#alex fischetti | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sinceileftyoublog · 2 years ago

Text

Hundred Watt Heart Interview: A Prayer for Humanity

Photo by Alexander Fischetti

BY JORDAN MAINZER

It’s mind-boggling how The Roots as a collective have time to balance their basically daily gig as the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with live shows, tours, and recording new music. That any of them have time for solo careers on top of that seems next to impossible. Earlier this year, it was lead emcee Black Thought releasing Cheat Codes, his excellent collaborative album with venerable producer Danger Mouse. Now, “Captain” Kirk Douglas, the band’s guitarist and singer since 2004′s The Tipping Point, has resurrected his Hundred Watt Heart project for New Unknown, his second album under that moniker.

Recorded at home during the pandemic, New Unknown expands beyond Douglas’ debut LP Turbulent Times, traversing the spectrum of rock and guitar-based music, from prog and country to funk and Southern rock. Likewise, Douglas penned lyrics that aimed to emphasize connection, bridging the space between people who couldn’t be in the same room as each other during the COVID lockdowns, or perhaps even folks who couldn’t otherwise stand to be in the same room as each other, victims of our divided sociopolitical climate. It begins with the languid “Breathe In”, a peace-inducing ode to a certain drug whose appeal certainly transcends divides. “Together, we create a space that’s home,” Douglas sings on the gentle “Illuminate”, his voice upfront in the mix over echoing guitar. The album’s funky, horn-laden, Afrobeat inspired lead single “We Can Be One” acts as another collective hymn of healing, while the desert blues-like guitar licks that pervade instrumental jam “Breath of Fire” suggest a collective, expansive groove.

Before you roll your eyes at any suggestion of appeasement with the enemy: New Unknown is not a hippie idealist mindless exercise into compromise with Republicans evil. Rather, Douglas’s sophomore LP is just as much about self-love as community. Throughout my phone conversation with him a couple months ago, he repeatedly referred to the album as “a gift to myself,” and it’s useful to think of the album’s aims in this context. On the penultimate “Alone”, Douglas sings, “Leave the light on for me,” atop acoustic strumming. “Love is the thing that helps me feel more alive.” As wordless harmonies and layered vocals take the song to its conclusion, you’re left reflecting on his use of first person. Love works for Douglas. Will it work for you? New Unknown challenges the rest of us to be better.

Read the rest of my interview with Douglas below, edited for length and clarity.

Photo by Forest Erwin

Since I Left You: How would you say New Unknown expands upon your debut?

Kirk Douglas: There’s definitely an expansion. It’s another rock album, but world music’s explored a little bit. There are some more percussion aspects that are explored. [Also,] the previous record was done at Electric Lady Studios, and recording [New Unknown myself] gave me more artistic freedom. I was able to record more comfortably. Every aspect of the recording was done at a place where I was feeling most at-home, because it was done at home. When you’re able to record that way, it comes through in the performance. I was really able to nurture it in a way I wasn’t able to do previously.

SILY: The world music influence is pretty apparent on the first single, “We Can Be One”. Is that why you released it as the first taste of the record?

KD: That’s not necessarily the reason. The reason is because for the last record, the first single was a big, heavy rock song, and I didn’t want to do that a second time around. With the title of the song being��“We Can Be One”, I wanted to put out an energy that was suggesting more of a convergence with people as opposed to the division we’ve experienced. Basically, putting out that intention for people to be on the same page in terms of humanity and how people want to be treated and empathy towards one another. There are a lot of instruments on it; it’s the most dense song on the record as far as instruments are concerned. It’s got members of The Roots on it: James Poyser playing keyboards, Ian Hendrickson and Dave Guy playing horns on it. It’s basically my intention, my prayer for what humanity could be and should be. But because of our given circumstances, it’s very difficult to be. All the instruments are doing their own thing, having their own identity, but playing towards one rhythmic and harmonic goal. When people go to shows, there’s a unity there despite whatever a person’s political opinion may be. This song is sort of a sonic utopian snapshot of how I wish the world could be and how it very well is at times. So that’s why I put that out as the first single. There are other songs on the record that are more rock-influenced, which is where I gravitate towards because I love the primal power of three-piece rock and roll, guitar-bass-drums. I’m a big fan of that. But I like to hear other flavors mixed into an album experience as well.

SILY: From a rock standpoint, as compared to your debut, this album is more progressive. There are a lot of tempo changes and switches between subgenres within the same song. Were you consciously trying to make songs that bounced around like that?

KD: Nothing was really conscious in the whole process. [laughs] The only thing that was planned was, “Let’s make some music.” This wasn’t set out to be an album. This was just to record and to express what was going on internally musically for me. A song like “Land Of Look Beyond”, I like the album to take you on a journey, so I love when a song is able to take you on a journey as well. That’s something I’ve always been interested in. Having more control over the recording process organically allows that to take place.

SILY: When I was listening to “Land Of Look Beyond” for the first time, I felt like it was a logical segue from “Breathe In”, albeit more melancholy and slow-burning. But it turns on its head midway through. Was there a general approach you took to the sequencing of the record?

