YAMAHA Competition: Richard reaches finals!!!!
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
Richard has beaten thousands of entrants to reach the UK finals of the 'Yamaha Acoustic Guitarist of the Year' competition.
First prize is a UK tour with world class guitarists Derrin Nauendorf and David Goodman, which includes the prestigious top slot of headlining the Best Guitar Fest and the Cavern Club on John Lennon's birthday. Winners will be announced soon.
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The Rattling Wheel
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Derrin Nauendorf
Release date: 03 July, 2006
New Cherry Ghost Album features Grenville Harrop on drums
Current mood: jubilant
Category: Music
Hear the talents of Grenville Harrop (drums, Row Z) on the enthralling debut Cherry Ghost album 'Thirst For Romance'. The smash album has been decribed as 'The debut rock album of the year' and won a glowing 4 star review from Q magazine. Single 'Roses' featured as iTunes 'Single of the Week'.
The album has also featured as Radio 2's 'Album of the Week' and Cherry Ghost are headling the first ever iTunes festival in London.
Row Z appear on new 6 part show 'High School Dance' airing in Spring 07. Row Z perform live at the grand finale competition. Check it out on Channel 4/E4 from February.
John Ellis performs on smash Lily Allen and Corinne Bailey Rae debut albums
John Ellis (keys/piano, Row Z) performs on 4 tracks on Lily's album 'Alright Still' (hear him on the legendary piano loop sample on number 1 hit 'Smile'), and LDN amongst others.
John also sings and provides instrumentation on Corinne Bailey Rae's debut album. Corinne's album is now triple platinum both in the UK and abroad, and it created history by entering the US Billboard Chart at no. 17 (the highest debut in the chart for a UK artist).
You can listen to Lily Allens' fantastic new album 'Alright, Still' exclusively below.
Richard in studio with Trance legend MATT DAREY: New album tracks hit US Radio Top 3
Matt Darey: Trance legend and EUPHORIA producer releases new album.......
Richard is currently working in the studio with Trance pioneer and superstar DJ Matt Darey. Matt is scheduled to release his latest album in Summer 07'.
Featuring Richard performing guitar on all tracks, it promises to be huge!
Richard performs electro-rock guitar, acoustic, bass and lots of dazzling riffs and solos. Here is some more information:
Animal - Indie Rock meets Dance Just one of the first glimpses of Matt's forthcoming album shows it's face remixed for the harder floors. Matt is holding the original mix back till the album release. Get ready for some serious Indie electronica rock!! Already big support from DJ's like Oakenfold, Marko V, Johan Gielen, BBC Radio 1 and 30 other Radio networks. A new genre in Dance music is coming!! Check out who's playing this record: http://www.mattdarey.com/support.htm
The Mark Sherry/Matt Darey remix of 'Animal' is described as '...really HUGE' by Superstar DJ Anne Savage and as '...a fresh sounding production' (Jon O'Bir, Radio 1). A world tour and international radio play is scheduled for 2007.
Matt Darey ft Tiff - Always hits Daytime USA Radio Currently getting daytime support on several stations in the USA hitting the number one play list spot on 3 stations so far. A new direction for Matt mixing guitars and real string sections and Irish folk influenced vocal underpinned by a dance beat. On the underground, early support from DJ's like Armin, Tiesto and Above & Beyond with Armin Van Buuren quoted as saying "Its a Hit!!!" In the UK, big support from Specialist Galaxy, Kiss and Radio 1 shows and Dave Pearce Dance Anthems. Check out what the DJ's say: http://www.mattdarey.com/support.htm
Exploding onto the scene in 1994, Matt is responsible for bringing the Trance sound sharply into focus, influencing DJ's worldwide such as Paul Oakenfold, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, and Paul Van Dyk amongst others. Seamlessly blending genres and influences to produce sweeping soundscapes, in his glittering career Matt remixed and produced the pivotal tracks to emerge from the scene- most notably ATB - 'Till I Come', Grace - 'Not Over Yet', and the essential Li Kwan - 'Point Zero'.
After launching other hugely successful artists such as Tall Paul and Agnelli and Nelson, Matt set up label 'Darey Products' and quickly scored with Top Ten smash 'Beautiful', lauded by DJ's everywhere from Dave Pierce to Judge Jules.
As one of the world's most respected DJ's Matt performs regularly in Sydney, Ibiza, London and LA, and tours his albums internationally. Matt is the only artist to feature as a Radio 1 'Tried and Tested' twice.
As a producer, he remixes a plethora of UK greats from Moloko to Gabrielle, and spearheads one of the global top-selling dance compilations 'EUPHORIA'. In the forthcoming months expect some epic dance rock to blast the airwaves.....
