UPF Hope & Romantechs – Song Profile Gallery
New Slider (Nov 2021)
Test Blocks (post)
Planetary Overload – Part 2: Hope (2023)
Planetary Overload – Part 1: Loss (2019)
Fall in Love with the World (2014)
Jerry Marotta Jon Anderson Jon Davison Jon Camp
Hi All!
The UPF website’s long awaited makeover is a reality. To ramp up for the release of Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss, there have been quite a number of updates, including:
- A new page of band member bios and statements for joining the fraternity
- Updated home page sliders of 28 recently added band members
- Updated Mission Statement
- Updated UPF Video Campaign for Fall In Love With The World
- New page promotion for the Unitopia Box Set 2017 and music video
- Cleaned up the links for Album Reviews (Fall In Love With The World)
- The latest UPF Newsletter (January 2018)
Website maintained and updated by Jacob Gates & Ted Ollikkala
UPF Endorses Atmospheric Scientist and Climatologist: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Photo Credit: Ashley Rodgers—Texas Tech University
United Progressive Fraternity, in line with our mission of raising awareness of climate change and humanitarian concerns through music, endorses Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, associate professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center, for her important research work which focuses on developing and applying climate projections to evaluate future impacts on human society and the natural environment. Learn more about Katharine Hayhoe here: http://billmoyers.com/guest/katharine-hayhoe/
Dr. Hayhoe, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2014, has stated that she is “honored to receive our endorsement and is very encouraged to hear what UPF is doing to promote climate change awareness.”
Official website: http://katharinehayhoe.com/
Welcome Christophe Lebled
Welcome Christophe Lebled! Chris has joined the United Progressive Fraternity – UPF, by adding his arrangement for the opening theme (CD1 track 1 LOSS-HOPE) which is part of the Planetary Overload double set. Chris has added some nice keyboards to the song “What Happens Now”. He has also created the theme/overture called “Loss and Hope”.
Christophe Lebled (A great composer)
Chris has in turn worked with Jon Anderson a number of times over the years, more recently providing instrumentals for Jon Anderson’s prized concept album Survival & Other Stories.
Chris plays a big tribute to Vangelis while keeping within the same melody and intricate harmony structures of Vangelis compositions, the sound and atmosphere is uniquely his own, which makes a masterful re-creation to compliment the graceful soundscape of composer Vangelis. Christophe Lebled not only re-creates the sound of Vangelis, but rivals the composer in effect with some areas on this fine tribute release. You can listen to some of his wonderful work here: https://soundcloud.com/christophelebled
Planetary Overload is now ‘Planetary Overload – Loss and Hope’
Planetary Overload is now ‘Planetary Overload – Loss (CD1) and Hope (CD2)’
News update for immediate release (10 November 2015)
The forthcoming CDs by United Progressive Fraternity (UPF), described by the founder and ‘Architectual-Director’ of the musical concept that is UPF, Mark ‘Truey’ Trueack, (co-founder of the band Unitopia) as ‘the most communicated albums ever made’, is an ambitious undertaking that unites a team of international artists who are collaborating with Truey to record two CDs worth of material that will delve deeper into the environmental issues that we all face as a united world.
The two themes, ‘Loss’ [CD1] and ‘Hope’ [CD2] will focus on the problems we are already beginning to encounter on a troubled planet and expected to face with increasing severity in the near future, and taking immediate positive action to mitigate those effects to ensure humanity’s survival. The album release is expected to culminate in a series of exciting global musical events which will raise further awareness about the plight of our planet and what we can all do to help.
United Progressive Fraternity is working alongside with the support of climate gurus such as Dr. James E. Hansen, and we invite other environmental warriors to contact us.
Contact: trueack (at) bigpond.com
https://unitedprogressivefraternity.com/
UPF Mission Statement 2015
MISSION STATEMENT 2015
“To produce great music, as a collective concept,
whilst conveying a message of peace, hope and global awareness”
The Music: To produce creative, inspiring and thought provoking, original music, tapping into musical influences from all parts of the world.
The Concept: To foster collaboration and shared ideas with other Musicians, Artists and Writers, and to encourage participation and association with the core band.
The Message: To promote environmental and social awareness, directly relating to the state of Planet Earth and the human condition. The message is one of hope, highlighting that we can make a difference through the power of music.
The UPF Support Network: The Support Network includes Representatives, Promoters, Producers, Musicians, Writers and Artists.
The group of Representatives has been brought together to help promote the band and its values across all parts of the globe.
These Representatives will seek to find suitable sponsors who align themselves with the band’s core values, who may be prepared to provide sponsorship money to the band on the proviso that a percentage of funds are donated to an appropriate charity.
These Representatives are based in several countries in Europe, USA, Canada, Singapore, and of course Australia.
Together with the Representatives and the Collective of creative Artists and Promoters, our Fraternity can help bring about a much needed change in our troubled world.
Next Steps – We intend to:
- Mobilise the Representatives to start work on finding sponsors. To this end we will create a Press pack for the ‘Reps’ to use to send to the sponsors
- Commence work on the second album with a working title of “Planetary Overload”
- Recruit interested Musicians, Producers and Song-writers to work on the album
The Future – Longer term plans are to:
- Map out venues for the 2017 World Tour
- Secure venues with the help of our Representatives and Promoters for the tour
- Have the second album complete prior to the 2016 tour
- Further work with collaborative musicians:
- The ‘Hope Project’ (conceived by Mark) with producer Steve Layton and with lyrical ideas by Mark,
Note: some of the lyric ideas may be used on “Planetary Overload” - The “Decameron 3“ with Steve Unruh and Marco Bernard. This will be recorded in 2015.
- The ‘Hope Project’ (conceived by Mark) with producer Steve Layton and with lyrical ideas by Mark,
UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY MISSION STATEMENT 2015 (PDF)
