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Artist description
Song writer for 30 years, sessions, musical arrangements.
Write and record alone - occasionally friends drop by and
add to whatever is in progress.
for fun. |
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Music Style
Blueswingrockaboogiefolkfunkalatincountryjazz |
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Musical Influences
Every note that's ever been played - and a few that haven't |
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Similar Artists
The aim is that every song is different, in truth this can't always happen, but it does make for a long list. |
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Artist History
full history plus discography can be found at www.robbeckinsale.com |
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Instruments
Guitar, Piano, Vocals & programming |
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Albums
see discography on my web site |
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Press Reviews
Borderland Review of - "The Year I forgot"
Rob Beckinsale - The Year I Forgot Who I Was
[Acoustica Productions]
For many musicians having a home recording studio is a very liberating
experience - the freedom to explore and create your own music away from the
constraints of commercial pressure and expectations must be a godsend.
Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Beckinsale is such a musician, and
The Year I Forgot... is his first self-released cd album.
And what an impressive album it is - Rob Beckinsale writes his songs from
the heart and they are direct and honest. It also helps that he is a damn
fine musician and this album is in turn haunting in its directness and
swings like a bitch. Tracks such as They Never Wanted To Be... would make
any Steely Dan fan sit up and do a double take - it's a classy bit of
ice-cool jazz funk that Fagan and Becker would be proud of.
Rob Beckinsale is an impressive musician, and a track such as Love Songs For
Grown Ups starts out with a latin feel and then shifts into rock mode with
one of the best economic and precise guitar solos I've heard in a long time.
River Of Blood is a valid and strong condemnation of the way tragedy and
death has become a news commodity in our society - I suspect that watching
reports about Kosovo or the latest Northern Ireland attrocity was the spur
for this song.
So what we have here is a fascinating album by a mostly unknown songwriter
who ploughs his own furrow releasing cassette albums and now this cd. And do
you know what the most frustrating thing is? That all the major labels are
so in love with their bloody boy and girl bands, or have their heads jammed
up some DJ's boom box that when faced with real talent they bottle out of
it. Okay, The Year I Forgot... won't change lives or influence other
musicians [well, it would be nice to think that it did, but let's be
realistic] but it is so much better than what you can buy in HMV, and it
deserves a chance to find an audience!
Review from AutoReverse Issue 12 - http://www.autoreverse.net/auto12
ROB BECKINSALE
THE YEAR I FORGOT… CD
acoustica@btinternet.com
Fully-realized, guitar-centric homepop. Beckinsale is a talented one-man army. The CD opens with "Sometime Soon", an uptempo rahhk numbah with epic keyboard swells and multiple guitar tracks. And a guitar solo! Nobody plays guitar solos anymore! "You changed" is Prefab Sprout quantized. "Someone Could Kill" employs a massive, global tone - probably due to the dripping-water and percussion sounds. Oh. And the accordion. The same kind of Paul Simon "Graceland" vibe pervades "They Go Shopping". Hell yeah. You don't hear many people doing this kind of stuff. "And the Rain It Fell" is a grey-day acoustic near-ballad. "They Never Wanted To Be" recalls Thomas Dolby's excursions into funk. "Love Songs For Grownups" has me wondering, Aztec Camera? Hell, I don't know. "River of Blood" is an acoustic ballad about, uh, the evils of war. "Microcosm" leaves on a relatively "up" note - jazzy piano building into a "full band" crescendo. Definitely a CD worth having.
Ian C Stewart
ROB BECKINSALE
"UNFAITHFUL ONE" MP3
From the album The Confectioner's Weakness. More sequenced homepop with Dave Gregory on at least one guitar. Grown up pop that makes me think of Aztec Camera because I'm a fucking moron. This song is great because it makes me think. And it doesn't sound exactly like anybody else. And after five listens I can usually sing along all the way through.
Ian C Stewart |
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Additional Info
loads of data and cool stuff on my site |
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Location
Swindon, Wiltshire - United Kingdom |
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