White Stone

 White Stone is actually just a pseudonym for musician Marc C. Cancassi.He is a multifaceted artist currently residing in NYC.
 The music of White Stone is sparse,spacey,stripped down and under produced...like everything else that came out of the 60's.Comparisons can be made to early Floyd,Nick Drake,Procol Harum and Mike Oldfield.He has toured since 1985 playing clubs such as CBGB's,the DIVE,TRAX,the KNITTING FACTORY and the Joint in California. He is currently still active on the touring circuit.




Related site links:
http://www.myspace.com/whitestonenyc

http://www.cdbaby.com/artist/WhiteStone1

http://www.youtube.com/user/progjazz?feature=watch


Edited by Lifeofprog - October 19 2012 at 13:06

This may be worth moving to 'Suggest New Bands And Artists' forum (Psyche sub genre?) This guy has six studio albums out and two live ones - all available to purchase from various sources. Most of them are instrumental albums, but a couple of them do have vocals. He has 8 tracks on myspace, and here are the White Stone videos from his YouTube channel:

Edited by yam yam - October 21 2012 at 00:39

yam yam wrote: This may be worth moving to 'Suggest New Bands And Artists' forum (Psyche sub genre?) This guy has six studio albums out and two live ones - all available to purchase from various sources. Most of them are instrumental albums, but a couple of them do have vocals. Seems to be virtually unknown. All but the last two albums are on RYM, but not a single rating or any info about him!

Thanks for the posting of the videos,much obliged~

I thought I would post some of the reviews of the band.With the exception of their debut cd and two live albums the music of White Stone is mostly instrumental with some prog' elements.They have explored everything from alternative and folk,post punk to their current recordings which are all instrumental.Here are some reviews:

1st album

TONE CLUSTERS MAGAZINE
"Nice guitar pop CD,a good guitarist and vocalist (Marc Cancassi),crispy drummer(Mike Cancassi and S.A.), undermiked but nice-when-I-can hear it bass(Rich Seibert)and altogether it kinda resembles Nick Drake fronting R.E.M. or Dire Straits(the latter on 'Runaway,'the former on 'Singled Out').Marc C. has a solid street-corner falsetto an' a good grasp of folk forms(dig how he sing's the opening and closing verses of 'Runaway,'tight-as-a-watch-spring guitar riff doggin' his every step;thats the Drake connection.Wanna hear him sing 'Pink Moon,' man).Yeah,there's a Bruce Springsteen move('A Canaanite Woman.'Don't hardly matter,killer piano riff an organ cushioning)but it's taken with a step back like Dylan might have done(though he'd have done this song at about 2/3 the tempo Marc does it),so Cancassi' got some definite smarts.In fact I like the air o' gentle regret all through this,even the hip-shakin' 'He's in Love(with himself)' (there's two versions of that here,an I like the live one better)an' 'Seasons,' the opener,which pops off the times of the year one after another,an' the losses mount as they will,ya know('our kids are gone...our parents are gone...who could ever take their place?')until there's nothing left to lose.Yeah,we all either been there or gonna be there.There's a fine 'N.W. Blues'(a real blues wowee,thought only Kevin Coyne remembered how to do them),a bouncy 'Waiting for this Dream' that's got a few bald spots including a Bread-like middle eight(gotta be careful there Marc),and my fave here is 'Land(that ain't got no light),'a naked Nick Drake-like ballad with fine pianer' at the end.
Mr.Cancassi an' cohorts have some talent an' they could be world-beaters with the right help.There's only about 36 minutes of music on this(with the tape manipulations at the end;he got a sense of humor too),but it's all pretty good an' some of it is really good.So give this a try." -C.B./Dec. 2001


JOURNEY INTO TIME-2ND CD

TONE CLUSTERS MAGAZINE
"Interesting turn for this artist from his 2001 debut CD'S John Mellencamp-like tales of the regular guy's up's and down's to this, a series of nice moody instrumentals built on ANIMALS-era Pink Floyd chord changes and featuring some slow-burn droning and a bit of guitar flash recalling Dave Gilmour or The Church's Peter Koppes.The tempos are all medium to thereabouts,and I like the Robin Trower twist to 'Tomorrow's Song' and the atmosphereic 'Space Station Blues.'I think a few more days on the work bench for the next set of tunes will make the follow-up music to fill the mind as much as this does the room.A good start." -K.E./2003


DAYS TO REMEBER-4TH CD

Indie Music Stop
"Days To Remember is an instrumental release that's a collection of everything from jazz, classical, and folk to rock styles of music. The first couple of tracks where just a little to mellow for me. For the most part they feature melodic repetitive chords being played either on the keyboard or guitar. That all changed though once track 5, "Earthjazzblues" rolled around.

"Earthjazzblues" is a 9-minutes musical explosion that mixes steady percussion and a mixture of jazz and blues/rock guitar parts. The band says that the song is a tribute to Frank Zappa/ Jeff Beck. This song is very entertaining and really rips it out for the entire 9-minutes that went by too fast.

The next several tracks also take the more up-tempo approach. Track-6 "NY Slide," is filled with funky fast driving rhythmic beats along with track-7 "World Passin' On Blues."

Track-8 "Land of Zep'," is a low-fi tribute to the legendary band Led Zeppelin. The guitar parts though reminded more of the acid playing style of Jimi Hendrix.

While the first several tracks were a little too melodic in tone for my personal taste, the music found from track-5 on more then made up for it. If you like the more melodic song flow then enjoy Days To Remember right from track-1 otherwise hang in there until track-5 hits and enjoy the musical ride from that point on."-C.W. Ross/NOV. 2007


Thanks for ur support and for a great site here~


Edited by Lifeofprog - October 24 2012 at 16:55