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Here's a wonderful new review of our latest CD for today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day - it hasn't officially posted yet but it will later on this month - I'll post the link to it once it does -OnOffOn - BRIDGE TO PRESAGE: "One of the main reasons I fell in love with this group so many years ago (mid-to-late '90's) is because they always bring freshness to the musical arena with their compositions. You often read (or hear) statements like that about musical groups, but this band continues to amaze. All instrumental on this 'round, with an almost "classical" underpinning, they have successfully painted sonic images that illustrates their (musical) vision of a world that emphasizes what should be our focus (as quoted from the liners) - "Humanity, Peace and Remembrance". Bassist Von Babasin sent this as a review copy (I've been corresponding with him ever since I first heard the band), & are we glad he did. They've incorporated their jazz/blues roots into the tunes, especially on tunes (track 3) like "Ostinato" (my favorite on the album, in great part because of new member Glen Garrett's superb sax work... but all the players smoke on this cut. My first listens to this superb music were when they were a trio... Don Lake (guitar), Von (bass, as already mentioned) & Dave Goode (drums). The addition of Marcus Duke's piano, & guests Ron King doing trumpet & flugelhorn work, as well as Bob McChesney's trombone excellence offer a new dimension, to be sure. If your ears thirst for music that is in a new dimension, you'll surely agree that this keeper is MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. To get more information, visit them at http://www.onoffon.com/ - Rotcod Zzaj"Our sincere thanks to Rotcod Zzaj for his wonderful take on our newest musical offering...

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Today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day is a return to our MySpace.com page - it's quite a wild place to be. Over the last four months, since I was able to successfully upload a few songs, we've got a nice group of 'friends' - more than 340 and growing - and some listeners are leaving some cool comments - here's a few -MySpace - ONOFFONhttp://www.myspace.com/onoffonChris Bigg"Love the soundddddd!!! thanks for adding me! drop by anytime, would love to see what you think of my tracks....man just had to come down from the ceiling listening to those tracks...good work!!"HavocHate"Thank you!! Really digging your songs. Keep in touch!..m/ HavocHate".DJ TRiPPiN."Hey, thanks for the add! You guys are craaaazy! <3!"Country Chris"You guys sound great as always, Von. Your sound is getting more unique. keep up the great work peaceChris"Lynn Carey Saylor"Von, You are featured on more than 3,000 Websites? Whew, that's amazing! Listening to your music, though, it's understandable how you accomplished that! Wishing you and the band much success!xo Lynn"Analog Missionary"thanks for adding our band.Have always liked you music, great playing!good to see you on myspaceAM"Thanks for all the cool comments - if anyone here is on MySpace, stop by and add us as friends...

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ONOFFON's SSP of the Day is a group of the latest reviews coming in at Mixposure on our song, "The Gift Must Always Move" - this song has always been one of my personal favorites so it's very gratifying to see it get such consistently wonderful comments -"The Gift Must Always Move"http://www.mixposure.com/song.php?songid=762Reviewed by: Terry Martin - 8/13/2005 "This gift moves me! Hi guys Dj Terry Martin Here well as always you do it to me again Love this song I play you all on my show at SongPlanet Radio a lot if this song is not there you should put it there so I can play it in my shows...... Great tune I love the mix and fell to this song....Keep it up... what a stone cold groove Terry Martin"Reviewed by: WTFjazzfunk - 8/12/2005 "Clean as a whistle Great stuff, guys. I love the build up of energy and the two different sounds in the song. The mellow part reminds me of some Al Di Meola playing - acoustic actually. I would perhaps have raved about it even more if there had been more development in the melody, but it is still a wonderful listen. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing more from you."Reviewed by: zefuldar - 8/11/2005 "great guitar work and drums - I really like the way the drums are panned in the mix. guitars all sound excellent. nice use of dual guitar, and reverb. excellent performance and recording.--thaedeus"Reviewed by: Thunder Lizard - 8/10/2005 "a music man's music - simply put, I love it this, my friends, is musical honestyGreat work."Reviewed by: J.O. Simon - 8/2/2005 "Inspiring Jazz! Great acoustic guitar work accompanied by a fabulous rhythm group - I like the sound of the snare played with brushes -. Brilliant e-guitar duet starting at about 3:30. I really enjoyed it!"Reviewed by: dreamer - 7/15/2005 "Smooth!!! Very well played song for this genre and mixed well. U guys are tight and sound top shelf. very good listen."Thanks as always to everyone who took the time and leave such great reviews....

