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RICK ALGREN PROJECT

RICK ALGREN PROJECT

About Me

This is a promo for my forthcoming studio project and album PICTURES ON THE SILVER SCREEN (GREATEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN). After the summer, I will record more demos and begin to focus on the album. I have some good cards up the sleeve, I promise. I sing and play guitar on the rough demos I present here, but I won't do that on the final recordings. I see myself mainly as a songwriter and a visionary - a little bit like a musical "screenwriter". I’ve been inspired to write the songs from watching a lot of movies. The music will be quite versatile, but it's all rock/metal/punk in one way or the other. The songs are loosely based on some of the titles of my favourite movies. Besides the titles I present here there will also be - on the finished album - titles like: Repulsion, The Night of the living Dead, Don’t look now, Hour of the Wolf, The Seventh Seal and more. And, hey, after this project I will start to write and compose for my next project – a song cycle based upon some of my favourite short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, like The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, William Wilson, The Fall of the House of Usher. The working title is: EDGAR ALLAN POE: TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE. My music's for the all brand new breed of explorers daring to cross the new wild frontiers of the future to come. An odyssey into a undiscovered dimension of not before known sensations. A revolution of the body and the soul. A shock to the system loaded with euphoric ecstasy. Feel your own mind’s eye. In other words: It’s all about rock..n roll! Long live rock..n roll!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/28/2008
Influences: MUSIC: Carl Orff, Verdi, Debussy, Chopin, Paul Weller, Hammerfall, Captain Beefheart, David Lee Roth, Balance, Kjell Höglund, Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, HIM, Dave Brubeck, MSG, Alcatrazz, The Sonics, 220 Volt, Dokken, Joe Lynn Turner, Phenomena, John Norum, Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale, Glen Campbell, Lou Reed, Aimee Mann, Sisters of Mercy, Rickie Lee Jones, KIX, Dive, Billy Idol, Chris Isaak, Jeff Beck, Marlene Dietrich, Tommy Bolin, The 69 Eyes, New York Dolls, Brian Eno, Jan Johansson, Sonny Rollins, XTC, Jimmy Webb, Heart, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Cheap Trick, Olle Jungström, Van Halen, Abba, Accept, King Diamond, Led Zeppelin, John Barry, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Kiss, Rainbow, Dio, Iron Maiden, Kinks, David Bowie, Alan Parsons Project, Popol Vuh, The Carpenters, Slayer, Exodus, Megadeth, Charles Mingus, WASP, Erik Satie, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Megadeth, Girl, UFO, Randy Newman, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Uli Jon Roth, Journey, Foreigner, Tangerine Dream, Stones, Faces, Thin Lizzy, Roky Erickson, Small Faces, The Jam, Johnny Thunders, Morrisey, The Smiths, The Cult, Vain, Hanoi Rocks, Easy Action, Jimmy Scott, Scott Walker, Kate Bush, Frank Sinatra, AC/DC, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Schubert, Mötley Crüe, Mozart, Bach, Jimi Hendrix, Whitesnake, Chet Baker, Manic Street Preachers, Jeff Buckley, Jackson Browne, Jeff Healy, Camel, Can, Ace Frehley, Hansson & Karlsson, Bo Hansson, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Sparks, Skyclad, Elvis Costello, Buzzcocks, Neil Diamond, Ulf Lundell, Bernard Hermann, John Carpenter, Walker Brothers, Yardbirds, Tony Carey, Kreator, White Wolf, Union Carbide Productions, Blue for two, Shirley Bassey, Bette Midler, Saxon, Queen, Nico, Velvet Underground, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Barry, Morricone, Vangelis, Billie Holiday, Warren Zevon, Celtic Frost, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Ratt, Beach Boys, Asia, Rush, Queensrÿche, Alice Cooper, Bill Evans, The Band, The Who, The Clash, Neil Young, Goblin, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Love, Tom Waits, Ramones, Miles Davis, Wagner, TNT, Birgit Nilsson, Maria Callas, Stephen Sondheim, Zahra Leander, Ute Lemper, Opeth, Burt Bacharach, Four Tops, John Coltrane, Levon Helm, Danzig, Misfits, Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, Steve Jones, Robert Plant, Michael Monroe, Puccini, Nick Drake, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellancamp, Nancy Sinatra, Spellbound, Mercyful Fate, Diamanda Gallas. FILMS: Suspiria, Frankenstein, Cul-de sac, The Black Windmill, Seven, Sleepy Hollow, Deliverance, The Seventh Seal, Don’t Look Now, Repulsion, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Witchfinder General, Manhattan, Wild Strawberries, Seven Samurais, High Noon, The Long Goodbye, The Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, Black Christmas, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Duellists, Bladerunner, The Haunting, The Innocents, Black Sunday, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Lodger, Hour of the Wolf, Faces, Deep Red, Play It Again, Sam, Aguirre – Wrath of God, Wickerman, Carnival of Souls, Chinatown, Rabid Dogs, Phenomena, Assault At Precinct 13, The Conversation, Camp Slaughter, Beyond, The Night of the Hunter, Zulu, Escape From New York. WRITERS: Shirley Jackson, Norman Mailer, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, John Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Heller, Jane Austen, Joyce Carol Oates, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovcraft, Celine, Dashiell Hammet, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Dickens, Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Charles Bukowski, Baudelaire, Graham Greene, George Orwell, James Ellroy, Umberto Eco, Ramsey Campbell, James Herbert, Selma Lagerlöf, Ed McBain, Paul Auster, Tove Jansson, Robert Graves, William Gibson, Franz Kafka, Gogol.
Record Label: Osignerad
Type of Label: None