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 | 3 awards position won by Mario Jacques Gentil & Karen D. Guymer at Australian Songwriters Association (ASA) awards 2008. |
| 'Lynetta' released on Joe Dolce's latest album. |
| 'Lynetta' also wins 2nd prize in international song contest. |
| Teen Idol 2007 winners also win a place in Magesongs Publishing songwriting course in 2009. |
| New Melbourne Songwriters Workshop Sites hosted by Mario Jacques Gentil.. |
Australian Songwriters Association Award 2008.
ASA member (previous Magesongs Songwriting Course student) won 2nd place at the ASA award 2008 with 'Our Last Goodbye" in the Folk/Acoustic category.
'Let Love Live' co-written by Mario J. Gentil and Karen D. Guymer won 5th place in Rock category as well as 9th place in Spiritual category.
'Lynetta' is released on Joe Dolce's new album 'The Wind Cries Mary'.
Since his mega-international-hit success with Shaddap You Face in 1981, Joe has had
a song used in the Terminator movie beside other achievements. This time Joe
Dolce brings us a new album, 'The Wind Cries Mary". It is his first studio recording since 2001. You may have a listen to excerpts from 'Cocaine Lil' and 'Lynetta'
for a taste. You won't regret it. 'Lynetta' (Dolce/Gentil) is sung
completely in French and is a wild cajun-bayou groove, and 'Cocaine Lil'
is an electric blues singing and shouting arrangement of an old traditional
19th century lyric, first collected in Carl Sandburg's 'American Songbook',
in 1927:
'Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil,
She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill,
She had a Cocaine dog and a Cocaine cat,
They fought all night with the Cocaine rat."
Lyric content aside, it has the most dynamic extended (45+ bars!) electric
Stratocaster solo Joe says he has ever recorded in one take and no overdubs.
The real deal. Other recommended tracks are 'It Was Only a Dream (but
No Reason to Awake)' ((Dolce) which is an evocation of the peace and
love of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. An original '60s mellotron was used to
create the thematic Beatle-like keyboard part. There is also a strong and
unabashed political side to the record with 'Gift (from One Iraqi Child,'
(Dolce) and Bruce Watson and Keith McKenry's brilliant 'September 11th'.
Even the acoustic version of 'The Wind Cries Mary,' featuring Lin Van
Hek, gives some new insights into Hendrix's surreal lyric. The guitar solo
is played dead-on, note-for-note, but an octave down, on a big ass resonator
steel-body! (Joe recommends: "Don't try that at home, kids.") Here are the
audio samples:
Other tracks: St Valentine's day (Dolce), Rocks Of Bawn (trad. arranged: Dolce), Dragon Lady (Motherwell/Dolce), Smokin' (Dolce), Hill Of Death (Lawson/Dolce), Death of Bach (Dolce) and For No One (Lennon/McCartney)
Audio samples can be heard, and english translation of Lynetta can also be read at Joe Dolce's Sonicbid website.
Shots from the vocals recording of Lynetta.
Mario & Sound Engineer Michael Czarny
Joe at his best.
Mario doing the high harmonies
'Lynetta' (Dolce/Gentil) also wins 2nd prize in international song contest.
Article by Flightsafe Music Publishing for QuickLaunch song contest on Sonicbids.
Winners:
From left to right: Emily Mulholland 3rd prize winner, Brooke Addamo (Australian Idol 2007 Top 12 finalist) 1st prize winner and Annabelle Priftis 2nd prize winner.
Following the Semi-finals at the Gasworks Theatre in Albert Park, the Grand Final took place on Sunday October 7th 2007 at the BMW Edge, Federation Square. The Australian Teen Idol show raises money for children charity, CanTeen in 2007, an Australian organisation for young people living with cancer. Beside other prizes, the 3 winners have also won a place into Magesongs Publishing songwriting course in 2008.