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D Day is the new single off the soon to be released album "Break This Silence". It recieved the award of Track of the Day and Best Melody for the Pop/Rock category at Garageband.com. Listen to the track here in realplayer.j |
Leftwood
Greetings and peace to you all.
Biography
Australian producer & songwriter Ben Chase is set to reveal the long awaited sounds of Leftwood - "alternative pop rock meets electronica with stoner rock undertones".
Ben first put the song "D Day" up on Garageband.com to test the water and to his surprise it was given several awards including #5 Best Melody All-time and #3 Best Melody Pop/Rock. "The lead vocals reminded me so much of coldplay and the song in general was a mix between them and queen. It was filled with intense lyrics as well as perfect melodies" - Garage Band.
The Leftwood CD Sampler is an industry preview to the forthcoming album "Tainted" due for release in 2005. Included are the singles Break This Silence, D Day, Bed of Roses and Come Back. Ben Chase plays guitar, keys, drums, bass and sings. Other musicians on the album include Paul Woseen - bass/guitar, Malcolm MacKintosh - guitar, Kim Jones - bass, additional harmonies, Mathew Branton - bass, Justin Blake - lead guitar, Tim Johnson and Jay Winter - additional guitar. Leftwood is ready to tour as a full band to support the album release.
The project began in late 2002 in his hometown of Perth. Ben just couldn't contain himself as a singer any longer - he had too many projects where he was humming melodies to other singers or hammering out his talents on the keyboard or drum pads.
"As the stuff comes out it naturally takes on a progressive and often psychedelic groove. With lyrics that can run as deep as you want to hear them. Mixed with combinations of melodic bass and guitar lines, a free movement between simple and big vocal arrangements, strings, acoustic guitars, drums and samples…anything goes. Often the songs are taking me for a ride. A ride that hits many parallels. And of course we enjoy playing live in different lineups. This is the nature of Leftwood. To just let the pen wander and the fingers take over" - Ben Chase.
Many late night jams and sweat went into the songs to make up this timeless set of works that will remain in people's minds for many years to come. Ben's influences include bands like Beatles, Radiohead, Coldplay, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Pink Floyd, Mountain, Sex Pistols, White Stripes, Muse, Ben Harper, Alex Lloyd, Jeff Buckley, U2, Machine Gun Fellatio and Police.
Ben has been a full time producer/composer film, theatre and multimedia for over 15 years. He has produced many other artists including Samantha Jade, Sonny Morgan and Brett Collins at his studio in Perth, and remixed tracks like "Alice" and "Gone" from "Stoneface" and "Afraid" by Crawlspace. He is currently working with producer Dave McKinney of Flow Dynamics & Rhibosome on a number of remixes and dance and soul tracks, soon to be released in conjunction with Ben's own label Tectonic Music and Dave's various labels.
Some of his other
personal projects take on a more electronic nature in outfits such as "Core
Element" (funky vocal house with a bit of triphop flavour), "Pollster"
(energetic electronica/ electro/ drum&bass) and "bc slaam" (various
remixes and co-projects). And then there's "Schmo King Motor" -
an eclectic and thoroughly weird live jam experiment with the guys from Scary
where Ben is the guitarist. These other projects provide Ben with a unique
perspective in which to write and it gives Leftwood an edge that crosses
over into many genres. In all these projects however, Ben isn't the lead vocalist.
In Leftwood he exercises his true passion for melody and the voice.
Ben
is director of Blaam Music and Sound , a music production/composition house
for media. Also known as a producer (Ben Chase Productions) for modern and
contemporary artists. The personal label Tectonic Music is the vehicle for
all projects and can be found at www.tectonicmusic.com
There are links to all projects via the links page and at blaam.com. For more
info email info@leftwood.net
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