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THE KONTRABAND

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About Me

was formed by Robert Bell, a Hong Kong born English/Italian in October 2005. A ten track albums worth of songs of amazing diversity have been written from the dark subtle melodies in such songs as FREE ME to the hard hitting rock anthems that are HANGOVER BLUES and COLD TRAIN with influences that range from the blues pioneers of the 50s and 60s, through the guitar heroes of the 70s, the innovation of the 80s and now the renaissance of the guitar again in the 00s. Having recorded the tracks and having put down the drums it was decided that the production quality and the drums did not do justice to the 10 excellent tracks that have interested other producers and publishers and they are now set to record the entire album with legendary producer Steve Rowland live in The Sound Suite Studio in the early part of 2007. Frustrated by the situation of poor production and less than satisfactory musicianship, Bell and Rowland set about searching high and low for musicians that could, communicate, perform without insecurities and could give the whole project the dynamic that is required in any rock band that has ever made it. Nicolette Street, the UK born Dutch vocalist has the range of any singer and can emulate any of the great artists from Janis Joplin to Pink with her own unique style. She recently sang with Anastacia at Wembley to over 20,000 people, added her backing vocals to Hazel O'Connors latest album and takes it all in her stride. Bell and Street have recently completed all the lyrics for the album or is it 10 singles ? Bell with influences that range from Keith Richards, Earl Slick, the Edge and John Frusciante. Jay Garrett who seems to love it all and want it all. Paolo Krajl [ex-Subdivine] recently joined to provide his melodic innovation on guitar also.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/3/2006
Influences: Too many !
Sounds Like: Refined Thunder.
Record Label: HGP - www.hgpltd.net
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording / Keyboards

We are now set to record in Mid June and have decided not to involve keyboardist until we have finished the recordings. We are hoping to put out a single for Autumn. We shall be putting on the keys ou...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:38:00 PST

OUR GIG LAST NIGHT AT FOPP RECORDS

Last night was awesome. Having watched both Midas and The Fades perform it was then our turn to take the stage. Personally having not performed for a long time nerves were buzzing, but we kicked ...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:23:00 PST

GIGS

Unfortunately we have had to postpone our gigs until further notice owing to a key member of the band sustaining injury on the ski slopes and not being able to perform until they ahev healed. This is ...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:56:00 PST

Excellent Photos and Styling

Please check out Tina Korhonen's profile on our friends network here. She arranged for us to be styled and have our photos done just before Christmas and she did an excellent job considering she had l...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:17:00 PST

Keep Music Live !!

We don't believe it correct to upload tracks unless they are polished and the production quality is excellent. We shall upload samples of tracks here when we start gigging in ...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:30:00 PST

Rehearsals

The first real rehearsal for the group KONTRABAND fronted by the awesome Nicolette Street has kicked off superbly with the addition of our new drummer.  The group is set to cut its firs...
Posted by THE KONTRABAND on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST