I will be traveling up to Philadelphia to Brett Kull's (Echolyn/The Syn's 2008 USA touring band) recording studio tomorrow to meet up with my good friends Steve Nardelli, Kelly Child, Steve Nicholas, and Cary Clouser to record the lead instrumentals and lead & harmony vocals to "Reasons & Rituals" (original music by Steve Nardelli) '14 Hour Technicholour Dream: The V-Band' project's first song to be released through Umbrello Music Entertainment, LLC. We are also anticipating receiving Pro Tools guitar tracks from both the talented Kurt Michaels and George Pisano who, unfortunately, cannot make it to Philadelphia for the fun, filming, interviews and music planned for this weekend. :)

Great times are now clearly ahead for The Syn (core band consisting of founding member Steve Nardelli, Francis Dunnery & Tom Brislin) who will begin again this coming Monday to work on the eagerly awaited multimedia release 'Big Sky'. :) In addition, Steve Nardelli anticipates that the V-Band project will be an ongoing endeavor; songs to follow up on the release of "R&R" are already in the planning stage. :)

Steve Nardelli and I also wish to especially and warmly thank our friend/Pittsburgh PA's talented KEVIN STILL (ondafritz) whose hard work, dedication and contributions as musician, engineer, and producer (culminating engineering/production duties to be assumed by Brett Kull) to "Reasons & Rituals" made this next step largely possible. We will REALLY miss him in Philadelphia this weekend and wish him the very, very best.

So good wishes to all - and to our members/friends living in the Gulf region of the USA, please stay safe!!!,

:)Steve S-N Steve Sikes-Nova

14 Hour Group Owner/Co-moderator

Executive Producer "14 Hr TD: V-Band Project" Senior Media Consultant, Umbrello Music Entertainment,London/New York; Umbrello Records & Umbrello.tv

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