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Gidon Shikler

"Lift up your head child, and open up your heart-"

About Me

.. CDBABY LINK for THE ROCKRITES: Deeper Groove --
Hello friends...Here's a little background info for you... I am a Dutch Israeli American. I was born in Holland to a Dutch mother and Israel father...I grew up in Southern California until the age of 14 when I moved to Holland and spent the best high-school years possible there. I then went on to study Photography at the London Institute in England and graduated from there with a BA in Photography in 1998. Since then I have been living in Califorinia with stops in Laguna Beach and Yosemite (El Portal) and currently live in London, Englnad after spending the last 8 years in L.A. My music is heavily influenced by reggae and mixes sounds from jazz, funk, soul, rock, world and folk. I have been recording by myself for the last two years, and now have an album to release. I play all the instruments that you hear on the recordings unless otherwise stated. Look out for my band "THE ROCKRITES" - we will be setting up in London, England pretty soon. Just moved over here. Also be sure to check out the band website WWW.THEROCKRITES.COM. Also check out itunes "The Rockrites" for more downloads. Enjoy the music...
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Member Since: 3/1/2006
Band Website: therockrites.com
Band Members: Me - on all instruments/vocals in recordings except:Yosef Solomon on bass - "Close The Door"; Duvid Swiirski on one rythym guitar - "Close The Door"; lead guitar and bass on "Deeper Groove" Dani Endrei - moog on "burning sun" Tim Brogdon - violin on - "Nana" Geoff Parry - bass on "Reeling"The band - THE ROCKRITESGidon Shikler - guitar, vocals Dani Endrei - keys David Ozair - percussion, rhymes Geoff Parry - bass, vocals Mike Madeiros - drums, vocals Nimrod Nol - violin
Influences: Bob Marley, Roots Reggae (too many paople to name...), King Tubby, Yabby You, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Burning Spear, Culture, The Abyssinians, Jacob Miller, Big Youth, U-Roy, Augustus Pablo, Rico, Tommy McCook, Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Don Drummond, Cedrick Im Brooks - to name a few...The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, 60's/70's rock & funk, Jazz - John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, Paul Carman, Joe Henderson, Ornette Coleman, Lonnie Liston Smith - to name a few....Santana, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Midnite, my father Arie Manela Shikler, Conscious Hip-Hop and phat beat makers - A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Pete Rock & C L Smooth, Gangstarr, The Fugees, The Pharcyde, French rap - Soon E MC, MC Solaar, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation, LTJ Bukem, what else?.......so much
Sounds Like: Roots pudding
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

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Rockrites record release

Well, it's time to start a blog...And what a better time than now!!!Last Saturday was the record release event of my new album - "Deeper Groove". What a night it was...The Mint was the location for th...
Posted by Gidon Shikler on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:52:00 PST