.:MEDIA:.
KMP & LiSA Are Making Waves At Mixposure!
They Have Recieved Rave Reviews Accross The Board
& Have Won Over 10 Awards
Find Out What Others Are Saying RIGHT HERE
Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By KarnalEcho
- 07/02/05 -
Highly erotic and emotional
As always, I am so impressed by your work. The music speaks to me on a level unreached by anyone else on here. It's such a seductive sound. I love the rhythm of this song, the vocals are always so very impressive. The spoken words in the beginning and throughout this song is absolutely stunning. I love the accents too, BTW *wink*.
This is definitely a very emotional piece. You guys are awesome.
KMP & LiSA
Were Chosen To Be Featured @ Indieguild!
What makes Indieguild different from all the other sites, is that they HAND-PICK their artists, based on the quality of the music.
Want To Interact With KMP Or LiSA?
Then Visit Them
On their Own Forum @ Indieguild!
Visit Me!
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.:REVIEWS:.
Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 10/29/04 - RippingTracks.com
Lovely ambient, pseudo classical start, overlain with speech. Actually in contrast to the title this rather feels like being inside some old wood-floored building looking out at the rain teeming down in buckets. It has that melancholia of a wet autumn day right through it. Emotive music is good music in my book. KMP really cooks up a lovely carpet for Lisa's vocals. The music is definitely cinematic, a little John Barry lingers, also the later John Williams. And well, what can I say about Lisa's vocals. Put it this way, imagine being an iced lollypop and then being licked. Licked rather thoroughly. Hmmm...
'A day without rain' is a good solid mellow sad track.
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Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By Ed Drury - 10/22/04
A Day Without Rain is hauntingly beautiful, amazingly direct and poetic in it's delivery. From the depths of longing comes the reassuringly warm voice of Lisa offering hope in the middle of despair. The track is true aristy painted on a canvas of KMP's masterful music with the brushstrokes of Lisa's genius, warmth and loving comfort.
I'm both humbled and elevated by this composition..
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Review Of "Plenty"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 09/28/04 - RippingTracks.com
KMP and LiSA get together once more for some energized and sensually charged frolics. Accoustic guitar hooks, catchy beats and juicy electronica flavourings to backup LiSA's loaded vocals. There're nice dynamics here, it's great how everything goes all spaced out and then kicks back in to the central hook, it really kept me in. LiSA has a lot of sultry eroticism lurking around and KMP is the right fellow to bring it out. I could go on and start having fun with some double entendres, but I'll resist the temptation. Check out the track, it's a well done blend. Where others might have failed at this sort of thing, these two have the right musical chemistry to pull it off. Good stuff.
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Review Of "Falling Down"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 07/22/04 - RippingTracks.com
LiSA plays the femme fatale in this lilting RnB flavoured ballad. A femme fatale who loses the love of her lover and becomes little more than an object. With smooth beats and deep bass, lush strings, plucked synth guitar, the track really is very rich yet still leaves plenty of room for LiSA's distinctive and seductive vocal. There's a definite melancholia about this track, but it's also has a fair amount of eroticism subtly lingering within. And it grooves, a slow loving groove like a caress in the darkness.
Harout Kalandjian provides the music for this track, and what a fine job he does. The string stylings are delicious lending a powerful dramaticism to it: an epic cinema feel.
This is seductive stuff! Definitely something to put on the stereo late at night for a little ambience that might be conducive for.... well, we'll let you work that one out for yourselves.
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A Short Story By Sally Cooper
After a long break from listening to indie music (Performing overseas on a long contract, and being around a lot of professional musicians had made me lose my interest in indie music for a while)...anyway...
At the time I had an admittedly jaded attitude toward indie music after remembering a lot of not so good artists paying more attention to arguing with each other.I got back online and came to an internet community of musicians. I clicked on the first artist I saw, KMP, with this song: "Be who you are " a collaboration with Queenie.....I was completely knocked out and impressed and my interest in indie music on the net was completely rekindled....THANKS KMP!
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JavaMusic Blog - KMP Artist Pick #18 By Jeff Van Devender - 07/13/04
JavaMusiK has observed that LA based artist KMP approaches his art form in a variety of dimensions. While circumventing the impression of pidgeonholing his musical image into just one genre, several listens will reveal a signature sound clearly identifiable as belonging to the distinctive approach of the enigmatic KMP.