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Here's a casual comment sent to me in a PM at MySpace as today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day -From: Evan Date: Aug 15, 2005 Subject: you guys are awesome"you guys are awesome, that's what I call music. good job for setting a good example for good music, you guys are really insync with one another, and have great arrangement and tremendous amount of skill, keep it up..."I just LOVE getting messages like this - it's so inspiring to me, personally, to move someone to make these kinds of comments about our music...

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The ONOFFON SSP of the Day is the link to the review I posted a few days ago, on our new CD, Bridge to Presage - it can be found on the Improvijazzation Nation website - go to the review page and scroll about a third of the way down -OnOffOn - Bridge to Presagehttp://home.comcast.net/~rotcod1/Z74Reviews.htmOur thanks to Dick Metcalf and Improvijazzation Nationhttp://home.comcast.net/~rotcod1/zzaj74.htm

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ONOFFON's SSP of the Day is a new presence on an old website - I finally decided to upload a couple of tracks onto the site Mp3.com.au - Australia's Mp3.com. I've only put up 'Mardi Gras' and 'Weekend in Montreal' but I'm starting to get a nice response - we've been there two days and have climbed to #8 in Jazz Fusion - here's the link and a short listener comment left on their BB -Mp3.com.au - ONOFFONhttp://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=24239ONOFFON15 Aug 2005 4:03:25 AMReviewed by brokenvox "ahhhhhhh, nice stuff. Sounds spectacular, impressive, obviously great musicians. Very open minded, progressive and beautifull.Nice sounds guys."I love the internet! It's so cool to expose your music to every corner of the globe...

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Today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day aresome nice comments of support left to us over on the GarageBand BBs, in response to ONOFFON winning IOMA's 2005 Artist of the Year Award - This is so cool....Posted by jukeboxxx88Posted on 8/16/05 12:41 PM"omg that is gorgeous!!! WAY TO GO!!!!er... look at these GB features -http://www.garageband.com/artist/sugar_ ... geoffbyrdI nominate ONOFFON for the same kind of distinction!!! After all, what they've achieved is even more of an accomplishment than either Bo or Geoff has done, with much less assistance from others. Proud to be a fan of this band from the moment I met Von and heard their music!"This is so cool....Posted by StebanPosted on 8/17/05 09:32 PM"Very cool to win that award! It is no small feat to be noticed like this."This is so cool....Posted by woodstocktaylorPosted on 8/18/05 07:47 PM"Hey Von - congratulations on the award - brilliant news, mate. Nobody deserves it more. Definitely an inspiration to all of us who are working to make something happen."This is so cool....Posted by John_Paul_SharpPosted on 8/19/05 11:19 AM"I think it is great that you've earned this award and it is inspiring for me to see that things are happening with artists that use GB -- even if the award came from another place! jps*"This is so cool....Posted by crystalcanyonPosted on 8/18/05 11:44 AM"Awesome Von! Congratulations! Kudos!You are DA MAN!Freakin cool!respect from the guysin crystalcanyonciao"Always nice to receive support from the indie communities all over cyberspace...

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The ONOFFON SSP of the Day -It really doesn't get much better ....

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How can I possibly top that last post? Well... I really can't - so...For today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day we'll go over to our Apple iTunes page, where our new CD, Bridge to Presage, has just joined our previous two CDs - they have a couple of lists that load up on the page that are pretty cool - Top Downloaded Songs and Listeners Also Bought - the coolest thing was our current top song is from the new CD called "Ostinato" - here's the link -Apple iTunes - ONOFFONhttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=6246494Top Downloaded Songs -OstinatoWet LegsYou Know I Can'tAlley WantPlease Baby PleaseWeekend in MontrealMardi GrasListeners Also Bought -John ColtraneWayne Henderson/Ronnie LawsWilton Felder/Wayne HendersonPatricia BarberMichael KonikBobby "Blue" BlandJ.J. CaleEric ClaptonPaul SimonStephen StillsHow cool is that?! Slowly but surely...

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In celebration of ONOFFON's IOMA AOTY Award, they have posted an "Artist of the Year" page, which is today's ONOFFON SSP of the Day - here's the link and a bit of what they had to say -IOM Artist of the Yearhttp://www.dgmpublishing.com/IOM/ArtistOfTheYe ... .htm"Quite simply, OnOffOn's "Your Mind" is perhaps one of the most important CD releases in recent years to have completely overwhelmed its audiences with its progressive and forward thinking amalgamations of Jazz, Rock, Blues, Funk, and imminently purveyed head-space entertainment value."We can't thank IOMA enough for their deep appreciation of our hard work...