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Matt Bianco is a UK band that was formed in 1983 and continues to exist to date. They are mainly known for their success in the mid 1980s and their jazzy, Latin-flavoured music.
Popular during the mid 1980s in continental Europe, Matt Bianco epitomised the new jazz pop genre, that they shared with acts such as Working Week, Sade, Everything but the Girl, and The Style Council. The name suggests that Matt Bianco is a personal name, often referred to the main constant member, Mark Reilly, but Matt is in fact "a made up spy, a secret agent; we loved spy TV themes and film scores"
The early years as a trio
Formed by the late Kito Poncioni (bass), Mark Reilly (vocals), and Danny White (keyboards), in 1982, out of the shards of the abandoned art poppers Blue Rondo A La Turk, for their first album Whose Side Are You On? they hired then unknown Polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska. Her vocal arrangements gave the album a jazzy dimension that Reilly and White could not anticipate, but made good use of. Mixmaster Phil Harding applied what would become his signature style to the recordings. Hits like "Get Out of Your Lazy Bed" and "Half a Minute" (which Basia would feature live throughout her solo career) turned Matt Bianco into one of the biggest acts of Europe in 1984.
Matt Bianco - 1984 - Whose Side Are you on
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01 - Whose Side Are You on
02 - More Than I Can Bear
03 - No no Never
04 - Half a Minute
05 - Matts Mood
06 - Get Out of Your Lazy Bed
07 - It's Getting Late
08 - Sneaking Out the Backdoor
09 - Riding with the Wind
10 - Matts Mood II
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Basia and Danny White, subsequently a couple in real life too, left the group soon after the first album to pursue an apparently more lucrative solo career with Sony, under the name Basia, on the Epic label. They maintained their working relationship with Phil Harding, who would continue to work with Matt Bianco as well.
Basia Trzetrzelewska, known professionally as Basia, born September 30, 1954 in Jaworzno in Poland, is a Polish singer, songwriter and producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly in the United States, Japan, England and France. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range, approximately three octaves that span from contralto to soprano tessituras, as well as her singular jazz-influenced stylings and multi-layered harmonies.
Basia was born in Jaworzno, Poland, in 1954. In 1969, she debuted with her local amateur rock band Astry, and performed with them on Polish Festival Of Beat Avangarde in Kalisz. From 1972 to 1974, she was a member of the popular Polish female vocal group Alibabki. From 1977, she sang with the rock group Perfect; settling temporarily in Chicago in 1979, she later relocated to the UK in 1981. It was there she met Mark Reilly and longtime collaborator Danny White, brother of jazz guitarist Peter White. In 1983, the trio performed as the jazz-pop group Bronze, but later changed their name to Matt Bianco and recorded their debut album Whose Side Are You On? (1984). This album included UK Top 30 hits "Get Out of Your Lazy Bed" and "Half a Minute," eventually achieving gold status in Great Britain.
In 1985, she and White left Matt Bianco to launch her solo career. In 1987, her first album, Time and Tide, was released, selling over one million copies alone in the United States, including the Top 30 hit "Time and Tide" in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her second album, London Warsaw New York (1990), repeated that success with sales of more than one million units, and featured another pop Top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Cruising for Bruising." This album also topped Billboard's yearly chart of Contemporary Jazz albums, even beating the Grammy-winning album of Quincy Jones. Achieving success beyond the U.S. market, Basia also became a very popular artist in Japan and Europe (particularly in France). Her third and most recent studio album, "The Sweetest Illusion," was released in 1994 and was a moderate success in the U.S. market, selling over 500,000 copies, and globally became another million-seller. Mixed by then-highly sought David Bascombe (who had contributed to Oleta Adams' debut effort), the project marked the end of a 10-year working relationship with mixmaster Phil Harding and a step into more sophisticated territory. The Sweetest Illusion included a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Drunk on Love." Her next album, "Basia On Broadway," was a live-set recorded at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York City, and was released in 1995. In 1996, Basia was featured on Peter White's album "Caravan of Dreams," with vocals on the single "Just Another Day." In 1998, a compilation retrospective album Clear Horizon: The Best of Basia, was issued and contained four previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of "Waters of March," written by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Despite a successful international career and faithful fan base, she withdrew from the recording industry in 1998 after the release of "Clear Horizon," with the sole exception of a guest appearance on Taro Hakase's cover of "So Nice (Summer Samba)." She would later cite the deaths of people close to her (including her own mother) as the reason she "didn't feel like singing." After some persistent efforts from Danny White and Mark Reilly (who had started working together again), she agreed to join a re-formed Matt Bianco. They released the album Matt's Mood in 2004, to critical acclaim. After touring to promote the album, Basia and Danny White began work on a new Basia project, while Reilly continued with Matt Bianco.
According to official website BasiaSongs.com, the new Basia album, It's That Girl Again, is slated for a projected release "in early Spring 2009", while Mark Reilly is working on a solo album with partner Lee Dennsion.
