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Music From Here To Andromeda, a 23-song concept album showcasing Michael's guitar mastery and exposing deep-running spiritual & metaphysical interests as well. This collection of music is being used in the new David Sereda film From Here to Andromeda and was remastered and compiled from Michael's past two CDs, plus there is a lot new material for your listening pleasure as well.
Music From Here to Andromeda was written, recorded and realized by Michael himself, who created his own indie label, Moment Point Records, to release the CD this year. Counting Edward Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, The Police, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Prince as his most significant musical influences, Michael Lee Hill draws from these and other sources of inspiration while never sacrificing one ounce of his own identity; tracks like “Feeling September” and “The Lifting” capture a tenderness and musical sensitivity that runs throughout most of Music From Here To Andromeda while “Testing 1,2,3” pulls out the stops and keeps punching. Michael also gets to salute his hero Jimi Hendrix in “Jimi's Communication,” a recorded improvisation with a groove that feels five feet thick. In an age when too many guitar records sound like everybody else's, Music From Here to Andromeda is a refreshing and satisfying disc of mammoth proportions.
In 2001, Tonos.com teamed with Steve Vai and
Ibanez Guitars for the Tonos Guitar Challenge, which sought the guitarist who could record the most creative and “best” re-interpretation of the famous Steve Vai recording "Jibboom". Guitarists from around the globe entered but Steve Vai personally selected Michael Lee Hill's entry as the winner of the competition (Hill also received an Ibanez guitar designed by Steve). A mentoring session with Vai would follow, in Detroit at the G3 concert with Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and
Billy Sheehan, and Vai granted permission to Michael to release “Jibboom” (Michael's version, featuring the original drum and bass tracks by Mike Mangini and Philip Bynoe) on Michael's previous release Frozen Thought.
Music From Here to Andromeda follows Hill's 1999 debut solo release, All That Is, which was well received in the “guitar underground” but never gained national attention, and Frozen Thought which was released in 2001. Fiercely independent, Michael Lee Hill recorded, produced, and released Music From Here to Andromeda himself, and is supporting the release with music press and live performances. He has recently signed an endorsement deal with Peavey and Michael now proudly endorses Peavey Joe Satriani JSX amplifiers and HP Special Guitars.
Michael is also an avid UFO researcher and his own UFO footage has been featured on Fox News, CBS news, Coast to Coast, Rense.com, hbccufo.org and in the feature films UFO's Unplugged with Dan Aykroyd, and David Sereda's latest film From Here to Andromeda which Michael also Co-Produced. Michael Lee Hill's official website is
WWW.Michaelleehill.com
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A true believer
Eastlake man gains national attention with Lake Erie UFO video
Friday, March 02, 2007
Michael K. McIntyre
Plain Dealer Reporter
It was a beautiful summer night, and Michael Lee Hill went to the water, as he of ten does, carrying a camcorder and a quest: Record the UFOs.
The aliens send messages to the Eastlake resident, sometimes through weird coincidences or just by urges he feels. Yeah, yeah, he knows it sounds crazy. But he gets a "feeling" about where the UFOs will be, and he shows up with his recorder and there they are.
"I'm positive that they know I'm filming them," he said.
So one evening last August, he and his friend Chris Miheli stood at the Lake Erie shore at Willowick Lakefront Park as night fell, in a spot not far from a famous 1988 sighting chronicled in a Coast Guard report.
And there they waited until, in the black sky, two objects appeared, pulsing brilliant, multicolor lights. One hovered above the other, then zipped away. Hill switched his camcorder to night mode to prove that these were not ships' lights -- the objects appeared to be airborne over the water.
For Hill, the video was further evidence that aliens visit Earth. He thought his fellow believers would see it and welcome it as a weapon in their struggle for credibility.
California filmmaker David Sereda certainly did. Sereda already had used some of Hill's clips in his film "Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs," in which the comic actor described his views on the existence of UFOs and the possibility of another dimension.
Now, Sereda had video of another sighting that would fit nicely in his new film, "From Here to Andromeda," due out on video April 15. Hill, a gifted guitarist, got work as the co-producer of the film, allowing him to quit his job selling guitars at Sam Ash.
Sereda recently appeared on Fox News Channel's "Heartland" show to talk about his upcoming film. He brought with him the Lake Erie UFO clip, which Hill then posted in its entirety on YouTube (view it at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njo7TWFoZqs).
And that's when Hill learned that, when it comes to skeptics, no one is tougher than the true believers.
"Good try stoners, but yer [sic] Whoa, man!' every five seconds gave you away," wrote one visitor to the message board the UFO News Web site (ufonews.tv).
"While UFOs may very well exist, it doesn't help to get all amped up over obvious frauds," wrote another.
It didn't help that on the video, Hill and Miheli sound like they were filming, "Dude, Where's My UFO?"
"Dude, it's beautiful . . . I'm filming it, dude," said Hill, 38, the crashing Lake Erie waves providing a backdrop as he works the camera.
"Dude, we just saw something amazing," said Miheli.
Skeptics variously claimed Hill's video was of planes or ships. Those unfamiliar with that area of Lake Erie claimed the lights were those of police cars on a distant hill or bridge.
"How can you watch this video and not see that you have been fooled?" wrote one skeptic.
"Michael Lee Hill or Pinocchio," wrote another.
Hill, who has not filmed much lately because of cold weather and his work producing the "Andromeda" movie soundtrack, takes it in stride.
"I don't really care," he said. "I know what I seen. I've learned to separate myself from other people's energy. It doesn't really affect me."
He has defended himself online, posting the opinions of those who believe him, such as the proprietors of the UFO News site and Sereda. "Cars don't float in the air and landing aircraft eventually land.' These UFOs never leave the immediate scene," reads the UFO News post. "Let's stop hating each other and start trying to find out what the heck is going on in our skies!"
Said Sereda: "What amazes me about this footage is that there is no noise from jet aircraft, helicopters, etc., and a UFO comes so closely by to hover right on top of the other UFO and then flies back out the way it came in. No airplane could do this. Also, when the video camera switches to night-shot mode, we can see the UFOs are not boats on the lake. They are hovering a good 50 to 100 feet above the water."
The video has people talking, which is a good thing. The fact that some of that talk is attacking Hill makes no difference.
"You know . . . whatever," he said. "Sooner or later, everyone is going to see them with their own two eyes, and it won't matter if they believe me or not."
Hill knows this: Aliens are out there. They have visited. They mean good. They may even want to help us save our planet. He has video of multicolor single orbs; what appear to be flamelike flickers on Lake Erie; and a purplish blob hovering in the night sky.
"I think the universe is teeming with life," he said. "We are on the verge of becoming a galactic society that is on the verge of joining the cosmic community," he said. "When first contact happens, it won't be a question. It will be apparent that they are here. I've got a new phrase I've been telling people, Just look up!' "
