Legendary
& award winning melodic drummer, Terry Bozzio is releasing worldwide, what
he calls a “Life's Work” project of Art & Music on the Japanese label Ward
Records in December 2015. Bozzio is embarking on a world tour to promote it
starting in Japan and Europe in the fall of 2015 & continuing throughout
the US & other territories in 2016. Terry has worked with Frank Zappa, Jeff
Beck, Korn, UK, Missing Persons, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Alan
Holdsworth, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Quincy Jones, Ken Scott, Metropole Orkest,
SMAP, Loudness' Munetaka Higuchi & “X” Japan's Hide - as well as Film score
composers Basil Poledouris, Mark Isham & Patrick O'Hearn - see more at www.terrybozzio.com
- Grammy winner, RockWalk Honoree, Modern Drummer magazine's Hall of Fame
Award, Rolling Stone's Top 5 Drummers of All Time!
Says Bozzio,
“I've been composing, (not just song writing, like for Missing Persons &
Jeff Beck) since the '70s. I compose in all styles (as one might classify
them), from classical to ambient, electronic, film-like to fusion/rock or jazz.
I have my own character or personality, it's unique. I work with many different
processes from writing notes on paper, to recording live, to several different
computer software applications I may use, that are suited to the particular
result I am trying to achieve. Both Zappa & famed musicologist Nicolas
Slonimsky encouraged me to compose & I have had my Chamberworks performed
at the Vienna Jazz Festival & in Holland w/Metropol Orkest.”
He
continued, “I first got interested in Art & Sketching at the encouragement
of renowned artist Don Van Vliet (aka: Captain Beefheart) who I played with on
my first Zappa/Mothers of Invention tour in 1975. Don was always carrying
markers & paper & it looked like fun, so I bought some myself &
started. He was very encouraging. Last year, I released my first project called
Rhythm & Sketch in collaboration with the art group Scene Four. It's been
successful & inspired me to do more. (available at www.terrybozzioart.com)”
Terry Bozzio
fulfilled a major 2 &1/2 month US solo tour in 2014 in which he displayed
his art as a stage set while performing melodic, tuned melodies on his
strikingly large drum set, to sold out crowds.
“I thought
it would be great to share this music which I’ve been working on & keeping
to myself for so long. I hope to show a different side of my expression from
what people are used to seeing from my solo drumming. And, I wanted to have an
abstract painting to represent & be paired with each title to create this
hybrid project of music & art,” Bozzio explained.
The
“Composer Series” contains 59 individual pieces or movements of compositions
with a painting in a booklet for each title, along with detailed liner notes
for each piece, explaining his concepts, feelings, process and approach for
each. It will be available in a deluxe hard-cover artbook which includes Terry
Bozzio’s hand drawn illustrations and commentary for each piece, audio CDs
& a solo drum performance Blu-Ray shot in Japan in 2015 (w/bonus footage),
192kHz/24bit Hi-Res audio of the 59 pieces on Blu-ray and a bonus DVD including
60min talk session of Terry Bozzio with Masa Ito. The material will also be
made available in CD/DVD or 4CD/Blu-ray for record stores, as well as in many
or individual downloadable
formats online.
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