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Based in the Boston/Salem area, Sassure has been pushing a world/pop/rap/rock/tropical/Latin/acoustic synthesis in his last two CDs: ARCHIPELAGOS and STAGE ONE SOUTH. "You could say my subject is 'shamanic' love," he says, "but that would take a bit of explanation. The current release, THE CINNAMON WORLD VIEW, further universalizes Latin and tropical rhythms to the point where a whole new genre is created.....which is a break from the blues-based contemporary pop/rock that has dominated the popular music scene since the 1950s.....let's call this new genre Shamanic Rock....

An admirer of English/American music (Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Genesis, Dylan, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Paul Simon), Spanish music (Miguel Bose, Complices, J. M. Serrat); Italian music (Riccardo Cocciante, Claudio Baglioni, Lucio Dalla, Umberto Tozzi), and Latin American music (Cafe Tacuba, Juan Luis Guerra, Fito Paez, Mana, Charly Garcia, Enanitos Verdes, Bacilos, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Pedro Aznar), he can be found in Los Angeles (Newport Beach), Boston, Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, Austin, or Portsmouth NH working on what he calls "experiments".

Sassure's music can be found on Soundclick, Indie911, Isound, Last.fm, Musicforte, Pitt Radio, and on all of those digital download services like iTunes, Rhapsody, BuyMusic, MP3tunes, MusicMatch, Puretracks, MusicNow, and Napster....64 in all. His CDs are on cdbaby at http://www.cdbaby.com/sassure6 or 5 or 4 or 3 or 2......

Sassure reveals little of himself biographically. "I'm a traveler, a seeker, a writer, a musician," he says. "Does anything else matter?"

One more thing: whatever the Blog page may say, this Cat is not female, and this Cat is NOT Capricorn. This Cat is male, and Libra. So there....