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Van Gogh by Van Eck truly is a musical and visual journey into the heart and soul of Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh, the volatile artistic genius. Diederick van Eck, the popular Dutch recording artist, enlisted the creative talents of two American award-winning musicians, lyricist Pamela Phillips Oland and producer/composer Tom Harriman, to bring to life, through music, the life of Van Gogh, creating an extraordinary visual and musical experience. Months of exhaustive research on Van Gogh's life, fine-tuning of each passion-filled track, and detailed designing of the companion 40-page booklet have resulted in the creation of Van Gogh by Van Eck, a powerful and moving concept album.
The brilliant collaboration of these three musical artists has resulted in a CD filled with music that stirs emotions of love, longing, joy and despair using the artistic masterpieces of Van Gogh to illustrate the tortured life journey of one of the most recognized artists of all time. The beautiful, rich colors and textures of twelve of Van Gogh's masterpieces that are included in the accompanying 40-page book, serve as inspiration for listeners of Van Gogh by Van Eck.
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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MUSIC AND ART LOVERS!
Van Gogh by Van Eck
A Musical Journey Into The Heart and
Soul of Vincent van Gogh
Private Sound Records has the antidote to those highly impersonal music gift cards: Van Gogh by Van Eck. This stunning music CD with its richly designed companion booklet is the perfect gift to show all of your favorite music and art lovers – of any age – that you made an extra-special effort to make their holiday memorable! This CD will become an important and significant addition to any music collection now and for years to come!
Van Gogh by Van Eck (Private Sound Records, $19.95, November 2006) truly is a musical and visual journey into the heart and soul of Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh, the volatile artistic genius. Diederick van Eck, the popular Dutch recording artist, enlisted the creative talents of two American award-winning musicians, lyricist Pamela Phillips Oland and producer/composer Tom Harriman, to bring to life, through music, the life of Van Gogh, creating an extraordinary visual and musical experience. Months of exhaustive research on Van Gogh’s life, fine-tuning of each passion-filled track, and detailed designing of the companion 37-page booklet have resulted in the creation of Van Gogh by Van Eck, a powerful and moving concept album.
The brilliant collaboration of these three musical artists has resulted in a CD filled with music that stirs emotions of love, longing, joy and despair using the artistic masterpieces of Van Gogh to illustrate the tortured life journey of one of the most recognized artists of all time. The beautiful, rich colors and textures of twelve of Van Gogh’s masterpieces that are included in the accompanying 40-page book, serve as inspiration for listeners of Van Gogh by Van Eck.
Producer and arranger, Tom Harriman has worked extensively with nearly every major motion picture studio and television production company as a composer and musical arranger, as well as working with many of today’’s most popular recording artists; associate producer and lyricist, Pamela Phillips Oland, a Grammy and Genie award nominee, has written songs for many A-list singers, films and television programs, and is an author of two how-to books on writing lyrics; Singer, Diederick van Eck, has had several popular musical hits in the Netherlands, with one of his singles topping the Dutch Mega-100 chart, and has appeared many times on-stage and television as a musical performer. (Complete bios on Harriman, Oland and Van Eck available upon request.)
For additional information about Van Gogh by Van Eck and the creative team, please contact Joe Marich at 323-939-6700 or via email at client6700(at)marichcom.net.
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Credit for conceptualizing a musical album honoring Vincent van Gogh belongs to fellow Dutchman Diederick Van Eck, a passionate musician and singer who has also enjoyed a rewarding career as an international banker and businessman.
After performing as a "crooner" for audiences around Europe over a number of years, Van Eck decided in the late 1990's to pursue his life-long desire to produce high-quality records and involve himself with music full-time. He set up Private Sound B.V. as his music company. Though he was approached to record by Mercury Records several years earlier and his career path did not permit him the time to dedicate himself to music; in 1998, Van Eck signed with Mercury. He recorded three CDs: "That's It," "With a Wink & a Smile," and "December Feelings." In 2004, Van Eck reached the top of the Dutch Mega 100 chart with his hit record "Back Together on the Beach." Van Eck made numerous guest appearances on Dutch television shows such as Christmas Crackers and Music Mozaik and also garnered significant radio airplay in Holland, France and Belgium.
Van Eck has enjoyed co-starring on stage with Dutch Superstar Laura Fygi, also performing on such diverse Gala shows as "Music Among Friends," and "Wine, Dine, Music and Finance." The late international beer mogul Freddy Heineken, a close music colleague of Van Eck's and a successful musician and composer in his own right, so favored Van Eck's vocal talents, international style & panache, that he playfully dubbed him the "singing banker" of the Netherlands.
While interspersing his musical endeavors, Van Eck achieved a formidable banking background that included Vice President & Manager for Lehman Brothers and Dutch Private Bank Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers in the Netherlands. He developed an alternative Institutional investment network spanning the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Scandinavia and Switzerland, also creating an Art Fund for Gilissen Bankers.
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Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Selena, Frank Sinatra, Peabo Bryson, Reba McIntyre, the Jacksons, and Gladys Knight are among the artists who've recorded more than 400 Pamela Phillips Oland songs. Anne Murray and Dave Loggins' Grammy-nominated record of her #1 song "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" has logged well over 1,000,000 airplays.
A career lyricist who defies categorization, she writes in styles from R&B to country, pop to rock, jazz to gospel. Her extensive movie work includes her 2004 Genie Award-nominated ("best original song in a motion picture") end-title song for "Blizzard," the end-title to the forthcoming "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze," the "Digga Digga Dog" opening and end-title song to 102 Dalmatians, and main themes to "Coming To America," "Gideon," "Burglar," and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka."