KD: You toy around with different ideas and sequences of the record, and ultimately, you just arrive at a sequence that feels right. It’s like a movie for your ears. "Breathe In” is moving, but it’s not necessarily a heavy song. I thought it was a good introduction, the concept of breath, “Breathe in, breathe out,” and also a slight nod to anybody that enjoys cannabis. There’s that subtle suggestion. And then, that sets you up for “Land Of Look Beyond”. I think of an album like Dark Side of the Moon, an album that’s cinematic in scope. You can think, “I wanna make something that sounds like Dark Side of the Moon,” but when you start to create, you take a step back and start to think of your own musical experiences and the things that have musically touched you throughout your life. This record is made for me, ultimately. You just present it in a way that you enjoy it, the person that has helped to birth it. I’m like my own fan. You get to a place where you listen to it and enjoy it. This was recorded with mostly myself and the drummer Ricc [Sheridan]. It’s about our friendship; we enjoy playing and creating together and sitting back and listening to what we’ve done and surprising ourselves. That’s so much of what our friendship has been for so long. The record’s inviting others into that experience, if it touches them the same way it touches us.

SILY: That celebratory nature is on tap in the video for the first single. I love those casual, almost old-school videos that aren’t straight up live but show performances and dancing with a lot of movement. How did the video for “We Can Be One” come about?

KD: I didn’t do a video for the last record, and I knew that if I did another [record], I’d have to do something I hadn’t done before. All the planets were aligning to make it. This guy in my building, Brandon, we’re both part of the Park Slope Food Coop. We were both shopping there one day, and he was driving home, and he asked if I needed a ride. This is mid-pandemic. He asked how the pandemic was treating me, and I said, “I did make an album during it.” I noticed he’d be schlepping around a lot of video equipment because of his job, doing a lot of videos and commercial shoots. I mentioned that I’d be interested in making a video at some point, and he mentioned he knew a director that was really talented and that it might be a good idea to talk about collaboration. That’s what we did, and he and the director, Alex [Fischetti], came by, and I played them the song and told them what I’d want to see from the video. Like you said, the song has a lot of movement in it, and it’s the song where an image came to me more so than the other ones. We had a meeting, and I told them my concept, and they said they could bring it to life. We were able to make it happen, in Prospect Park, and utilizing Brooklyn. I wanted to utilize where I grew up, too, so a lot of the video is shot in the home, bedroom, and family basement I grew up in. A lot of the outside shots, I discovered that Alex’s parents lived 10 minutes from my parents, and we shot a lot of the outside footage at night outside his parents’ place. It was a lot of fun. The whole time, I was thinking to myself, “Why am I even doing this?” [laughs] But I was still having a good time doing it. My only hope was that the experience of filming it and the experiences we had on the shoot, with a cool, easygoing crew you enjoyed spending time around, somehow could translate into the final product. At the end of the day, it turned out to be like that. Once I got over having to look at myself so much, I was really pleased with the outcome. I’m really glad we did it.

SILY: That’s cool it became a generational look-back for both of you. What was your relationship to music growing up?

KD: Basically, it goes back as far as I remember. My parents were always singing, playing reggae music and classical music. When I started to go to school in Long Island, I was surrounded by kids playing a lot of hard rock. My dad was really into ballads and funk. He had a wide array of interests music-wise. One of my really close friends, his older brother had a guitar, and when I saw the guitar up close, I was completely hooked. I had to have that as part of my life.

Photo courtesy of the artist

SILY: What came first on New Unknown: the music or the lyrics?

KD: Definitely the music. The first song was probably “Illuminate”. It’s generally like that: There’s a melody or groove that gets into your head. That’s the most fun part and a big motivation, having something rhythmic pop into your head that becomes this inner mantra. Something that at first was inside your heart and mind is now coming out of speakers powerfully. It’s a very life-affirming process. Once that happens, you step back and listen to it and think, “What is this music saying to me?” Then, it’s time to go inward and put lyrics onto it. It’s an emotional crossword puzzle. You have these melodies and think, “What words can I fit into this melody that conveys what I’m feeling?”

SILY: I was talking to somebody yesterday who compared songwriting to solving a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t exist yet. You’re both making and solving the puzzle.

KD: That’s a really good way to describe it.

SILY: Speaking of mantras, some of the most prominent lyrics on the record, whether “breathe in, breathe out” or “we can be one,” are mantras. What about that type of writing is so powerful to you?

KD: Something that you can say over and over again is somewhat of an affirmation, a prayer. We can be one whatever condition the world is in, no matter what energy or intention you can put in the world. To me, that’s a positive effect, for one to contemplate how these things can be possible. What needs to take place for these things to be possible or realistic? When it’s set to music, it gives an extra energy as a way of making sense of things. “Breathe in, breathe out,” it’s just a meditation on the impermanence of things. Nothing really lasts forever. But it goes on to say, “Within, without, it all begins again.” When one door closes, another door opens. There’s always a birth, a start of something new. The idea of letting go and breathing through things, no matter how difficult things get. Just remembering the breath and the practice of non-attachment is what can help us get through life at its most difficult times. They’re not bad mantras to have. They’re coping mechanisms, if you will.

SILY: What’s the story behind the cover art?

