"Varanger Music" manages the songwriting and publishing aspects of songwriter / musician SCOTT BRODIE .
SCOTT was born in Dundee, Scotland and grew up through the glam rock era, leaned towards punk, veered back into metal and ended up playing and listening to anything. He was taught piano from the age of 6 up until he was 14. He sat exams from the Royal School of Music every year and eventually attained grade 8 in Music Theory. From age 8 - 12 Scott also played the cornet/trumpet to School and to County Orchestra level.
"My instructor wouldn't believe my Mum when she told him I never practised. I couldn't - the dog went nuts every time I took the damned thing out of the case!"
At secondary school Scott got 100% for every exam he sat then he promptly dropped it after two years to study art instead.
"I'd had enough of other people 'teaching' me music by that point so I 'rebelled'."
A few months with no music input soon took its toll so he 'borrowed' an old acoustic guitar and a Bert Weedon's "Play In A Day" book from his Dad and taught himself how to play Tommy Steele and Elvis songs. Having mastered the basic chords Scott was able to listen to songs on the radio and play along.
"Being able to 'play by ear', as I've since discovered, is one of the very few natural 'talents' I have. I guess I'm lucky that I can pick up most instruments and learn the basics fairly quickly just by watching and listening to someone who can already play it."
Scott is currently writing and working in collaboration with ASTRELLA CELESTE prior to the recording of her debut release.
The project allows SCOTT to join a group of highly successful musicians, songwriters and producers who include KEVIN HUNTER (Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, Shania Twain), YOAD NEVO (Sugababes, Daniel Beddingfield, Goldfrapp, Duran Duran, Brian Adams, Bob Dylan), RAT SCABIES (The Damned, Jimmy Page, Joe Strummer, Donovan), FAYYAZ VIRJI (Tina Turner, Annie Lennox, Chaka Khan, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles, Paul Young, George Michael, Lauryn Hill), ANDY HOBSON (The Pretenders), JOE ATKINSON (Donovan, Flipron), JOHN CAMERON (string arrangements for 'Les Miserables' and Jose Carreras) as well as ASTRELLA herself. A number of demo songs have been submitted and Astrella is in the process of adding vocals at CALMA ESTUDIS and AVP recording studios in Mallorca, Spain.
The demos were all produced in the U.K. using "RiffWorks", a revolutionary piece of recording software created by California-based SONOMA WIRE WORKS . Scott has been working with Sonoma since 2005 and throughout the product development and beta testing phases of "RiffWorks". To date, Scott has been working with other musicians from Europe, North America and New Zealand and he has written and performed with THE RIFFLINK JUNKIES . The group have had some success in gaining airplay on Canadian radio. The 'Junkies' got together for the "No Sleep 'til Winter Haven" tour in Florida in July '08 and will be working together in Munich, Germany in April '09.