Her t.v. work includes J*A*G, The Sopranos, Xena: Warrior Princess (3 songs for the cult favorite "Bitter Suite" episode) and all songs (music & lyrics) for the award-winning Kids Ten Commandments.
She's the author of two popular music industry books, "The Art Of Writing Great Lyrics," and "The Art of Writing Love Songs." With highly regarded writer-performer Red Grammer, she co-wrote the 2005 Grammy-nominated "best musical album for kids," "Be-Bop Your Best."
Oland and her partner in TOPA Music, Tom Harriman have signed their first artist Martha Joy to a worldwide record deal with Universal. They just completed writing and producing the album Van Gogh by Van Eck for Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, on Private Sound Records.
The pair are currently co-writing two musicals for European producers Entertainment Content Factory, one inspired by the Oscar-nominated film "Soldier of Orange," and the other on the life of Vincent van Gogh. Oland recently optioned her TV reality show "Hotel California" to Vin diBona Productions, and has co-written the book "Read This! Before Falling In Love" with noted psychoanalyst/sex therapist Dr. Nancy Ronne.
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TOM HARRIMAN signed his first recording contract, with Kingsmill Records, when he was in college. His first professional gigs were opening for such notable bands as Lover Boy, Tower of Power and the Michael Stanley Band. He's been in hot demand as a producer, songwriter, arranger and musician every day since.
He has worn his many musical hats for HBO, NBC, ABC, CBS, Disney, Mirimax, Showtime, New Line Pictures, Republic Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount Television, New World Pictures, Lorimar, the WB Network, the SciFi Channel, Hallmark and Goldwyn Studios, among others. His catchy "CBS Welcome Home" network I.D. music from the '96-'97 season is a 4-note melody that plays on in memory. He scored hundreds of hours of the mega-hit show "Baywatch," as well as being the underscore composer for the teen drama "Popular," and scoring and writing songs for CBS' "Crayola Kids Adventures."
His long history of working with recording artists includes such notables as the Baha Men for Hollywood Records (he created the 21st Century version of "It's A Small World" for Disney), Patti Austin for RCA, Carl Anderson for MCA, Eric Benet for Warner Bros., Richard Carpenter for A&M, Phil Collins for RCA/BMG, Rita Coolidge for Steven Bochco Productions, and numerous others such as David Pack, David Lee Roth, hit Japanese artist Akiko Kobayashi, Joni James, the Harlem Gospel Choir, and Mari Hamada, who sold 2-million copies of her JVC-Japanese release.
An artist in his own right, Harriman was signed to, released 2 LP's and toured for Fun House/BMG Records. He further wrote and produced two solo instrumental albums for Rondor/A&M Records, the songs from which have been licensed by every major network.
Harriman has contributed score and songs to a myriad of productions. Currently the composer for the hit Fox show "Bratz," he is concurrently working as a music producer and arranger on Disney's "Fox and the Hounds II." He also recently produced, conducted and composed music for the soundtrack album "Autumn In New York," featuring Richard Gere. Twice a staff writer for an "A" level music publisher, he worked with Tom Snow's company, co-writing with such greats as Snow, Dan Hill and Barry Mann; and later was signed for several years to Paramount's publishing arm, Famous Music.
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Born March 30, 1853, in the village of Zundert, and named after a stillborn brother, Vincent van Gogh was one of an austere Dutch cleric's 5 children. After a happy childhood, he first flirted with art at 16, while working at the Hague gallery of Goupil et Cie, with his "Uncle Cent." As yet seeing no talent for artistry in himself, he represented paintings and photogravure reproductions in Brussels, then London, where he experienced his first and perhaps most indelible heartbreak over his landlady's faithless daughter, Eugenia Loyer. He moved on to Paris, lost interest in art and took a job as a boys'-school teacher in Ramsgate, England. Now outside the art world, he started walking all the way to London on weekends and viewing art as an appreciator.
Gripped by religious fervor, Vincent then decided to immerse himself in the trials of coal miners in Belgium's Borinage region. Becoming deeply attached to their needs and miseries, he happily gave away all his worldly goods and even his food to those more needy. He had begun sketching by that time, even early on able to richly capture the eloquence of what his eyes took in, a subject matter that filled hundreds of his works all his life - those who toil in the earth and wield the implements of hard work. His brother Theo became his patron and best friend, Theo's money becoming Vincent's sole support. They began a lifelong correspondence.
From 1880 when Vincent moved to Brussels to study art, until his death July 27, 1890, Vincent pursued his art with an unshakeable fervor and passion, producing hundreds of canvases and drawings. In 1885 in the Hague he painted what is considered his first great canvas, "The Potato Eaters," based on memories of the Borinage. It was not until he moved to Paris in 1886 that he discovered Impressionism, and color, along with young fellow painters such as Renoir, Gauguin, Sisley, Degas, Monet, Pissaro, Emile Bernard and Toulouse-Lautrec. An individualist who didn't "fit in," he left for Arles in 1887, where in the Southern French sun he ardently painted in his Yellow House, and-pursuing his impassioned desire to create an artist's colony there-enjoined Paul Gauguin, whom he admired greatly, to come to paint together. After 2 months, Gauguin broke away from him, and in a punishing fit of anguish and despair, Vincent famously cut a part of his ear off. Sinking into a kind of madness, feeling a burden on Theo who now had a wife and a son on the way, his last months-spent in the asylum at St. Remy and then in Auvers-were filled with periods of intense painting, followed by weeks of depression. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime-his paintings lying in unappreciated stacks on Theo's floor-and having been blessed neither with love nor happiness, he fatally shot himself. And that was, perhaps, not an end, but a beginning. For though Theo sadly died 6 months later, his widow Jo van Gogh, after burying Theo side-by-side with his beloved brother Vincent in Auvers, made it her life's work to see that that Vincent's art lived on.
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