Tony Smiley is a one man band who packs the dance floor show after show. His mix of rock, human beat boxing, 80's new wave rhythms, and yes, dash of Mongolian throat singing, combine into one huge mountain of a performance. His songs are original, groove laden works of art that most importantly, rock!
Tony is equally impressive both live and "on record". His second full lenght CD Driving Myself Sane, officially comes out March 18th 2008 on the MastanMusic Label.
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Tony Smiley Performance Video
"Holiday Mud" Click on the video below to see how Tony Smiley, the one man band, creates live loops using real instruments and sings and plays every part.
Tony Smiley
Driving Myself Sane CD
MastanMusic Label - Re-mastered Edition
2007
$12.00
Tony Smiley is a one man band super great song-writing freak! His songs literally wisk you away and make you want to move to infectious groove and world class melody. Tony doesn't just play every instrument (LIVE TOO!), he sings with real chops. He's going to actually be huge one day, because he is actually really really good. This is a full length album of 11 groovacious long tracks (2 more than the original unmastered release.) You will keep this in your players for a long time to come.
Tony Smiley - Music Video
"Follow Me" - Filmed and directed by Eamon Driscoll
Tony Smiley finds a label to "get down" with Artist backed music label MastanMusic signs one-man-riot-loop-ninja Tony Smiley.
Portland, Oregon - One-man band and talented singer-songwriter Tony Smiley has signed to artist owned and operated indie music label and audio-video production company, MastanMusic. "Tony's got what it takes to make it as a musician. He's prolific, an accomplished musician, has a great voice and loves to connect with people when he plays out. People go crazy for Tony," said Jeremy Wilson, artist/owner of MastanMusic.
Driving Myself Sane,Tony's second full length CD will come out this November, 2007 on the MastanMusic label and will mark the beginning of extensive touring and live promotional events throughout the Northwest through winter 2008. A follow-up 3rd CD is also scheduled for release in the spring of 2008 with a national tour to follow.
Tony is an Oregon native and has been playing music for over 20 years. He grew up in Hood River listening to The Police, Motley Crue and Chuck Mangione. Dubbed the "one man riot loop ninja" by fans, he has created a one-man band sound that mixes up funk, folk and grunge with beatbox and even a dash of Mongolian Throat singing. Asked who he thought he sounded like, he replied, “Pinback, Helio Sequence and Outkast.” Then he thought for a second and added, “and Tears for Fears.” Someone else at the table Tony was being interviewed at said, “Soundgarden, the Talking Heads and the Grateful Dead!”
In the studio and in performance Tony builds his songs one loop at a time. Unlike most loop pedal artists, he doesn’t use any pre-recorded loops. He generally starts with a rhythm guitar track, then adds a bass line. Next, he either lays down a beat at a drum kit or steps up to the mic and beatboxes his own drum track. Then comes a lead riff on guitar and then he starts singing, passionate, groove laden songs and the audience immediately connects. With all his loops firing like a well oiled machine he is free to unleash a barrage of wah pedal funk, crunchy distortion or flurries of fretboard riffs. More often than not where and whenever Tony plays, the dance floor "gets down" with enthusiastic audiences who cheer for more when the show is done.
It was at one of Tony's fine performances that Jeremy Wilson first heard and met Tony through fellow artist and MastanMusic producer Sam Densmore when Sam's band Silverhawk played a show with their old pal at the ACME club in Portland, Oregon. "Tony's pure talent and enthusiasm for what he does is what immediately drew me to his music and awesome live show. I knew from the first time I heard and saw him play that I wanted to talk with Tony about helping him release his music and getting it out to people," ads Jeremy about his first time seeing Tony live.
Jeremy Wilson is widely known for his song-writing and as the singer-guitarist for the 80s and 90's rock bands Dharma Bums and Pilot. He has spent 25 years making his living as a musician and multimedia producer and has worked on albums for such varied artists as Pete Townsend, Heatmiser (Elliot Smith), Barret Jones, Rollie Tussing, Kind Of Like Spitting, and most recently, Casey Neil.
After years of slogging out an existence signed to major labels Elektra and Mercury Records, and publisher Sony in the 90's. Jeremy decided to "re-take" control of his career in 2000 and got out of his major contracts. Using a name that had been his publishing name for years, in 2001 he started MastanMusic.
MastanMusic is now a fully equipped audio and video production studio based in burgeoning lower SE Portland's hip Industrial Area. Online the website is a blog and webcasting portal that among other things hosts the popular podcast, The MastanMusic Hour. But, most importantly, Jeremy would like MastanMusic to be known as a music label that is enthusiastically run by him and other fellow musicians. "The MastanMusic Label is a collection of like-minded musicians utilizing a great production studio to "band" together their collective skills to help produce and promote one another's music," explains label VP, artist and producer, Sam Densmore.
With U.S. and European CD distribution combined with an established strong online presence and digital distribution all in place. The MastanMusic Label is preparing to ad 3 new full length CD releases to it's catalogue by Tony Smiley, Silverhawk and The Dry County Crooks in the spring and summer of 2008. Current releases include Jeremy Wilson - Independence Vol.1: demos and out-takes and Lew Jones - Sublimation albums.
Driving Myself Sane,Tony's second full length CD will come out this November, 2007 on the MastanMusic label and will mark the beginning of extensive touring and live promotional events throughout the Northwest through winter 2008. A follow-up 3rd CD is also scheduled for release in the spring of 2008 with a national tour to follow. 
It was at one of Tony's fine performances that Jeremy Wilson first heard and met Tony through fellow artist and MastanMusic producer Sam Densmore when Sam's band Silverhawk played a show with their old pal at the ACME club in Portland, Oregon. "Tony's pure talent and enthusiasm for what he does is what immediately drew me to his music and awesome live show. I knew from the first time I heard and saw him play that I wanted to talk with Tony about helping him release his music and getting it out to people," ads Jeremy about his first time seeing Tony live.
