by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
COLIN EDWIN (Fretless Bass Guitar, Soundscapes) “I am happy to contribute to UPF, and specifically the track “Stop Time”, since it resonates deeply with my own concerns about wastefulness and the hugely underestimated single use plastics problem....
by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
VALENTINE HALEMBAKOV (VAL HAL) (Guitars on ‘Forgive Me, My Son’) “I joined UPF because of this powerful community of fellow musicians, that is very rare nowadays. Everything and everyone seems distanced from each other, using their smart devices and...
by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
PHILL SOKHA (Drums) “I am very concerned about the current situation in the world with climate change, the contamination of the earth, as well as the war in the Donbass (Ukraine) in which innocent people die every day because of politics. I am concerned about the...
by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
STEVE UNRUH (Violin, Guitars, Flute, Vocals, Producer, Songwriter, Co-production) “We live at a strange intersection, where science is leading us to better information and more discoveries than any time in our history, with amazing speed and ease of information...
by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
CORNEL WILCZEK (Orchestration, Conductor of the Fraternity Symphonic Orchestra, ‘Seeds for Life’) “As we humans evolve as a species, our technology and ambitions are our key motivators that propel us into the future. Unfortunately, along the way,...
by Ted Ollikkala | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
MARK TRUEY TRUEACK (Vocals, Artistic Direction, Songwriter, Co-Production, UPF Founder) “Our planet is not happy in so many ways; our climate is constantly changing, religious intolerance leads to conflict, bloodshed, and outright war in an already unstable...