Randolf Arriola (embryo)

About me:

Hi and welcome aboard here. Randolf Arriola aka "the Embryo" is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, arranger, producer, sonic tweaker, live looper from Singapore. "The Embryo" is his creative persona for personal and collaborative works of original music in both sounds and songs. His creative motivation is to communicate and move the listener whoever and wherever they may be. Best heard than described the music is a unique fabric of the familiar and obscure interweaved with his own personality and creative intentions. Born and raised in Singapore and totally self taught musically, he continues to create music that stirs the mind, heart and soul. A regular performer with Singapore's Harry's chain of pubs Randolf is currently performing solo 3 nights a week at the new Harry's at Dempsey Hill Thurs to Sat nights. As a solo live performer Randolf is a local one of kind simply described as "One Voice/One Guitar/Live Looping". In Oct 2007 Randolf was a featured performer at the Y2K7 International Live Looping Festival at Santa Cruz North California USA. His performance was greeted with a standing ovation with fellow artists from around the world including Arild Anderson and Henry Kaiser and attendees and was awarded the key to the city of Santa Cruz by Mayor Emily Reily. His trip was supported by the National Arts Council of Singapore. He sings and performs his solo live looping shows with a Godin Multiac Steel Duet acoustic/electric guitar with his one of kind live looping setup which he refers to fondly as the "Ooopa Loopa Band". Randolf's current Live Looping tools of choice include the Line6 DL4, Boss RC50 Loopstation and the Looperlative LP1. Y2K7 Live Looping festival Videos on youtube by M Trucco at http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKh5LqveVCA Do check out the uploaded songs and vids for a preview that I'll be posting up here along the way. For the moment do check the link to a collection of sounds of the embryo here at;http://myspace.com/theembryo You can hear more samples of songs at; http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/theembryo.htm Oct 2010 Latest News!!! Randolf will be performing as one of 4 headliners among 70 artists from around the world at the 10th anniversary of Rick Walker's Y2KX International Live Looping Festival to be held in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and San Jose. Randolf will perform on his iPhone+Klein guitar. Just performed 2 shows at Esplanade Concourse for the Guitar and Me series. There are 4 new youtube clips of Randolf's Solo Live Looping using the Boss RC50. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=551811603&v=wall&story_fbid=155134421193166&po=1¬if_t=feed_comment#!/profile.php?id=551811603 More along the way...Till then aldabest always.