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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.
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.
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Don't Look Back
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Matt's Mood
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Whose side are you on?
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The Best Of Matt Bianco
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Ronnie's Samba
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I Never Meant To
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La Luna
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Slip & Sliding
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Golden Days
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Shoutbox
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archange08 wrote:
thk"Matt" super !!!
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smoothjazzpl wrote:
Hifi bossanova! <3
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fordiebianco wrote:
Soundtrack of my life
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Jochashu wrote:
"Wrong side of the Street" is my favourite track.
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mvordeme wrote:
Never mind ...
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mvordeme wrote:
Your official image is very tiny and gets blurry when scaled up. Could you please do us a favour and either remove it or upload a bigger version of it (as on MySpace), but preferably as PNG to avoid JPEG artefacts? I tried, but it got deleted as a duplicate of the official image. Thanks!
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katakomba555 wrote:
www.jackyjazz.blogspot.com MATT BIANCO,SHAKATAK AND MORE RAR DOWNLOAD GRATE!
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-METEORO- wrote:
More than I Can Bear is my favorite song. [2]
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Grejsi wrote:
Kocham, wielbię ;) Wrong Side of the Street - wypas! ;) Pozdrawiam wszystkich słuchaczy.
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HerothWard wrote:
High Phil !!! That Music makes my day! It's cool, man!!!
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petetong wrote:
I agree, 'More than I Can Bear' is a great song
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philkentbass wrote:
Matt Bianco really do it for me - no matter where I go musically, I keep coming right back to MATT BIANCO !!!
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Tamwood2000 wrote:
Hi just to let people know Matt Bianco have a new Myspace page where you can join a mailing list. They will have a new album and plan to tour in 2009. Here's the link:http://www.myspace.com/mattbiancomusic
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BBKEEN wrote:
Oh my god I just remembered Matts Mood. Good One.
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BBKEEN wrote:
A true true matt bianco die hard fan here. Sneaking out the back door with a grin is one of my favourites.
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GTAer wrote:
Join Matt Bianco Fans!
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Keneticshark wrote:
Whose side are you on? is a classic.
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PapaHeffer wrote:
More than I Can Bear is my favorite song.
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nice3266 wrote:
my first CD ever...
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GTAer wrote:
Matt's Mood is the best!
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