Steven Kalas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Music
Press
Sunday, 25 February 2007
Dear Steven Kalas,
CONGRATULATIONS!
"Where the River Goes" has entered the Broadjam Earth Top 10 at Broadjam!
"Where the River Goes" has entered the North America Top 10 at Broadjam!
"Where the River Goes" has entered the United States Top 10 at Broadjam!
"Where the River Goes" has entered the West Top 10 at Broadjam!
"Where the River Goes" has entered the Production - Male Vocals Top 10 at Broadjam!
Click on the link below to check out the Broadjam Earth Top 10. Use the navigation menu to view the additional Top 10 charts.
The Broadjam Staff
http://www.broadjam.com/top10 - www.Broadjam.com
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Move Like Water has entered the Pop - Easy Listening Top 10
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"Move Like Water" charted on the Pop and Pop - Easy Listening as well as the Production - Other Tempo" Top 10
"Little Boy" charted on the
Rock - Easy Listening Top 10
"Where the River Goes" charted on the Folk - Religious Top 10
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Move Like Water charts on the Pop Top 10
Move Like Water charts on the Pop - Easy Listening Top 10
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Threshing Floor charts on the Folk - Contemporary Top 10
Breathing You charts on the Pop - Easy Listening Top 10
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- http://www.broadjam.com/top10
July 1, 2006
For the third year in a row, Steven Kalas has been named to the Unisong list of best artists.
Kalas and his song To Be Loved* * in the "Artist & Song/ Performance Category".
* * http://www.CDBaby.com/Kalas4
Just A Guy in the "Up-Tempo Pop Category". This song will be part of the "Lessons From the Dead" CD slated for release in late Summer of 2006 (preview it on the 'Music' page at www.StevenKalas.com
From Unisong Announcement:
"...This year featured the highest overall quality of songs and writers ever submitted by far , with the most diverse and varied entries from a multitude of countries representing every continent on Earth except Antarctica (and maybe there is a Penguin rock group waiting in the wings for next year!!!). The judging process therefore was extremely challenging and being singled out anywhere in the top 15% of all songs submitted was no easy feat. So congratulations to all our talented entrants from around the world..."
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- Stavros News
”Little Boy” Enters Top 10 In SEVEN Categories at Broadjam.com!
Region: North America
Region: United States
Region: West
Production - Male Vocals
Production - Ballads
Rock
Rock - Easy Listening
http://www.broadjam.com/top10
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2002 - "Different Kind of Hero" - Selected as theme song of the Amarillo, Texas Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1997 - "Different Kind of Hero" - Video title song for the State of Arizona Year of the Parent Social Service Promotional Campaign
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Two other songs, "If Not For Teachers", a tribute to elementary educators and "Lessons From the Dead" placed in the top 10% of over 4,500 song entries from more than 50 countries.
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"The Star" from FINALLY HERE has
entered the Unique - Holiday (genre) Top 10 at Broadjam.com!
Charted week of:
August 12, 2005
August 18, "
(The Star is included in this Sonicbids playlist)
- TAXI's Broadjam.com Charts
"I'll Wash Your Lover's Car" & "Live As If" named Songwriter Finalist winners in the 2004 International UNISONG Contest!
- UNISONG Contest
GRAMMY nominated songwriter, LATHAN HUDSON:
"Steven is a great musician and recording artist who is having success in his part of the U.S. and is on his way to becoming a successful international recording artist. Here are some words about Steven from one of my best friends, Multiple Award-Winning Songwriter, JOHNNY 'CHANCE' JONES who owns the Adventureland Theme Park in Dothan, Alabama. He is one of the best songwriters I know.
Johnny and I have had songs that we co-wrote, recorded by Tammy Wynette. He is the biggest critic I've ever been associated with. Johnny could find something wrong with - and would try to rewrite -The Sermon on The Mount and/or works of Shakespeare." . . .
"Steven Kalas writes some things that blow me away Lathan. I mean, blow me away. I have never seen anyone any more talented, lyrically, and he is a pro singer and melody writer too. If Steven can get out there and get heard, which, apparently, he is doing, the sky could be the limit for him. To me, Lyrically, he's a cross between Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and Dylan. He misses on some of his songs, like Dylan often did, but it doesn't matter because he's so friggin', unbelievably good on the others that, as in the case of Dylan, people will give him a super star's latitude; create something in their own minds as to what the song means, demand no co-writing credit, and breathlessly proclaim, "what genius!". - Special Endorsement
"Finally Here" is a CD that highlights Steven's meaningful and melodic songwriting as well as his strong vocals. The production and musicianship are very professional. Interesting harmonies abound on this CD. Some of the tracks such as "Innocence" remind one of some of Paul McCartney's better songs. This is an excellent contemporary folk rock CD. Pick up a copy today. - Reviewer: RadioIndy.com staff
Discography
STEVEN KALAS PUBLISHES FIRST BOOK and audio companion CD!!
