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Steve Kopandy
Genre:
Rock, Pop
Region:
Newcastle, NSW
Members:
Steve Kopandy
Sounds Like:
Ryan Adams, Ed Harcourt, Tom McRae
Influences:
Counting Crows, Cyndi Lauper, America
Artist Website:
www.stevekopandy.com
Unearthed Artists We Like:
Glass Army
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Eve Gibson
If Steve Kopandy gets his way in 2007, worlds will collide.
"I kinda like letting spades be spades, And then I like to put them in space. I'm not a fan of assimilation. Be who you are where you don't belong".
Finance trained, Rock and Roll inclined Steve Kopandy knows a bit about being a round peg in a square hole. He travels a lot. He writes from the heart. He takes risks. He often puts his foot in it.
"I wrote and recorded 30 songs in 2005/2006. They did not define me as an artist. I tried to have them all meet on some sort of middle ground and become a little album community. They would not give up their origins. I split them into 2 packs. We were all much happier.
Pack 1 of 2; an album entitled Based On. At the time of writing (March 07) it's about to get out of its comfort zone as Steve pushes it to the traditional fans who think they know him.
Steve's music is always well produced, and it's always about the song writing.. a lethal combination for any musician.. but Based On goes a step further. It's Steve's first 'post-band' release. It's deep, musically, lyrically it's like a journey- and for the first time, it's exactly where Steve wanted it to go.
As a young teenager in the 90's, Steve was learning instruments, writing songs and singing in school choirs. Since 1995, Steve's been in Paperadio, and performed cumulatively to tens of thousands in several countries. He's done a stack of studio time, worked with producers like Andy Bradfield (Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright) and has gone up and down the music biz bungee cord over the last 10 years, metaphorically learning the ropes.
Two years in London, two EP's, Silver Things (2003), and Scripted (2004), and a broken heart later, Steve went shopping in LA and returned to his hometown of Newcastle Australia a changed person (2005).
"Music got me by the balls. I stayed up in the studio irrationally late, rewrote songs hundreds of times, ignored my work and social life and became consumed in making these albums. I gave up a year of my life as I knew it to make music... and I don't want it back. What I want now is for people to get to know me. Now I want to step into the light. I want people to hear my album and see me perform it, and I want it to effect them".
From acoustic guitars all the way to synths, loops, anthems, prehistoric computers and singing upside down; these 2 albums push 2 opposite boundaries for Steve. He'll meet people on the edge, draw others from the centre, and wage wars on worlds he's yet to conquer.
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This project is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through its Music Board Section.