the window", featured in the movie Alien Secrets
Also Featured:
Tristan
Holloway /Nicholas Allen/Stupid Face
Noah
Cryns/ Spank
Richard Allen
Original Songs
“We Are Not Alone”
Written by Brandon Scott and Michael Murphy
Performed by Brandon Scott and Tiffany Carmel
Magic Tree Productions
“Alien Secrets
Overture”
Written by Brandon Scott and Michael Murphy
Performed by Michael Murphy
"Alien Secrets JamTQ9"
Written and Performed by Sean Crayton
“Seven Year
Sleep”
Performed by Gailyn Addis
Written by Gailyn Addis, Conrad Askland,
Sean Clavin copyright 2000
“Whenever I’m
With You”
Written by Henry Iglesias
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“Everyone To
You”
Written by Henry Iglesias and John Collela
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“Just Be”
Written by Henry Iglesias and John Collela
Performed by Shayna
“Sleeping Delilah”
Written by Henry Iglesias and John Collela
Performed by Christian Hickey
“Kiss Your Tears
Away”
Written by Henry Iglesias and John Collela
Performed by Henry Iglesias
”Is Anybody
Out There”
Written by Henry Iglesias
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“Just Ain’t
Enough”
Written by Henry Iglesias
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“The Value of
2”
Written by Henry Iglesias
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“3 Billion Seconds”
Written by Henry Iglesias
Performed by Henry Iglesias
“Daisy Chain”
Written by Tracy Walton
Performed by Mumbo Gumbo
Zebra Feathers Music ASCAP / Ruby Records
“The Little
Things”
Written by Tracy Walton
Performed by Mumbo Gumbo
Zebra Feathers Music ASCAP / Ruby Records
“I Dreamed It”
Written by Tracy Walton
Performed by Mumbo Gumbo
Zebra Feathers Music ASCAP / Ruby Records
“Illuminated
Manuscripts”
”Passages”, “Nocturn”, “Passages Beyond”, “Glow Temple”
Composed and Produced by Fritz Heede
Vocals by Susan Albrith, Shannon Michael Terry, Bruce Adler AEON OF
HORUS MUSIC (ASCAP)
“Zig Zag Rag”
Composed and performed by Richard Allen
Album Music Magic Copyright 2000 A-440 music
“Evangeline”
Composed and Performed by Robby Longley
Earldon Music copyright 2000
“Microscope ”
Written by Anna Trevino
Performed by Anna Trevino
“I Saw Your
Face in the Window”
Written by Anna Trevino and David Winans
Performed by Anna Trevino David Winans
“Supersonic
World ”
Written by Anna Trevino
Performed by Anna Trevino
“ Falling”
Written by Anna Trevino and Joshua Sacta
Performed by Anna Trevino and
“I Was Born
on a Space Ship”
Written by Tristan Holloway /Nicholas Allen
Performed by Stupid Face (BMI)
“Kaleidoscope
Eyes”
Written by Noah Cryns
Performed by Spank