KD: I saw an artist on Instagram whose work I thought could possibly convey what I was trying to do. After agonizing over what the cover should be, I thought, “You know what, let me do this: The album is done, I’m gonna reach out to an artist I like and commission them to create for this album a gift to myself. If it works out that it can be the album cover, then that’s gonna be the album cover.” I found the artist Sarah Stewart. Her project is Rattlesnakes and Rainbows. I contacted her out of the blue, slid into her DMs and told her I was a fan and asked her whether she’d be interested in creating album cover art. She agreed. I asked her to do it if the music resonated with her. She did, and when she first sent it to me, I was kind of taken aback, like, “Woah, this is a lot.” But the more I listened to the music and looked at the album cover, the more I thought they supported one another. It brought me to a place of disbelief that this art exists as a way of me contacting her and asking if she would do it and her agreeing to do it. It was like a cosmic wink: “Keep going with this. Take this out of your experience and try to keep going with others.”

SILY: Are you playing these songs live?

KD: Not as yet. I haven’t thought about playing my own music live in a long time, and I’m realizing it’s something I’m probably going to be doing as another gift to myself that I can share. [laughs] [The album] wasn’t really created with the intention of playing it live. Now, I’ve created another puzzle for me to figure out. That’s also another part of the fun: Taking something that only exists on recording and bringing it into the real-time, in the air, in your ear experience live. That’s a whole other experience that’s going to be exciting--and involve a whole lot of scheduling. I’ll do at least some of the songs live.

SILY: Anything next for you in the short or long term?

KD: I’m hoping to do some more recording. I’m hoping it’s not going to take another pandemic to happen. It definitely took one for me to realize I can record myself. To be able to record oneself without the use of a studio is the ultimate freedom. There’s definitely been a lot more music written since the recording of this, so I look forward to tracking that and bringing these new songs to fruition some way, some how. Next summer will bring more Roots touring. [I always have] The Tonight Show. I also have a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old. All the life that exists outside of music, too. It’s a very full life.

SILY: Anything you’ve been listening to, watching, or reading lately that’s caught your attention?

KD: I really do love the band Khruangbin. I’m enjoying their live shows and find them really inspiring. It’s been fun to sit with the family and--with many grains of salt--look at The Secret Language of Birthdays. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, I’ve been returning to that recently.

Nothing else is jumping out at me. I’ve been trying to write a lot. The winter is when I get into listening to a lot of other people’s music. Last time around, it was a lot of early Peter Gabriel and Genesis, at the end of last winter. I was discovering a lot of things I hadn’t heard.

SILY: When you’re writing, do you tend to block out other music?

KD: It’s sort of random when it happens, but winter time is when I’m more inside listening to stuff. Over the summer, I like listening to reggae. Now that summer’s ending and [it’s] fall again, it’s time to go record shopping because [listening to music is a] more indoor activity. I just got the new Kendrick Lamar on vinyl, so I’m looking forward to getting into that.

But when I’m working on music, I have a phone full of ideas, so you could play “phone message roulette,” and part of the fun is listening to things you’re separated from in time and hearing what sounds like a whole other person creating.

youtube

0 notes

artwalktv · 4 years ago

Video

vimeo

A musical short film blending editorial moments with vulnerable interviews, "WE ARE" peeks behind the curtain at pianist, band leader, philosopher, and activist Jon Batiste's highly anticipated album, WE ARE, as he walks the audience through four themes: Lineage, Authenticity, Excellence, and Evolution. Jon has recently won an Oscar for his work in scoring Pixar's "Soul," and has also been nominated for Golden Globe, Grammy, BAFTA, and Emmy awards. _ DIRECTOR Bram VanderMark PRODUCTION COMPANY Contrast Films EP Jordy Wax PRODUCER Cole Brian DP Steven Mastorelli 1st AC Evan Walsh SECOND UNIT DP Chase Smith B CAM/BTS PHOTOGRAPHER Jared Malik Royal ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE Cory Fraiman Lott GAFFER John Gullien KEY GRIP Alex Fischetti SOUND Hunt Beaty KEY MU Jesse Lindholm HAIR STYLIST Jena Robinson WARDROBE STYLIST Grace Hill PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Stacey Branson PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Vince Ferrari LOCATION MANAGER Eric Fiorito VIDEO COMMISSIONER Liz Hart RECORD LABEL Verve Records CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ryan Lynn CREATIVE DIRECTOR Julia Casey, Verve MANAGEMENT Adam Sensenbrenner, Mick Management EDITOR Matt Carter, Final Cut NY COLOR Jacob Mckee, Forager SOUND DESIGN/MIX Christian Stropko TITLE DESIGN Nick Rescinow SPECIAL THANKS TO ArtYard & David Patterson

#Videos & Films

0 notes

inspirationinbadthings · 4 years ago

Video

vimeo

WE ARE: A Visual Mission Statement from Jon Batiste from Bram VanderMark on Vimeo.

