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Zachary Sobel (April 11, 1989), is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician from Long Island, New York.
When you listen to Zak Sobel’s music, it is easy to see that the Long Island native grew up surrounded by the music of James Taylor, Van Morrison, Lyle Lovett, and Bob Dylan. “Zak Sobel has a very comforting vocal style. His music comes off a little like James Taylor's songs did, back in that pop icon's heyday,” notes Dan MacIntosh, of Indie-music.com.

As soon as Zak was able to talk, he was singing. “In one of our home videos- I think I was only about two- I’m dancing around on our back porch, singing along with James Taylor’s “Copperline.”
The Sobel family could have had a garage sale with all the instruments Zak tried out before 6th grade. When Zak was in third grade, he started playing piano, but after only a couple of years, and much arguing with his parents, he quit. By the time Zak entered middle school, he had already tried out six different instruments - piano, clarinet, trombone, violin, and drums. Finally, he picked saxophone, but he was still unsatisfied with his decision.
Throughout high school, music was more or less in the background. Baseball was life. As an all-state pitcher, with his mitt always in hand, baseball didn’t leave much time for anything else. Zak didn’t even really pick up a guitar until the spring of his senior year of high school.
After that, baseball was history. Music was everything. It went from a hobby to a passion to a way of life in a matter of months. In only three lightning quick years, Zak Sobel has transformed from a kid with no interest in music, to a musician who already has two releases under his belt and a third on the way. His music has already received airplay on major radio stations and garnered much attention from listeners who span the globe. In October 2010, Zak’s song, “Make Me Change My Mind And Stay” was picked by indie-music.com as a Top 25 “New and Noteworthy” song.
Zak has been receiving recognition for his music from various sources in the indie music scene as well. Annamarie DiRaddo, a contributor to The Indiestry Magazine, sites performances such as Zak’s appearances at the Long Island Fall Festival in 2009 and 2010 and his sharing the stage with The Apples in Stereo and Man Man in the Spring of 2010 at Penn State University. She advises new listeners to keep an eye out for the new artist, and promises that “Zak Sobel is a name you don't want to forget”.
“Music is everything to me. It’s what keeps me going. I can’t imagine how different I would be without it. I consider myself extremely lucky. Some people wait and search and drive themselves crazy their entire lives to find the one thing that makes them who they are. I was lucky enough to stumble upon what I love, the thing I live for, at such a young age. I don’t plan on wasting any time. I just want to continue to make music that I’m proud of and that people enjoy listening to. If I can do that forever, it’d be an understatement to say that I’ll be a pretty happy guy.”

Mad and Spectral is an electronic duo of DJ and house music producers consisting of members and pioneers of the local electronic scene Ashot Babayan and Garry Mkrtchayn.
Based in Yerevan, Armenia they are well known for providing their signature tracks as well as the remixes. Mad and Spectral was formed in the early 2006 and presented the first single "Beautiful Dayz Of Our Life" in April - a catchy vocal house tune that was put into a heavy rotation by the local radio stations. The track became a starting-point in the duo's activity and the two concentrated on the further production including countless vocal castings and studio sessions.
Mad and Spectral gained respect by many representatives of the electronic scene and being a quite fertile producers they had already a serious music material by the end of 2006. At the same time the duo has established its sound, turning it from house and progressive into deep house and minimal techno with elements of dub and ambient.
Unfortunately, the unequal situation that reigns in Armenian show business doesn't let the duo be appreciated and the lack of electronic music events as well as the adequate audience, make Mad and Spectral look for serious partners and record labels abroad.
The duo is also known as Warm 8 (former Artificial Twins), an IDM and downtempo-oriented project, as well as Salt Sweet, which is mostly aimed at deep tech and tech house production. Mad and Spectral also run their own independent digital record label Low Flow Records, which is mostly aimed at deep house and tech house production.
Moreover, there are also the solo-projects of the Mad and Spectral members: Garry Mkrtchyan drops beats under the alias of Fabien Kamb, while Ashot Babayan is producing as Krummstoff.
