About
Christian Beach
After many years fronting bands that featured much heavier sounds and widespread use of technology, Christian Beach has emerged as a singer-songwriter following in the traditional footsteps of Bob Dylan, the Band and Jeff Tweedy. With stripped-down arrangements featuring sparse, melodic piano, country-flavored acoustic and electric guitars, and mandolin accompaniments, Beach belts it out with style and Hank Williams soul.
In February 2009, Beach’s self-titled, 12-song CD was released through CDBaby.com and is also available from iTunes. The CD features top-notch veteran musician Gary Mazzaroppi (Les Paul Trio, Norah Jones), who adds legendary stand-up bass to many of the tracks, and other industry veterans, such as guitarist John Pfeiffer (Well of Souls, In Between Dreams) and drummer Rob Angello (Secret Syde, The Blases). Christian has also logged studio time with producer giant Jason Corsaro of Steve Windwood and Peter Gabriel fame, to name just a select few.
The solo CD marks a definitive departure from the sound of Beach’s earlier musical projects, the alt/industrial-tinged Slave of Id and Artists That Kill, and the more mainstream rock act Ton of Bricks.
“Over the past several years, I have been listening to mostly older music,” said Beach in a March 2007 interview. “I was listening to a lot of Bob Dylan, The Band — even going back to Hank Williams. I realized that country music was very fascinating to me. Hank Williams was an amazing songwriter — very raw with incredible ideas and minimal instrumentation. That was a pretty big inspiration to me.”
Having played on the Jersey Shore music scene for more than a decade, Beach spent 2008 branching out into new markets with shows at KatManDu in Trenton, NJ; Triumph Brewing Company in both Philadelphia and Princeton (NJ); Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ; and The National Underground and Googie’s Lounge/The Living Room in New York City. He also performed at the Dewey Beach Music Conference in September 2008 and the Singer-Songwriter Cape May Music Conference in March 2009.
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