SEAN WRIGHT SONG REMIXED BY MIKE EUPHONY
19th April 2008
The opening track of the WAR NO MORE album, "Why" has been re-mixed by dance production legend Mike Euphony (Heaven 7, Euphony, Warped Science).
Mike's latest project HEAVEN 7 was formed with Vicky Fee in 2005. Together they are responsible for the creation of numerous hardcore anthems such as This Life, Dance with Me, Speak of Love, Kontact DJ and many more. Mike has also had hits with dance legend Al Storm
Mark Tinley is the original producer of "Why" and the album WAR NO MORE.
Hear Mike Euphony's re-mix of WHY.
FASHION SITE LA STORY FEATURE SEAN WRIGHT
April 12th 2008
Fashion site LA Story have featured Sean Wright's YOU TUBE LOVER. Stevie Wilson's LA Storys says, "Musician and author Sean Wright is a killer musician who has this album a month project going on. (yes, really!! ) He’s incredibly talented and I have reviewed a couple of them but I can barely keep up with this man — and he’s writing books too. He’s genius!" Read more.
SEAN WRIGHT'S WAR NO MORE SONG FEATURED ON CHAMPION RALLY DRIVER'S WEBSITE
April 5th 2008 -
The opening track of Sean Wright's WAR NO MORE album "Why" has been featured on Australian champion Rally Car driver, Dean Herridge's new website. "Why" is the intro/outro soundtrack for an interview with Bruce McKinnon about Herridge's 2008 rally car campaign.
Dean Herridge has won 9 Championship Titles:
* Australian Privateer Rally Champion: 2000, 2001, 2006 & 2007
* Australian 2 Litre Champion: 1997, 1998
* Western Australian Rallysprint Champion: 1995, 1996
* Western Australian Clubman Champion: 1994
Listen to any of Dean Herridge's 2008 Preview interviews, featuring Sean Wright's track "Why?" go to Browse Categories 2008.
Sean Wright playing live at BROADSTAIRS FOLK WEEK FESTIVAL
March 25th 2008
It's been confirmed that Sean Wright will play live at the Broadstairs Folk Week Festival during August 2008. Wright will perform an acoustic set of songs from his album-a-month project. "I'm looking forward to getting back out on the road with my guitar, harmonica, and jamman looper." Show venues and times here.
Sean Wright releases CUT ME UP - album #11
February 29th 2008
Featuring twelve brand new tracks, Sean Wright has released his 11th back to back studio album in the album-a-month project. All the songs were written, recorded, and produced by Wright. The album includes Wright's original version of "Yeah You!" A second version featuring Najam Sheraz on vocals is not included on the album. "I love the Najam version of the song," Wright said, "but I wanted to keep the album-a-month project true to its original concept. Perhaps one day I'll release an album featuring my many musical collaborations." "Yeah You!" featuring Najam Sheraz can be heard at Last FM.
Album #10 - LONG LIVE LOVE - released
January 31st 2008
Sean Wright has released LONG LIVE LOVE, album #10 in the album-a-month project. Long Live Love features 12 new, original songs, written, recorded and produced by Wright. The album includes the much applauded Ballad of Leon Payne, and has what Wright calls "a folk and country rock feel running right the way through."
Sean Wright has signed a worldwide deal with top US music management company.
January 18th 2008.
Rumours concerning Sean Wright signing a worldwide management deal with a top US music management company have been confirmed as "true.". Although no official press release is forthcoming yet, Wright said that he was "proud and pleased" to be represented worldwide by Just Great Management. "Dan Nash and Niko Bolas' credentials speak for themselves," Wright added.
Najam Sheraz Air Plays Wright's "Yeah You!"
Jan 5th 2008,
Najam Sheraz added Sean Wright's song "Yeah You!" featuring Najam onto his myspace music player. Sean Wright's version appeared on album #11 - CUT ME UP, released at the end of February 2008. In early December 2007, Sean Wright and Asian pop icon Najam Sheraz wrote 14 new songs together for a future "spiritual" album project.
Sheraz has had more than 16 number one albums and singles in Asia, and is a household name in Pakistan. He has acheived major sponsorship for his projects from Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Mobilink. His latest album was co-produced by Chris Eaton (Cliff Richard, Janet Jackson, Amy Grant).
Sean Wright releases SPARKS FLY - his ninth album in nine months - on New Year's Eve.
31st December 2007
Sean Wright's Album #9 SPARKS FLY has been released today. It contains 12 new tracks. They can be heard and downloaded free as MP3s at Last FM. Wright has said that this album represents "my most accessible and catchy powerpop album to date. I feel the songs grab the listener from track 1 and just don't let go."
East Midlands Talent Radio Review Album-A-Month Songs
November 15th 2007
By releasing new material every month, Sean Wright could be setting himself up for a fall. Yet with tracks as catchy as those currently on his MySpace music page, who can complain?
'Open Your Mind' is a strong song, with a driving guitar edge that propels him along full throttle, and his vocal delivery is suitably brash. With 'Walking Pretty' showing no signs of slowing down, it's a great start.
'Love's Alive' and 'Impossible' again show talent, especially with the latter, which appears to be his most popular track due to its impressive high number of plays. Sean Wright has an innovative and original idea, and a style to match. One to watch.
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SEAN WRIGHT INTERVIEWED ON DIGIVEGAS.COM
17th April 2008
Sean Wright's www.digivegas.com interview has gone live on show eight-six. "I had a great time," Wright said. "I discussed the album-a-month project and many other topics, from working with Mark Tinley to old-school recording techniques compared to the digital revolution. Plus eight of my songs were played on the show too!"
Here's what didgivegas said on the website link to the podcast.