First, there is the music. While Electronica and Ambient seem to be at the forefront of his stylings, we also notice traces of straight ahead Rock & Roll, Jazz, New Age & World Fusion woven throughout his vast repertoire. The inclusion of KMP's many different collaborations has indeed contributed to his expanded musical fashion.
KMP has also recently begun employing an increased implementation of visual awareness into his image. While the package doesn't submerge or completely embrace this perception, you can often feel evidence of a translucent obscurity moving stealthily throughout his aura. Upon second glance, however, you will receive a very uplifting motif throughout his message. This is where the ambiguity settles in as a portion of the image. We have yet to fully discern the meaning of the name KMP, however there seems to be some interesting speculation going around.
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Review Of "7th SIN" By Gustav Bertha - 07/11/04 - RippingTracks.com
Steamy World Domination
This is a big beefy Arabian-flavoured track that would not be out of place in a big budget movie about a woman who's out to get her man then crush him - totally. There's quite a bit of the old Marquis de Sade watching dirtily from the sidelines. Slow pounding electronic beats, big spacious synth sounds, and ooo... some of those samples - Mr KMP is clearly not devoid of a sense of humour. Lisa pants, breathes and whispers seductively over the proceedings in a most convincing way. It's not unlike what Vangelis might come up with if he was asked to do a soundtrack for something a bit saucier than films about little Genoan explorers discovering continents. If you needed a single adjective to describe this, it'd have to be 'steamy'.
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Review Of "Web Of Lies"Featuring LiSA By Barry Durdant Hollamby
As soon as this track starts up you know somehow you'll have to listen all the way through. It's intro is beautifully understated and very haunting and provides the perfect doorway through which Lisa's sultry, sexy vocal appears.
I can almost feel Lisa getting closer and closer to me as the intensity builds. The track is playing with me - teasing me with little tasters, tubular bells fooling around with pizzicato string lines. A beat which is crystal clear and which drops out at the perfect times, leaving me room to come up for air just when I need it most.
Lisa's close miked main vocal is beautifully balanced by little cameo roles -subtle whisperings, far off haunting yet appealing vocal lines which leave me in no doubt that this is a very cleverly produced track. It makes the intricate sound simple - just like the greatest sports players make the most difficult shots look easy.
This track's strength is in the breathing spaces it leaves. It treads a very fine line between perfect understatement and under production. In this reviewers ears there is no doubt which side it comes down on.
Great work KMP and Lisa - this track really works.
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Review By Evan Paul Kozaris 03/08/04
I've known Harout for quite a while, first heard his music on mp3 and was totally blown away. I remember listening to tracks like Escape one of my favourites, and then with Queenie "Be Who You Are" another one of my favourites. It doesn't matter who he works with, by himself or with vocalists, the quality is there. He puts his heart and mind into everything he does, and paints pictures in my mind with his music. That's why I love listening to KMP. He is a visionary artist, always original and world in scope.
Here is to one of the greatest artists I have ever met. I am proud to be a friend.
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Review of "Be Who You Are"
feat. Queenie - by Chris Betteley, GOM - 06/11/03
I may seem a little naive here because I dont actually know what the term new age encompasses!
If this is new age then I like it.
K.M.P consists of Harout Kalandjian based in LA, who is the guru behind all of the music on this
track, played on synthesisers. A woman called Queenie is the guest vocalist and what a beautiful voice she has too. The song briefly starts with a haunting melody followed by the drums and a keyboard/guitar effect sound which is excellent.
Queenies vocals in some places seem like she is in a chapel singing a kind of gregorian chant as the song becomes subdued in the verses. In other parts of the song Queenies vocals are more direct and appear to be double tracked. This does actually benefit the song, giving a more professional sound. The song is at its best
when Queenie is singing at the forefront and the music is at the highest point, which I assume is the chorus. A good song which combines
the talents of both artists, and is better than the sum of its parts.
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Review of KMP - by David Midkiff, Independent
Reviewer - 07/24/03
KMP otherwise known as
Harout Kalandjian is a dance composer based in Los Angeles with an extremely
colorful outtake on electronic music that is honestly refreshing to
the ears and soothing to the soul. Morphing from Euro dance to West
Coast pop vocals his musical style is crisp, clean and uplifting due
to a professional studio style feel in every last one of his tracks.
The notation complexions are top-notch and structurally sound while
the collaborated vocal additions are a perfect touch to his music. Songs
such as ‘Loyal Enemy’ and ‘Midnight Escape’
really add a spicy flavor to the Dance musical genre which few can match.
