Albert Hammond, Jr.
Group: Albert Hammond, Jr.
Style: Indie Pop/ Indie Rock
From: United States, New York
Site: Myspace.com, Last.fm
Band:
Albert Hammond - Guitar/Vocal
Matt Romano - Drums
Josh Lattanzi - Bass
About:
Albert Hammond, Jr. (born 9 April 1980, in los angeles) is a musician and member of the rock band The Strokes.
The son of songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert Jr. was sent to the elite boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland at the age of 13. While there, he met Julian Casablancas, who would go on to be a fellow band member.
In 1998, Albert met up with Julian in new york city and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.
The Strokes today are a successful band, arguably because of their ability to produce albums of great sound and lyrics while overcoming the 'wealthy heirs' stigma.
Albert is currently engaged to Catherine Pierce, one-half of the folk singing group The Pierces. His trademark is wearing formal suits, usually a different one for each show. Albert is usually seen playing an olympian white Fender Stratocaster, or bandmate Nick Valensi's Les Paul Jr. He is usually associated with the "rhythm" guitar portion of the majority of Strokes songs, and most solos are played by Valensi. The solos in which Albert does play are Last Nite, Trying Your Luck, Take It Or Leave It, Under Control, The End Has No End, Ize Of The World, and Vision Of Division. His solos tend to focus largely on more emotional, "bluesy"-type melodical work, and the guitar tends to have a cleaner, softer tone in comparison to Valensi's (with a noteable exception found in Vision Of Division). He often holds the guitar in a high horizontal position, similar to Bob Dylan and Ian Curtis.
Although vocalist Julian Casablancas is the major contributor to the songwriting process for The Strokes' music, Albert has been known to write a few pieces of his own. He has been credited to writing three mostly instrumental songs (Swiss Beats, Holland, and By The Way) for the bands' 2001 tour video entitled "In Transit". He had also written a song called "Elephant Song", in which Albert used when he was was required to record a song for his Sound 101 class in freshman year, using the school's recording equipment. The song was played at a few shows before the release of their first album. The Strokes was to later rerecord the song as a special giveaway for fanclub members.
Hammond released his debut solo album on October 9th in the uk. Entitled "Yours to Keep," the album features musical guests such as Sean Lennon, Ben Kweller, and even The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles and lead singer Julian Casablancas. Bassist Josh Lattanzi and drummer Matt Romano serve as the backing band, with Albert the main singer and guitarist. It was produced by former Thin Lizard Dawn vocalist Greg Lattimer at the Electric Ladyland Studios.
Hammond played his first solo dates at the end of October in a few cities including New York City and philadelphia. He is set to tour the UK and Europe in November and December 2006, and provides support to Incubus on their forthcoming US tour of January/February 2007.
He has no plans to leave The Strokes, and will join them in the studio sometime in Spring 2007 to begin work on album number four. Hammond also has plans for further solo albums.
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Music:
2007 - Yours to Keep (256-320 kb/ps) ~ 56.21 mb
01 - Cartoon Music for Superheroes
02 - In Transit
03 - Everyone Gets a Star
04 - Bright Young Thing
05 - Blue Skies
06 - Back to the 101
07 - Call An Ambulence
08 - Scared
09 - Holiday
10 - Hard to Live in the City
11 - Postal Blowfish
12 - Well... All Right
Video:
Back to the 101 ~ 44.50 mb
Back to the 101 (Live at the Transmusicales Festival) ~ 28.04 mb
Blues Skies (Live at the Transmusicales Festival) ~ 22.21 mb
In My Room (Live at the Transmusicales Festival) ~ 27.52 mb
In Transit (Live at the Transmusicales Festival) ~ 36.06 mb
In Transit (Live at London Live 2007) ~ 33.86 mb
Comment:
Шикарный инди исполнитель. Гитарист The Strokes.
Весь альбом просто потрясающий! Советую всем!
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Update! 19.02.08