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After
many years fronting bands that featured much heavier sounds and
widespread use of technology, Christian Beach has emerged as a
singer-songwriter following in the traditional footsteps of Bob Dylan,
the Band and Jeff Tweedy. With stripped-down arrangements featuring
sparse, melodic piano, country-flavored acoustic and electric guitars,
and mandolin accompaniments, Beach belts it out with style and
Hank Williams soul.
In February
2009, Beach's self-titled, 12-song
CD was released through CDBaby.com and is
also available from iTunes and Amazon.com. The CD features top-notch
veteran musician Gary Mazzaroppi (Les
Paul
Trio, Norah Jones), who adds legendary stand-up bass to many of the
tracks, and other industry veterans, such as guitarist John Pfeiffer
(Well of Souls, In Between Dreams)
and drummer Rob
Angello (Secret Syde, The Blases). Christian has also logged studio
time with
producer
giant Jason
Corsaro of Steve Windwood and Peter Gabriel fame, to name just a select
few.
The solo CD marks a definitive departure from the sound
of Beach's earlier musical projects, the alt/industrial-tinged Slave of
Id and Artists That Kill, and the more mainstream rock act Ton of
Bricks.
"Over
the past several years, I have been listening to mostly older music,"
said Beach in a March 2007 interview. "I was listening to a lot of Bob
Dylan, The Band -- even going back to Hank Williams. I realized that
country music was very fascinating to me. Hank Williams was an amazing
songwriter -- very raw with incredible ideas and minimal
instrumentation. That was a pretty big inspiration to me.”
Having
played on the Jersey Shore music scene for more than a decade,
Beach spent 2008 branching out into new markets with shows at
KatManDu in
Trenton, NJ; Triumph
Brewing Company in both Philadelphia and Princeton (NJ); Maxwell's in
Hoboken, NJ; and The National Underground and Googie's Lounge/The
Living Room in New York City. He also performed at the Dewey Beach
Music Conference in September 2008.
Beach also appeared at the 2009 Singer-Songwriter
Cape May Music Conference in March.
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