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Rich Batsford
Acoustic / Ambient / Classical

Rich Batsford



Birmingham, Midlands
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  11/27/2009
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Member Since3/18/2006
Band Websitewww.richbatsford.com
Band MembersJust me for the moment, tho I enjoy collaborating with other people.
InfluencesBrian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Nitin Sawhney, Steve Reich, UNKLE, Nick Drake, Fatboy Slim, Breakbeat, Smashing Pumpkins, Suede, Beethoven, Thomas Tallis, Vaughan-Williams, Satie, Poulenc, Bill Hicks, Richard Dawkins, Ghandi, The Buddha.
Sounds LikeInstrumentals in the region of Michael Nyman/Ludovico Einaudi/Keith Jarrett and songs influenced by Brian Wilson/Paul Simon/Nick Drake.
Record LabelSelf Releasing under "Mouflon Music"


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 25 2009 8:00P
Monkey Jam at the Conservatory Gloucestershire, Southwest
Nov 30 2009 8:00P
Songsmith at Mr Wolff’s Bristol, Southwest
Dec 12 2009 8:00P
Amnesty International Christmas Concert Birmingham
Feb 7 2010 8:00P
Kitchen Garden Cafe - Retort Birmingham, Midlands
Apr 8 2010 8:00P
Hare And Hounds - Bohemian Jukebox Birmingham, Midlands

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   About Rich Batsford



"his music displays amazing beauty in repetition and minimalism. Definitely a performer to keep your eyes on."
Evening Mail

"Each piece brimmed with an inherent sense of poignancy ... Batsford created a spectral ambience which made him stand out from other composers. Utterly spell-binding."
Birmingham Post

    Listen to my album for free or buy it on CD or MP3.

I'm currently playing live regularly, performing sets featuring my instrumental piano music, original songs and the occasional Brian Wilson number.

I'm also available for hire as a pianist playing mellow contemporary, classical and neo-classical music for corporate events, restaurants and the like.

I'm also available for session work and I teach piano in a contemporary, but structured style.

As co-founder and core member of the creative network Project X Presents, joining with up to 100 other creative individuals, I co-design and produce our unique "omnimedia experiences" in which I also coordinate the music and perform a solo piano spot collaborating with other forces as diverse as Einstellung (post-rock instrumental guitar band), a string quartet, solo cello, live drums and bass, triggered electonic sounds and samples (specially recorded by Howard Marks), dancers and visual artists.

Im heavily involved in the world of stand up comedy, booking acts for the Comedy Central comedy club in Liverpool, corporate events and other venues across the country.

In the past Ive played and sung with Indie guitar bands, professional Beach Boys covers bands, the National Youth Choir and the CBSO Chorus.



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Mikael Sapin

Mikael Sapin



Nov 26 2009 3:48 PM

Hi, greetings from Spain.
Thanks for your friendship.
All the best 
FRIZZ RECORDS

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Nov 19 2009 4:47 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...

LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...

'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...

Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...

Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com

juneau brothers

juneau brothers



Nov 15 2009 9:06 PM

We are playing live 18th of Nov at the Island Bar, Birmingham, with our latest homemade instruments!
CLUB BOMB @ Island Bar Wednesday 18th Nov 09
Walrus Gumboot (Charity Acoustic Nights)

Walrus Gumboot (Charity Acoustic Nights)



Nov 1 2009 3:48 PM

Hi Rich,

Hope everything's good with you. Really looking forward to your set on Friday, its going to be a top night

All the best,
Ian
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Oct 22 2009 2:48 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...

"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters. Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...

The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...

Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com

FRIZZ RECORDS

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Oct 1 2009 5:53 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...

"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…

It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…

This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!

"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

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Sep 22 2009 9:24 AM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)

Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

juneau brothers

juneau brothers



Aug 11 2009 1:55 PM

cardboard wars..




