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RHPII
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Eric Gales
Randy Brecke
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Alex Machace
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Kiko Loureir
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Andy Timmon
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Guthrie Gova
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Jose de Cast
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RICHARD HALLEBEEK RHPII - PAIN IN THE JAZZ
Featuring Greg Howe, Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan, Eric Gales, Jose de Castro, Kiko Loureiro,
Randy Brecker and Alex Machacek.
TRACKLISTING
1- Wristkiller (with Alex Machacek) 2- Third Phase (with Jose de Castro) 3- Bring It On (with Guthrie Govan)
4- Pain In The Jazz (with Eric Gales) 5- People 6- Speed City Blues (with Kiko Loureiro) 7- Amelia (with Randy
Brecker) 8- Think Of Something (with Andy Timmons) 9- East Side Bridge (with Greg Howe) 10- New World
RHPII
The Richard Hallebeek Project II, or RHPII, is the follow-up to the
critically acclaimed 2004 release ‘RHP’ that was released on Liquid
Note Records. While RHP featured the late legendary Shawn Lane
and virtuoso Brett Garsed as special guests, RHPII goes even further
by adding a total of 8 guests, who are all household names in fusion
and rock, to the already impressive lineup with Lalle Larsson-keys,
Sebastiaan Cornelissen-drums and Frans Vollink-Bass.
Amsterdam-based Richard Hallebeek is well know for his legato
fusion guitar playing, by many described as floating somewhere
between the best of early Scott Henderson, the fluidity of Allan
Holdsworth and the pentatonic and chromatic craziness of Shawn
Lane, but all melted together with his own unique twist.
RHPII is a rock/fusion album with 10 ‘real’ compositions (no
bandjams) coming from all 4 bandmembers. All songs were written
with the special guest who features on that song in mind, sometimes
putting the guest in their comfort zone, sometimes a bit outside on
purpose, but all done with respect for the player. This leads to some
intriguing and already classic moments on RHPII. The opening
track ‘’Wristkiller that starts with a syncopated theme has Richard
open the first solo to display some of his blazing trademark lines
through a set of quick changes, and his solo is seamlessly taken
over by Alex Machacek (who recently subbed for Allan Holdsworth
for the UK reunion) who takes those lines even further. The heavy
prog-rock riffing on ‘Bring It On’ has Richard trading solos with
Guthrie Govan and both end together in a diminished flurry where
the notes from both players melt together. The blues waltz ‘Think
Of Someting’, that is drenched in Lalle’s tasty organ playing, has
‘the tone master from Texas’ Andy Timmons play one of his most
lyrical solo to date. RHPII features memorable songs and besides
that, has more then enough tasty and over the top guitar playing
to undoubtly satisfy the biggest guitarfans and jazz-rock music
lovers out there.
RICHARD HA
LLEBEEK
RHPII
QUICK FACTS ABOUT RICHARD
*Has been playing guitar professionally for over 30 years and has
recorded and/or played with Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale,
Scott Kinsey, Dan Gilbert, Carl Verheyen, Michael Angelo Batio,
Marco Minnemann, Steve Hunt, Allan Holdsworth a.o.
*Started playing at age 10 and at age 17, started his studies at the
Royal Conservatory in Amsterdam for 6 years and studied for a
year at GIT in Los Angeles
*While in LA., recorded the fusion classic ‘Generator’ for Mark
Varney’s legendary Legato Label at age 22. That cd also featured
Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Carl Verheyen, Scott Kinsey.
*Performed two years in a row at the Ziua Chitarelor Festival in
Bucharest with Andy Timmons, Greg Howe, Guthrie Govan, Brett
Garsed, Mattias Eklundh.
*Teached and performed live for 4 days with Allan Holdsworth and
Kiko Loureiro at the ESC 2011 festival in Sicily, Italy.
*4th price winner of the wordwide Yamaha Band Explosion contest
at the Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan in 1989.
*In 1993, out of 350 entries, Richard became the 2nd price winner
of the Ibanez Guitar Award at the grand finale in Ahoy, Rotterdam.
*In 2010, Richard headlined the ‘Meeting Of The Spirits’ festival in
Leewarden, Holland together with Greg Howe and Carl Verheyen.
*Richard has performed on the best-selling Weaveworld trilogy
from keyboard prodigy Lalle Larsson (ranking #3 best keyboardist
in 2011 Keyboardmagazine polls)
*Richard has done two hugely successful tours throughout Holland
and Germany in 2011 and 2012 with Guthrie Govan and Jose de
Castro as a ‘rock-blues-fusion G3’ project.
RHPII will be released jan 5, 2013 and is released on Richard Hallebeek’s new label Richie Rich Music.
More info, audio, video at: www.richardhallebeek.com/rhpii/ www.richardhallebeek.com www.facebook.com/richardhallebeek
Greg Howe
Andy Timmons
Guthrie Govan
Eric Gales
Jose de Castro
Kiko Loureiro
Randy Brecker
Alex Machacek