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Matt Bianco Is A UK Band That Was Formed In 1983 And Continues To Exist To Date. They Are Mainly Known For Their Success In The Mid 1980s And Their Jazzy Latin-Flavoured Music. Popular During The Mid 1980s In Continental Europe Matt Bianco Epitomised The New Jazz Pop Genre That They Shared With Working Week Sade Everything But The Girl And The Style Council. The Band Name Suggests That Matt Bianco Is A Personal Name But Matt Is "a Made Up Spy A Secret Agent We Loved Spy TV Themes And Film Scores" The Early Years Formed By The Late Kito Poncioni Bass Mark Reilly Vocals And Danny White Keyboards In 1982 Out Of The Shards Of The Abandoned Art Poppers Blue Rondo Á La Turk For Their First Album Whose Side Are You On? They Hired Unknown Polish Vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska. Her Vocal Arrangements Gave The Album A Jazzy Dimension That Reilly And White Could Not Anticipate But Made Good Use Of. Mixmaster Phil Harding Applied What Would Become His Signature Style To The Recordings. Hits Like "Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed" And "Half A Minute" Which Basia Would Feature Live Throughout Her Career Turned Matt Bianco Into One Of The Biggest Acts Of Europe In 1984. Basia And Danny White Left The Group After The First Album To Pursue A Lucrative Solo Career With Sony Under The Name Basia On The Epic Label. They Maintained Their Working Relationship With Phil Harding Who Would Continue To Work With Matt Bianco As Well. Mark Reilly Now Without A Musical Partner Found Ex-Wham Keyboarder And Session Musician Mark Fisher And Recorded The Next Self-Titled Matt Bianco Album. The Reilly-Fisher Years With Mark Fisher Replacing White And Trzetrzelewska The Sound Changed Considerably. Fisher A Keyboardist Composer And Studio Wizard Contributed A More Contemporary Sound Compared To That Of The Early Matt Bianco. The Use Of Synthesizers Increased Notably Yamaha's DX-7 Can Be Heard Providing The Slap Bass In Most Songs But The Choice Of Noted Studio Musicians Remained Consistent With Ronnie Ross Being The Most Prominent Example. After The First Album They Took A 13 Piece Band On To A European Tour That Saw Them Perform In Front Of An Audience Of More Than 250 000 Attendees In Total. As Matt Bianco Was A Household Name In Europe Warner Brothers Thought It Was Time To Market Them In The U.S.. They Hired Gloria Estefan's Husband And Producer Emilio Estefan To Produce A Few Songs And Recorded The Album Indigo With The Estefan Productions Being Chosen As Singles. 1988's "Don't Blame It On That Girl" And "Good Times" Only Made A Moderate Impact Apart From "Wap-Bam-Boogie" Which Did Well On The Dance Charts. After Another Album With Warner Brothers - The Fractured Samba In Your Casa 1991 Reilly And Fisher Split From Their Record Company And Went Freelance. From Then On They Would Record Their Albums In Their Own Studios And Then Offer Them To Independent Distributors Worldwide. Now They Had Total Artistic Freedom But Commercial Success Was Harder To Achieve They Scored Contracts With ZYX Music And Intercord In Europe And Victor Entertainment In Asia But Failed To Sign On With Another Major Label. The Next Albums Did Not Sell That Well In Europe But They Created A Loyal Fan Base In Japan And The Rest Of Asia. The Albums Another Time Another Place Gran Via World Go Round A/Collection Rico And Echoes Sold Well Enough For A Comfortable Lifestyle In The South East Of England. After Twenty Years Recording And Touring Mark Fisher Started To Crave A Different Lifestyle And The Two Split Amicably. Basia/MB Reunion Initiated By A Mutual Friend Basia And Danny White Joined With Mark Reilly To Reform The "original" Matt Bianco In 2003 Signing To The Emarcy Label. In 2004 Matt Bianco Released The Album Matt's Mood Which Featured Well-Crafted Adult-Contemporary/jazz Numbers In The Spirit Of Their First Album. This Was Accompanied By An Extensive PR Exercise Giving The Album Plenty Of Airtime. The Following Year They Embarked On A World Tour Which Included Stops In The UK Japan And The U.S. The Present After The Success Of Matt's Mood Basia And Danny White Left Matt Bianco Again To Reinvigorate The Basia Franchise. Mark Reilly And Mark Fisher Were Back As A Duo And Released Hi-Fi Bossanova In 2009. In November 2012 They Will Be Releasing Hideaway Their 12th Album.