Official Releases
*I_Love EP (Uplifto Records) /January 10, 2008/
*Paradise EP (Uplifto Records) /January 10, 2008)
*Let You Go EP (Soulful Mood Recordings) /March 30, 2008/
*One Step From Heaven EP (Uplifto Records) /June 19, 2008/
*In Circles EP (as Salt Sweet) (KGBeats Records) /July 9, 2008/
*Daclip Remixes EP (Uplifto Records) /July 23, 2008/
*Something For Catwalk EP (Manuscript Records) /September 15, 2008/
*Shine For Me EP (Groove Baby Records) /November 10, 2008/
*Sex Me Slow EP (Manuscript Records) /November 17, 2008/
*Through It All EP (Wet Recordings) /December 15, 2008/
*City Shell EP (as Salt Sweet) (Acryl Music) /May 22, 2009/
*In Circles: Remixed (as Salt Sweet) (KGBeats Records) /June 2, 2009/
*Easy Motion EP (Low Flow Records) /June 9, 2009/
*Da Flavour EP (Disclosure Project Recordings) /June 15, 2009/
*The Coming/Blue Haze EP (as Salt Sweet) (Low Flow Records) /August 18, 2009/
*To Whom It Might Concern EP (as Salt Sweet) (Carica Deep) /August 19, 2009/
*Remember EP (SoulHeat Records) /January 26, 2010/
*What Do You Say EP (Low Flow White) /June 14, 2010/
Official Remixes
*Darwin Marcus - "My Queen"(Mad and Spectral king-size dub) (Soulful Mood Recordings) /June 22, 2008/
Promo Remixes
*Gigi Harville - "U'N'I" (Mad and Spectral electro-overseas mix)
*Artificial Twins - "Growing Troubles With Man" (Mad and Spectral overcharged mix)
*Ani Christy - "Norits" (Mad and Spectral signature re-rub)

Paolo Nicola Corallini (born in Filottrano, Italy, September 26, 1951), is a dentist and an aikido master. He is known to be the highest Iwama Ryu Shihan in the world, since Morihiro Saito Sensei gave him the Iwama Ryu 7th Dan in 2001 in Rome. Paolo Corallini is the only one, together with Ulf Evenas (Sweden), to hold the [http://www.taai.it/index.php?optioncom_content&viewarticle&id53&Itemid56&lang=en 7th] Dan in Iwama Ryu. He is the founder and Chief instructor of Iwama Ryu Italy, the first Iwama Ryu group in the world (est. in 1984).
Paolo Corallini holds the five buki waza mokuroku (weapons certificates) and in 1990 he was appointed by Saito Morihiro to hold Iwama Style examinations in Europe, both for tai jutsu and empty hands techniques.
Youth
Born in Filottrano (a small town on the countryside of the italian region Marche), he started practising ju-jutsu at age of 18, in 1969, and after a little he discovered Aikido, which had lately came to Europe at that time.
In the beginning he studied under the guidance of Motokage Kawamukai, who awarded him with the 1st dan in 1977. In 1979 he received the 2nd dan by Kobayashi Sensei and joined the French group, becoming very close to André Nocquet Sensei, direct student of the Founder and President of Union Européenne d’Aikido. Nocquet awarded Corallini with the 3rd dan in 1981 and the 4th dan in 1984, and Corallini became the President and Chief Instructor of U.I.A. (Unione Italiana Aikido), a division of U.E.A.
In 1984 Corallini wrote his first book, Aikido, the first Italian language book about aikido) and met many japanese masters (Tamura, Tohei, Yamada, Saotome, Chiba). At that point Corallini was one of the most known aikidoka in Europe.
Meeting Saito Morihiro
In the same year he achieve his strongest wish to meet Saito Morihiro Sensei and visit the Ibaraki dojo in Iwama, where O’Sensei created Aikido. Meeting happened in Iwama in 1984, with Stanley Pranin as translator. Suddenly Paolo Corallini realized that the traditional pedagogy of Aikido Saito Sensei was teaching was the most suitable for him then he decided that, from that moment on, Saito Morihiro would have been his sole master for all his life.
1984 - Back from Iwama - Iwama Takemusu Aiki
On February 1985 Paolo Corallini invited Saito Morihiro Shihan to hold two seminars in Osimo and Turin, Italy. Those events counted around 40 people. That was the first time Saito Sensei held seminars in Continental Europe. Since then Corallini Sensei and his group decided to follow the traditional Pedagogy of Aikido Saito Sensei was showing. Saito Sensei used to refer to Iwama Aikido with the term "Takemusu Aikido" or "Iwama Takemusu Aiki". In the mid of the 1980s the Italian association of Saito Sensei's students (formerly called "U.I.A."), directed by Paolo Corallini Shihan, adopted the name "Iwama Takemusu Aiki Italy": it was the first official group to publicly declare to follow only Saito Sensei's pedagogy. At the end of the 1980s, upon suggestion and request of Paolo Corallini, Saito Sensei started delivering his own certificates with the title "Iwama Takemusu Aiki kai Kaicho Saito Morihiro Aikikai Shihan" and for the first time he codified the five weapons certificates (buki waza moku roku).
1990s - The birth of Iwama Ryu
In 1990 Saito Morihiro Sensei, at a seminar in Turin, in presence of his first european students, publicly declared that Paolo Corallini Shihan would be the sole autorhized to conduct Iwama Ryu exams in substitution of him, by saying that while he was not in Europe, he would be substituted only by Paolo Corallini in grading Iwama Ryu. Later on other senior instructors have been delegated by Saito Sensei and Paolo Corallini Shihan to conduct dan exams in their countries.
