About sHeM: sHeM a visual artist and musician, grown and groomed on the streets of Los Angeles utilizes an arsenal of sound and picture to convey narrative landscapes. Influenced by Punk Rock, Folk, Classical Music and Old School Country, sHeM seamlessly intertwines these genres to create raw emotion. Executive produced by Shem Andre Byron. Mix and mastered by Casey Stone. sHeM's Plastic Players: sHeM – Words, Voice, Music, Acoustic, Electric, Twelve String, Rhythm Guitars, Mandolin, Glockenspiel, Rifles, Marching, Infantry, Rotary Phone, Sound Effects, Background Voice. Danica – Visual Aesthetics. Samantha Blake – Saxophones, Horn Arrangements. Caroline Campbell – Lead Violin. Drew Canter – Infantry. Dorian Cheah – Electric Violin / Viola. Brian Keith Etheridge – Drums, Vibraphone. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Viola. Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – Cello. Mike Gangemi – Trumpet. Neal Hammond – Violin. Saar Hendelman – Piano, Accordion, Rifles, Marching, Infantry, Background Voice, String Arrangements. Brendan McMullin – Trombone. Sanjay Nager – Infantry. Brian Netzley – Bass, Background Voice. P.J. – Lead Guitar. Corrie Ann Shenigo – Background Voice. John Scheker – Background Voice. John Wakefield – Percussion. Terrence Zdunich – Infantry. Influences: Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Welles, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, George Orwell, Benjamin Franklin, Gene Roddenberry, Charles Darwin, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Leonardo da Vinci, Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Frank Miller, Stanley Kubrick, Franz Kafka, John Lasseter, German Expressionism, John Ernst Steinbeck, Alan Moore, John Locke, William Shakespeare, Charles Bukowski, Alan Parker, Mark Twain, Rod Serling, Anthony Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Harvey Bernard Milk, Spike Lee, Dr. Seuss, Socrates, Roger Waters, Sun Tzu, Thomas Jefferson, Hunter S.Thompson, Maya Angelou, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States of America, William S. Burroughs, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve Jobs, Frida Kahlo, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Richard Pryor, Jim Henson, , Abraham Lincoln, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Johnston, Nelson Mandela, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Confucius, The Marquis de Sade, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stan Lee, Salvador Dali, Ronald D. Moore, Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Francis Ford Coppola, Humphrey Bogart, Jean-Michel Basquiat