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“No Jive” Two simple words that encompass what Pheo, aka “Blackman Magnificent” lives by and his music subscribes to. Hailing from Moreno Valley, California, he represents the creative collective, U.T.B Life$tyle. April 2009 saw Pheo’s first official mixtape Word to Your Blogger, it demonstrated his superb writing ability and wordplay. His capacity as a fine tuned craftsman manifested with the release of his first studio album Wriot! The album released in March 2011 and subsequently featured in L.A. Weekly, to which it proclaimed, “…we played it 10 times in 2 days…” A year after Wriot!, Pheo goes on to record...

The story of Orpheo started when Alban Tromp and David Marquart Scholtz decided to start a musical experiment, which came forth from their love for progressive and psychedelic hardrock. Whilst still searching for a distinctive style and sound, Wendelin Visser was asked to join the band as their vocalist. They met Anne-Krijn Piersma during a jamsession and he turned out to be a welcome addition to the band. Not long after that, David met keyboardplayer Rutger Vlek, who completed Orpheo. It is in August 2002 when Orpheo did her first live gig and all the band members enjoyed it very...