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to purchase Rosetta Pebble Three from Apple's iTunes Store.To purchase any CD via check directly from the band for $12 (including USA shipping) email: info@rosettapebble.com.
Rosetta Pebble writes great songs about life, replete with subtle humor and irony, coupled with great musicianship and a story telling feel. Each well-crafted collections of songs takes the listener on a wonderful journey, celebrating lives both well and poorly lived, making an effort not to take it all so seriously, periodically failing, and wondering why. For the most part RP3’s music is happy and positive, but its lyrics belie an underlying angst of past pain and lessons learned the hard way.
Music means a lot. Music changes lives. Certain songs can have the power to reach places in our souls inaccessible by other means. This CD has been described as a timeless, very accessible style of pop music that has an uncanny ability to communicate to a wide variety of people - regardless of age, race or gender. The strength and optimism embodied in these songs (at times, very sunny - at times reflective and world-weary) has a basic ability to connect with others.
Rosetta Pebble's collective creative vision has always been to the produce music that is true to their own life experiences. Living and working in the Detroit area, their song writing is colored by day-to-day interactions, interpersonal relationships, struggles and triumphs, and the wide world view that their considerable travels both in the USA and abroad have afforded them.
Eric and Steve may write songs from different perspectives, but always from the heart. They collaborate in the refinement, arrangement, and recording of those songs, and it is in the melding of those separate musical and lyrical sensibilities that their strength lies. Both put a great deal of care into every aspect of the song-creation process; the kernels of thought at the heart of each song, word choice, arrangements, instrumentation, as well as the process of recording and mixing. Both are only interested in putting forth music that is meaningful to themselves and inspiring to their listeners. Emphasis on current market trends or attempts to conform to what's currently popular have never been parts of the puzzle for Rosetta Pebble. They serve the songs to the best of their creative abilities, and strive to make each a work of art. What you have here is real music, for people who remember real music.
Rosetta Pebble is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. Their name, "Rosetta Pebble" is a vague reference to the ancient Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Pebble achieved a small degree of popularity in Detroit, parts of Michigan, and northern Indiana during the first half of the 2000s due to the band's folky, pop songs. Influenced heavily by the music of Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Jack Johnson, the Beatles, and Pete Townshend, Rosetta Pebble play a more pop-oriented variation of folk rock. The band is also commonly classified into the category of singer/songwriter music or acoustic rock.
History. Rosetta Pebble was formed by Eric Frakes and Steve Gulian in the summer 1999, in Barcelona, Spain. Both musicians, originally from the Detroit area, had arranged to meet up overseas that summer, and share song ideas they had each been writing independently. On leave from a year teaching in Indonesia, Gulian had been traveling home westward and Frakes met up with him in Germany. The pair performed their first collaborations on the streets of Barcelona and San Sebastian for late-night revelers whose feedback in the form of attention span and pesetas helped to separate the musical wheat from the chaff, and financed the purchase of a nice hand-drum, as well as enough sangria and tapas to keep the two motivated. The duo continued traveling throughout Europe that summer, performing wherever they could, and fine tuning the songs that would later become their first CD. “Rosetta Pebble”, as an official group, was born upon their return to Michigan at the end of that summer.
Music. As a two-man song writing collective, Gulian and Frakes began recording at Hit City in Indianapolis, Indiana, where they worked with local producer, musician, and sound engineer, Tim Brickley. With Brickley’s creative input and production Pebble’s debut CD, Stories That The World Once Told, came into being in 2002. The group’s sophomore project, Clear Across Summer was released in the fall of 2005. In performance, Rosetta Pebble incorporates acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica, hand percussion, and harmony vocals. Their one-of-a-kind drum set could be considered a work of art in itself. Its collection of hand percussion from far-flung parts of the world has been artistically arrayed on iron stands created by several Michigan metal sculptors.
Rosetta Pebble has recorded three CDs: Stories That The World Once Told (2002), Clear Across Summer (2006), and Three (2011). Each was recorded and produced by Tim Brickley at Hit City Recording in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Music means a lot. Music changes lives. Certain songs can have the power to reach places in our souls inaccessible by other means. This CD has been described as a timeless, very accessible style of pop music that has an uncanny ability to communicate to a wide variety of people - regardless of age, race or gender. The strength and optimism embodied in these songs (at times, very sunny - at times reflective and world-weary) has a basic ability to connect with others.
Rosetta Pebble's collective creative vision has always been to the produce music that is true to their own life experiences. Living and working in the Detroit area, their song writing is colored by day-to-day interactions, interpersonal relationships, struggles and triumphs, and the wide world view that their considerable travels both in the USA and abroad have afforded them.
Eric and Steve may write songs from different perspectives, but always from the heart. They collaborate in the refinement, arrangement, and recording of those songs, and it is in the melding of those separate musical and lyrical sensibilities that their strength lies. Both put a great deal of care into every aspect of the song-creation process; the kernels of thought at the heart of each song, word choice, arrangements, instrumentation, as well as the process of recording and mixing. Both are only interested in putting forth music that is meaningful to themselves and inspiring to their listeners. Emphasis on current market trends or attempts to conform to what's currently popular have never been parts of the puzzle for Rosetta Pebble. They serve the songs to the best of their creative abilities, and strive to make each a work of art. What you have here is real music, for people who remember real music.
Rosetta Pebble is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. Their name, "Rosetta Pebble" is a vague reference to the ancient Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Pebble achieved a small degree of popularity in Detroit, parts of Michigan, and northern Indiana during the first half of the 2000s due to the band's folky, pop songs. Influenced heavily by the music of Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Jack Johnson, the Beatles, and Pete Townshend, Rosetta Pebble play a more pop-oriented variation of folk rock. The band is also commonly classified into the category of singer/songwriter music or acoustic rock.
History. Rosetta Pebble was formed by Eric Frakes and Steve Gulian in the summer 1999, in Barcelona, Spain. Both musicians, originally from the Detroit area, had arranged to meet up overseas that summer, and share song ideas they had each been writing independently. On leave from a year teaching in Indonesia, Gulian had been traveling home westward and Frakes met up with him in Germany. The pair performed their first collaborations on the streets of Barcelona and San Sebastian for late-night revelers whose feedback in the form of attention span and pesetas helped to separate the musical wheat from the chaff, and financed the purchase of a nice hand-drum, as well as enough sangria and tapas to keep the two motivated. The duo continued traveling throughout Europe that summer, performing wherever they could, and fine tuning the songs that would later become their first CD. “Rosetta Pebble”, as an official group, was born upon their return to Michigan at the end of that summer.
Music. As a two-man song writing collective, Gulian and Frakes began recording at Hit City in Indianapolis, Indiana, where they worked with local producer, musician, and sound engineer, Tim Brickley. With Brickley’s creative input and production Pebble’s debut CD, Stories That The World Once Told, came into being in 2002. The group’s sophomore project, Clear Across Summer was released in the fall of 2005. In performance, Rosetta Pebble incorporates acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica, hand percussion, and harmony vocals. Their one-of-a-kind drum set could be considered a work of art in itself. Its collection of hand percussion from far-flung parts of the world has been artistically arrayed on iron stands created by several Michigan metal sculptors.
Rosetta Pebble has recorded three CDs: Stories That The World Once Told (2002), Clear Across Summer (2006), and Three (2011). Each was recorded and produced by Tim Brickley at Hit City Recording in Indianapolis, Indiana.