Home of the organicgravymix : 'aural explorer' and total soundbite junky.

As I frequently get asked , my own music is 90% created in the virtual world from ,
'found audio', various samples and my imagination . All the tracks are created using
a MacPro / Logic Studio and a Kawai mother keyboard .

The Funtony music is 100% 'real' and was all recorded as single 'takes'on 8 tracks ...
in an afternoon at a closed 'Hannahs Bar' in Liverpool ( no repairs , 2 vocal overdubs )

Marcus Bonfanti is the songwriter
: www.myspace.com/marcusbonfantimusic & www.marcusbonfanti.com ,
if you want to find out more about him ..... he's been here before for sure !

Also in the band that day were myself on percussion , Mike 'Ginger' Smith on Sax n Keys
J.J. Rio on Bass and Craig Connet on Kit .. just one afternoon of musical magic .

I have been a musician for ** years , have mostly been a singer & percussionist
in lots of band's some of which were signed some not .. The last band I was signed with
allowed the label ( RCA )to "can my ass" just before a major 58 date European tour ..
So at that point .. I drew a line in the sand and 'retired hurt' from performance
and spent the next 25 years working as a live sound engineer and PA contractor .
( and making some money ! )

About 12 years ago I was assaulted , seriously injured and was 'left for dead' by my assailants ..
4 months after that .. friends of mine , including my 'righthand man' Craig were involved in
a serious road accident which left 4 people dead including Craig and much less importantly
totalled the vast majority of the PA . Suffering from clinical depression and PTSD
( un-surprisingly ) I became a total recluse for the next 8 years .

One day a friend called by and gave me a copy of the Reason software ..
which he thought I may enjoy and if nothing else would be good mental exercise
to get my engineering skills up to speed ... and maybe might give me a Reason to live !

Within a year , I was back out working and became the engineer for a young band called
'The Breakmakers' with whom I worked several major gigs and that re-awoke my career ...
Two of these 'young guns' , Craig Connet and Marcus Bonfanti ran an open mic night
as members of the house band and when they found out I was a conga player asked me
to play percussion with them .. after months of prevarication and self doubt I took myself to the bar ..
had a blast and the end result 7 months later , was the Funtony recording ..
& if I never record anthing ever again I'm happy with it ... and would play it to anyone .