Tell Us A Little About Yourself.Fred Kimmel is a producer/artist/composer/multi-instrumentalist. He sings a bit too. Blazing guitar solos in the Rock genre to Ambient textures and hard-hitting synths in the Electronica genre as well. Come and experience a new twist on sonic reality in the World of Wuj. Oh man, here comes the promo.
If this extended biography bores you to tears, please contact me immediately, tell me the exact colors in the rainbow, and I promise to let the monkeys go free.
Coming from a musical family, both my parents and older brothers were professional musicians, I started studying and playing the guitar and keyboards at the age of seven. At 16, I had my first steady gig, playing guitar and singing Top 40, five nights a week with my brother Karl and my mother at Areles of Queens, The Largest Kosher Night-Club in the World. I have to say that was probably the best musical education a kid could have. Well, sort of. We played 4 dance sets a night. Between the 3rd and 4th set, there would always be this Vegas style show with singers, world renown musicians, comedians, flame and sword swallowing jugglers, really bad ventriloquists, belly dancers and some of the most incredible undiscovered performers I'd ever met. I used to run the lights, while the band played the acts, then come back up on the bandstand for the last dance set every night. The club is long gone, but the memory of that gig will always be with me.
I played with more local NYC original bands in more local dives than I could possibly mention. When I was about nineteen I rented a rehearsal/recording loft in the Music Building in NYC, where I came in contact with many talented musicians. There were over eighty rehearsal/recording studios in the one building. This was where I made my earliest connections in the business.
After 10 years in Manhattan, I left the Music Building. The noise of eighty rehearsal studios is enough to make anyone clinically insane. I moved my recording facility to my basement in The Bronx, where it still is to this day. Well time goes by, and you quit or persevere. I've always had a hard time quitting what I love.
Consistently being charted by myself and with Sali Oguri on Broadjam's Top 10 has been an incredible experience. Being on Broadjam, you're able to get a view and inspiration from a vast number of artists in tons of different genres. I want to thank every one at Broadjam who has given me a good review, letter of encouragement or became a fan.
My songs range from sensitive to ridiculous. I have a hard time calling a lot of my electronica pieces songs. I usually call them sound design or soundscapes brought forth to express some deep emotion or spirit I'm searching for. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I do channeling whatever it is.
Thank you for your indulgence.
Do the words written here spill right out of the computer screen and into your brain? If they do, kindly put them back in, so that other people may read them. Peace and Love On Earth - Fred
JAPAN AND UNITED STATES LABEL AND JINGLE PRODUCTION CREDITS INCLUDE:
J-WAVE 81.3 FM, JOFV 80.2 FM, FM TOKYO, NTT COMMUNICATIONS, FOA RECORDS, NHK, SONY, NIKKEI SHINBUN,
MARC CHAGALL JEWELRY, ARSOA, MMG/ATLANTIC RECORDS, ELITE MODELS, KING RECORDS,
BEN FOLDS, SUNTORY WHISKEY, TOSHIBA EMI, TAURUS RECORDS, FUJI TV, PONY CANYON : also see: www.wujproductions.com - Wuj
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