Martin van de Vrugt: Singer/songwriter, instrumentalist, producer.
影響
James Taylor, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, The Be Good Tanyas, Iris Dement, Bruce Cockburn, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Kim Richey, Lucinda Williams, Allison Krauss, Willie Nelson, and many many more... And naturally life and all it's bringing me.
Since 1980 I am writing and playing my own songs. I am a singer and I play on several mostly acoustic guitars and other string-instuments like banjo, mandoline and bass. I am also a harmonica player.
In the early eighties I started playing on the streets of major dutch cities. I was young and not very tall so I had to make quite a show to get attention. These days I am quite 'laid back'. My stage shows are still dynamic and people are often very moved after my concerts.
Alone is just alone so early 2006 Dutch singer/songwriter Mischa Lelieveld and I decided it was time to join forces. For more than three years lots of people told us we should... So you could not only hear us on cd but also see us on stage together. And it's true, the blend of our guitars and vocals is just MAGIC! On october 16th 2007 Mischa gave birth to a boy they named Jasper. Mother and child are well but we won't appear on stage for a while...
So or I'm alone on stage these days or with my two "Friends" bassist Hennie van Lunteren and percussionist Alexander Klusman.
I have my own recording-studio so I can work when-ever I like to. Other artists have already found my studio too. I have made some very inspired cd's as an solo artist (january 2001 “Sunset Moonshine”; february 2002 “Redux”; april 2004 “Know Feel”; september 2006 "Count the better Days") and for several other great Dutch artists and bands like VisAge, Jos Wijnen, Sirocco, Pass it On, Rosa Sky, Mischa Lelieveld and Walkin' Bus.
Two abstract urban meditations composed by French visual artist Jérôme Schlomoff. Both filmed with a pinhole movie 35mm camera, these two films create mysterious and eerie portraits of the two cities, a ghostly New York City under a snowstorm and a poetical exploration of Amsterdam as a city suspended between past, present and future, in a visual voyage filmed at some of the city’s building sites. Both films are going to be presented with a live soundtrack performed by experimental hip-hop producer Smooth One and bass player Mouard Baali.
Smooth One biographical notes:
Smooth One comes from the abstract hip-hop scene. He wrote with Dj cam the two first album in 1996 and 1998, Underground Vibes and Substance. After a live album recorded in « Transmusicales » festival in Rennes and many remix for Air, Tek9 and Silent Poets, Smooth One decided to work alone, mainly on film music, and managing his own label, Superflux, which also published the soundtrack of NEW YORK ZERO ZERO & AMSTERDAM RECONSTRUCTION. http://www.lesuperflux.com/
In answer to your question ...yes I play an eight string ( guitar) known as a mandocello. Rare instrument .Also a Martin dreadnought . I have returned to listen to your songs and really enjoy your rythmns and words. Very moving. Did you use a Yamaha AW16 to record at your studio? All the best with your NEW album. It's great! love Gillie McPherson
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Publish artist interviews in English to http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazineInterviewsEnglish , interviews in French to http://groups.myspace.com/InterviewsAvecCountryMusicStars and interviews in German to http://groups.myspace.com/CountryMusikInterviews . All these groups on MySpace are part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Upload artist videos to http://www.MyVideo.de and http://www.ClipFish.de . Both websites are like http://www.YouTube.com and uploading videos is free. The websites are completely in German. If you don’t speak German and need assistance, I will help you open an account and upload a video for 25 Euro. Each additional video upload for the same artist name and at the same video website is 10 Euro.
Advertise in the following print magazines in Germany: Living Line Dance, reporting about line dance and country music, and Folk Magazin, reporting about folk and country music. The magazines have a high reputation in Germany and thousands of readers. If you would like to contact the publishers of the magazi
My new record just came out this week on I-Tunes and CD Baby. An exclusive video and link to the new album is featured on my myspace blog. Please leave us some feedback to let us know what you think! Thanks for your support.
-Ray Stephenson
PS: This album would make a great stocking stuffer ;)
Hallo nach Holland! Danke für die Freundschaft. Habt Ihr Interesse an Gig-Adressenaustausch? Ihr sendet uns ein paar gute Adresse aus Holland... und wir senden Euch gute Adressen aus NRW! Unsere Anschrift, eMail usw. findet Ihr auf www.opakommt.de Auf gute Zusammenarbeit. Ray
Danke für die Freundschaft Martin (new album out!!). Dafür gibt es von uns für Euch 1 Jahr weltweiten, digitalen Musikvertrieb kostenlos. Schaut Euch die Konditionen auf www.dooload.de an.
The time has arrived!!!!...Quartz Lock Records official launch on monday Nov.!6 2009. Available at all of your favorite download sites...Beatport, Itunes, Juno, Amazon etc etc....we keep dance music in sync!!!! Thank you for all your support:)
Feel free to browse any of the links below to hear our tunes and to download our dj mixes....ENJOY THE MUSIC!!!!!
hee martin, alles goed? dinsdag a.s. speel ik in bier- en eetcafé camelot in nijmegen. als je toevallig een beetje in de buurt bent, kom je dan ook gezellig een pintje doen? veel succes! groetz, renée
Het festival van 2010, De Nieuwjaarsbeuk staat dit keer in het teken van de Metal en rock. 11 bands op 2 podia’s, De rockstage en de metalstage. laat je verrassen door onbekend talent. Entree € 3,- 11 bands.
Speel jij ook in een band?. Kom dan langs op de Nieuwjaarsbeuk en lever daar je demo in. Ieder jaar Krijgen bands de kans om zich aan te melden op onze festivals. Ons motto is bands te promoten en te steunen. Ondersteun op deze manier Muzic Chapter zodat wij op onze beurt weer bands kunnen promoten en steunen.
Iedere muzieksoort is welkom. En zoals bekend is iedere band c.q artiest welkom bij Muzic Chapter.
Schrijf dus in je agenda 09-01-2010 Nieuwjaarsbeuk Argus – Alkmaar.
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