Pianist / Improviser. I try create music which combines the quality and diversity of classical music with the accessibility of pop.

Heaven & Earth, who have just released their third album entitled "Dig", is the brainchild of British guitarist Stuart Smith who was mentored by Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore. "Dig", which has been hailed unanimously by the press as the "Best Rock Album in the last 10 years", features, along with Smith on guitars, powerhouse vocalist Joe Retta (Sweet), bassist Chuck Wright (Quiet Riot/House of Lords), keyboard player Arlan Schierbaum (Joe Bonamassa), and long time drummer Richie Onori (Sweet).

Heaven & Earth established a following back in 1998 with the release of the first album “Heaven & Earth featuring Stuart Smith” which featured a myriad of guests such as Richie Sambora, Joe Lynn Turner, Glenn Hughes, Carmine Appice, Kelly Hansen and many others. A second album, “Widows to the World” was released in 2001 and featured ex Baton Rouge singer Kelly Keeling. In 2008 Smith took a hiatus to play in the reformed “Sweet” with bassist Steve Priest but quit in 2012 to concentrate on the new Heaven & Earth album.

A chance meeting with Bruce Quarto in 2008 set the wheels in motion and after assembling the band Smith and Quarto proceeded to spend the next 14 months producing what would turn out to be not only a labor of love but the best Heaven & Earth album to date. Producer Dave Jenkins was brought in to produce and record “Dig” which was recorded in Ocean Studios using analog tape and was released in April 2013 on Quarto Valley Records.


Defying Giants is a poprock band from stockholm, Sweden. Great popsongs with the sounds and feel of arenarock makes a perfect match and an exciting blend of modern meets timeless.
Martin and Ivan met at the royal collage of music in stockholm while studying music and media production.
They both have their roots in the swedish rock scene and with a similar taste in music and dedication to hard work they wanted to create something new tighter. Their first single "wanna go home" is an uptempo popsong with the big orchestral strings and percussion mixed with synths and a traditional rock setup. It is a song where the simplicity of a four chord progression tangels with a playful string arrangement that just reveals more every time you listen.
They both started practicing music at an early age and the whole production of defying giants is done solely of the two.
A shared interest in great music and production brought the two guys together. Ivan Höglund and Martin Rhyder make a true face of the modern musician with a mixture of hard work, talent and DIY attitude.
It all starts with two guys in the studio and we'll see where it ends up...

NEW SINGLE 'PIECES' OUT NOW!
https://daughtry.lnk.to/Pieces

ANDRZEJ CITOWICZ – Polish Cairo-based guitarist  and songwriter, former recording artist for Down Boys Records (record  label belong to Erik Turner and Jerry Dixon from Warrant band) and also  guitarist for T.A.C.E. Project

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