August 2008:
Mon4th: Official opening of the RPJAM school in Giessen, you'll find me there every tuesday, teaching Bass, Harmony and Ear Training.
Sat 30th: Köln with the Gospel Choir.
October 2008:
Sun 19th: European Bass Day in Viersen. Organized by the nice folks of the Bass Professor magazine. I'll be presenting a solo show, mostly taken from my Bit-E stuff.
November 2008:
Workshop tour with the RPJAM Band: me on bass, Peter Fischer on guitar and Dirk Brand on drums.
December 2008:
Sat13 and Sun14th: Spendel's Christmas Jazz Trio, in Frankfurt's Jazzkeller and in Offenbach.
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July 2008:
7th to 20th: Umbria Jazz Berklee Clinics in Perugia, this year also with Oscar Stagnaro for bass. I'll be doing some electronica/production/sound design workshops.
June 2008:
Still production work for Simone Coen, in Frankfurt and Milan.
Recording in Frankfurt for Thomas Brandt, cool music for a theater piece.
Sun22nd: Private Event, Rome
Mai 2008:
the new studio is "finished", I started more production work for Simone Coen and his Chocolate Audio company in Milan.
Tue 20th: Recording in Köln.
Thu 22nd: St Stephan Gospel Choir at the Köln Opera.
April 2008:
Tue 8th: RPJAM Bass Workshop in Frankfurt, Nachtleben.
10th and 11th: Mixing the session for MCM with Michael Wolff, in Königstein and London. He's the man!
17th to 20th: Jazzahead conference, in Bremen. I have met new friends and colleagues, nice.
Meanwhile I am changing studio location.....not fun!
Sat 26th: Just For Funk, Frankfurt
Wed30th: Just For Funk, Höchst
March 2008:
Wed12: new project, Bit-E, at the Bett in Frankfurt. All electronica-jazz based, with some special guests from the MusikMesse, stay tuned! Thanks to all that showed up! the 1st show was a success, I am already working on the video part!
12th to 15th: MusikMesse, there for the RPJAM school, in hall 4.2 stand F55 and on their Bus in the Agorá.
Tue18th: Bit-E again, this time at the Red Cat club in Mainz!
February 2008:
3rd to 6th: in Munich for recording with Pacassoni, Wochezer and Haselsteiner, at the Realistic Sound studio. Florian Osterreicher worked his magic! 6 tunes from this new project, stay tuned! A web page about it soon!
Friday 22nd: Official Release Date by Jazzsick Records, Düsseldorf. I am soooo happy! A Tour? the band is great, featuring Tony Lakatos or Steffen Weber, let's see what comes up.....
Fri 29th: RPJAM Bass Workshop in Giessen, Musikhaus Schönau.
January 2008:
a very interesting month!18th: Envisions is available on CD Baby! Please do go ahead and buy some for you and your friends! :-)
17th to 20th: The Namm Show in LA! I played for SIT strings (thanks Tim!) then hanged out together with Steve Lawson and Lobelia, much fun there as always; did some jamming at Modulus and saw a lot of friends: the guys at Mark Bass (Marco, Peter, Riccardo and Paolo Costa), the guys at Fodera (Matt and Janek), I have seen Oscar Cartaya after almost 15 years! reconnected with Andy Sanesi, schoolmate from back in the days and I met some of the greats: Gary Novak, Chris Chaney and best of all Lee Sklar! it was great! See you next year LA!
Then I flew to Weymouth (south of Boston) for a workshop on Music Technology and ensemble recording at the Bosse School of Music and then a visit to Berklee College of Music, so much has changed...of course.
I have met with some old friends, the "guys" at the Bass Dept. (R.Appleman, J.Repucci and Dave Clark); Dino, Renee (thanks for the help), Matt Nicholls (nice CD!), Gojko and Michael, Donna, Eleonora, etc. But most of all my really good friend Tino D'Agostino, it was great to see how good he is doing, I am proud!
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Bit-E: an electronica computer based set with a live band, me on bass, and some musicians....
MCM a spontaneous collaboration between me, Marco Pacassoni (italian vibist) and Michael Vochezer (german guitarist), rounds the band up the german drummer Arno Haselsteiner.....
a duo with no name yet, with me on bass and computer and drummer/percussionist Ivan Ciccarelli from varese (I). Distance makes it hard to maintain a steady pace of work but we really want to go forward...
"Envisions" is here and available!If you are interested, email me at zanghieric@aol.com.
Check out its history in the projects page, and the Listening Room, and the Press Clips, and....
December 2007 issue of Bass Musician Magazine, an on-line magazine, thanks to Bryan Beller and Jake Kot.
May 2007 issue of Bass Professor, the german bass magazine, thanks to Lars Lehmann.
October 2006 issue of Chitarre, the italian music magazine! Many thanks to Giovanni Palombo!
And also an on-line review came from far...thanks to E-Bass Crazy (Japan). Ebasscrazy-review.
Bass World Station - please go visit
ASR Radio has just started with other songs!
If you like to support the artists, you'd have to sign-up and then rate the tracks. Takes a little bit but it makes the difference for us!
"Normal" radios have joined in:
Radio Okerwelle (101,65) , in Braunschweig
Hochschulradio Düsseldorf [97.1]
Hr2, nice! thanks to Jürgen Schwaab and G.Hottman
RadioX, a nice local radio in Frankfurt, thanks to Robert Lochmann
some others are on the way, stay tuned!
A Press Clips page and a Video/Audio listening room is being set up and will be constantly updated. So make sure you follow the links above!
Please do send some feedback if you have any....