Chris Currell
Chistopher Currell has composed, performed and orchestrated music for a wide range of venues and styles including classical, jazz, avant-garde, pop, and rock. He currently owns a high tech audio production company called Audio Cybernetics.
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Nessa Segunda, dia 4 de Maio a partir do Meio Dia
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Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan has been playing the Ztar for many years now, both in live performance and on his recordings. He has two of our earliest instruments. There have been many improvements and enhancements since those Ztars were built, in particular regarding the fingerboard. Still, he’s an amazing and gifted musician, and he can play the hell out of the Ztar! If you ever have a chance to see him in concert, don’t miss it.
Visit StanleyJordan.com.
Vernon Reid
Reid was born in London, England but grew up in New York City, USA.
In 1985, Reid co-founded the Black Rock Coalition with journalist Greg Tate and producer Konda Mason. Through the BRC, Reid hoped to counter the pigeonholing and marginalization of black musicians.
Reid is probably best known for leading Living Colour. He founded Living Colour in New York City circa 1985 and piloted the band through a successful career. Among the highlights: a double platinum-selling debut album Vivid, released in 1988; its gold-certified successor, Time’s Up, released 1990; two consecutive Grammy Awards in the category of Best Hard Rock Performance; opening for the Rolling Stones’ 1989 “Steel Wheels” tour; and appearing on the first Lollapalooza tour in the summer of 1991. Living Colour released Collideoscope in October of 2003 on Sanctuary Records.
Visit myspace.com/vernonreid.
Lou Reed
Composer, Lyricist, Lead Vocals, Guitar: Lou Reed was inducted in 1996 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a founding member of The Velvet Underground and received the Heroes award from the New York Chapter of NARAS in 1997. The same year the French government awarded Reed with the Chevalier Commander of Arts and Letters. Reed has acted in and composed music for a number of films. He was designated an “American Master” in 1998 by the award-winning PBS documentary series and that same year, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart won the Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video. Lou has incorporated the zTar into his music and live show since 2003 and in 2004 performed on the Letterman show and in Carnegie Hall with two zTars on stage.
Pass Thru Fire, a collection of his lyrics, was published in 1999 by Hyperion and in 2008 by Da Capo Press. His reworking of Poe’s THE RAVEN was published by Grove Press and staged by Robert Wilson at the Thalia Theater and BAM. In recent years, Lou Reed has established himself as a world class photographer; his first photography edition Emotion In Action, a double book edition of Reed’s photographs was published in October 2003 by 7L and Gerhard Steidl. In January of 2006, Reed followed up the success of Emotion in Action with a second photography book, published by Steidl and 7L, titled Lou Reed’s New York. Photographs from this collection have been exhibited worldwide. In December of 2006 Lou Reed premiered the live staging of his masterwork Berlin at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York. It was filmed by Julian Schnabel and will be released to theaters in Spring 2008.
Visit www.loureed.com.
Les Fradkin
Les Fradkin has been on the cutting edge of Guitar Synthesis since the dawn of MIDI back in 1983. But his experience with synthesis and sampling stretches even further back to 1970 when he began a long and distinguished career as an Artist, Composer, Producer and session Mellotron and Guitar player in New York City and London. He’s a Guitar Synthesizer Virtuoso and 21st Century music innovator on the Starr Labs Ztar.
He was an original member of The Broadway Show-”Beatlemania” when he portrayed George Harrison and played lead guitar in the hit Broadway musical from 1977 through 1979. In the early 80′s, he pioneered the introduction of tapeless MIDI recording with the SynthAxe and Synclavier scoring many national jingles and TV film music. Les’ CD’s have racked up over 340,000 downloads on the internet since 1999! Using a blend of Rock, Electronic, Progressive and Neo Classical signposts, Les’ CD “One Link Between Them” is made totally with the Ztar Z7S and opens up a new door to a sound which has thrilled music fans the world over. LES FRADKIN”-”Lift Off” Composed by Les Fradkin from the CD “One Link Between Them” (RRO-1027)
Visit LesFradkin.com.
Michael Bianco
For over 20 years Michael Bianco has been pushing the boundaries of two-handed tapping style playing. Check out www.myspace.com/michaelbianco
Pendulum
Pendulum formed in their home-town of Perth (Western Australia) in 2002, when producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen teamed up with acclaimed local DJ Paul ‘Elhornet’ Harding. While their individual formative roots ranged from producing drum & bass, breakbeat and hardcore, to playing in metal and punk bands, their comparable talents proved an unstoppable force when they managed to single-handedly conquer the world of drum & bass in their first 12 months together.
After selling more than 100,000 units of their debut artist album “Hold Your Colour”, remixing for such respected artists as The Prodigy, being play-listed and featuring regularly on BBC Radio 1, all whilst continuing to tour the world over as DJs…Pendulum decided that was finally time to take things to the next level – performing live.
Visit www.pendulum.com.
Jimmy Olander
Jimmy Olander of Diamond Rio is an estalished musician of the Electric Guitar and Acoustic Guitar.
When Jimmy was 12 years old, his father took him to see a musician named Gene Johnson, who played the mandolin, in a small club near Detroit, MI. Gene became one of Jimmy’s bluegrass hero’s and later on….his partner in the group Diamond Rio.
Jimmy was born in Minneapolis, MN on August 26 and when he was a teenager he had already mastered the banjo and gave lessons, however, by the time he was in college in Nashville, he found out that guitar players were more in demand than banjo pickers, so he mastered the guitar.
Jimmy joined the Tennessee River Boys in 1984 at Opryland theme park alongside Marty and Dan. His musical influences are Earl Scruggs, Leon Rhodes and Clarence White and one of his all time favorite singers is Ella Fitzgerald.
You can read more about Jimmy and his band at www.diamondrio.com.
McRorie Tait
McRorie-Live Electronic is the name of Stuart McRorie Tait’s live solo musical performance.
McRorie uses electronic synths and innovative sensor technology that enable him to play, sing, and perform live an eclectic variety of musical styles and originals in real-time. No sequencers, nothing pre-recorded, LIVE music!
McRorie wears eight piezo sensors on his shoes,four transducers onhis shirt, two G sensors under his armbands, two MIDI Starr Labs ZB6 controllers on his hips, two tilt sensors on his shoulders, and sings lead vocals, harmonies, and solo instruments with his voice.
Visit www.mcrorie.net