DIRECTOR Bram VanderMark PRODUCTION COMPANY Contrast Films EP Jordy Wax PRODUCER Cole Brian DP Steven Mastorelli 1st AC Evan Walsh SECOND UNIT DP Chase Smith B CAM/BTS PHOTOGRAPHER Jared Malik Royal ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE Cory Fraiman Lott GAFFER John Gullien KEY GRIP Alex Fischetti SOUND Hunt Beaty KEY MU Jesse Lindholm HAIR STYLIST Jena Robinson WARDROBE STYLIST Grace Hill PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Stacey Branson PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Vince Ferrari LOCATION MANAGER Eric Fiorito

VIDEO COMMISSIONER Liz Hart RECORD LABEL Verve Records CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ryan Lynn CREATIVE DIRECTOR Julia Casey, Verve MANAGEMENT Adam Sensenbrenner, Mick Management EDITOR Matt Carter, Final Cut NY COLOR Jacob Mckee, Forager SOUND DESIGN/MIX Christian Stropko TITLE DESIGN Nick Rescinow

SPECIAL THANKS TO ArtYard & David Patterson

0 notes

jafreitag · 6 years ago

Text

It’s Friday, I’m in love…

An early Happy Mothers Day to all the strong and amazing women who have borne and/or raised children. This week’s playlist isn’t thematic or anything, except for a few tracks, but it’s dedicated to them. Thanks, Moms.

New stuff from Lucy Dacus, Better Oblivion Community Center, The Get Up Kids, Yawners, Charly Bliss, Ex Hex, Calpurnia, Guided By Voices, Alex Lahey, Tallies, Mattiel, Rose Elinor Dougall, Westkust, Penelope Isles, SASAMI, FLING, Bad Bad Hats, SACRED PAWS, Laura Stevenson, Barrie, Weyes Blood, Alex Winston, SOAK, Japanese Breakfast, Hatchie, Self Esteem, FEMME, International Teachers of Pop, Bastille, Taylor Swift, Disco Shrine, Max Cooper (Para for Cuva Remix), Shura, Kurt Vile (Spotify Single of a Rolling Stones chestnut), and Drugdealer & Weyes Blood. Old stuff from Frank Zappa, T. Rex, The Go-Go’s, Buzzcocks, Camera Obscura, Billie Eilish, Phantogram, Ambrosia, 10cc, Marvin Gaye, Minnie Ripperton, Bread, George Harrison, and Steely Dan.

The header image is by Chrystal Fischetti (@chrystalfishetti on Ello). Thanks for that.

More soon.

from WordPress http://bit.ly/2V9FmOt via IFTTT

#IFTTT #WordPress

0 notes

charlesjening · 5 years ago

Text

Promotion Watch ’19: Let’s Congratulate Deloitte’s 386 New PPMDs for FY 2020

It’s been quite a while since we’ve done a post on new partner promotions at Deloitte, so we wanted to give some kudos to not only the 65 new partners in the class of 2020, but also the 237 managing directors and 84 principals who were recognized by Ucuzoglu & Co. for a job well done.

Here are the Green Dotters who got promoted, broken down by business line:

Audit & Assurance

Nick Accordino, Partner, Cleveland

Tricia Admire, Managing Director, McLean

Matt Albert, Partner, San Jose

Fernando Alonso, Partner, Kansas City

Zach Barnes, Managing Director, Fort Worth

Brian Beglin, Managing Director, Charlotte

Lindsay Ann Bielski, Partner, Detroit

Matt Brito, Managing Director, New York

Brian Cassidy, Partner, Philadelphia

Hendrik Cloete, Managing Director, Tampa

Diane Craanen, Partner, Chicago

Shibani Dogra, Managing Director, San Diego

Justin Dutka, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Jesse Engle, Managing Director, Seattle

Paul Fischetti, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Ali Gee, Partner, San Francisco

Mike Gentile, Managing Director, Chicago

Carrie Gordon, Managing Director, Chicago

Matt Grams, Managing Director, Phoenix

Amy Groves, Managing Director, Stamford

Jeralyn Haber, Partner, Stamford

Amy Holcomb, Partner, McLean

Bobby Huang, Managing Director, Seattle

Alex Jackson, Partner, Jersey City

Beverly Janson Ho, Managing Director, McLean

James Kelley, Managing Director, Jacksonville

Robert Kerr, Partner, Atlanta

Joe Kick, Managing Director, Buffalo

George Kruglov, Managing Director, New York

Jenny La Crosse, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Kyle Lauret, Managing Director, Chicago

