Nenad Bach Band Press Kit

Photo by Ratko Mavar, Croatia (fotomorgana.hr)
Nenad Bach has a dream.
A dream nurtured through wartime and expatriation, a dream informed by his
quest for universal justice and deep longing for world peace. The result: All I
Want Is Freedom, a passionate cri de coeur and the latest CD in the artist’s prolific
body of work.
It’s a potent shot of rock infused with heart and soul, packed with provocative
lyrics calling back the ethos of the sixties, unafraid to question, determined to
seek answers, in a rousing call to action that electrifies, galvanizes, and at the
same time mesmerizes.
Solidly backed by the four like-minded musicians comprising the Nenad Bach
Band, and brilliantly recorded and mixed by five-time Grammy Award winner
John Holbrook, the album was created at Nenad’s home in New York, in a
back-to-basics bid for the days when “rock musician” wasn’t a profession, but a
vocation. The naturalistic approach, inspired by Beatles’ engineer Geoff Emerick,
is as close to live recording as it gets. For Nenad, “Love Is The Sound.” And for his
listeners and the world, only love – and the truth – will set us free.
Stephanie Silber, filmmaker
Home Team Productions
http://hometeamproductions.tv/works.html
Nenad Bach Band
Photo by Lea Bach
Nenad Bach Band
Nenad Bach
Lead vocal, piano, acoustic guitar
Juran film Transatlantic, which was the
Croatian entry for Best Foreign Film at
the 1999 Academy Awards. He is also a
record producer; his most recent work
includes the recording of four SACDs of
klapa music, which were the basis of one
of the highest-rated shows on the longrunning NPR radio program “Millennium
of Music.”
A native of Croatia but a citizen of the
world, Nenad Bach is a recording artist,
composer, and performer who has
recorded for Sony, Universal, Decca,
Polygram, and many other labels. Two
of his albums reached No. 1 in Europe,
and to date he has sold over one million
records. In addition, he has performed
all over the world with a wide range of
artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Bono
and The Edge (U2), Brian Eno, Indigo
Girls, Richie Havens, Garth Hudson and
Rick Danko (The Band), Vince Welnick
(Grateful Dead), and many more. He
performed at Woodstock 1994, and in 1998
he made a compilation album with Bruce
Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, and Allen
Ginsberg.
Nenad’s work and his life story have been
featured on all the major US television
networks (CBS, ABC, NBC), on CNN,
on Sky Channel, and on TV channels in
Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Great
Britain, Spain, Japan, and many other
countries. He was interviewed by Ed
Bradley for the CBS News magazine
“Street Stories,” in a segment that was
seen by 20 million viewers. Press coverage
has been similarly widespread, ranging
from The New York Times to Billboard,
from the Washington Post to Corriere Della
Sera, and from the Boston Globe to the
New York Daily News. Currently, Home
Team Productions is making a feature
documentary about Nenad’s life.
Nenad has released two American albums
under his own name: Greatest Hits and A
Thousand Years of Peace. His new album,
which has long been awaited by his many
fans from all over the world, is currently
in the recording stage and will be released
in 2010, preceded by a “live in the studio”
EP entitled All I Want Is Freedom. Several
of the songs on the album will feature the
sounds of his homeland by incorporating
Croatian klapa music (a unique and
beautiful style of a cappella singing).
Through his singing and songwriting,
Nenad’s goal is to spread the message of
joy and universal peace.
Joe DeSanctis
Keyboards, vocals, melodica, accordion,
glockenspiel
In addition to his own records, Nenad
has scored many features and short
films, including King of Cool (a biopic
about Steve McQueen) and the Mladen
A piano performance graduate of Catholic
University of America, Joe DeSanctis has
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a pure passion for making music in all
its forms. His experience and interests
run the gamut from composing scores
to conducting church choirs or mixed
instrumentalists to playing keyboards
professionally to arranging and writing
songs. Joe has been involved in the music
industry for over 30 years.
guitar and bass. On occasion, he has been
known to play the ukulele as well.
After a stint in the Pacific Northwest,
where he played with Seattle jazz stalwart
Michael Powers, Richard moved to New
York, where he studied with jazz bassist
Ron McClure and played with a wide
range of local ensembles, including the
world beat group Bangaroo and jazz
drummer Art Lillard’s Heavenly Band.
During the 1990s, Richard was a member
of the “indefinably funky” (Wall Street
Journal) Celtic roots-rock-R&B group Kips
Bay, with whom he toured the United
States and Europe and recorded two
albums for Green Linnet Records.
Joe has written extensively for television
and film, and his work has been heard
nationally on NBC’s Dateline and ABC’s
Good Morning America, as well as
regionally in New York and Chicago. He
is the corecipient of the 2002 CINE Eagle
Award for “ABC News Good Morning
America: On The USS Enterprise” as
cocomposer and arranger. In addition,
Joe composed the score for Italian
Lessons, an independent film that was
the Westchester Film Festival winner for
Best Narrative Short in 1997. In 1993, he
won the Microfono D’Oro Song award for
“Passione Di Musica” as cocomposer and
arranger. Joe has also composed children’s
musicals, an off-Broadway musical (Once
More With Feeling), and liturgical music.
Richard has played on a number of film
and television projects and was featured
on the films The Fort Fisher Hermit and A
Touch Of Fate (scored by Kinny Landrum).
A friend and collaborator of Nenad Bach’s
since the latter’s arrival in the US, Richard
played on both of Nenad’s previous
American albums and coproduced
the debut, Greatest Hits. Currently, he
also plays, records, and coproduces for
the American history-based ensemble
American Stories Through Song and the
eclectic bicoastal virtual pop group Car
Radio Dog.
