New Album!

CCA : Not Different But Not The Same.
Cushma/Cides/Alexander + guests (Tony Levin, Trey Gunn and more)

Mitjà-Media press
Would you like to see something different? Or at least, something that is
not the same?

The new album of Linda Cushma, Guillermo Cides and Tim Alexander -CCA- is
what you are looking for.

The meeting of three artists presents an album full of good surprises and
of exquisite bouquet - from the first moment, we find impressive graphic
art. It is a kind of box or carton that presents a "freak circus show." On
having opened it, we find what might be a modern painting of some European
museum - faces and strangers' bodies come from unknown worlds. They look
at us impassively and prepare us to enter a musical world where the
freedom and the search for good music is present.

The packaging design from Argentina by the illustrator Nuno Enriquez is as
special as the music that it contains, which was the premise of work that
assembled Linda Cushma, Guillermo Cides and the drummer Tim Alexander
recognized by his work with the band, Primus.
From sticky melodies to uncontrollable moments of rock, the cd cruises for
sound explorations including a tango sung in Spanish by Cushma.

Linda says: "This CD was done very spontaneously, all through the
internet, internationally, many artists were asked to participate because
they just seemed to fit somehow - it became quite the organization of
tracks and personalities, which fits the theme of the circus a bit. The
new album has a long list of guests including renowned bassist/stickist
Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel/King Crimson) and a remixed version of a song by
Quodia with Trey Gunn (ex-King Crimson) and Joe Mendelson. This is one of
CCA's many surprises - Gunn narrating a musical story.”

Tim Alexander's intricate drumming is complimented by the delicious and
suggestive voice of Linda Cushma and the precise execution of Guillermo
Cides on Chapman Stick. Three perfect hosts who opened their doors to
different musicians via Internet.

And it is precisely on Internet where CCA is available - through direct
sale at low cost directly from the musicians to the audience, personalized
with signatures and with a presentation that makes one want to have it in
their home! A different way of doing things, according to Cides: "Internet
world gives to people the chance to download the music for free. Since the
world of music has changed because of Internet, we just made a special
album with a 'non-downloadable' art cover! It is very complex artwork
designed by a talented guy from Argentina. In this way, we can offer to
people a nice and low cost Cd-souvenir direct from and signed by the
artists. This is the new concept we have in relation with the music
business."

Linda Cushma is best known for her work with experimental prog-rock
ensemble Oxygene8 and prog/fusion project Ezoo. Cides offers Stick
concerts sharing stages with California Guitar Trio, Jerry Marotta in duo,
Trey Gunn, Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull;
Fish (Marillion), John Wetton (Asia,U.K), Rick Wakeman (Yes). Tim Alexander
is the drummer for band Primus and has also played with experimental bass
player Michael Manring, the Attention Deficit project and the theatrical
Blue Man Group. His other projects include bands Into the Presence and
Fata Morgana.

CCA also presents an international circle of special guest artists and
friends including Steve Parrish, Gayle Ellett, Mariano Enriquez, Federico
Miranda, Nan Mercader, Fatimah Halim, Helen, Winston Napier, Uncle Jim and
more, with final mixing and mastering by Guillermo "BabyFace" Zuloaga at
Tonica Studios in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

CCA presents a "not different, but not the same" album with really special
guests. Deliciously different!

Available at: www.stickcenter.com/catalog
Listen all songs in mp3.