Corallini Shihan became one of Saito Sensei's pupils until the death of the master, occurred in 2002. In 1993 Saito Sensei delivered the Rokudan (6th Dan) and the "Shihan" title to Paolo Corallini inside Ibaraki dojo. At that time that was the highest Iwama Ryu dan he ever delivered. Saito Morihiro held many international events across Europe and thousands of students joined his group: beside the huge amount of seminars he held in Italy from 1985-2001, Saito Sensei travelled to other european countries like Sweden (hosted by Ulf Evenas Shihan), Denmark (hosted by Copenhagen Aikido Club), Germany (hosted by M. and U. Van Meerendonk Sensei), U.K., France, Portugal, Switzerland. At that time Saito Morihiro used to call the traditional Pedagogy "Iwama style". The term "Iwama Ryu" appears few years after, in the mid 1990s, during a seminar held in Porto Recanati (Italy).
In a meeting with Saito Sensei in Paolo Corallini's house, at the presence of several istructors, Paolo Corallini asked Saito Sensei if he could choose a japanese term to express "Iwama Style Aikido", so that Saito's european students can use to be identified. In that occasion Saito Sensei said that the traditional pedagogy could have also been called "Iwama Ryu Aikido". Since then, little by little, almost all his groups in Europe (and later also in other continents) started changing his name in "Iwama Ryu". The first national association to change the name was "Iwama Takemusu Aiki Italy", which suddenly became "Iwama Ryu Italy". It's a fact that the term "Iwama Ryu" has always been mostly used in Europe, or however by the students of the european instructors like Corallini Shihan, Evenas Shihan, Mark and Ute Van Meerendonk, even though other western Aikido masters became well known as Saito Sensei's students (especially, Iwama Ryu Aikido was rarely adopted as a name in the United States, due to the different history of the local organizations in comparison with Europe).
In 1992 Daniel Toutain was introduced to Saito Sensei by Paolo Corallini, and from that moment Iwama Ryu came to France.
These are the first Iwama Ryu associations to be established:
*Iwama Ryu Italy (Paolo Corallini Shihan)
*Iwama Ryu Scandinavia (Ulf Evenas Shihan)
*Iwama Ryu Germany (Mark and Ute Van Meerendonk Sensei)
*Iwama Ryu France (Daniel Toutain Sensei)
*Iwama Ryu Portugal (Tristao da Cunha Sensei)
A second generation of groups was born in the second half of the 1990s, mostly referring to Paolo Corallini's students across the world:
*Iwama Ryu Croatia (Ivan Zafranovic)
*Iwama Ryu Bulgaria (Georgi Zarkov)
*Iwama Ryu South Africa (Christian Gaston Pacella)
*Iwama Ryu Spain (Javier Cid Martinez)
*Iwama Ryu Scotland (Stephen Colville)
*Iwama Ryu Turkey (Mehmet Dogu, later pupil of Toutain Sensei)
On 1994 he became Technical Supervisor and Chief Instructor of "Aikido" section of the Italian Olympic Committe (F.I.L.P.J.K.-C.O.N.I.), remaining in charge until 2006, when he resigned and let this role to his student Fausto De Compadri.
The Olympic Federation, in those years, published Corallini's second work, Iwama Ryu Aikido.
In 1999 Paolo Corallini wrote his third book, Iwama Ryu Aikido, published by Sperling & Kupfer concerning the traditional pedagogy of Iwama Ryu.
Paolo Corallini translated Morihiro Saito's tutorial books called Takemusu Aikido for the italian publisher Edizioni Mediterranee.
2000s - Iwama Ryu Europe
In 2001 Saito Morihiro held in Lido di Ostia (Rome) his last seminar in Europe. On that occasion he appointed Paolo Corallini Shihan, and then Ulf Evenas Shihan, with the Nanadan (7th Dan) in Iwama Ryu, by appointing them, in an official letter, as his sole representatives in Iwama Ryu (Kyoju Dai Ri). The handwritten documents are property and under care of Iwama Ryu Italy archives. These were the highest Iwama Ryu ranks ever delivered by Saito Sensei.
In that occasion, upon reccomendation of Corallini and Evenas, the other senpais received the 6th Dan Iwama Ryu: Daniel Toutain, Mark and Ute Van Meerendonk. At that time the old European Saito Sensei's students created a network called Iwama Ryu Europe, directed by the two top shihan. After Saito Morihiro passed, in 2002, his old students took different ways: while Corallini, Evenas, M. and U. Van Meerendonk, E. Weisgaard, W. Baumgartner and others remained into Aikikai, others joined Saito Morihiro's son, Hitohira, who created his own group, called Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai. Since then, many people got interested in Iwama Ryu Aikido and many new groups were born: some of them under the guidance of Saito Sensei's pupils, Corallini and Evenas, some others under Hitohira Saito's organization.