The musical appeal of
KMP is on cloud-nine. His style is perfect for the clubs and that is
exactly where he pushes his music towards. From live gigs to massive
internet distribution few can really dislike the charismatic image of
KMP. Many electronic artists hide behind their computers but Harout
actively builds KMP an image to be reckoned with.
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Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By KarnalEcho - 07/02/05 -
KMP & LiSAWere Chosen To Be Featured @ Indieguild!
What makes Indieguild different from all the other sites, is that they HAND-PICK their artists, based on the quality of the music.
Want To Interact With KMP Or LiSA?
Then Visit Them
On their Own Forum @ Indieguild!
Visit Me!
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.:REVIEWS:.
Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 10/29/04 - RippingTracks.com
Lovely ambient, pseudo classical start, overlain with speech. Actually in contrast to the title this rather feels like being inside some old wood-floored building looking out at the rain teeming down in buckets. It has that melancholia of a wet autumn day right through it. Emotive music is good music in my book. KMP really cooks up a lovely carpet for Lisa's vocals. The music is definitely cinematic, a little John Barry lingers, also the later John Williams. And well, what can I say about Lisa's vocals. Put it this way, imagine being an iced lollypop and then being licked. Licked rather thoroughly. Hmmm... 'A day without rain' is a good solid mellow sad track.
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Review Of "A Day Without Rain"Featuring LiSA By Ed Drury - 10/22/04
A Day Without Rain is hauntingly beautiful, amazingly direct and poetic in it's delivery. From the depths of longing comes the reassuringly warm voice of Lisa offering hope in the middle of despair. The track is true aristy painted on a canvas of KMP's masterful music with the brushstrokes of Lisa's genius, warmth and loving comfort.
I'm both humbled and elevated by this composition..
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Review Of "Plenty"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 09/28/04 - RippingTracks.com
KMP and LiSA get together once more for some energized and sensually charged frolics. Accoustic guitar hooks, catchy beats and juicy electronica flavourings to backup LiSA's loaded vocals. There're nice dynamics here, it's great how everything goes all spaced out and then kicks back in to the central hook, it really kept me in. LiSA has a lot of sultry eroticism lurking around and KMP is the right fellow to bring it out. I could go on and start having fun with some double entendres, but I'll resist the temptation. Check out the track, it's a well done blend. Where others might have failed at this sort of thing, these two have the right musical chemistry to pull it off. Good stuff.
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Review Of "Falling Down"Featuring LiSA By Gustav Bertha - 07/22/04 - RippingTracks.com
LiSA plays the femme fatale in this lilting RnB flavoured ballad. A femme fatale who loses the love of her lover and becomes little more than an object. With smooth beats and deep bass, lush strings, plucked synth guitar, the track really is very rich yet still leaves plenty of room for LiSA's distinctive and seductive vocal. There's a definite melancholia about this track, but it's also has a fair amount of eroticism subtly lingering within. And it grooves, a slow loving groove like a caress in the darkness.
Harout Kalandjian provides the music for this track, and what a fine job he does. The string stylings are delicious lending a powerful dramaticism to it: an epic cinema feel.
This is seductive stuff! Definitely something to put on the stereo late at night for a little ambience that might be conducive for.... well, we'll let you work that one out for yourselves.
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A Short Story By Sally Cooper
After a long break from listening to indie music (Performing overseas on a long contract, and being around a lot of professional musicians had made me lose my interest in indie music for a while)...anyway...
At the time I had an admittedly jaded attitude toward indie music after remembering a lot of not so good artists paying more attention to arguing with each other.I got back online and came to an internet community of musicians. I clicked on the first artist I saw, KMP, with this song: "Be who you are " a collaboration with Queenie.....I was completely knocked out and impressed and my interest in indie music on the net was completely rekindled....THANKS KMP!
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JavaMusic Blog - KMP Artist Pick #18 By Jeff Van Devender - 07/13/04
JavaMusiK has observed that LA based artist KMP approaches his art form in a variety of dimensions. While circumventing the impression of pidgeonholing his musical image into just one genre, several listens will reveal a signature sound clearly identifiable as belonging to the distinctive approach of the enigmatic KMP.
First, there is the music. While Electronica and Ambient seem to be at the forefront of his stylings, we also notice traces of straight ahead Rock & Roll, Jazz, New Age & World Fusion woven throughout his vast repertoire. The inclusion of KMP's many different collaborations has indeed contributed to his expanded musical fashion.
