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Carmen Rizzo

Carmen Rizzo

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Carmen Rizzo-"The lost art of the idle moment" (at most record stores, itunes, echospin, amazon etc.)Carmen Rizzo- a two-time Grammy nominee & underground darling has had a very eclectic career. He is frequent fixture in album credits as a producer, mixer, remixer, programmer, and co-writer on a wide range of influential artists including Seal, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cirque du Soleil, KD Lang and Pete Townshend of The Who, to mention only a few. Carmen also has had very successful career as a solo artist. His first album “The Lost Art of the Idle Moment” (The Lab/Universal) is a lush, cinematic, beat-driven disc that features collaborations with a wide range of guest vocalists including Esthero, Jem, Kate Havnevik, Ladybug Mecca (The Digable Planets), & Grant Lee Phillips. USA Today featured the album, with a picture on the cover of The Life section, as their 1 pick for their fall music guide. Taste-makers Jason Bentley, Nic Harcourt & Ann Litt from L.A. radio station KCRW championed the disc well before its release. The album debuted at 2 on KCRW’s album chart and received heavy airplay on Sirius & XM Satellite radio peaking 2 on the XM’s Cafe chart. His forthcoming sophomore album “Ornament of an Impostor” is slated for an early 2008 release on his own label Electrofone Music and features contributions from Jem, Kate Havenvik, The Deer Tracks and Blue Neck.Carmen also co-founded the highly influential, Niyaz (Six Degrees) with Azam Ali & Loga Ramin Torkian, a world beat/electronic fusion; “Blending Indian & Persian exoticism and beats that are state of the art” writes Billboard Magazine. The album released in 2005, debuted at 1 on the iTunes world music chart and has also been featured on NPR’s Day to Day”, PRI & Voice of America. The band has toured the entire world headlining in 10 countries including, India, Japan, Turkey, Canada, Mexico and throughout Europe. Keep an eye out for the new Niyaz “Nine Heavens” in mid 2008.

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Member Since: 3/30/2005
Band Website: WWW.CARMENRIZZO.COM
Band Members:

Influences: Trentemøller, Massive Attack, Alpha, Portishead, Telefone Tel Aviv, Skyphone, Magnet, Mum, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jamie Muhoberac.

Sounds Like: "Textured rhythms and emotive electronic pulsations underscore this dreamy long player.... Carmen's sultry sound is the perfect soundtrack for a chilled evening behind closed doorsî ~Jason Bentley (KCRW & KROQ)
Record Label: Electrofone Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Physical Cd’s available!

Many people have been asking where they can buy physical Cd's of my new album Ornament of an imposter. Well, since I am releasing the album on my own label, and there are fewer records stores these d...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:30:00 PST

Free download....Remix album coming...

Before I release the Ornament of an imposter remix album (coming this summer). I have given a really cool site called RCRD LBL an exclusive free download of one track. The first one is Shadows f/ Dee...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:22:00 PST

My own radio show- KEXP 90.3 FM & NYC 91.5 FM

-Starting April 11, the influential radio station KEXP 90.3 FM from Seattle will bring it's show to New York City Radio Liberation 91.5 FM and will reach 14 million listeners. The show Mo Glo will dai...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:03:00 PST

Charity of the month..

10% of my album sales I am donating to a different charity every month. This month I chose The Starkey Foundation (http:/www.sotheworldmayhear.org/) a wonderful organization who helps people all ove...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:41:00 PST

New Album CD availability .....

Many of you have been asking where you can buy a physical CD of my new album. I am in the middle of sorting all of that out at the moment. For now it is only available as a digital download from iTune...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:03:00 PST

KCRW top 20! itunes top 40!!!

First week out my new album debuted 13 on the KCRW album chart and itunes 37 on there electronic album chart where it is also featured!!grateful!x
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:19:00 PST

My new album now available on iTunes!!

My new album Carmen Rizzo "Ornament of an imposter" is now available on iTunes and is featured on the Electronic page!carmenxps- feel free to write a nice review...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:49:00 PST

Bus spotting...!

Ok.. someone actually saw my KCRW add on the side of a bus in Los Angeles!!! Any more spottings, I want pictures!!!!carmenx
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:55:00 PST

KCRW ad campaign!

I've been lucky to have been chosen to be one of 13 people as a part of the KCRW ad campaign which will be on billboards & buses around Los Angeles. Other faces are Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Bird and th...
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:00:00 PST

Lal Meri record coming soon!

Well, my other side band Lal Meri is about to ink with Six Degrees records. The record is slated to be released in early summer 2008.carmenx
Posted by Carmen Rizzo on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:20:00 PST