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New Single: AFRICA

Wilson Fifer Rose’s cover of Africa (Featuring Philhelmon and Alessandro Bertoni) is live on streaming services. This is a re-imagined version of our version of Toto’s classic song. We added so many harmonies and really over-hauled the rhythm section…

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New Single: WRECKING BALL

Wilson Fifer Rose’s cover of Wrecking Ball is live on streaming services. This is a cover of the Miley Cyrus song. We added a lot of harmonies. Not our usual, but we enjoyed making it.

Thanks for checking it out!

Riu Riu Chiu & What Child Is This?

I've always liked the Monkees' version of the classic carol Riu Riu Chiu, so I took a swing at my own arrangement.

I was first exposed to this song via my high school music teacher in zero period madrigals. It's…

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FourFiveSeconds & Fare Thee Well

I recorded a fun cover of the recent hit FourFiveSeconds by Paul McCartney, Rihanna, and Kanye West. Isaac Jones and I laughed and laughed while making this, hopefully you will too. 

In other news, I was involved in the filming…

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I'm A Believer & Summer Gigs

I'm A Believer 

I recently recorded a super fun cover of the Monkees' song "I'm A Believer" with a group of friends on a beach trip. It was an interesting exercise in recording a whole lot of people in one…

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Philhelmon Updates & More

A Wilson Fifer Rose & Philhelmon collaboration, this cover came about as the result of the very successful Wilson Fifer Rose kickstarter campaign. One of the rewards offered through this campaign was that the band would record a song of…

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Dance The Night Away Unplugged, Live Gigs & More

Lots to report on the Philhelmon front. 

Henk and I were interviewed by Kathy Keller, a Journalist from the Netherlands originally from my side of the US. Check out the first interview featuring my friend and collaborator Henk Bol where…

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WFR Life and Philhelmon

Live Gigs: 

This is the time of year where I get out there and play live. Wilson Fifer Rose has some gigs on the horizon as does the slightly different incarnation of Rose Fifer Rose. Recently Rose Fifer Rose played…

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Just Pretend Cover & Philhelmon Givaway

Wilson Fifer Rose recorded and filmed a video for our cover of a song originally done by the Bens (Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, and Ben Lee). If you don't have their 4 song EP, I suggest you give it a…

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WFR on Radio Groesbeek

Radio Groesbeek: 

Holland Radio personality Hans Koning played a handful of my songs on his program “The Kingdom Crown Album” on Monday night, October 7th, 2013. Hans was kind enough to call me on the phone and included the phone…

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Africa Cover + Radio Interview

Wilson Fifer Rose was featured on an entire episode of De Smaak Van Kraak, a radio personality in Holland. 

He was a very gracious interviewer and it was a joy being on the show. He also plays a Philhelmon song…

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Africa - Toto Cover

I finally finished editing the footage of our cover version of Toto's Africa. 

As you can see, it turned out really great both musically a visually. We garnered 600 views in the first 2 days, which is always good thing! 

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WFR Live 2013 & Philhelmon

Wilson Fifer Rose: 

Unfortunately the summer of 2013 is coming to end. This means less frequent gigging opportunities for Wilson Fifer Rose... and we definitely had some very fun gigs this summer: 

Since Wilson Fifer Rose will be moving into…

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WFR & Philhelmon: Live Gigs/ Radio

Wilson Fifer Rose had Diamond Eyes and To the Water played on the excellent radio show "Smaak Van Kraak" (which translated from Dutch means, "The Taste of Kraak", Rob Kraak being the host of the show). Imagine being played next…

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WFR: Letters From Cornelius

This beast of an album is finally finished and ready to purchase! You can get physical copies and digital copies from CD Baby (see the link below!), or you can go the iTunes route if you prefer. 

The album sounds…

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StarWars Uncut, Progworld Top 10, WFR recording and more...

Philhelmon: 

We’ve been voted number 6 on Progworld’s website! 

Here's the link if you want to check out Porgworld: 

http://www.progwereld.org/cms/de-wereldse-10/ 

 Wilson Fifer Rose: 

Our kickstarter, as of the time of this writing, has reached $3,724. Despite the fact that we…

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Nice Boyband photo, right?

WFR: 

The project we're currently calling Wilson, Fifer, & Rose has been moving along quite nicely. We've gotten every song that we plan to record started. We're tentatively planning to have a 15 song track list, but at this point…

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Of Gods and Golems/ Kickstarter Success

I'm currently in LA helping Portly Pig Studios put together their stop motion installation "Of Gods and Golems" for which I composed the music. 

It's sort of a difficult project to explain. Basically it incorporates stop motion animation, large sculpture…

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WFR Kickstarter

From the Pacific NW, WFR have created a lush smorgasboard of melodic folk-pop seasoned with layer upon layer of vocal harmony. 

Having known each other for 10 years or more, Austin Wilson, Dustin Rose, and myself have sung separately and…

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