Basia - 1986 - & Danny White - Early Career
01 No Cinderella
02 The Night Is Still a Child
03 Scrapple
04 3am Blues (demo)
05 Undercover (version 1)
06 From Now on
07 Time Tide
08 Peppercorn
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Basia - 1987 - Time and Tide
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01 Promises
02 Run for Cover
03 Time and Tide
04 Freeze Thaw
05 From Now on
06 New Day for You
07 Prime Time TV
08 Astrud
09 How Dare You
10 Miles Away
11 Forgive and Forget
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Basia - 1990 - London Warsaw New York
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01 - Cruising for Bruising
02 - Best Friends
03 - Brave New Hope
04 - Baby youre Mine
05 - Ordinary People
06 - Reward
07 - Until You Came Back to Me
08 - Copernicus
09 - Not an Angel
10 - Take Him Back Rachel
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Basia - 1990 - The Best Remixes
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01 - Crusin for Bruisin (Extended Mix)
02 - From Now on (Band Version)
03 - Run for Cover (Extended Remix)
04 - Promises (Extended French Mix)
05 - New Day for You (Extended Version)
06 - Baby Your Mine (Street Version)
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Basia - 1991 - Brave New Hope
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01 - Brave New Hope
02 - Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) (12 Remix)
03 - Brave New Hope (Brave New Mix)
04 - Give Me That
05 - Crusing for Bruising (12 Remix)
06 - Forgive and Forget
07 - From Now on (Band Version)
08 - Masquerade
09 - Come to Heaven
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Basia - 1994 - The Sweetest Illusion
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01 - Drunk on Love
02 - Third Time Lucky
03 - Yearning
04 - She Deserves it Rachels Wedding
05 - An Olive Tree
06 - The Sweetest Illusion
07 - Perfect Mother
08 - More Fire than Flame
09 - Simple Pleasures
10 - My Cruel Ways
11 - The Prayer of a Happy Housewife
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Basia - 1995 - Basia on Broadway
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01 - Copernicus
02 - Cruising for Bruising
03 - Third Time Lucky
04 - Drunk on Love
05 - From Now on
06 - Baby youre Mine
07 - Yearning
08 - Take Him Back Rachel
09 - New Day for You
10 - Promises
11 - Time and Tide
12 - Half a Minute
13 - Reward
14 - Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
15 - Dzien Sie Budzi
16 - Brave New Hope
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Basia - 1998 - Clear Horizon, the Best of
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01 - Clear Horizon
02 - Cruising for Bruising
03 - Drunk on Love
04 - Time and Tide
05 - Waters of March
06 - Third Time Lucky
07 - Promises
08 - Baby youre Mine
09 - Yearning
10 - Astrud
11 - An Olive Tree
12 - Go for You
13 - New Day for You
14 - Perfect Mother
15 - From Now on (''Live'')
16 - Half a Minute (''Live'')
17 - Angels Blush
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The Reilly-Fisher duo years
Mark Reilly, now without a musical partner, found ex-Wham keyboarder and session musician, Mark Fisher, and recorded the next (self-titled) Matt Bianco album.
With Mark Fisher replacing White and Trzetrzelewska, the sound changed considerably. Fisher, a keyboardist, composer and studio wizard, contributed a more contemporary sound, compared to that of the early Matt Bianco. The use of synthesizers increased notably: Yamaha's DX-7 can be heard providing the slap bass in most songs, but the choice of noted studio musicians remained consistent with Ronnie Ross being the most prominent example. After the first album with the new line-up, they took a 13-piece band on to a European tour, that saw them perform in front of an audience of more than 250,000 attendees in total.
As Matt Bianco was a household name in Europe, Warner Brothers thought it was time to market them in the U.S.. They hired Gloria Estefan's husband and producer Emilio Estefan to produce a few songs, and recorded their third album, Indigo, with the Estefan productions being chosen as singles. 1988's "Don't Blame it on That Girl" and "Good Times" only made a moderate impact, apart from "Wap-Bam-Boogie", an album track originally on the B-side of the first single too, which did well on the dance charts, and pushed the joint single release up to Number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, making it their best achievement ever in the whole history of Matt Bianco, either as a trio or as a duo. After a first Greatest Hits album, entitled The Best of Matt Bianco, collecting their greatest hits from 1983 to 1990, actually out in 1990, and another studio album with Warner Brothers - the fractured Samba in Your Casa, the fourth long-playing by the group, released in 1991 - Reilly and Fisher split from their record company, and went freelance. From then on, they would record their albums in their own studios, and then offer them to independent distributors worldwide.
Now, they had total artistic freedom, but commercial success was harder to achieve. They scored contracts with ZYX Music and Intercord in Europe, and Victor Entertainment in Asia, but failed to sign on with another major label. The next albums did not sell that well in Europe, but they created a loyal fan base in Japan, and the rest of Asia. The albums Another Time Another Place, Gran Via, World Go Round, A/Collection (not a Greatest Hits album, but more of a Best-Of collection, compiling a number of remakes of Matt Bianco's stand-out album tracks plus remixes of a few of their hits too), Rico, and Echoes sold well enough for a comfortable lifestyle in the South-East of England.
