Strategy

1) Strategy is a Melodic Rock/AOR Band from Austria/Germany 2) Strategy is the solo project of Paul Dickow, musician, DJ, producer, and record label operator based in Portland, Oregon. He formed Strategy in 1999 and started releasing in 2003, with albums on labels such as Kranky, 100% Silk and Peak Oil. Dickow is also in the bands Sound People, Smoke and Mirrors, Fontanelle, Nudge, and One Human Minute, and has previously played in the bands Emergency, The Cold War, Two Noises, and the Fracture Line. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

1) Strategy is a Melodic Rock/AOR Band from Austria/Germany 2) Strategy is the solo project of Paul Dickow, musician, DJ, producer, and record label operator based in Portland, Oregon. He formed Strategy in 1999 and started releasing in 2003, with albums on labels such as Kranky, 100% Silk and Peak Oil. Dickow is also in the bands Sound People, Smoke and Mirrors, Fontanelle, Nudge, and One Human Minute, and has previously played in the bands Emergency, The Cold War, Two Noises, and the Fracture Line. Together with David Chandler he runs the Community Library label established in 2005. To date Strategy has dabbled in everything from headphone-oriented ambient music to house and dub. Based on a refined studio processes that incorporate multi-tracked live instrumentation, archaic synthesizer equipment, archived recordings of improvisations and band practices, digital sound design, and sound of non-musical origin, Dickow's music is a polyglot solution of genres. Musical quotations, discrete sonic jokes, and skewed musicological impressions are blended into a dream-like, impressionistic musical composite which confounds and compounds music's past, present, and future. 3) Strategy is an AOR/hard rock band from Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UNited Kingdom, that was formed in 1984. For the 'Secrets' demo, the line-up was: Vocals – Yvonne Morrison Drums – Rich Malcolmson Guitar – Paul Rogers Keyboards – Adam Kopystynski Bass – Glenn Ketchen Info from STRATEGY by Rich Malcolmson ... My old band, Strategy, has its origins in garage/school/college bands dating as far back as the early 1980s in Edinburgh, Scotland with myself (who moved between drumming and vocal duties over the years, depending on the availability of good singers or drummers) and the guitarist, my longtime friend and songwriting collaborator, Paul Rogers (no, not that Paul Rodgers...he has a 'd' in his name :). The first real demos we cut in the mid/late 80s had myself then Ray Wilson (ex-Stiltskin/Genesis) on vocals while I drummed in both lineups. Keys by Adam Kopystinski and bass by Glenn Ketchen. Sound Engineering by Ian Beveridge (now doing sound w/ Foo Fighters). Those songs were largely co-written by me and Paul but arranged by all band members. There are a couple of rather good tunes on those demos (Heart, Body and Soul and Silver Shadows), along with some stuff that shows us still learning how to write/arrange/play. Right at the end of the 80s, the line-up had me on vocals and Ian Mouat on drums (he replaced a guy called Allan Emslie who we toured with but never recorded with). We recorded a couple of excellent demos with that line-up but again failed to secure major label/deal interest. The songs on the later of those 2 demos (One More Lie, Carrie-Anne, Cry Wolf) were keyboard-written by me then had the whole band work on the arrangements. The earlier demo's tunes (Moth To The Flame and Homeward Bound) were more me/Paul writing them and the whole band arranging. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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