For Immediate Release
Drum Legend Terry Bozzio
To Issue Unreleased Tracks Digitally!
On the heels
of a massive successful North American tour, legendary & award winning
melodic drummer Terry Bozzio is releasing rare and
unreleased music digitally via his official website! Terry has worked with
Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Korn, UK, Missing Persons,
Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Allan 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!
The first
group of tracks available for download is called “Simple Moments Series”. The
concept was to name the “moment”. For example, the track
“Something to drive to”, then the title which is “Beck”.
Simple Moments Series:
1. Something
to drive to: $4.99
“Beck”
Burning Rock funk with Jeff Beck & Tony Hymas in mind.
2. Something
to think about: $6.99
“Re:
Mussorgsky”
Neo Classical Piano Trio w/ Fretless Bass & My
Drums. I
improvised on live piano (poorly) then corrected and composed around that.
3. Something
to dream about: $2.99
“Midnight
Waltz (1800s Vienna)”
Sentimentalism and mood evoking solo piano.
4. Something
for a departed friend: $3.99
“M (for Mick
Karn)”
5. Something
strange: $2.99
“Farm Bells”
I sampled
nearby farming machinery: A plowing or tilling device
with different sized steel discs & made a drum part out of it. OutTrio inspired, semi-classical Guitar, Bass & Metal
Drum piece.
6. Something
to dance to: $2.99
“Five
Nations: Arise”
Recalls my
Native American experience performing Tony Hymas' “Oyate” project, from which sprung the Lonely Bears.
7. Something
to gaze at: $3.99
“Still Life”
A jazz piece
I wrote while still in College! Explores different
poly-chords over a pedal tone.
8-9. Something to take:
“Two Endless
Trails”
1- Persistence
$2.99
2-
Compassion & Hope $2.99
Orchestral Strings, with Bass & Drums. Mysterious Moods.
10.
Something to go deep with: $3.99
“Underwater”
Electronic, Submersive Ambience
11.
Something that “Goes to 11”: $3.99
“Eleven”
Several Harmonic Progressions in 11/4, w/ Piano
& 12 String Guitar Solos.
All
Compositions Copyright: Terry Bozzio, Private Life
Music ASCAP
Terry Bozzio
Solo Project 1991:
I've never
finished it over the years until now, because of technology problems (computer
not fast enough to mix – midi & sync problems, & not enough track space
to do overdubs etc!) but I always liked the compositional approach to the drum
parts! I look at it as a missing link between guitarshop,
and melodic drumming & the ostinato! The period after recording the drums included doing the lonely
bears & polytown & changing to Mapex, then DW as well.
I have a new
track to release. It's called “Advent”. It's the first in the Terry Bozzio Solo Project 1991 series. I went into Jeff Burton’s
garage studio (he is the son of Elvis Presley's famous guitarist James
Burton!), with Missing Persons' Live Sound Engineer (who has been my dear
friend from the very beginning of that band), Gary Epstein. We recorded my
drums on Jeff's 16 track 2” machine.
We managed
to get 9-10 tracks down with a beatbox for a hybrid
sound. With no idea of what it would ultimately be, I tried to improvise
composed beats along with the beat box and create different sections, based on
what felt was natural to do next. I had the concept of overdubbing the music on
it later.
One thing we
tried right away was to float in some vocal stuff I had done with Patrick O'Hearn in his studio at previous session a year before.
The result was very good and inspired me to do more with other previous
recordings. At that time I was living near Jeff in Studio City and had
converted my garage into a little studio too. I called it White Rooms. I had a
3M 79 16 track 2” machine (bought from Gary Wright!) as well,
& some early midi equipment and started to drag the midi overdubs via a
sync tone from the 3M. A very slow and tedious process at the time!
But the
magic was that 2 of my previously recorded vocal tracks, just done in free
space up in Oregon w/ Pat, using my vocoder, synced
up unconsciously, but perfectly with 2 of the drum track's structures! So it
was meant to be.
I'm still
not finished with all the tracks, but I have 4 almost ready to go, & coming soon! This is the first and it's called
“Advent”. It means “a coming”. Burning drums, Bulgarian Folk Singing, and
driving sequencer parts. I hope you like it! $4.99
Watch Terry Bozzio's promotional video: https://youtu.be/CroX237dzfY
To purchase
Terry Bozzio's new digital only tracks: http://terrybozzio.com/media/audio/
To purchase
Terry Bozzio's “Composer
Series” The Music
& Art of Terry Bozzio: http://amzn.eu/ecXYGRu
Terry Bozzio's official website: www.terrybozzio.com
Terry Bozzio biography: http://terrybozzio.com/biography/
Press
inquiries: Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158, glassonyonpr@gmail.com