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ARMIN ALIC

FREELANCE BASS PLAYER, AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW

About Me

I am a Bassplayer from Wuppertal, Germany. Born 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, escaped to Germany in 1992 due to war in Bosnia. Playing the bass mostly autodidacted since the age of 12, I enjoy working as a freelance-bassist and playing all different styles of music.Currently playing with LITTLE ROCK NINE (www.myspace.com/lr9band), a new band featuring Dean Bowman-vox, Carlos Boes-sax, Martin Scholz-org and Mickey Neher-dr. Feel free to visit the band`s site and check out the music... It`s great!!! Also working on a solo-record with own compositions as well as on new material with many different projects. Check my blog for further infos...I am getting endorsed by the young German company Maruszczyk Instruments, very fine handcrafted bass guitars, build by bassist Adrian Maruszczyk and his team.As a freelancer I have (among many others) played/recorded with: Victor Smolski&Inspektor Symphony Orchestra (Record: J.S. Bach Majesty&Passion, among players as Mike Terrana, Frank Itt, Michael Sagmeister, Uli Jon Roth, released worldwide), Brenda Boykin, Gene Taylor, Minerva Diaz-Perez, Alice Rose, Henrik Freischlader, Simon Sings, Sascha Gutzeit, Ulrich Rasch Trio and many others...Thank you for paying attention, if you need a bassplayer for whatsoever, please feel free to contact me. I love working as a freelancer and am always keen to make new contacts and play some new music...
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Member Since: 10/14/2006
Band Website: to be announced very soon
Band Members: LITTLE ROCK NINE Dean Bowman - vox Carlos Boes - sax Martin Scholz - org Mickey Neher - drumsas well as lots of other projects which I am playing with.Information is gonna be provided when there are news to announce...
Influences: all different styles of music, from Pop, "Jazz",Funk, Blues, Classics, the so called "World music" to Rock/Metal (some artists who made a really deep impact on me: Frank Zappa, King Crimson J.S. Bach, Helge Schneider, Rambo Amadeus, Sandy Lopicic Orkestar,SHANTEL, The Roots, Beastie Boys Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, Dean Bowman, Keziah Jones, Saul Williams, Mike Patton, just to name a few), my family and friends, every single person I meet anywhere...
Sounds Like: a guy who needs a flashlight
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

YOU DON`T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS & NEW PICS

Hi everybody,another new song is on:I always loved the wonderful ballad "YOU DON`T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS", so I decided to record it.Everything went down very quickly, just a few takes and was very funny....
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:31:00 PST

NEW SONG: CONGA

Hi everybody,some blogs ago I wrote about a new band which is playing songs from the 80`s in a rock manner.Now you can listen to two songs from this band.Some smashing versions of Wham`s "FREEDOM" and...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:41:00 PST

WORKING

Hi to ya all,these days come out to be pretty busy again and I am very happy and thankful for that.A few days ago I recorded some bass for my man JAY BAEZ, who is a great hip-hop producer and dj.Check...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:09:00 PST

ZOKNARR and further news

Hi everybody,there are some news to announce:There is a new band I am playing with now. Zoknarr with Andreas Greber (sax), Markus Conrad (guit)and Martin Franke on drums.Some KILLER Fusion-Jazz-Rock-e...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:24:00 PST

I AM IN MYSPACE`s TOPARTIST`s TOP 10

When today I took a look at the Myspace`s Topartist Ranking I was quite surprised to find myself at Rank 8 at the Categories Unsigned, Fusion and Germany...Funny thing, I never looked at this Ranking ...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:44:00 PST

GIGS, (COPY)CATS and STUFF LIKE THIS

Hi everybody who is reading this: (if I take a look at the counter, my blogs are being read, thank you)Two days ago I played a beautiful gig with the Danish Singer Alice Rose. It was at a steady gig c...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:38:00 PST

ONE YEAR IN MYSPACE

Hi everybody,hope you are fine.Today it`s my profile`s first birthday and I just wanted to resume that first year on Myspace a bit:October 2006 I was not in a real good mood, some of my plans were not...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:30:00 PST

LITTLE ROCK NINE@MYSPACE

Hi once again,finally my new band LITTLE ROCK NINE has an own Myspace.Check it out: www.myspace.com/lr9soundor go there via my Topfriends.You are able to listen to 2 songs here as well, all infos on t...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:29:00 PST

NEWS

Hello everyone, I am still very sad about my friend`s death, it`s really hard to realize.So it helps that I am very busy and have at least a bit of distraction.Today I recorded the bass for one track ...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:54:00 PST

R.I.P. ULF GRONEN

I just got a very very sad news: My friend, the guitarplayer and producer Ulf Gronen died last night in a car crash. He was on the way back from a gig, when his car got crashed by another one which wa...
Posted by ARMIN ALIC on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:31:00 PST