I can't imagine a day without music. When I come out of bed in the morning I first put some music on and when I get home at the end of the afternoon I also first want to listen to some nice music. I've got dozens of CDs in my car and when I travel by train I've got my iPod on my head. When I'm alone in the office at work I often listen to Apollo Audio. So I also can imagine that a musician could be making music all of the time. It doesn't get bored.
Steve Smith is the first Grammy Award-winner I write about in this indieblog. He won this award in 2003 with his former band Dirty Vegas. They won a Grammy for the best electronic song "Days Go By". Steve Smith doesn't only make electropop and you can hear so on his first solo album "This Town" which will be released in a few weeks. He started as a drummer or in fact a latin-percussionist and he also used to make house with the band of DJ Andy Nichols. In 1999 he left London for Ibiza and there he played the acoustic guitar on the beach during the day and at night he played in the local clubs. That's when he started writing songs. He met DJ Paul Harris and producer Ben Harris in the studio and when they heard his songs they started recording for example "Days Go By". Because of the unexpected succes of this song the next years were filled with tours. But Steve Smith kept writing his songs and after he moved to Boston in 2006 he started recording his solo album. He got help from a lot of his friends like Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields), Terry Barber (New York Symphony Orchestra) and Jay Ungar (James Horner Orchestra). The songs on this album (10 + 2 bonustracks) sound a bit like New Order. One of the bonustracks is an acoustic version of "Days Go By". The album will be released on Steve's own label G.A.S. Records.
>mp3: Hit Me Up