Solo:
Just little me!
Electric Bass (fretted, fretless, piccolo. 4, 5, 6 and 12 stringed)
Electric and Acoustic Guitars.
Vocals, Upright Bass, Cello, Keyboards, Mandolin and Drums
For the upcoming demo I have some of the finest musicians with me:
Dirk Bruinenberg: Drums
Ruud Jolie: Guitars
Wudstik: Vocals
Damian Wilson: Vocals
Erna auf der Haar: Vocals
Dial:
Liselotte Hegt: Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
Rommert van der Meer: Acoustic and Electric guitars
Me again: Basses, Electric and Acostic Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals, Mandolin, Cello and Double Bass.
More information and sound samples can be found at DIAL's MySpace page:
MySpace.com/thebanddial
Additional musicians on 'Synchronized':
Dirk Bruinenberg: Drums and Percussion
Devon Graves: additional Vocals and Guitars.
Eugenia Lakkey: Choire
Joy de Jong: Sousaphone
I play and fully endorse Mayones basses and guitars.
Anything and everything that life and death has to offer!
I could put down a list, a mile long, of things, persons and music that has influenced me and made me the person I am today.
No one and nothing is less important than the other.
I love blue skies but can really enjoy a powerful thunderstorm.
Green grass and deep forests.
Animals of all kinds and people who do give a damn.
I will soon add a more detailed list of musicians, books, films and happenings that have inspired me more than others.. so stay tuned
Sounds Like
My solo music is inspired by everything I've been through.
Different music styles, different feelings and emotions
I like to put them all in there and see what comes out of it.
DIAL also bring a lot of influences into one big, deep tasty bowl of soup.
We're doing all we can to create our own sound but you'll probably hear clear influences from some of the following acts:
Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Souxie and the Banshees, Porcupine Tree, Green Carnation, Rush, Massive Attack, Tori Amos, Dive, Queen and many, many more.
I started playing the bass guitar at the age of 14 and less than a year later, I was asked to join Swedish prog-metal band 'Pain of Salvation'.
After recording six full albums and one DVD we have decided to go separate ways (early 2006).
I have also recorded and toured with Lana Lane (US), Erik Norlander (US), Dark Suns (D) and Rocket Scientists (US) and done additional recordings for bands such as Arcana (S), Chirra Niva (NL), Harmony (S) and Implosion (Gr).
Now I've started to take a good look at my upcoming solo album.
This is something that's been hanging around for quite some time now and it's finally time to get going.
At this point, I've recorded four songs that be on my first promo-demo.
I've had some help from Dirk Bruinenberg (DIAL, Patrick Rondat, Elegy and many more) to lay down the drums for these songs and I've had Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation) to do some of the guitar solos for me.
Wudstick and Damian Wilson have helped out with lead vocals and Erna auf der Haar has doen some amazing vocals as well.
I'm now working on the mix and to get the drums just the way I want them.
As soon as the songs are mixed I will put them all up here on my MySpace page for you to hear.
