FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAliza “LSA” Grant Releases Bits And Pieces CDSacramento, CA–January 23, 2005–Aliza Grant, AKA LSA,which means Life’s Sole Apprentice, has always loved music andshe has taken every opportunity to create it. Aliza’s new CDBits And Pieces is a multihued and exciting collection ofelectronica and trip hop.Initial ideas of producing drum and bass and...

There’s a lot to be said for new beginnings. I love newbeginnings. One might say I live for new beginnings. There arealways new friends to meet, new places to discover, new projectsto develop. It’s the challenge of mystery, the exciting promiseof a new adventure that draws me into the future. It’s hard toimagine why some people live their lives in a straight jacket,afraid to move....

Even when you don’t know where you’re going and what you plan todo with your music when you get there, you have to startsomewhere. Trading places with a superstar isn’t going tohappen. Getting a “hit” record is about as likely as winning thelottery.In the work-a-day world, no one starts at the top. Why wouldmusic be any different? More often than not, we begin at thebottom....

Great music like great works of art will last forever. Greatmusic satisfies the artist as much as the audience. Great musicis in the ear of the creator as much as the hearer. Why is itthen that some great artists become wealthy some do not? Why dosome great artists have regular jobs and careers that havelittle or nothing to do with music? Is it perhaps that music hasvery little to do business and much...

Great music blows like a gentle breeze across the meadow. Itfloods the senses with the force of a hurricane. It moves thespirit; breaks the heart; tames the wild beast and burns in thebelly with fire. Still, there are too many choices. The conceptof a single artist or group like The Beatles uniting a large popaudience and shaping and defining it is about as dead as the45-rpm single.There are some things...

Creativity Is An You would think the music industry would havelearned by now. Art cannot be commodified. Oh, of course, youcan sell Van Gogh prints in the check out aisles of Walmart asquickly as you can churn out a Muzak version of Led Zepplins”Stairway to Heaven”. But great music can’t be sanitized,sterilized or serialized. There are some things you don’t learnin a classroom:...

Paris was once the center for art, literature, and music in theworld. Exploding in the world with a new sense of self,Impressionist artists questioned everything. Painters likePierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas saw theworld differently, delighting in vivid colors. Composers beganusing discordant chords and diverse musical arrangements toconvey impressions and moods. A century later,...