KMP has also recently begun employing an increased implementation of visual awareness into his image. While the package doesn't submerge or completely embrace this perception, you can often feel evidence of a translucent obscurity moving stealthily throughout his aura. Upon second glance, however, you will receive a very uplifting motif throughout his message. This is where the ambiguity settles in as a portion of the image. We have yet to fully discern the meaning of the name KMP, however there seems to be some interesting speculation going around.
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Review Of "7th SIN" By Gustav Bertha - 07/11/04 - RippingTracks.com
Steamy World Domination
This is a big beefy Arabian-flavoured track that would not be out of place in a big budget movie about a woman who's out to get her man then crush him - totally. There's quite a bit of the old Marquis de Sade watching dirtily from the sidelines. Slow pounding electronic beats, big spacious synth sounds, and ooo... some of those samples - Mr KMP is clearly not devoid of a sense of humour. Lisa pants, breathes and whispers seductively over the proceedings in a most convincing way. It's not unlike what Vangelis might come up with if he was asked to do a soundtrack for something a bit saucier than films about little Genoan explorers discovering continents. If you needed a single adjective to describe this, it'd have to be 'steamy'.
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Review Of "Web Of Lies"Featuring LiSA By Barry Durdant Hollamby
As soon as this track starts up you know somehow you'll have to listen all the way through. It's intro is beautifully understated and very haunting and provides the perfect doorway through which Lisa's sultry, sexy vocal appears.
I can almost feel Lisa getting closer and closer to me as the intensity builds. The track is playing with me - teasing me with little tasters, tubular bells fooling around with pizzicato string lines. A beat which is crystal clear and which drops out at the perfect times, leaving me room to come up for air just when I need it most.
Lisa's close miked main vocal is beautifully balanced by little cameo roles -subtle whisperings, far off haunting yet appealing vocal lines which leave me in no doubt that this is a very cleverly produced track. It makes the intricate sound simple - just like the greatest sports players make the most difficult shots look easy.
This track's strength is in the breathing spaces it leaves. It treads a very fine line between perfect understatement and under production. In this reviewers ears there is no doubt which side it comes down on.
Great work KMP and Lisa - this track really works.
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Review By Evan Paul Kozaris 03/08/04
I've known Harout for quite a while, first heard his music on mp3 and was totally blown away. I remember listening to tracks like Escape one of my favourites, and then with Queenie "Be Who You Are" another one of my favourites. It doesn't matter who he works with, by himself or with vocalists, the quality is there. He puts his heart and mind into everything he does, and paints pictures in my mind with his music. That's why I love listening to KMP. He is a visionary artist, always original and world in scope. Here is to one of the greatest artists I have ever met. I am proud to be a friend.
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Review of "Be Who You Are" feat. Queenie - by Chris Betteley, GOM - 06/11/03
I may seem a little naive here because I dont actually know what the term new age encompasses!
If this is new age then I like it.
K.M.P consists of Harout Kalandjian based in LA, who is the guru behind all of the music on this track, played on synthesisers. A woman called Queenie is the guest vocalist and what a beautiful voice she has too. The song briefly starts with a haunting melody followed by the drums and a keyboard/guitar effect sound which is excellent.
Queenies vocals in some places seem like she is in a chapel singing a kind of gregorian chant as the song becomes subdued in the verses. In other parts of the song Queenies vocals are more direct and appear to be double tracked. This does actually benefit the song, giving a more professional sound. The song is at its best when Queenie is singing at the forefront and the music is at the highest point, which I assume is the chorus. A good song which combines the talents of both artists, and is better than the sum of its parts.
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Review of KMP - by David Midkiff, Independent Reviewer - 07/24/03
KMP otherwise known as Harout Kalandjian is a dance composer based in Los Angeles with an extremely colorful outtake on electronic music that is honestly refreshing to the ears and soothing to the soul. Morphing from Euro dance to West Coast pop vocals his musical style is crisp, clean and uplifting due to a professional studio style feel in every last one of his tracks. The notation complexions are top-notch and structurally sound while the collaborated vocal additions are a perfect touch to his music. Songs such as ‘Loyal Enemy’ and ‘Midnight Escape’ really add a spicy flavor to the Dance musical genre which few can match.
The musical appeal of KMP is on cloud-nine. His style is perfect for the clubs and that is exactly where he pushes his music towards. From live gigs to massive internet distribution few can really dislike the charismatic image of KMP. Many electronic artists hide behind their computers but Harout actively builds KMP an image to be reckoned with.
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