"Sean Wright is my guest for DigiVegas episode 086. Wright is a British novelist, songwriter, singer, guitarist, and record producer. He's been around for a very long time, cutting his first record in 1978.
Possibly the most prolific musician in such a short time in musical history. He began writing, recording, and releasing an album-a-month in April 2007. Think about it, 12 songs per album, times 12 albums, equals 144 songs written, arranged, recorded, produced and delivered in 1 year. That's an average of a song every 2 and a half days IF he doesn't take a day off."
Listen to Sean Wright's Digivegas interview.
SEAN WRIGHT RELEASES WAR NO MORE ALBUM
31st March 2008
Album 12 - WAR NO MORE - by Sean Wright was released at the end of March 2008, heralding Wright's remarkable achievement of writing, recording and releasing 12 albums in 12 months.
"War No More is a very special album," Wright said. "It's my first album that carries a strong anti-war motif throughout. It tells a story that switches narrative, from my strong personal views to the wider perspective of my alter-ego Jimmy, who appears in many of my songs. It completes a very traumatic and paradoxically creative year. It culminated with the loss of my father to cancer on the eve of the album's completion, as well as working with the innovative production genius of Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Adamski, Dandy Warhols)."
Wright began his album-a-month project back in April 2007 and so far he hasn't stopped.
War No More Credits:
All songs written, recorded and performed by Sean Wright.
Programming, mixing, and production by Mark Tinley for funnymachine.com.
Guitar solo on track 12 "Bells Ring" was played by Kamal Laroiya.
Listen to and download for free all of the WAR NO MORE album at Last FM.
Sue Marchant Show Interview
February 13th 2008
Sean Wright was interviewed by Sue Marchant on her 7PM - 10PM weekday BBC Eastern Counties show on Wednesday 13th February. Sue Marchant found national fame when she was included as a regular feature on the BBC Radio 1 Scott Mills show in 2007.
Wright's 40 minutes interview included some of his favourite tracks ("Blowing In The Wind" Bob Dylan, "Lying Eyes" The Eagles) as well as airing four of Wright's own songs - "I Keep Wondering" (from the ACOUSTIC ARCADE album), "Love's Alive" (from the SATELLITE OF SOULS album), "Make A Strand" (from the OPEN YOUR MIND album) and a live acoustic version of "War Can Wait" (from the WAR NO MORE album). He talked about the album-a-month project, myspace, war, his books, and future musical projects.
Mark Tinley begins production on new tracks for Sean Wright's WAR NO MORE album.
February 20th 2008,
Sean Wright's 12th album in the album-a-month project is being produced by Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, The Dandy Warhols, Gary Numan, The Stranglers). The collaboration officially began on the 20th January 2008, although Mark Tinley confirmed his interest in August 2007.
Tinley is known for his innovation within the music industry. In 1982, he formed the band Peeping Toms with Shaun Morris, and left several months later when they found a bass player; the band has continued to play, in various configurations, for over two decades. He was inspired by industrial band SPK to begin working on solo projects involving the layering of sounds on a high-end tape recorder, while playing in numerous other bands on the side. He played a John Peel session in 1984 as part of the band Dormannu, continued forming and reforming bands, worked in and founded various nightclubs, and acquired numerous synthesizers and other acoustic toys along the way.
Just before Christmas of 1988 his band Garden Of Eden struggled to number 93 in the UK Singles Chart, having sold 30,000 records.
He then formed Diskord Datkord with his brother Adam Tinley (better known as Adamski) and Jonny Slut of Specimen, which signed with SOHO Records and released one single. Tinley then worked for Adamski, first as a programmer, then as a sound engineer while touring Europe and the United States to promote the single "Killer".
In 1993 Tinley was introduced to Duran Duran by Rob Ferguson, hired as a keyboard programmer, and soon became an integral part of their songwriting and production team, working intimately with keyboardist Nick Rhodes. "[Rhodes will] say 'I like this sound, but can you make it like this?' So when we first started he went through all the sounds on all the keyboards and decided what sounds worked for various songs, then asked me to modify those that weren't quite right. And sometimes he'll just describe a sound and I'll sit down and make it for him." Their workhorse keyboard is the Kurzweil K2000, along with numerous other technological gadgets.
Tinley helped to set up the home studio which came to be known as "Privacy" in the living room of guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, which is where the band recorded their 1993 smash The Wedding Album. He also toured with the band, helping to prepare and maintain the complex synthesizer set-ups used by Rhodes during live shows.
Tinley continued working on Duran Duran's subsequent albums Thank You (1995), Medazzaland (1997), Pop Trash (2000), and Astronaut (2004). He also produced The Dandy Warhols with Rhodes, and created the TV Mania project with Rhodes and Cuccurullo.
Ballad of Leon Payne
3rd December 2007,
Sean Wright wrote and recorded his tribute to songwriting legend, Leon Payne. Payne's songs have been covered by Elvis, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, U2, and many more. The blind Texan Leon Payne (1917-1969) is probably best remembered today as the songwriter who penned all-time classics like "I Love You Because" and "You've Still Got A Place In My Heart," as well as two songs best known through Hank Williams' recorded versions, "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me" and "Lost Highway."
Ballad of Leon Payne has been embraced by Leon's daughter, Myrtie. It was released on album #10 - LONG LIVE LOVE. "I love the ballad. I tell you what! Daddy would have loved your originality, " said Myrtie.
Sean Wright Featured on BBC Look East
31st October 2007
The BBC Look East television news programme ran a feature on Sean Wright's album-a-month project. As well as making the regional news, the album-a-month is spreading nationally via the BBC Blast website. Wright said: "I have no idea how long these links will last, as they are news-based, but it's great to see the word getting out across the UK in this way." To watch the interview with Will Parry link here.
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