Desperado Orchestra with J and Megan, husband and wife,
started writing music together in 2010. They first met in Los Angeles, CA, and
immediately recognized the quality working relationship and creative sparks when
collaborating together. Both have very different backgrounds in their musical
developments, but as independent musicians, within their goals and methods of
creating a work of art, they share a lot of commonalities. Teaching, sharing,
being compassionate, being cautious, having fun,...
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When Alan Lomax was conducting his field recordings of blues music in the Mississippi Delta for the Library of Congress in the 1930s and 1940s, the traditional blues had already morphed and developed styles outside of the solo acoustic guitar and other blues traditions found within the plantation life in the South. A major change in blues had to do with the “Great Migration” starting in 1914, when hundreds of thousan...
The Blues The United States, a melting pot of the west. A country with some of the most diverse communities of citizens from anywhere and everywhere in the world, and a country that many people of the world considered to be at the forefront of modern thinking, technology and industry. We as Americans and pioneers of the modern world share so much of our cultural identity with the world. How do we recognize those that we influence? Maybe we never realized or maybe we never wondered. Do you e...
More »Desperado Orchestra with J and Megan, husband and wife, started writing music together in 2010. They first met in Los Angeles, CA, and immediately recognized the quality working relationship and creative sparks when collaborating together. Both have very different backgrounds in their musical developments, but as independent musicians, within their goals and methods of creating a work of art, they share a lot of commonalities. Teaching, sharing, being compassionate, being cautious, having fun,...
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More »J and Megan first became a tag team in composing and performing under the name Desperado Orchestra in 2010. They have since traveled and performed in multiple cities from California to Shanghai, China. The duo only recently returned back from a two-year work stint in China, where they escaped a few years of the "Great Recession" that so badly hit their livelihood as educators and musicians in Los Angeles, CA. Since moving back home to Hawaii, they have taken their marriage vows in a small cere...
More »As a musician and an educator, this article is written as an attempt to give people a way to filter out cultural totalitarianism and to give tools to help critically think about the cultural state of America and how the music industry, artists and the freedom of expression are jeopardized by American cultural totalitarianism. In this article I want to generate a dialogue and share my knowledge and thoughts based on the facts of how the mass production of art today suffocates the cultural g...
More »Desperado Orchestra's newest single "Outside My Window" is now available on iTunes or amazon.
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Peace, Strength and Music!
The new single release "Outside My Window" is now available on iTunes, amazon, spotify and many more online stores.
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Peace, Strength and Music!
This song is still available to stream at reverbnation and soundcloud.
We are preparing for our upcoming single release, Outside My Window. The song is written and dedicated to life's constant changes.
More »Simultaneously, we are celebrating our return back home after living abroad for two years. If it was not for the experiences and friends we met during our travels overseas, this journey might have lasted longer and ended differently. But thanks to the support of our family, friends and other positive influences in our lives we are able to continue our dedic...
J Lawson
More »Truth, sincerity and music directly from the spirit. J Lawson music is made to uplift and inspire all people to be better than they are and unite under the shared beauty of the human experience.
Megan Fong
Promotes diversity and personal expression through collaboration with creative people from different artistic and cultural backgrounds in the US and abroad. The basis of her work exists around the American improvisational music forms.
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