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Matt Bianco - The Stranger Matt Bianco - Lost Souls Basia - From Now On Band Version Level 42 - Love Meeting Love Shakatak - Dark Is The Night Extended Version Shakatak - Anyway You Want It Incognito - Stop Running Away Incognito - I See The Sun Chris Standring - Love & Paragraphs Chris Standring - I Ain't Mad Atcha Mario Biondi - Love Is A Temple Rippingtons - Urban Wanderer Pieces Of A Dream - How Much I Feel Special EFX - Hip Hop Bop Jeff Golub - The Velvet Touch Brian Bromberg - Come On, Come Over instrumental Spyro Gyra - As You Wish George Duke - I Tried To Tell You Mezzoforte - Funky Homer George Benson - The Lady In My Life Lee Ritenour - 78th & 3rd Rippingtons - Caravan Of Love Lee Ritenour - Ooh-Yeah Mario Biondi - All Of My Life Larry Carlton - Morning Magic Donald Fagen - Blue Lou Mezzoforte - Tribute Basia - Half A Minute Pieces Of A Dream - Driving It Home Norman Brown - Feeling The Way Donald Fagen - Century's End Spyro Gyra - Limelight Eliane Elias - A Ra The Frog Peter White - Here We Go Jeff Lorber - Take Control Chuck Loeb - Good To Go Rick Braun - Nightfall George Duke - Round The Way Girl Pat Metheny Group - Slip Away Bob James - Spunky Level 42 - Almost There George Benson - Stephanie Pat Metheny Group - Across The Sky Sinitta - Love On A Mountain Top An Everlasting Knight Mix Jason Donovan - What A Difference A Day Made The Power Station - Taxman Patrice Rushen - Sweetest Taboo Down To The Bone - Keep On Keepin' On Bossa Nostra - Kontaminazione Down To The Bone - Searching For A Simple Groove
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Biography - Matt Bianco
Matt Bianco Is A UK Band That Was Formed In 1983 And Continues To Exist To Date. They Are Mainly Known For Their Success In The Mid 1980s And Their Jazzy Latin-Flavoured Music.
Popular During The Mid 1980s In Continental Europe Matt Bianco Epitomised The New Jazz Pop Genre That They Shared With Working Week Sade Everything But The Girl And The Style Council. The Band Name Suggests That Matt Bianco Is A Personal Name But Matt Is "a Made Up Spy A Secret Agent We Loved Spy TV Themes And Film Scores"
The Early Years
Formed By The Late Kito Poncioni Bass Mark Reilly Vocals And Danny White Keyboards In 1982 Out Of The Shards Of The Abandoned Art Poppers Blue Rondo Á La Turk For Their First Album Whose Side Are You On? They Hired Unknown Polish Vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska. Her Vocal Arrangements Gave The Album A Jazzy Dimension That Reilly And White Could Not Anticipate But Made Good Use Of. Mixmaster Phil Harding Applied What Would Become His Signature Style To The Recordings. Hits Like "Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed" And "Half A Minute" Which Basia Would Feature Live Throughout Her Career Turned Matt Bianco Into One Of The Biggest Acts Of Europe In 1984.
Basia And Danny White Left The Group After The First Album To Pursue A Lucrative Solo Career With Sony Under The Name Basia On The Epic Label. They Maintained Their Working Relationship With Phil Harding Who Would Continue To Work With Matt Bianco As Well. Mark Reilly Now Without A Musical Partner Found Ex-Wham Keyboarder And Session Musician Mark Fisher And Recorded The Next Self-Titled Matt Bianco Album.
The Reilly-Fisher Years
With Mark Fisher Replacing White And Trzetrzelewska The Sound Changed Considerably. Fisher A Keyboardist Composer And Studio Wizard Contributed A More Contemporary Sound Compared To That Of The Early Matt Bianco. The Use Of Synthesizers Increased Notably Yamaha's DX-7 Can Be Heard Providing The Slap Bass In Most Songs But The Choice Of Noted Studio Musicians Remained Consistent With Ronnie Ross Being The Most Prominent Example. After The First Album They Took A 13 Piece Band On To A European Tour That Saw Them Perform In Front Of An Audience Of More Than 250 000 Attendees In Total.
As Matt Bianco Was A Household Name In Europe Warner Brothers Thought It Was Time To Market Them In The U.S.. They Hired Gloria Estefan's Husband And Producer Emilio Estefan To Produce A Few Songs And Recorded The Album Indigo With The Estefan Productions Being Chosen As Singles. 1988's "Don't Blame It On That Girl" And "Good Times" Only Made A Moderate Impact Apart From "Wap-Bam-Boogie" Which Did Well On The Dance Charts. After Another Album With Warner Brothers - The Fractured Samba In Your Casa 1991 Reilly And Fisher Split From Their Record Company And Went Freelance. From Then On They Would Record Their Albums In Their Own Studios And Then Offer Them To Independent Distributors Worldwide.
Now They Had Total Artistic Freedom But Commercial Success Was Harder To Achieve They Scored Contracts With ZYX Music And Intercord In Europe And Victor Entertainment In Asia But Failed To Sign On With Another Major Label. The Next Albums Did Not Sell That Well In Europe But They Created A Loyal Fan Base In Japan And The Rest Of Asia. The Albums Another Time Another Place Gran Via World Go Round A/Collection Rico And Echoes Sold Well Enough For A Comfortable Lifestyle In The South East Of England. After Twenty Years Recording And Touring Mark Fisher Started To Crave A Different Lifestyle And The Two Split Amicably.
Basia/MB Reunion
Initiated By A Mutual Friend Basia And Danny White Joined With Mark Reilly To Reform The "original" Matt Bianco In 2003 Signing To The Emarcy Label. In 2004 Matt Bianco Released The Album Matt's Mood Which Featured Well-Crafted Adult-Contemporary/jazz Numbers In The Spirit Of Their First Album. This Was Accompanied By An Extensive PR Exercise Giving The Album Plenty Of Airtime. The Following Year They Embarked On A World Tour Which Included Stops In The UK Japan And The U.S.
The Present After The Success Of Matt's Mood Basia And Danny White Left Matt Bianco Again To Reinvigorate The Basia Franchise. Mark Reilly And Mark Fisher Were Back As A Duo And Released Hi-Fi Bossanova In 2009. In November 2012 They Will Be Releasing Hideaway Their 12th Album.
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