A History of Pulver Records: From the Sugababes to Row Z
About Pulver Records
Pulver Records was brought to life in 2001 by influential Stuttgart-based DJ quartet, Dublex Inc. Their first single, 'Tango Forte' hit the charts running: this dance mammoth leapt to the top of the German charts, and refused to budge from the #1 spot for 6 weeks.
Word soon spread and the instrumental 'Tango Forte' rapidly evolved into the Sugababes massive hit 'Round Round'. This of course shot straight to number one again, shifting over a cool million units to date.
Pulver's success story lies in their supernatural ability to keep their fingers on every throbbing pulse in the dance, funk, electronic, jazz and breakbeat DJ world.
Launching their own act, Dublex Inc, alongside the mega-talented Inverse Cinematics and Dutch Rhythm Combo enabled them to diversify into jazz and funk, producing the freshest artists in this genre such as Row Z and Sam Irl.
To date, their sales success is unwavering. They are currently in the studio working on their latest single which features Ashley Slater (Freakpower, The Jazz Jamaica Allstars), the results of which will be out soon.
Row Z Top 40 hit 'Stalemate' has been the subject of rave reviews. Read on.....
Impeccably cool in a way that only jazz can be- STALEMATE is the sound of summer come early."
Row Z aren't content to be pigeonholed into one musical genre; this is a band playing instrumental jazz, but also a band that tips its toes into funk, reggae and ska. STALEMATE is a single that straddles all four of those genres, the jazz heavy brass sections underpinned by off beat ska rhythms and low funk bass grooves.
Perhaps kick-starting a new genre of jazz/ska here, STALEMATE grooves along like the soundtrack to some sixties Jamaican gangster movie - all fluid saxophone work, abrupt horn parps and funky bass lines. Impeccably cool in a way that only jazz can be - STALEMATE is the sound of summer come early. Reviewer -Mike Bond (UKMusicSearch)
"Fine slabs of cool, smooth jazz and funk" -News of the Noise
'Club focused funk for the sophisticate DJ. Choice cuts' -Phonica Records
"Row Z take a bold step with the release of this excellent single 'Stalemate'. 'Stalemate' is as well put together and infectious as it gets really. Classy musicianship meets 'grown-up 'pop' with innovation and more than a hint of optimism. Stalemate' shows in its four and a half minutes that modern music doesn't have to be cliched - it only has to be quality, even if it's risky it can still work. Class will out!! And, Row Z sound like a quality act" -Toxic Pete
"'With the demise of Top of the Pops, and Fearne Cotton only saved from a part time job in QS by Celebrity Love Island, here are our Top 20 plays compiled by Gallup during the World Cup. 1. ROW Z - 'Stalemate'- this one's totally off the radar as this prototype drum 'n' bass track loses its drum 'n' bass tag to become probably the best ska track since More Specials. Chuck in a bit of jazziness on the breaks and thisHAS to be track of the year. Go find and skank madly...'" - Outdoor Minor Records
"'Dark, Polish jazz bizniz much in the same area as Zero dB's 'Bongos, Bleeps and Basslines'. Remixes a plenty are available on this killer twelve, but it's the original version, with its live feel and dirty bass stabs, that hits the spot and rocks the joint every time- and it's an A-side!!'" -Dom Servini
"'Love it, bootyiful music, ladiez set to lose it big time. 5/5' -Alan Brown,Soul Seduction, Vienna
"'Love a lot the original, love all version for different mood and situaton! Dirty jazzy, broken, deep-tech-house! Great project!' -Kiki Solaris, Radio SIS, Cantania, Italy
"'Hey this is great! you guys creep up everytime with something better and totally unexpected. Big big stuff, lovin the DI and Slope mixes."' -Huw Ellies, CVibes, (Sydney, Australia)
"'Nice fusion of electronica and breakbeats. love it! Swing Version blew me away!!! bigband madness at it`s best...' -Christophe Doepke
"Row Z is putting you into "Stalemate" with a mover thats in the perfect middle in between soul-funky blaxploitation and cocktail-sipping Jazz lounging. Never too much in the past, never too far in the future Richard Smith takes his band from England to the Jazz floors of the world." -SoulSeduction.com
"Richard Smith: virtuoso, funky, intense and immense. Prepare for a hedonistic mix of Soul, Jazz and pure funk that has made the US and Europe pin point his band Row Z on the musical radar. Now for the UK..." Manilla Magazine
Row Z release 'Stalemate' on Pulver Records 24/04/06. As part of the 'Pulverising! Cocoa' compilation of cutting edge European House/Nu-Jazz/Funk/Groove artists, you can buy on vinyl in all good record stores and online at Soul Seduction. Alternatively you can also buy on digital download at the Row Z i-Tunes store.
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