Blacko Music Makes Toronto / Nigeria Pipeline Dance

WSS: We're here with Blacko (Dele 'Blacko-Blackface' Ajayi). Tell us about your new work and songs here at Wellesley.

B: My new project that is going on here at Wellesley Sound is something I plan to release next year 2007 sometime in the summer, putting something together for the African people because I think its about time. I'm a Producer, Singer and a Writer, so I just decided to do something for my people. I can work the vibe and the African thing all together, done with professional people like Jeff in the studio here 'cause I want it to be right. It's going to be a great album.

WSS: Totally. Is there a message you want to convey in this project?

B: I'm trying to lay down a legacy, perhaps I'm trying to make E-street for people, trying to step up the game there in the sense that our music will be accepted in the Western world at the same time. Mostly we make music back home just for our community, but what I'm trying to do is a mixture of Western world, lyrics, piano, rythms, and African things.

WSS: What about the song we are hearing here in MP3?

B: This song, in Nigeria already is called: "There is Light". The track is E-pop but the lyrics are my Language. We're actually working on a second single which will go down now.

WSS: Excellent. What would you like to say to your Fans in Nigeria. Canada and USA?

B: Blacko is about to do big things, you know, you should

Blacko at his Desk, Toronto ON Canada 2006

expect some more and more and more - I won't stop. For next year, I will drop some hot, hot tracks, that will have impact in their life, not just an album for E-street, something that they can relate to. I love my friends, to do whatever for them, get them smiling, dancing you know, let them get their dancing shoes on, thats what Blacko's all about.   ~ WSS Nov 06

the Johnstones new CD release recorded and produced at Wellesley Sound

the Johnstones CD $ Word is Bond $ SOMP052

the Johnstones new CD "$ Word is Bond $" is in stores everywhere September 19th so pick up your copy today. You can also order it online from: www.UnionLabelGroup.com.

Thats right our new CD is in stores everywhere, HTV, Music World, you name it its there so pick up your copy already cus the disc is superfuckingfly! ~ the Johnstones

Listen to MP3s of the new Johnstones ska/punk/grunge CD!

  1. What are you looking at ? - Mp3 Audition / Mp3 download
  2. L A D I E S -  Mp3 Audition / Mp3 download

Title: the Johnstones $ Word is Bond $ STMP052
Artists: The Johnstones (Ska/Punk/Grime)
Recorded at: Wellesley Sound Studios (trks 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9) Engineered and Mastered by: Steve Major
Mixed by: Jeff McCulloch, Track 4 Mastered by: Steve Major, Wellesley Sound Studios
Lead Guitar, Trumpet: Rene Gillezeau
Guitar, Trumpet and Vocals: Jarek Hardy
Drums and Vocals: Ryan Long (Long & McQuade Website[Url])
Bass: Brent Marks
Trombone: Julian Warmé
Band Site Url: http://thejohnstones.ca
Band MySpace Url: http://www.myspace.com/thejohnstones

                                                                              ~ WSS sep 2006

White Cowbell Oklahoma Rocks Wellesley Sound!

WS: We're talking with White Cowbell Oklahomas' Clem and Jesse. Can you tell us a bit about the band and yourselves.

Clem: White Cowbell Oklahoma, my name is Clem I play electic lead vocals and electric lead guitar and
over there's Jesse he plays electric lead
organ and electric lead synthesizer of the Gods.

WS: ... Sweet, any relation to Jesse James?

Jesse: No, no, Uncle Jesse (the Great Bearded One)

Clem: ... actually, Jesses' forefathers incorporate the Jameisons Whisky Distillery in the Republic of Ireland, but we shortened it to 'Jesse'.

WS: What is up at Wellesley Sound?

Clem: Its great to be back in Boliva, we always record in Bolivia, we got on a plane and here we are.
We love Wellesley Sound, and we brought our tapes
and we recorded out music upon it, and
they got lots of sliders and knobs and lights and things
as long as theres lots of lights we know that
its money well spent, and
they got gigantic speakers,

Jesse: The entire budget was spent on LED Mute Buttons for board.

Clem: This is the first Rock and Roll record mastered on a Wax Cylinder.

WS: Its coming back.

Clem: We think, ya know, its coming back, ... its got to,
and when the ROCKOPALYPSE comes, like we predicted, electricity will be only for the priveledged so wax cylinders will be the most portable format.

Jane Bunnett mixes new CD Radio Guantanamo at Wellesley Sound

Jane Bunnetts CD Radio Guantanamo.

Juno award winning saxaphonist Jane Bunnett travelled to Cuba to record her latest CD, Radio Guantanamo: Guantanamo Blues Project - Vol. 1.

Word of the session spread throughout Havana, and soon a number of Cuban Music legends dropped by the studio to join in with the 60-piece ensemble in action.Bunnett brought the tracks back to Wellesley Sound to mix the album in January 2006, adding legends Dewey Redmond and Howard Johnson there. Bunnett recorded herJuno-winning album Ritmo+Soul there in May, 2000.