Dennis Leary, Managing Director, Boston

Matthew Lipschutz, Managing Director, Stamford

Nicole Luft, Partner, New York

Mike Lund, Partner, Chicago

Jonathan Margate, Partner, San Francisco

Aimee McDaniel, Managing Director, St. Louis

Brad McEachern, Partner, Costa Mesa

Nathan Mitchell, Partner, San Francisco

Shelby Ann Murphy, Managing Director, Stamford

Jean-Denis Ncho-Oguie, Partner, San Francisco

Mai Noonan, Managing Director, Seattle

Katie O’Connor, Partner, Costa Mesa

Sarah Patterson, Partner, Los Angeles

Jess Pennington, Managing Director, Phoenix

Jon Pickard, Managing Director, Hartford

Christy Pipes, Managing Director, Tampa

Hitesh Ramani, Partner, Parsippany

Doug Rand, Managing Director, Washington, DC

Kashif Riaz, Principal, San Jose

Jenna Lee Richman, Partner, New York

Leana Rolon, Managing Director, New York

Tessa Schneider, Partner, Denver

Michelle Silva, Partner, Parsippany

B.J. Spence, Partner, Boston

Ben Stanley, Partner, Memphis

Keiichiro Takagi, Managing Director, Atlanta

Steve Tepper, Managing Director, Chicago

Neal David Teutsch, Partner, Seattle

Dallas Thomason, Managing Director, Austin

Jiaojiao Tian, Partner, Stamford

Ryan Tolley, Partner, Boise

Nathan Uhl, Partner, Minneapolis

Cory Vann, Partner, Denver

Robert Vendig, Managing Director, Stamford

Keith Waldrop, Partner, Houston

Will Weeks, Managing Director, Boston

Daryl White, Managing Director, Princeton

Brent Wilberts, Partner, Des Moines

Matthew Wolfson, Managing Director, San Diego

Robbie Wong, Managing Director, San Jose

Jongsuk Yu, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Brian Ziberna, Managing Director, Raleigh

Client & Market Growth

Jim Carr, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Anthony Cauterucci, Managing Director, Arlington

Audrey Hitchings, Managing Director, Denver

Steve Mahar, Managing Director, Boston

Joe Mathes, Managing Director, Atlanta

Rick Rivich, Managing Director, Houston

Dan Spillett, Managing Director, Parsippany

Consulting

Sam Abu-Izz, Managing Director, McLean

Paras Agarwal, Managing Director, Seattle

Jenny Ahn, Managing Director, Boston

Will Arnold, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Kelly Alphonso Batts, Managing Director, Arlington

Sharon Beerling, Managing Director, San Francisco

Luis Benavides, Managing Director, McLean

Sarah Benczik, Principal, Arlington

Maurita Benjamin, Managing Director, Arlington

Aaron Berkowitz, Managing Director, Arlington

Aparupa Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Chicago

Ayan Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Alan Brady, Principal, Los Angeles

Eric Bramley, Managing Director, Atlanta

Sasha Brecher, Managing Director, Arlington

Antonio Caroprese, Managing Director, Pleasanton

Stephen Casaceli, Principal, Charlotte

Will Chadrow, Principal, Seattle

Samrat Chakraborty, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Louise Chang, Principal, Chicago

Andrew Chew, Managing Director, New York

Brian Clay, Managing Director, Boston

Nydia Clayton, Principal, Arlington

Oniel Cross, Principal, Arlington

Alok Dalal, Principal, Chicago

Satish Damodaran, Managing Director, Atlanta

Manav Dange, Principal, Chicago

Andy Davis, Principal, Minneapolis

Paula Davis, Managing Director, Arlington

Tejas Desai, Principal, Costa Mesa

Hemang Dholakia, Managing Director, Charlotte

Maria Downing, Managing Director, New York

Aaron Druck, Managing Director, Arlington

Katie Dye, Principal, Austin

Tim Egan, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Roland Ehigiamusoe, Managing Director, Atlanta

Sally Fingar, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Jonathan Fox, Managing Director, New York

Jack Fritz, Principal, Chicago

Fred Giacoma, Managing Director, Chicago

Chelsea Gorr, Managing Director, New York

Yogesh Goswami, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Bob Grabowski, Managing Director, Arlington

Dan Grayson, Principal, San Francisco

Luis Hakim, Principal, San Francisco

Danielle Hawkins, Principal, Atlanta

Andrew Heller, Managing Director, Stamford

Stacy Hodgins, Principal, New York

Anthony Jardim, Principal, Boston

Sam Johnson, Principal, Atlanta

Tony Johnson, Principal, Chicago

Kumar Kanisan, Managing Director, Chicago

Deepak Kannangala, Managing Director, San Francisco

Vik Kapoor, Managing Director, Raleigh

Sid Karia, Principal, Chicago

Kate Kauffman, Managing Director, Chicago

Greg Klebes, Managing Director, McLean

Alina Klinova, Principal, Boston

Harry Kocken, Managing Director, Arlington

Matthew Kraus, Managing Director, Chicago

Arjun Krishnamurthy, Managing Director, Atlanta

Vinoj Kumaran, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Michelle Lane, Managing Director, Arlington

Mike Larson, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Nick Laughlin, Principal, Pittsburgh

Susan Leal, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Justine Lelchuk, Managing Director, New York

Nakul Lele, Managing Director, San Francisco

Dimitrios Liassidis, Principal, New York

Jinlei Liu, Managing Director, Boston

Bill Lloyd, Managing Director, Raleigh

Mic Locker, Principal, Stamford

Wilson Joseph Maliackel, Managing Director, Harrisburg

Praveen Mayalur, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Mike McCormick, Principal, Arlington

Dorsey McGlone, Managing Director, Boston

Denise McGuigan, Principal, Atlanta

Hilary Mclellan, Managing Director, Arlington

Keval Mehta, Principal, Princeton

Simmi Mehta, Principal, Austin

Nicholas Merizzi, Principal, Atlanta

Lee Merovitz, Managing Director, Chicago

Adam Benjamin Messer, Principal, San Francisco

Soumendra Mohapatra, Managing Director, Parsippany

Eduardo Morales, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Mani Murahari, Principal, Boston