HUMAN MATTERS is Steven's first book. Published by Stephen's Press it is a compilation of articles and essays from his two popular columns..."Wise and witty counsel on Relationships, parenting, grief and doing the right thing." It's available at www.HumanMatters.net.
The companion CD, "Steven Kalas Speaking Of Human Matters" features eleven of his personally narrated articles.
NEW RELEASE ! - - - "Lessons From the Dead"
Unless otherwise noted, you have only me to thank or blame for the lyrics and melodies you will hear on this album. But some credits are due:
An End to the One Man Band, co-authored with me by Paul Taylor and D.R Wilke, was inspired by the work and legacy of the late Wes Frensdorf, Episcopal Bishop of Nevada. The title song was conceived from a parable told in Belden Lane's book "The Solace of Fierce Landscapes." Here Inside the Crucible (with you) emerged from the work of marital therapists David Schnarch and Ruth Morehouse and David's book "Constructing the Sexual Crucible."
The melody and story of Mary Said was made possible by Temple Hall's writing and arrangement of simply the bitchinest guitar riff and cord changes I've ever heard. But I want to dedicate the song to the actual 'Mary.' La-la-LA-la, Lovely Linda. You are my treasured friend.
My favorite love song on the CD is also the most ironic: I Wonder If You Know. Turns out she did not know.
Paul Taylor composed the clever alliteration in the verses of You See Better, And Mr. Jack Paper is of course a sequel to Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton's song "Puff the Magic Dragon." That's their words and melody which appear in Jack's dream.
For me, the CD's most powerful and important song is True and Beautiful. It was inspired by a woman who was neither. But I owe her a paradoxical `thank you` for the way her darkness forced me to face my own darkness, forced me to claim my highest truth, my deepest values, and the wholeness of myself. Only cost me a vocation, a course of anti-depressants, and my soul mate. I see you, Katharine.
PaperCymbal is Stacy, Andre, Temple, David, Kirsten, and me. The prodigious talents of my bandmates are overshadowed only by the value of their friendship.
That's it. See you on the other side.
-- Steven Kalas
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“Finally Here”
Produced by Steven Kalas at Digital Insight Studios
Released through Stavros Entertainment
Distributed by Stavros Entertainment, Las Vegas, NV
Released 20 April 2005
"Finally Here" was conceived on the day I decided to quit music altogether. My "I quit" speech was interrupted by a phone call from Fred Migiliore and Fast Forward Artist promotion. Fred invited himself into my life. Finally Here is the result of my accepting that invitation.
Fred changed my life. He was the missing ingredient. He promotes my career, yes – but more importantly he transFORMED my understanding of myself. For so long I was a man casting about in the musical universe, trying on styles and identities like so many suits off a rack. Fred helped me find a form, a place, a niche, and a real identity. What’s ‘finally here’ is me – one singer/songwriter instead of many.
Finally Here was recorded at Digital Insight recording studios in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was remixed and mastered at SoundWard Studios in Titusville, Florida by Mark Brasel and Fred Migliore. Together, they coaxed and shaped a quality of sound I had never before achieved. What’s ‘finally here’ is a Steven Kalas I had never heard before.
So give a listen. Buy my record. Tell your friends. Invite us play for you.
Until we meet,
Steven
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“Something to Say”
Produced by Ken Gold at Digital Insight Studios
Released through Standing In My Bathroom Records
Distributed by Stavros Entertainment, Las Vegas, NV 2002
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“PaperCymbal”
Produced by Rich Cheney, Road Company Music
Released through Standing In My Bathroom Records
Distributed by Oarfin Records, Minneapolis, MN 2000
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“Accidental Universe”
Produced by Steven Kalas and D. R. Wilke
Wide Range Productions Tempe, Arizona
Distributed by Stavros Entertainment, Las Vegas, NV,1999
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www.CDBaby.com/kalas4
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“The Star”, EP
Produced by Ken Gold at Digital Insight Studios
Released through Stavros Entertainment
Distributed by FastForward Artist Promotions, Cocoa FL, 2003 and 2004
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Singles
A Different Kind of Hero
Lessons From the Dead
Mary Said
If Not For Teachers
Move Like Water
You See Better
Serenading Juliet
The Cat Song
Your Balloon
Just A Guy
Carpet Fragments
Accident
Photos
Bio
Steven Kalas
Here's a guy who once traded a Guild guitar for a car stereo. But that car stereo has long since been stolen. Now Steven keeps his guitars, plays them, writes songs and sings with his musician friends. One reviewer said, "Steven Kalas looks at life with a bit of a tilt a collision of humor, pathos, and celebration...a compelling performer." He's entertained folks from quiet coffee houses to parks, theatres, and concert halls.
Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Steven was graduated from Northern Arizona University with a B.S. in Psychology and earned his Masters in Theology at Southern Methodist University. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he works as a marriage and family counselor, bereavement specialist, and behavioral health consultant. Steven writes Human Matters, published Sundays and Tuesdays in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Steven is a former Episcopal priest, turned therapist, free lance writer and published author. He does stand-up comedy, and travels nationally as a professional public speaker. His favorite hobby is songwriting and performing in the band PaperCymbal. His new album Lessons From the Dead is available on his website stevenkalas.com.
Steven is father to three sons: Jonathan, 16, Aaron, 14, and (what was he thinking?) Joseph, age 5. He is a rabid Phoenix Suns’ fan, a crazed Green Bay Packer fan, a Beatlemaniac, and owns DVD recordings of every known work of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In his spare time he grows lettuce.
PaperCymbal
The name emerged one day in rehearsal when the band was laughing about people whose favorite pop group was the Patridge Family that the ultimate irony of our culture might be that you could REALLY LOVE a band that doesn't actually exist. We wondered if the producers had removed the cymbals from Tracy Patridge's tambourine and replaced them with faux paper cymbals so she wouldn't make a racket during filming.
PaperCymbal is...
Steven Kalas: Acoustic Guitar, Lead vocals
Temple Hall: Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangements
Kirsten Keilty: Backing Vocals, Vocal Arrangements
David Braun: Waaay doesn't suck Lead Guitar
Andre Brunson: Bass Guitar, Dredlocks
Stacy Henry: Drums, forehead perspiration, taskmaster of excellence
Naldo Pasello: Cello
Dave Romero: Percussion, nice hat on stage
Lessons From the Dead was recorded at Digital Insight Studios, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Recording Engineer: Matt Szpyrka
Mastering: Matt Szpyrka
Taking all our money: Rob Devlin
Graphic Design: Catherine Dalinis
Photography: Jackie Robinson
Executive Producer: Jackie Robinson / Stavros Entertainment
THE MUSIC
Steven and his band, PaperCymbal play everything from driving pop-rock to tasty, acoustic folk guaranteed to hammer you with melody and take you apart with sheer poetry. Steven writes lyrics that are a gaping mirror into the human experience---extraordinary images of ordinary life.
You'll hear songs that are acoustic, folk laced pop, unique and eclectic; a combination of folk-rock and pop; a voice that's been compared with Cat Stevens and a style that morphs The Beatles, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Crosby Stills Nash, Paul Simon, Matchbox 20, Maroon 5, Rod Stewart and well...Steven Kalas.
If it's real, then art is about the risk of being wholly oneself. The journey is costly beyond imagining.
For me, Lessons From the Dead records a particularly intense leg of that journey. In the near two years since this CD project was begun, my entire life has burned down and begun again.
You will hear songs celebrating love, and songs witnessing the helpless, inexorable unraveling of love. There are songs holding on for dear life against the onslaught of darkness and stupidity, and songs which smile, celebrate, and laugh. If you find any of these songs kicking your ass, rest assured they were written to first kick my own.
Unless otherwise noted, you have only me to thank or blame for the lyrics and melodies you will hear on this album. But some credits are due:
An End to the One Man Band, co-authored with me by Paul Taylor and D.R Wilke, was inspired by the work and legacy of the late Wes Frensdorf, Episcopal Bishop of Nevada. The title song was conceived from a parable told in Belden Lane's book "The Solace of Fierce Landscapes." Here Inside the Crucible (with you) emerged from the work of marital therapists David Schnarch and Ruth Morehouse and David's book "Constructing the Sexual Crucible."
The melody and story of Mary Said was made possible by Temple Hall's writing and arrangement of simply the bitchinest guitar riff and cord changes I've ever heard. But I want to dedicate the song to the actual 'Mary.' La-la-LA-la, Lovely Linda. You are my treasured friend.
My favorite love song on the CD is also the most ironic: I Wonder If You Know. Turns out she did not know.
Paul Taylor composed the clever alliteration in the verses of You See Better, And Mr. Jack Paper is of c
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