So Much Love

This album is the result of over a decade of playing on the street, in bars, pubs, clubs, festivals, forests, hot springs, and many other places. It is intended to delight, to entertain, to uplift, and to enlighten. Please enjoy and share the good positive vibrations and energy. -Joey --- Joey Chang aka CelloJoe is an anomaly in the world of cellists. By combining cello with beatboxing, he has created a unique genre: Classical Hip Hop. CelloJoe records live on stage with a loop pedal and produces intricate tapestries of harmony, melody, and rhythm. His beatboxing (vocal percussion) and funky cello grooves form a rich soundscape for intelligent lyrics and his music spreads love, joy, laughter and conscious vibrations. By beatboxing, throatsinging, singing, plucking and bowing the cello, CelloJoe can mimic many styles of music from dubstep to folk to rock to classical to hip hop. CelloJoe is the world's first long distance musical bike touring cellist. He has ridden his bike over 10,000 miles in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia. --- CelloJoe: A Biography There aren't very many singing, rapping, beatboxing, cello players in the world. There's a particularly funny and funky curious one you should remember and he goes by the name of CelloJoe. Like most cello players, Joseph Abraham Tal Tien-Ru Chang Jr. Senior III esquire (or just Joey for short) started out as a classical cellist. A mild-mannered suburbanite kid from Los Altos, California, Joey began studying the cello at age ten. His first instrument was actually piano which he started at age nine. For the first eight years, there were weekly private lessons and many music summer camps. There were also weekly (four hour long!) youth orchestra rehearsals. And from this fertile classical ground sprang forth a very unusual weed from a crack in the suburbial sidewalk. Joey discovered playing on the street after eight years of classical training. First, he played his classical repertoire over and over. This practice got old pretty quick. He realized that playing on the street was a great opportunity to begin improvising. After a fair amount of purely instrumental improvisation, he thought that being able to sing and play the cello would be infinitely cool and different and would thus attract more attention and hopefully fill the case with money. Slowly and surely this talent developed. Hip hop had always been part of Joey's listening diet and because of this habit, beatboxing naturally began to work it's way into his improvisations on the street. University Avenue in Palo Alto California is a pretty ritzy strip. It's full of yuppie shopping zombies. There's also a sizeable homeless population. A homeless man named Carl would listen to Joey playing often. It was he who coined the moniker quot;CelloJoe.quot; Joey sang impromptu songs about the glaring disparities right before his eyes in the yuppies and the homeless. Socially conscious and politically active, Joey naturally wove concepts of social and earth justice into his lyrics. Joey auditioned in Berklee College of Music's World Scholarship Tour in 2000. He was awarded a scholarship and attended Berklee from 2002-2006 and has since performed all over the world including: USA, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, France, and Spain. Some of the festivals Joey has performed at include: Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, Festival de Liege (Be

So Much Love