Andy Sarcone Rooney
Las Vegas, NV
*Lost in the Forest of a Dream, Andy Sarcone Rooney (Lead Guitarist / Vocalist)
conjured up this hex on a windy night, under the light of a SPELLED MOON...
*Conceived in a professional studio atmosphere, since the beginning; and styled, on an eclectic mix of Power Metal and Neo Classical flavors, with movie score backgrounds.
The tales that start this journey were written, and the magic began to happen.
*The recording sessions soared to new heights of production value
at Tony Bongiovi’s POWER STATION Studios (Jimmy Hendrix, The Ramones, Bonjovi, Sting) with main manager, Rob Roy, and chief engineer, David Levy.
*Kicking hard Patrick Johansson (Yngwie Malmsteen / W.A.S.P), joined ranks to play the mighty drums, bringing a marvelous style and performance.
*Claudio Pesavento (studio keys for Dokken / Jeff Beck / foreigner) who brought some furious melodies within his piano playing.
*Stinging with Venomous bass playing style, Ralph Rieckermann (Scorpions), joined this crusade and took over the low end for two of those tales.
Moving in full throttle, the band went into gear.
*Following destiny from shore to shore, Mr Rooney, moved across the mountains, to build a recording studio within "BLACK GATES", upon the city of fallen angels, in Los Angeles California. There he wrote, recorded and produced almost the entirety of this material.
*Daniel Trajtemberg "DANKER" (Rata Blanca / Mario Ian / Malon), captured the essence of this musical assembly, and became the visual director, illustrator and photographer.
Jimmy Wiggle (Zakk Wylde, Eddy Van Halen, Slash), was in charge with the mission of tweaking and modifying Rooney's amplifier heads; they were later used on the full length album's Guitar Tracks.
As one of the many guest in SPELLED MOON,
*Bass player Chuck Wright (Quiet Riot, House of Lords, Impellitteri), recorded two songs bringing great & tasty licks to those tunes....
*Mr Joe Petro (Heaven and Earth / Randy Piper (W.A.S.P)) , on Bass took care of the 6 remaining tracks, bringing to the band, eccentric tones with his many 8 Strings Bass Guitars.
*Jimmy Ledezma (AL-Dimeola / Lalo Schriffin), plays percussions for the song "Sorceress The Fiery Dragon".
* Veronica Cavallaro Joins The Team becoming the President of the "Moonless Midnight" Fan-club / Public Relations & Media Director for the South American and the Spanish Territories.
* Working With with the renonwed Shawn Klinger from KLINGER CUSTOM PEDALS The "Fallen Angel" ASR (Andy S Rooney) Signature Distortion / Booster Pedal Comes out Bringing Sublime Harmonics and tonal features to Andy's Music.
* Andy is currently working with Daniel Rippee from RIPPEE GUITARS on his signature "The Forest Witch" Guitar that will be rocking out later this year….
* "Craft of the Wise" will be mixed at one of the most prestigious Studios on this planet, Mecca for Power Metal and Rock N'Roll in Helsinki Finland at FINNVOX Studios by Aki Sihvonen for Mixing and Mikka Jussila for the Mastering.
*Now in the city of Sins. Las Vegas, Nevada, where the Desert Winds brought, Mr Rooney, to finish this adventure called "Craft Of The Wise." With 11 songs screaming throughout this Full Length Album.
*Playing Percussions in "Selene The Vampire," a great friend of SM, the renowned Argentinean Drummer from the band Rata Blanca, Fernando Scarcella, who brings all his magic and talent to this song.
* Veronica Cavallaro Joins The Team becoming the President of the "Moonless Midnight" Fan-club / Public Relations & Media Director for the South American and the Spanish Territories.
*Andy S Rooney gets hired to Record the Main Theme for the Rooster Teeth's Cartoon "Sex Swing".
*With a whole team and a strategy, SPELLED MOON keeps writing chapters for this story;
*Planning for the full length album to be released really soon.
*At the witching hour in times of sorcery we gather, under the light of a SPELLED MOON...