Salim Nourallah and Rip Rowan have over thirty years combined experience recording and producing music, and have worked together for over a decade.

Salim has released records with The Moon Festival and The Happiness Factor, with his brother as The Nourallah Brothers, and has several critically-acclaimed solo records.  Salim has received numerous Dallas Observer awards, including Best Album and Best Producer.

Rip has released records with Bad Haskells as well as two Amazon Top 25 solo releases.  Rip is Editor-in-Chief of ProRec.com, the Internet's original pro recording resource, and has been published in Wired magazine.

Together, Salim and Rip cover virtually all instruments including guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion, and have produced approximately 100 albums to date.

Salim Nourallah	Rip Rowan
Age: 40 Height: 6' 2" Weight: 185 Hair: Brown Eyes: Hazel Sign: Taurus	Age: 39 Height: 5' 10" Weight: 170 Hair: Brown Eyes: Green Sign: Cancer
Musician Since: Birth	Musician Since: 1985
Instruments: Bass, Guitar, Keyboards	Instruments: Drums, Keyboards, Percussion
Influences: the Beatles, the Kinks, the Clash, Neil Finn	Influences: Rock (all subgenres), Early Electronica, 60's Jazz, Classical, Rap
When I was a kid I wanted to be: a Beatle	When I was a kid I wanted to be: a studio engineer
My nickname in High School was: Four-eyes	My nickname in High School was: Rip Fucking Rowan
Current Ambitions: To enjoy life to the fullest with my family and friends. "Be Here Now" is what I'm trying to practice daily.	Current Ambitions: I want to be Jeff Lebowski with better hair.  So far, so good.
Turn-Ons: Jayme, hollow body guitars, playing bass, listening to a great song for the first time, making improvements to the recording studio or our house	Turn-Ons: Whiteboard marker smell, 5B drumsticks, Bikram Yoga, naked women, 18 dB of mastering headroom, money, solder
Turn-Offs: Steak, terrorism, racism, guns, the Bush family, war	Turn-Offs: Lint, 5A drumsticks, eye crust, fast food, fat chicks in belly shirts, Plano, fiberglass
Favorite Musicians: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Neil Finn, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello (way back when he was cool)	Favorite Musicians: Jeff Lynne, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Jarre, Gary Mallaber, John Lennon, Neil Peart, Wes Montgomery, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Favorite Movies: Spinal Tap, There Will be Blood	Favorite Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Big Lebowski, Goodfellas, No Country for Old Men, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite
Most Embarrassing Moment: the Moon Festival circa 1990	Most Embarrassing Moment: Having to explain to Johnny Lloyd Rollins why we were going to have to take a one-hour break, then watching him instantly reach for his cell phone to call... everyone
Ideal Evening: At home with Jayme and Gavin having a "Christmas Party" with hot chocolate and the Heat miser	Ideal Evening: Sipping a lovely sparkling beverage while watching a cage fight between England Dan and John Ford Coley