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Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...
There are four groups that have recorded under the name Fandango.
1) Fandango was a band, formed in 1975/1976. Joe Lynn Turner was the lead singer of the band (on all four of their studio-albums). He also co-wrote most of their material with keybourdist LaRue.
Albums:
- Fandango (1977)
- Last Kiss (1978)
- One Night Stand (1979)
- Cadillac (1980)
2) Fandango was a Mexican female pop music group created by Abelardo Leal in 1986 in Monterrey, Mexico. Five unknown girls joined together under the record label EMI and recorded a low-budget debut album Contrastes. The album received little...
Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members.
They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs...
There are three bands with this name. One is a hard rock band, a Undergound Hip-Hop Group and a UK based unsigned Indie Rock band.
1. Freakshow features Frankie Banali of Quiet Riot, Markus Allen Christopher of Miss Crazy, Jeff La Bar of Cinderella, and Tony Franklin of The Firm and Blue Murder.
The debut release from Freakshow [Self Titled] showcases hi-octane powerful Hard Rock that blends the melodic sound of the 80s with a fresh punchy modern production that is sure to win over many fans worldwide.
2. Even though Spetakkel received commercial success in the early 2000s, Bergen's...
Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra...
Luca Pernici...