Ramya Murali, Principal, New York

Christopher Newton, Managing Director, Houston

Joon Ooi, Managing Director, Atlanta

Karina Opdyke, Principal, Arlington

Hanish Patel, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Swati Suresh Patel, Managing Director, Chicago

Siddharth Sanjay Patil, Principal, Cleveland

Saikat Pattadar, Principal, San Jose

Nate Paynter, Principal, Charlotte

Ramona Pereira-Chakka, Principal, Harrisburg

Sid Pinnamaneni, Managing Director, San Jose

Sudhir Potturi, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Jeff Powrie, Principal, New York

Brian Proctor, Principal, Costa Mesa

Vinod Pukalay, Managing Director, Dallas

James Michael Qua, Principal, Los Angeles

Brian Rabe, Managing Director, Sacramento

Ranjit Rao, Principal, Atlanta

Keri Reed, Managing Director, Arlington

Ryder Riess, Principal, McLean

Rodney Runolfson, Managing Director, San Francisco

Christian Saint-Onge, Principal, Costa Mesa

Ulrich Schoppe, Managing Director, Austin

Rochak Sethi, Principal, San Francisco

Deepak Sharma, Managing Director, San Francisco

Paul Shean, Managing Director, New York

Ben Shirley, Managing Director, Boston

Rajesh Singh, Managing Director, Parsippany

Kirk Snyder, Managing Director, Atlanta

Cristina Stefanita, Principal, San Francisco

Bobby Stephens, Principal, Chicago

Karthik Sukumar, Principal, Costa Mesa

Ryan Michael Szostek, Managing Director, Detroit

Arpan Tiwari, Managing Director, Dallas

Anil Tondavadi, Managing Director, Dallas

Muna Tuna, Managing Director, New York

Michael Vero, Principal, San Francisco

Bob Quan Vuong, Principal, McLean

Ronald Wagner, Managing Director, San Francisco

Jeff Walker, Principal, Houston

Amanda Walters, Principal, New York

James Weaver, Managing Director, Dallas

Jim Whitehead, Managing Director, Arlington

Sreshta Wickramasinghe, Managing Director, Sacramento

Ezrick Kendale Wiggins, Principal, Atlanta

Jeff Williams, Principal, Atlanta

Emily Yoo, Principal, New York

Maryann Zeira, Managing Director, Parsippany

Finance

Shannon Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, Parsippany

Megha Maripuri, Managing Director, Minneapolis

George Sumrow, Managing Director, Nashville

General Counsel

Alex Alexander, Managing Director, Los Angeles

David Kaye, Principal, New York

Joybell Silverman, Principal, San Francisco

Michael Welsh, Managing Director, Arlington

Global

Anna Ilse Dempsey, Managing Director, Jericho

Katie Kaminsky, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Government & Public Services

Shannon Madigan, Managing Director, Arlington

Office of the CEO

Meghan Downs, Managing Director, Hermitage

Office of the Managing Principal – Businesses

Laurie Mason, Managing Director, Seattle

Risk and Brand Protection

Laurie Gannon, Managing Director, Stamford

Dieu Hua, Managing Director, McLean

Sandy MacIsaac, Managing Director, Arlington

Risk and Financial Advisory

Ben Anderson, Principal, Portland

Peter Bahnemann, Managing Director, New York

Matt Baker, Managing Director, Arlington

Betsy Besanceney, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Eric Bowlin, Partner, Richmond

Steven Cady, Managing Director, Charlotte

Cindy Marie Cerneka, Managing Director, Morrisville

Michael Corrao, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Brian Cutlip, Managing Director, Boston

Amy Dove, Managing Director, Austin

Shawn Michael Duffy, Managing Director, San Francisco

Malik Dzirlo, Managing Director, McLean

Ryan Foughty, Managing Director, Dallas

Jason Frame, Managing Director, Parsippany

Jacob Gregg, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Ramsey Hajj, Principal, Boca Raton

Paul Harker, Managing Director, Houston

Keturah Henry, Principal, New York

Brian Hibner, Managing Director, Chicago

Chris Hoff, Managing Director, Atlanta

Gregg Huber, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Meer Mahtab Hussain, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Maegan Jonson, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Willis Drew Kao, Managing Director, San Jose

Janice Keating, Partner, Arlington

Rick Kimsey, Partner, Nashville

Geoff Kovesdy, Principal, New York

Megan Levy, Managing Director, Atlanta

Saj Mathew, Principal, Arlington

Ezekiel McMillan, Partner, Arlington

Brad Mervis, Managing Director,McLean

James Miller, Principal, Charlotte

Ducky Min, Managing Director, San Francisco

Christine Michelle Murphy, Managing Director, Detroit

Lauren Nalu, Principal, Arlington

Badri Nemani, Managing Director, Arlington

David Oberst, Partner, Chicago

Clark Oeler, Principal, Pittsburgh

Jeff Olin, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Nitin Pandey, Managing Director, Jersey City

Prashant Parikh, Managing Director, New York

Rishi Narendra Patel, Managing Director, Charlotte

Eliza Preoteasa, Managing Director, Chicago

Andrew Rafla, Principal, Jersey City

Subramanian Raman, Managing Director, Charlotte

Kelly Michael Rau, Managing Director, Cincinnati

Jonathan Rizzo, Principal, New York

Charlie Sanchez, Managing Director, Houston

Nikki Schutt, Principal, Stamford

Chrissy Scott, Principal, Chicago

Manish Shaida, Managing Director, Chicago

Colin Soutar, Managing Director, Arlington

Christopher Stewart, Partner, Arlington

Parag Thakkar, Managing Director, Chicago

Dina Trainor, Managing Director, Boston

Kevin James Urbanowicz, Managing Director, Houston

Justin Charles Wakefield, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Court Watson, Partner, Seattle

Charmaine Kathryn Wilson, Principal, San Jose

Talent

Casey Carlson, Managing Director, Boston

Holly Hernandez Elsasser, Managing Director, Phoenix

Tax

Jacob Aguero, Partner, Houston

Avi Ament, Managing Director, New York

Nazanin Azarian, Managing Director, McLean

Mat Beers, Partner, Miami

Abhishek Bhadauria, Managing Director, McLean

Samantha Bonanno, Partner, Tampa

Joel Booker, Partner, Dallas

Annie Bridenstine, Managing Director, San Diego

Todd Buffington, Managing Director, Kansas City

Sarah Caplan, Partner, Chicago

David Cauley, Partner, Atlanta

Brian Cavin, Managing Director, Nashville

Tom Cecchino, Principal, Stamford

Courtney Clark, Partner, Columbus

Jessica Craig, Managing Director, Boston

Brett Cummings, Managing Director, Dallas

Eugene Curtiss, Managing Director, Houston

Mike Daniels, Partner, Houston

Tarin DeVitto, Managing Director, McLean

Brian Matthew Drujak, Principal, McLean

Brittney Duffy, Managing Director, Houston

Megan Eastep, Managing Director, Dallas

Christina Noel Edwall, Partner, San Jose

Daphne Esposito, Managing Director, Chicago

Frank Falvo, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Richard Feuring, Managing Director, Washington, DC

Bill Fisher, Managing Director, Richmond

Mary Fuerst, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Dominic Gabbianelli, Partner, Atlanta

Joe Gartner, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Andrew Scott Guberman, Partner, New York

Kirsten Gulotta, Principal, New York

Kristopher Gustafson, Principal, San Francisco

Dave Hansen, Partner, San Francisco

Misty Henderson, Partner, Atlanta

Cory Joseph Hill, Managing Director, Chicago

Jared Steven Huish, Managing Director, Seattle

Rona Hummel, Managing Director, New York

Wendy Jackson, Principal, San Francisco

Mudit Kapoor, Managing Director, New York

Kyle Karrenbauer, Managing Director, New York

Matvey Kats, Principal, New York

Michael Kaul, Partner, New York

Bridget (Curtis) Kerbyson, Managing Director, Detroit

Mary Klaasen, Managing Director, Denver

Derek Krozek, Managing Director, Detroit

Matthew Lamberta, Principal, New York

Tomas Lenart, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Daniel Lichaw, Managing Director, New York

Nicola Lostumbo, Principal, Chicago

Gregg Mangarelli, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Irene Manos, Principal, Stamford

Michael Mariani, Partner, New York

Shantanu Mohan, Managing Director, Jersey City

Alexis Morrison-Howe, Principal, Boston

Doug Nagode, Managing Director, Atlanta

Michelle Ng, Managing Director, New York

Sharon Niles, Managing Director, Boston

Joanne O’Brien, Partner, Los Angeles

David Orlandi, Managing Director, Stamford

Will Ou, Managing Director, San Jose

Nicole Patterson, Principal, San Jose

Katherine Plumb, Partner, Houston

Timothy Polefko, Managing Director, New York

Jarick Poulson, Managing Director, Salt Lake City

Farah Raja, Managing Director, San Francisco

Vasudha Rangaprasad, Principal, San Jose

Jason Richter, Principal, San Francisco

Jason Christophe Robertson, Principal, Washington, DC

Howard Sacks, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Jorge Sandoval, Partner, Costa Mesa

Micaela Saviano, Partner, Chicago

Mike Schlect, Partner, San Francisco

Andrea Schulz, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Jan Michael Skidds, Managing Director, Parsippany

Andrea Smith, Partner, Chicago

Roberto Sola, Managing Director, San Juan

Jim Sullivan, Managing Director, Boston

Adam Clayton Sylte, Managing Director, Seattle

Melanie Tomsula, Partner, Houston

Mary Rose Turman, Managing Director, Atlanta

Bella Verdiyan, Managing Director, Detroit

Elizabeth Wallin, Managing Director, Tampa

Clark Warner, Partner, Charlotte

Jeffrey Webb, Partner, Chicago

Greg Weiss, Partner, McLean

Dina Wiesen, Managing Director, Parsippany

Logan Wilkowich, Managing Director, Houston

Casey Yantosca, Partner, Boston

Hristina Zielinski, Managing Director, Stamford

Technology

Lori Geiger, Managing Director, Hermitage

John Gormly, Managing Director, Cincinnati

Tim Sanouvong, Managing Director, Dallas

Sachin Vaidya, Managing Director, Hermitage

Brian Craig Whyte, Managing Director, Arlington

Workplace Services

Vinnie Doherty, Managing Director, Parsippany

Katie Gray, Managing Director, Columbus

Congrats to all!

