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Bani Rahman

Bass player

About Me

Playing experience:-
- A musician and bass player for several jingles for Turntable Music
- A session bass player for local artistes Tanya Chua, Art Fazil, Brinal Chua, local bands such as Blindspot, Stoned Revivals and many other club stints included No.5 with funk band “Flu Biscuits”
- Recorded bass on Blindspot albums entitled “sky, land, water” and Brinal Chua’s album “The Changes”
- Recorded for local artistes Max & Shanti EP titled “I’ll see you”
- Played bass for Singapore’s Idol Taufik Batisah, “Thank you Concert” live and on VCD.
- Played for several TV shows, most recently Suria’s Akustik backing Malaysian artistes Yasin, Man Bai and Najib Ali’s Popumentari, backing Malay recording artistes Hetty Sarlene, Eka Mairina, Ahli Fikir
- Played some gigs with local band B-Quartet,sessioned bass for the band's newly released album
- Currently working on Brinal’s Chua second album “People, places and phases”
- Played on Rosli Mansor’s new album "Dragged",currently playing gigs with Rosli Mansor - Played bass for Teenage Idol jazz crooner Nathan Hartono's concert out now on CD and DVD - Sessioned bass for Max & Shanti new released album From Earth to Heaven Other notable highlights:-
- Co-ordinator for drum clinics Zildjian world Tour 1999, accompanied Manu Katche, drummer for Sting and Peter Gabriel, as a bass player, during the clinic performance.
- Also involved with other clinics in S'pore with Drum Artists such Peter Erskine and Steve Smith in the year 2002 and 2003 respectively.
- Bass technician for renowned bassist Billy Sheehan, for his clinics in Singapore twice for the year 1997 and 2004.
- Organizing Secretary for Yamaha Rock Guitar competition 2004 in conjunction with Steve Vai concert in Singapore.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2007
Influences: Jaco Pastorius, Francis Rocco Prestia, Din Bobo, Tony Zee, Iskandar Jr., Iskandar Sr., Matno (bass player), Rosli Mansor, Regi Leo, Eddie Sangkap, Tama Goh, Megadeth, Mat Sentul, Weird Al Yankovic, Mel Brooks, Shah Tahir, Clifford Brown, James Brown, Ray Brown, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern Jumat Rockers, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Iron Maiden, Uji Rashid and DJ Dave.
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