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Robert van Oz

About Me


"Playing the piano is my path, my only one. If I had not begun to play, I would have become insane. I was in a real bad state. And still today playing is a little self-therapy. Easing by playing. Some write diary, some ignore, I document&183; I have this urge to write songs about anything that comes across my way and cuts me up or down...just anything that moves me. I see the piano as an instrument like our voice. I can speak a language with it – just to express myself a little better.

I have a mission. My mission is to emancipate the piano. I'm just bored of the fact that many people reduce it to the symbol of classical music and that the piano is often only used as an accompaniment. But it has so much more to be shown, to be played out loud in the world. I want this instrument to sound progressive and new without losing its classical worth. So I gave it an individual place next to my voice to compete with it. It became the most important instrument in my songs and it is definitely not replaceable. Today I play it the revolutionary way. There is no genre where my prog-piano is home and none where it's not. Is there any law in the world that says that Rock music has to be played by guitars? I don't think so. The piano and me – we can play it twice as hard."

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Member Since: 5/16/2007
Band Website: robertvanoz.com
Band Members:

Robert van Oz: piano, vocals, words & music


Influences:

United inspiration:
Jeff Buckley, Bjoerk, Tori Amos, Billy Joel, The Cure, Sigur Ros, Herbie Hancock, Carpathian Forest, Joni Mitchell, Beethoven, Nine Inch Nails, Jethro Tull, Leonard Cohen, Opeth, Snow Patrol, Moby, Miles Davis, Suzanne Vega, Agalloch, Dissection, Mozart, Nico Muhly, System Of A Down, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Ektomorf, Kerli, Santana, George Benson, Goldfrapp, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Norah Jones, Iron Maiden, Joan Osborne, Police, Randy Newman, Matmos, Bach, Don McLean, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Was Not Was, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Imogen Heap, Rufus Wainwright, King Crimson, Kate Bush, Steely Dan, Apocalyptica, Belphegor, Crystal Castles, Evanescence and many many more...


Record Label: none
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

About robertvanoz.com

Hi everybody!I just want to clarify and point up that ROBERTVANOZ.COM is my one and only official internet presence and performance and has to be noticed and of course used as such.All information (co...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:49:00 GMT

New Songs in 2009

I remember when I just finished the work on A Heart's Requiem.I was afraid not to be able to write something different from what Ihad written before as I was afraid of writing something that differs s...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:43:00 GMT