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we are not machines BRADLEY PARKER-SPARROW FEATURING JOANIE PALLATTO WITH EXCERPTS FROM WATCH - A JOHN COVERT FILM Label founders Sparrow and Joanie Pallatto return to the air with ?we are not machines.? What began as the film score for John Covert?s new thriller ?Watch? melded into a musical/social commentary on the current state of the modern music industry. This is not jazz. This is not pop. This is SPARROWMUSIC. In a world that grows more insensitive to the creative human needs of both the artist and the general public, Sparrow envisions a world that has become a musical battlefield. The blood that feeds the music of the machine is electricity, and as machines take over our common functions, they begin to hinder humanity and creativity. This CD features tracks that can be played on the radio! Track 2, ?Before The Voice? features Joanie Pallatto singing a modern anthem to the senselessness of war. Track 7 and 24 ?Cut Off The Head Of Eminem And Stick It Up His Butt!? features Sparrow on vocals daring Eminem to come to Chicago so that he can meet Sparrow?s posse. Track 7 you can NOT play, it has bad words, track 24 is the PG-REMIX version? Sparrow?s original experiments and compositions fuse acoustic piano with various machines, keyboards and loops throughout the CD. Label co-founder and artist Joanie Pallatto is the voice of machine. Refusing to be cast as a jazz or pop singer, she re-invents the need to improvise with emotion and precise intonation. Veteran Chicago writer and radio man Rick Kogan makes his musical debut with beat poetry on Track10, ?Little John.? Trumpet veteran Billy Brimfield spits fire on Track 12, ?Before The Time.? Also featured is Larry Gray on Bass and Cello, Acoustic Bass visionary Tatsu Aoki and the electric rockin? bass of John E. Magnan along with drummer-percussion legend Alejo Poveda. In 1979 Southport began with Sparrow?s ?Latin Black? S-SSD 0001? now approaching 2002 is release S-SSD 0093, ?We Are Not Machines.?