The post Promotion Watch ’19: Let’s Congratulate Deloitte’s 386 New PPMDs for FY 2020 appeared first on Going Concern.

republished from Going Concern

#Technology #Finance

0 notes

kosa12-blog · 8 years ago

Text

Music Groups and Bands You Probably Forgot Existed: 3LW, S Club 7, Dream and More

Are you ready to get a little nostalgic on this fine Throwback Thursday?! We at the E! News offices like to play this little game of seeing who can remember the lyrics to old pop songs from the '90s, which got us thinking of some of the bands who made those hits...most of which we've forgotten existed at this point. For example, do you remember B*Witched and "C'est la Vie"? Or how about Omarion's boy band B2K and their club hit "Bump Bump Bump"? 3LW and "No More"? We could go on and on, but now that we've got you hooked (just admit it!), let's take a look at some of those long-lost groups and pay tribute to the fact that music definitely peaked in the '90s: The Most Awesome Things From the '90s A*Teens: This Swedish pop group from Stockholm was formed in 1998 as an ABBA tribute band and consisted of members: Marie Serneholt, Dhani Lennevald, Sara Lumholdt and Amit Paul. They gave us awesome remakes of songs like "Mamma Mia" and "Dancing Queen," but we'll never forget "Upside Down" 3LW: The girl group was created in the early 2000s and consisted of original members Adrienne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Naturi Naughton. Jessica Benson then replaced Naughton after she left the group in 2002. They had hits like "Playas Gon Play" and "I Do," but nothing holds a candle to "No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)." Dream Street: If you don't remember this 1999 all-American boy band, that's because they were pretty short-lived. However, the group did mark Jesse McCartney's first go at music alongside co-members, Greg Raposo, Matt Ballinger, Frankie Galasso and Chris Trousdale. They were basically five versions of Justin Bieber before Justin Bieber was even a name in our minds. You'll likely remember them by listening to their song "It Happens Every Time." B*Witched: The Irish girl group consisted of twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch as well as Lindsay Armaou and Sinéad O'Carroll and saw success from 1997 through 2002. They brought us "C'est la Vie," and that's all that really matters. Top Boy Bands of All Time S Club 7: The pop group from London was by created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller and rose to fame due to their television show Miami 7. The group consisted of members Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, and Jon Le. You'll probably remember them by songs like "S Club Party," "Never Had a Dream Come True," and our personal favorite, "Bring It All Back." B2K: Omarion got his start in the music world with the R&B boy band, which also included Lil' Fizz, J-Boog and Raz-B. "Bump, Bump, Bump" was their greatest success, and even though it reminds us of middle school dances, we still kinda love it, TBH. Dream: This group might not be as far removed from your memory as the others, considering they reconvened in 2015. But in case you forgot, they were a pop girl group who rose to fame in 1998, consisting of members Melissa Schuman, Diana Ortiz, Ashley Poole, Holly Blake-Arnstein, Kasey Sheridan and Alex Chester. Singing "He Loves U Not" while picking daisies on our walk to school is something we've probably all experienced. LFO: We will never forget the song "Summer Girls"—do you still like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch?—but you probably didn't remember the band behind the hit. That would be the Lyte Funkie Ones aka LFO—a pop band consisting of lead singer Rich Cronin as well as Devin Lima and Brad Fischetti. BB Mak: If you just said "OMG" out loud, you're not alone. We were pretty proud of ourselves for pulling this group out of the depths of our memory. And somehow this British pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally managed to sell three million albums between 1999 and 2003. Unfortunately, we only really remember "Back Here." '90s Guy Crushes You Totally Forgot About LMNT: This was another group we got a little too excited about...mostly because "Juliet" still brings so much happiness into our souls. The group was popular in 2000 and was composed of members Matthew Morrison (!!!), Ikaika Kahoano, Bryan Chan, Jonas Persch and Mike Miller. 5ive: The British boy band from London rose to fame in 1997 with members Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville and Scott Robinson. You might remember their song "When the Lights Go Out" blasting at your middle school dance. Westlife: The Irish boy band was created in 1997 with members Shane Filan, Brian McFadden, Markus Feehily, Nicky Byrne and Kian Egan. You'd likely recall their remake of Secret Garden's "You Raise Me Up" or from their hit song "My Love." Wild Orchid: Did you know Fergie was in a band before the Black Eyed Peas? Yes, indeed she was, and that band's name was originally NRG before it became Wild Orchid. The group—which also consisted of Renee Sandstrom, Stefanie Ridel and Micki Duran (from 1991-1994)—performed from 1991 to 2003 with songs like "Supernatural" and "Talk to Me." Do you have any long-lost bands we've forgotten? Sound off in the comments below!

#Music #Groups #Bands #Probably #Forgot #Existed:#Dream

1 note · View note

kosa12-blog · 8 years ago

Text

Music Groups and Bands You Probably Forgot Existed: 3LW, S Club 7, Dream and More

#Music #Groups #Bands #Probably #Forgot #Existed:#Dream

1 note · View note