2015 .. it was an AWESOME year … with lots of ups and a few bad downs which are always there to help us learn and evolve ..

Some big changes happened, just relocated to Seattle, WA with my love Robin, started new endeavors and I am sure music will be amazing in the next year and on ..

As always, I will be at NAMM in January which is always a plus after a year ends and I hope to see some familiar faces there and talk about our passion which is music ..

Thank you everyone for the support in the past years and I can say that I am truly excited for what’s coming .. I hope you all have a great new year’s and that 2016 bring to all of us, peace, joy, health and lots of challenges to keep us alive and dreaming!

Big hugs to the amazing people at Pearl Drums (Mike and Kevin), Sabian (Chris , Shirlene and Kevin), Cympad (Alexis), Rod at Humes & Berg and Ira at Samson and Julie and Rodney at Blue Mouth Promotions!

I couldn’t have done any of this without your mega plus blaster help! Love you guys!

As usual, here’s my list of my favorite 2015 Films , Albums and I will start to also include TV Series too …

Top 10 Films of 2015

1) The Big Short
2) Sicario
3) Creed
4) Everest
5) Meru
6) Ted 2
7) Chappie
8) The Hateful Eight
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PS: I am sure I’ll be filling the last three with a few movies that I haven’t seen yet so I’m leaving them blank for now

Top 10 Albums of 2015

1) Symphony-X – Underworld
2) Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase.
3) Muse – Drones
4) Helloween – My God-Given Right
5) Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful
6) Toto – Toto XIV
7) Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega
8) Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror
9) Snarky Puppy – Sylva with Metropole Orkest
10) Joss Stone – Water for your soul

Top 7 TV Series of 2015

1) Narcos
2) Fargo
3) The Affair
4) Game of Thrones
5) The Walking Dead
6) Orange is the new Black
7) Ray Donovan

And also, this last section has all the releases that I was related to in 2015! It sure was a good year!

1) Shaylon EP – Forgotten Realms of Wonders
2) Sigma Project – Reality Field
3) Eden’s Curse – Revelation Live
4) The Element – Dusk and Natural (which will be part of From Sand PT II) , Both mixed by the legendary Jens Bogren and Mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios