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Robb Appleton

'The Wood' now available on CDBaby

About Me

Robb originally hails from Southend-0n-Sea where he exploited his R&B roots, the land of (Dr Feelgood, The Kursaal Flyers, Eddie and The Hot Rods, to name a few). He moved to Cambridge as a teenager and developed his harmonica playing beyond Blues to create his own, very unique sound. Harmonica is an instrument that he specialises on and uses it for session work and composing/recording. In the last few years Robb has been teaching performance skills in higher ed. and has completed a course in creative music technology. These new skills have been a real godsend and have given him the freedom to compose and record his own projects. He also writes and records for music library, and is passionate about films and film music and photography. At the moment Robb is working on projects recording harmonica with natural and electronic sounds with vocals. He has just completed writing and recording an album called ’The Wood’ which is a personal journey/project that he embarked on eighteen months ago - a project of electronic/experimental/ambient music. Past collaborations have been with Rick Fenn (guitarist with 10CC), Robyn Hitchcock (The Soft Boys), Dr Robert (The Blow Monkeys) and many other fine musicians.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/8/2006
Band Members: Robb Appleton
Influences: John Martyn, Solid Air, Augustus Pablo, Mogwai, GodSpeed You! Black Emperor, Gwei-Lo, Albert King, Sonny Terry, Big Youth, Joy Division, The Cure, Killing Joke, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jeff Buckley, Gillian Welch, Mindy Smith, Neil Young, Al Green, Gil Scot Heron, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Bernard Hermann, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, David Sylvian, Nine Horses, Lamb, Portishead, Massive Attack, Arcade Fire, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Gemma Hayes, Captain Beefheart, James Brown, Van Morrison, Lou Rhodes, Ry Cooder, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, Lightning Hopkins, Prince Buster, Toots & The Maytals, Burning Spear, Lisa Gerrard, Lee Perry, Thee Silver Mount Zion, Francoiz Breut, Julia Kent, The Woods, : ..

Type of Label: Indie

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New Album

The new album 'The Wood' that I have been writing and recording, has now gone to press and should be available by the second week of May in CD format and download.  I will let you know ...
Posted by Robb Appleton on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:23:00 PST