Hey! We are looking for people to participate in our Cardboard Wars event in Bimingham 22 Aug. http://cardboardwars.tumblr.com pass it on!
Surfs Up (UK)Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute

Surfs Up (UK)Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute



Aug 4 2009 4:50 PM


 

Walrus Gumboot (Charity Acoustic Nights)

Walrus Gumboot (Charity Acoustic Nights)



Jul 24 2009 8:34 PM

Hi Rich, great to hear from you
Chuffed that you're going to be joining us on November 6th as part of your tour,
All the best and see you soon,
Ian
SPECTRALIQUID

SPECTRALIQUID



Jul 24 2009 9:32 AM



POORDREAM - 'Immaterial Monarch' CD [33CD001 + SLQ007]

Immaterial Monarch is John Valasis' aka Poordream's own adaptation of a truly exceptional experimental music conception, the absolute experience of an internal trip. Drawing influences mainly from the Zeitgeist movie series, Immaterial Monarch features 3 tracks by Poordream, which carefully blend genres such as IDM, ambient, electronica and experimental world music, as well as the same-titled track remixed by no less than 7 different artists.


Out now as a co-release between 33 Recordings and Spectraliquid.
Online orders: http://www.spectraliquid.com

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Maple Mountain

Maple Mountain



Jul 22 2009 5:08 PM

hi!
i have three new songs up, im quite excited.
hope all is good,
emil
Alessandra Celletti

Alessandra Celletti



Jul 9 2009 6:03 AM

hi Rich! How are you? and your music?
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I’m so happy because all my cds are now available also on itunes



Click here if you want:

Alessandra Celletti
Seti Alpha 5

Seti Alpha 5



Jun 26 2009 3:33 AM

Now, with the help of gimmesound.com, you can download all tracks from the debut album “Mountains in the Sun” for FREE! Not only does Seti Alpha 5 get paid for each download, but each download also generates a donation to a charity of YOUR CHOICE! I’m thrilled that this revolutionary concept will allow the music of Seti Alpha 5 to reach the masses for free and help to change the world at the same time. Please give 5 minutes of your time to do this, if not only to show your support for Seti Alpha 5, but also to help support one of the great charities benefited by your download. Visit gimmesound.com to learn more and download the album now!



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This is Tomorrow

This is Tomorrow



Jun 18 2009 1:23 PM

Big Post Rock gig tomorrow @ The Vic...FAMR (Sigur Ros tour support) and friends..



Hope to see u there xxx
Get Frank

Get Frank



Jun 13 2009 8:39 AM

Hey thanks, you were awesome, I'm surprised that's the first time I've seen you play!

Thanks for the nice blog post too, I think if I seemed nervous it was probably because my dad was there and he's never been to one of my gigs before!
xx
Surfs Up (UK)Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute

Surfs Up (UK)Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute



Jun 12 2009 3:30 PM

Alphadrive

Alphadrive



Jun 8 2009 10:31 PM

Thanks Rich! And thank YOU for dancing ;) Was a fantastic fezzy! Hope u enjoyed yourself? Take it ez!
The Lazy Lizards

The Lazy Lizards



May 10 2009 9:22 PM

Hi Rich,
Thanks for inviting us to be part of Project X last night. We really enjoyed ourselves; from our end it seemed to go really well.
Cheers,
The Lazy Lizards
Tantrika

Tantrika



Apr 15 2009 12:36 PM

Hello Rich, thanks for being a friend of Tantrika, and I'm glad you enjoyed the gig last night - hope to see you again some time, if you're around these parts!
The Humdrum Express

The Humdrum Express



Apr 6 2009 7:17 PM

Hiya Rich. Fabulous performance last night, engaging stuff.
When are we going to get a recorded version of Jobbery?!
The Sunflower Sessions

The Sunflower Sessions



Apr 6 2009 11:38 AM

thanks for playing last night bro.. thought you sounded great.

hope to see you soon..
best wishes, tom
DJ Katy Jay - 101.8 WCRfm

DJ Katy Jay - 101.8 WCRfm



Apr 4 2009 9:56 PM

Heya Richard...

My new Unsigned Band show starts next Sunday (12th April)...



... Would you be a guest sometime soon? Give me a shout.


Katy Jay.
xxx
The Sunflower Sessions

The Sunflower Sessions



Mar 6 2009 11:18 AM

Erinn

Erinn



Mar 6 2009 6:06 AM

rich,
wow,i just found your comment:)
ill be back there on tour this june if you are around:)
erinn
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