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Clearly being the founder and producer for Groove Gravy Records, Roy Shakked, or better known as Holmes, knows a thing about writing music and reworking classics.
He was employed by Delta Records, then after the label fold, he started Groove Gravy. He was also responsible as music supervisor for such shows and movies as CSI Miami, Sex and The City, The OC, Poseidon, and The Devil Wears Prada - so you can thank him for all the good music you hear on these shows.
The Holmes name came from his previously band's name... although long dis-banded, but he kept the nickname and continued to release his own original music, first with Stop Go in 2007. Now a self-titled album, recorded earlier in 2009 and released last Tuesday, August 11th.
All of the songs on this album was written and arranged by Holmes (with the exception of one Bowie song, but we'll get to that later), and through each song you hear a master working his craft. I feel you can hear all of his collective influences on each song. From protest folk, with the anti-protest "Not A Political Song", to Beatlesque pop "Let Go", to classic pop song "So Many Of You".
The best original song on the album is the, what I would like to call, "party rock song" "Go Computer". The repetitive short guitar riffs, combined with the constant drums, gives the song an instant head-bopping rhythm.
Now, I don't normally pick a the cover song to represent the band/musician, but in this case, I think it's really what Holmes does best here. His creative version of "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, basically deconstruct the song to an anti-dance song. Although that doesn't sound too appealing, it's hard to ignore how amazing the song is heard this way, especially with the slow piano and cello.
I am assuming that his work with the label's Masterworks Reworked (the album taking classic composers such as Bach and Beethoven and makes modern grooves out of it) is the same style by taking the well-worn original into something brand new. I'll definitely be buying the album used on amazon for $1 and will let you know about it later.
Holmes is out now on Groove Gravy Records, he can be found all over the web, including facebook and youtube. Keep an eye on the youtube page because apparently he's just finished touring and will be spending his time producing videos for promotion.
Update: Help Holmes climb the Hypem's Twitter chart by re-tweeting: "@weheartmusic Bowie cover "Let's Dance" by @HOLMESMusic : http://hypem.com/track/884130" - song is currently #70 with 91 points.
He was employed by Delta Records, then after the label fold, he started Groove Gravy. He was also responsible as music supervisor for such shows and movies as CSI Miami, Sex and The City, The OC, Poseidon, and The Devil Wears Prada - so you can thank him for all the good music you hear on these shows.
The Holmes name came from his previously band's name... although long dis-banded, but he kept the nickname and continued to release his own original music, first with Stop Go in 2007. Now a self-titled album, recorded earlier in 2009 and released last Tuesday, August 11th.
All of the songs on this album was written and arranged by Holmes (with the exception of one Bowie song, but we'll get to that later), and through each song you hear a master working his craft. I feel you can hear all of his collective influences on each song. From protest folk, with the anti-protest "Not A Political Song", to Beatlesque pop "Let Go", to classic pop song "So Many Of You".
The best original song on the album is the, what I would like to call, "party rock song" "Go Computer". The repetitive short guitar riffs, combined with the constant drums, gives the song an instant head-bopping rhythm.
Now, I don't normally pick a the cover song to represent the band/musician, but in this case, I think it's really what Holmes does best here. His creative version of "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, basically deconstruct the song to an anti-dance song. Although that doesn't sound too appealing, it's hard to ignore how amazing the song is heard this way, especially with the slow piano and cello.
I am assuming that his work with the label's Masterworks Reworked (the album taking classic composers such as Bach and Beethoven and makes modern grooves out of it) is the same style by taking the well-worn original into something brand new. I'll definitely be buying the album used on amazon for $1 and will let you know about it later.
Holmes is out now on Groove Gravy Records, he can be found all over the web, including facebook and youtube. Keep an eye on the youtube page because apparently he's just finished touring and will be spending his time producing videos for promotion.
Update: Help Holmes climb the Hypem's Twitter chart by re-tweeting: "@weheartmusic Bowie cover "Let's Dance" by @HOLMESMusic : http://hypem.com/track/884130" - song is currently #70 with 91 points.
08/13/2009 22:03:08 ♥ vu (
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