In the midst of his other activities, Joe
still finds time to work on personal fun
projects, include recording for Kathy
Troccoli (Reunion Records) and acting
as vocalist, keyboard programmer, and
recording engineer for several other New
York area bands. An avid supporter of
other artists, Joe also hosts a monthly
group aimed at helping local songwriters
remain true to their heartfelt voice in
their creative output.
Michael O’Keefe
Drums, vocals
Michael O’Keefe began drumming at the
age of 7. A New Yorker to his core, he was
a fixture in the NYC punk/no wave scene,
drumming for punk outfit The Latest as a
teen and sharing the stages of CBGB and
Max’s Kansas City with such notables as
DNA and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
Always seeking new challenges, Michael
began experimenting with programming
and synthesis and started the new wave
band Dress For Success, for which he
provided vocals, synth, and percussion. It
was during this period that Michael met
Paragon Artists labelmate Nenad Bach,
an encounter that led to his contributing
cover art for Nenad’s first American
release, the single “Woman in the Bay.”
Richard Lindsey
Bass, vocals
Originally from southern California,
Richard Lindsey has made his home in
New York since the 1980s. He began his
musical career studying guitar with David
Amaro (Airto, Flora Purim), then spent
five years studying classical guitar with
the late Seiko Sesoko. At first purely a
guitarist, Richard started playing bass
guitar at the age of 16, immediately fell in
love with that instrument, and ever since
has maintained an equal affection for
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As a partner in Soundscapes, Michael
created scores, jingles, and sound marks
for many products and merchants,
including Macy’s, Home Box Office, and
Cinemax, and he scored industrial videos
for a number of clients, including the
Technical Careers Institute in New York.
He also provided the musical score for
the feature-length cult classic Woodchipper
Massacre, which was rereleased in 2007.
label: New York Rendezvous and Greetings
From New York. He then spent a decade
leading his own group, the Al Orlo Band,
which played original guitar-oriented
instrumental music and featured many
top New York jazz/fusion musicians.
Since 1990, Al has been the guitarist for
the legendary Ben E. King (“Stand By Me,”
“This Magic Moment”), playing at venues
ranging from intimate clubs to 15,000+
listener outdoor concerts. Since 1996, he
has been Mr. King’s musical director. Al
has also found time to play on more than
1,000 performances of Broadway musicals,
including Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Aïda,
Hairspray, Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Little Shop of Horrors, and Legally Blonde.
In addition, he has played on numerous
films and television shows, including the
theme songs for Politically Incorrect (ABC),
A Current Affair (FOX), The 20th Century
(A&E), Good Housekeeping (Lifetime), and
Kids These Days (Lifetime).
These days, Michael’s focus is back on
drumming. He has provided backing,
both live and in the studio, for a variety of
singers and songwriters, including Jeffrey
Braun, Robert Lund, and Dusty (featuring
former Banshees of Blue members Debra
Berg and Sherryl Marshall and Steely
Dan vocalist Lesley Miller). He performs
regularly with Lostdog In Loveland, who
recorded the song “Mother of Pearl” for
the recently released Roxy Music tribute
record Take Refuge in Pleasure. That track
also featured renowned pianist Mike
Garson (David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails,
Smashing Pumpkins). A trained graphic
designer, Michael still finds time to create
cover art for fellow musicians.
Contact Information
Nenad Bach
nenad@nenadbach.com
+1 914 271 7771
Al Orlo
Guitar
Dino Rulli
Production Assistant
dino@nenadbach.com
A pro’s pro, Al Orlo began playing guitar
at 13 and by 16 was already playing
professional club gigs. Since then, Al has
lent his talents to an astonishingly wide
range of musical settings, from rock to
R&B to funk to jazz to blues to country
to prog to Broadway. In the process, he
has played with a who’s who of musical
heavyweights, including Will Lee, Dave
Weckl, Cornelius Bumpus, Oscar Cartaya,
T-Bone Wolk, Steve Khan, Pete Levin,
Rodney Holmes, and many others.
In the 1980s, Al toured and recorded
with the Guy and Pipp Gillette Band and
the progressive art/rock band Artificial
Intelligence. Subsequently, he worked
with new urban jazz keyboardist Bob
Baldwin as coleader of the Bob Baldwin/
Al Orlo Project. Soon afterward, Al began
serving as coleader, writer, and producer
for The SOS All Stars, who released
two albums on the Chase Music Group
Violi Calvert
Media & PR (Australia & Asia)
violi@nenadbach.com
+61 408 22 77 94
Marko Puljic
Media & PR
For booking and business inquiries from
the Americas, Europe, and Africa, please
contact Nenad Bach.
For booking and business inquiries
from Australia and Asia, please
contact Violi Calvert.
www.nenadbach.com
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Latest Release: All I Want Is Freedom EP
1. All I Want Is Freedom (featuring
Rev. Stefanie Minatee and Jubilation)
http://nenadbach.com/NBB/1.mp3
Produced by Nenad Bach.
All songs by Nenad Bach
except “Golden Slumbers”
by Lennon/McCartney.
2. I Will Follow You
http://nenadbach.com/NBB/2.mp3
3. Love Is The Sound
http://nenadbach.com/NBB/3.mp3
4. Yes I Do
http://nenadbach.com/NBB/4.mp3
5. Golden Slumbers
http://nenadbach.com/NBB/5.mp3
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Photo by Danny Schechter
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Links
Nenad Bach Video Press Kit Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ViZhh9gW-o
Nenad Bach Video Press Kit Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9PVG3G_Dso
Nenad Bach Video Press Kit Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eykOPmfx0DA
Nenad Bach Video Press Kit Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTzsVgSOS0
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