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Cool Genius

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Cool Genius signs up with Goomah MusicZwolle, July 17We’re proud to announce the cooperation between Goomah Music and Cool Genius, who will release the debut album "Maybe You Should Do That Too" on October 19 at Hedon Zwolle.The band will be finishing their tracks in August with engineer Guido Aalbers, known for his mixes for Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand and Angie Stone, among others.Cool Genius gained quite some fame by their first demo, which has been played by several radio station in Holland, like 3FM, Radio 2 and Kink FM. Their talent- status has been ratified by elections like ‘Talent of the Week’ and ‘3FM Serious Talent’, as well as ‘Demo of the Year’ of the Dutch Pop Institute. Their energetic liveshows have brought them to several stages like Melkweg Amsterdam, 013 Tilburg and Effenaar Eindhoven, with a highlight at the Liberation Festival in Amsterdam in May 2007.Cool Genius consist of Erik Neimeijer (vocals, guitar), Bauke Bakker (vocals, drums)and Sebastiaan van Olst (bas/contrabas, vocals). The band has been based on their mutual broad minds, creativity and skills, which enables them to elaborate on each other’s songs. With 3 strong vocalists and continuous delivering composers, you can call your band ‘Cool Genius’, without being arrogant or presumptuous. Being cool and ingenious, this is a very remarkable band in the Dutch scene.This band doesn’t match a major label with sales targets and restrictions. Goomah Music, founded by local promotors Arjan Domhof and Frank Satink, accedes the power of creative freedom for the artist:“Cool Genius composes compact, stunning pop songs with catchy lines and melodies. The songs have a strong sense of intractability, deep grooves, strong harmony vocals and surprising lyrics”You can’t compare this band to any other, though critics used to mention Steve Miller, Fleetwood Mac and even The Outsiders . The lads themselves like to read & listen to Gorillaz, Roy Orbison, Johny Cash, Prince, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Presidents of the USA, Willy DeVille, old spaghetti-westerns like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", novels of Herman Brusselmans or absurd humour like Gummbah.With the release of this debut album of Cool Genius, Goomah Music presents their 2nd release, after the album of the Horse Company last May.Early September, the first single ‘Beach’ wil be released, so check out your favourite radiostation; and don’t forget to notify 19 October in your schedule at Hedon Zwolle.More info @www.coolgenius.hyves.nlwww.myspace.com/coolgeniusmusicwww.s ozconcerts.nlwww.goomahmusic.nl Cool Genius fan does the Lampdance to Monkey Boy Bakerman sings "My Friend"[email protected]

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Member Since: 3/7/2006
Band Website: coolgenius.hyves.nl
Band Members: Erik Neimeijer - Lead-vocals, guitar Bauke Bakker - Drums, lead-vocals Sebastiaan van Olst - Double-bass, bassguitar, vocals
Influences: Fun Lovin' Criminals Peter Gabriel (production-wise) Beck Presidents of the United States of America Johnny Cash Paul Simon G-Love & Special Sauce Parliament/Funkadelic and anyother brilliant musical entity where-ever, who-ever, whatever...
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Record Label: Goomah Music
Type of Label: Indie

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Review found on geenzin.org

Cool Genius - Maybe You Should Do That Too Review ..> Setting moods that can swing from jestful impertinence to disarming honesty - and back - during the course of a single song, Cool Genius could ...
Posted by Cool Genius on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:08:00 PST

The first pleasant reviews are coming in!!!!

..> COOL GENIUS - Maybe You Should Do That Too Af en toe gebeurt er toch wel eens iets bijzonders in de vaderlandse pop-scene. Zo worden er al enige tijd demo's van Cool Genius op de radio gedraaid...
Posted by Cool Genius on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:05:00 PST

Cool Genius works on debutalbum containg 19 songs!!!

Maybe it´s the start of a new year or the lack of money to go out and drink beer on a fridaynight (luckily I have a bottle of coke and cheap scotch beside me), but something made me wanna write a new ...
Posted by Cool Genius on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:16:00 PST

Press about Cool Genius (Dutch)

Artikel in de Stentor (de Zwolse Courant) 20-06-06 door Willem Boverhof. "Cool Genius heeft dringend hoge nood 20 JUNI 2006 - ZWOLLE - Zelf weten ze dat ze cool zijn, en geniaal. Nu de rest nog. ...
Posted by Cool Genius on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:31:00 PST