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Agent Agent DELETED esm009 Vancouver's Agent started as a songwriter's collective that thrived on producing well-crafted melodic rock. After placing songs with many recording artists, Agent realized that they had all the components of a working band, so they hit the live circuit and pitched the group to publishers and labels. They created a low budget video for an international video contest which landed them the $25,000 first prize and industry exposure. That brought them to the attention of CBS publishing and Virgin Records. Many fans of Canadian melodic rock will surely remember that all of this happened ten years ago as Virgin signed the band in 1986 and the self titled album was released. The band then was a five piece, founded by Bass player Andre Kunkel and Keyboardist Craig Zurba. The word that best describes Agent is "survivors". The band has had its fair share of ups and downs. Agent were offered contracts before they hooked up with Virgin only to find the labels collapse days before the actual signing. As they were climbing the charts with their debut back in the late eighties the three other members quit the band, vocalist Rick Livingsone has since surfaced with Vince Dicola in the band "Storming Heaven". Also, the president of Virgin Canada left the label and so the band were left without promoters. But always Agent bounce back, Troy Reid has since joined the band, a multi-talented singer, drummer and guitarist and so the band are now a close-knit three piece. The members now take turns at playing various instruments as well as producing, engineering, mixing and mastering projects in their own studio. Weathering the storms has made Agent stronger and aware of how commited they are to creating and sharing their music. It has often been on the mind of many rock fans to think of how an album recorded ten years ago would sound if given a complete overhaul by the latest technological advances and production methods. Many albums have been re-issued and digitally remastered, but how many bands have actually gone back into the studio and started from scratch. Agent have done just that, this all new release on Escape Music is not a re-issue, it is a total re-recording of the debut with new vocalist Troy Reid shining through as one of the most passionate vocalists this type of music has ever heard. And there is a bonus track not featured on the Virgin recording.... Agent have not been idle these last few years and a second album, "Evidence", has already been recorded. This will also be put out on the Escape label, release date to be announced. Not only that, but the three of them have started work on a third album, watch this space.....… |
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