After twenty years recording and touring, Mark Fisher started to crave a different lifestyle, and the two split amicably.
Matt Bianco - 1986 - Matt Bianco
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01 Yeh Yeh (12' Dance Mix)
02 Dancing in the Street
03 Undercover
04 Fly by Night
05 Smooth
06 I Wonder
07 Just Can't Stand it
08 Summer Song
09 Sweetest Love Affair
10 Up Front
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Matt Bianco - 1988 Índigo
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01 Don't Blame it on That Girl
02 Nervous
03 Slide
04 Say it's Not Too Late
05 Wap Bam Boogie
06 Good Times
07 R & B
08 Hanging On
09 Jack of Clubs
10 Indigo
11 Don't Blame it on That Girl (12' Mix)
12 Good Times (12' Mix)
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Matt Bianco - 1991 - Samba In Your Casa
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01 - You're the Ryhthm
02 - Macumba
03 - Let it Whip
04 - Strange Town
05 - The Night Has Just Begun
06 - True Love
07 - What a Fool Believes
08 - Lady of My Mind
09 - You're The Rhythm (Brazil)
10 - Samba in Your Casa
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Matt Bianco - 1991 - The Best of (1983-1990)
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01. Don't Blame it on That Girl
02. Yeh-Yeh
03. Half a Minute
04. More Than I Can Bear
05. Sneaking Out the Back Door
06. Fire in the Blood
07. Good Times
08. Matt's Mood
09. Get out Your Lazy Bed
10. Wap Bam Boogie
11. Dancing in the Street
12. Whose Side Are You on
13. Say It's Not Too Late
14. Nervous
15. We've Got The Mood - Matt's Mood '90
16. Fire in the Blood
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Matt Bianco - 1994 - Another Time Another Place
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01 - Our Love
02 - The World Is a Getto
03 - You and I
04 - Buddy Love
05 - Can You Feel it
06 - I Need You Now
07 - Head Over Heels
08 - Your Destiny
09 - Another Time, Another Place
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Matt Bianco - 1995 GranVia
01 Lost in You
02 A Day in Your Life
03 Friend of Mine
04 Love Just Passed Me by
05 Cant Stop This Feeling
06 The Stranger
07 No Other Woman
08 Victim of Love
09 Love Life
10 Lost Souls
11 Lost in You American Dance Mix
12 Lost in Your Rumba Mix
14 Your Destiny Club Mix
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Matt Bianco - 1998 - World Go Round
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01 - Sunshine Day
02 - Gypsy Lady
03 - Altozano
04 - Venga
05 - You're not Alone
06 - I Surrender
07 - Dave's Sofa
08 - You Make My World Go Round
09 - Tranquilo
10 - A Day in Your Life
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Matt Bianco - 2000 Rico
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01 - Cha Cha Cuba
02 - Boogaloo
03 - Stake Out
04 - Mood Swing
05 - Could You Be
06 - Keep the Vibe
07 - Time of Your Life
08 - Turn it Upside Down
09 - Keep the Dream Alive
10 Underground
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Matt Bianco - 2002 Echoes
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01 Fire
02 Summer Samba Samba de Ver
03 Sumba
04 Home
05 All in a Day
06 Echoes
07 Something About Your Love Japan Release
08 Love Like That Japan Release
09 Never Give up
10 Out of My Mind
11 Fire Meltdown Mix
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The reunion of the original trio line-up
Initiated by a mutual friend, Basia and Danny White joined with Mark Reilly to reform the "original" Matt Bianco, in 2003, signing to the Emarcy label. In 2004, Matt Bianco released the album Matt's Mood (the name is from one of their most popular early instrumental tracks), which featured well-crafted adult-contemporary/jazz numbers, in the spirit of their first album. This was accompanied by an extensive PR exercise, giving the album plenty of airtime. The following year, they embarked on a world tour, which included stops in the UK, Japan, and the United States.
Matt Bianco - 2004 - Matt's Mood
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01 Ordinary Day
02 I Never Meant to
03 Wrong Side of the Street
04 La Luna
05 Say the Words
06 Golden Days
07 Ronnie's Samba
08 Kaleidoscope
09 Slip & Sliding
10 Matt's Mood III
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The present: back again to the duo
After the success of Matt's Mood, Basia and Danny White left Matt Bianco again to reinvigorate the Basia franchise. Mark Reilly and Mark Fisher are back as a duo, and originally planned a new release in 2007, which wasn't out as yet though. Three compilations were instead marketed between 2005 and 2008, including a Best-Of Volume 2, containing many of the Asian tracks, which were so far only available in Germany for European fans, and the re-release of the original 1990 Best-Of, featuring their greatest European hits from 1983 to 1990.
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