Venus Project, Press Release

Venus Project is proud to present two highly original music CDs "Love And Live" and "Adore Me."

The full-length album "Love And Live" features twelve (12) songs, exhibiting a wide variety of musical styles and forms. Incorporating the influences of many different techniques, genre and cultures. Ranging from exciting mix of Persian and Latin melodies to erotic, pulsating, tropical grooves, reggae, jazz, rhythm and blues, to hip hop, thrilling dance pieces, soft romantic love songs and hard-hitting club sounds.

"Adore Me" album consists of eight (8) erotic, sensual, female empowering, melodic and provocative songs, inspired by; Persian music dance rhythms, Samba, Mambo and Reggae melodies. Five (5) of - Adore Me album songs are with female vocals uttering fun explicit lyrics and three (3) are instrumentals. - The deliberate use of the few explicit words in Adore Me lyrics is for capturing peoples attention, particularly males attention.

Both "Love And Live" and "Adore Me" incorporate the influence of many different styles and cultures. "Love And Live" and "Adore Me" will take you on a musical journey evoking an array of thoughts, understandings and emotions. Venus Project utilizes the universal language of music to stress positivity and introduce thought provoking content. The underlying message of "Love And Live" and "Adore Me" is one of enlightenment through entertainment. The subject matter of the songs' lyrics includes: Love, Friendship, Peace, Sex, Mother Nature, Religion, and the Power of Human Spirit…

The unique lyrics, melodies and music for "Love And Live" and "Adore Me" were written and produced by the founder of Venus Project, Bahram Maskanian. Bahram wrote the lyrics based upon his original poetry and selected various cultural instruments and musical concepts to create music that appeals to a universal audience of all ages. Consisting of and reflecting diverse cultural backgrounds, these musical concepts and interactions have resulted in tracks that mix styles to form and communicate a rhythmic and poetic philosophy.

"Love And Live" and "Adore Me" were arranged by Shahe Sinanoglu and were tracked and recorded by Daniel Cinelli at Planet Studios in Montreal. Vocals, backup vocals, mixing and Sax tracks were recorded at Cove City Sound Studio, Inc. in New York. Brian Harding captured the amazing versatile vocals of Vita Corimbi. Richie Cannata played the Sax tracks for 3 songs ("Tough Enough," "No Guarantee," "If You Only Knew"). Christine Clark sang the backup vocals. Mixing credit goes to Dan Hetzel and his assistant Jim Annunziato. Tom Brick of Absolute Audio in Manhattan is responsible for Mastering.

- - I always wanted to develop a new musical art form that would present a blend of great music and inspiring lyrics - yet retain original trend setting sounds and ideas. I believe art should reflect life - -. Said Bahram Maskanian, Song Writer / Producer for Venus Project.

Venus Project's future plans include the release of its third album, "Station Hope," a full-length LP containing 12 songs currently in production.

The "Love And Live" and "Adore Me" songs are now available for purchase as MP3 digital format online at PBC Records Music Store - pbcrecords.com.