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    BIO - The notorious version


    Curridiculum Vitae, Ricky Maard
    (Artist name sometimes used)
    Richard Hamilton, Qubenzis DJ,
    Qubenzis Sonic Tek Experience,
    Lately - Qubenzis Psy Audio
    1978 - 79 First 'serious' group, Circus. They performed in Stockholm on various clubs with Modern Museum (Stockholm) annual music festival as the most prominent concert.
    1980 - 81 Worked as an assistant and family helper for Curt Hilfon, famous modern artist, painter, at his home in Maglehem, Österlän, Skåne, Sweden. Learned about the concept of minimalism in art and expression from him. He was (is) a spiritual teacher of Ricky's.
    1981 - 84 Played bass guitar, keyboard and guitar with the group Hefty Load in Finland, based in Helsinki. They toured in Scandinavia including Reykavik Iceland. Keimo Hirvonen (drums), Mosse and Mats Kullman (vocals, guitar, bass), Jyri Honkavara (vocals, guitar) and Hepa Halme (saxophone).

    Discography:
    1983 "Hefty Load" Johanna jhn (LP) 3027
    recorded in Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland

    1983 "Art Of Breeding" (LP) JHN 3013 .
    Three songs on this compilation album.

    1984 maxi-single,
    recorded in MNW Studios in Waxholm, Sweden
    1982 Created sound effects for radio broadcast theater at YLÄ, Helsinki, assisting the actor Mikael Renlund. YLÄ had an early Kurzweil synthesizer.
    1984 Played bass guitar in Pori International Jazz festival with avantgarde saxophonist Curre Nykoph, Keimo Hirvonen on drums and Ari Taskinen guitars.
    1985 - 87 Played bass guitar in the group No Doubt, Finland (not to be confused with another, later established British band) They made one maxi- single and played festivals and clubs in Finland.
    1987 Composed and recorded the main part of the sound track for the Next Stop Nevada theater play, originating in Denmark, which was performed in high schools all over Denmark and United States.
    1987 - 80 Composed and performed (toured south Finland and Stockholm) live music together with Ari Taskinen (electronic musician and multi- instrumentalist, Finland) with the theater group called Porquettas. Ida Lotta Backman, Ana Yrsa Falenius.

    He used synthesizers, drum machine, ethnic instruments, bass-guitar, guitar and percussion, to create ambiance to the performance that was excluding speech.
    1988 Played as musician (bass guitar) in Tukak Teatret, the then only Greenland, Inuit, theater group in Denmark (the World?). Two months rehearsing and one month performing.

    This was an internationally built up performance, with actors and musicians invited from the whole ethnic world.
    1988- 89 Recorded a background theater music and effects track for the Saami ethnic group called DALVADIS.
    Åsa Simma and Norman Charles where then the authors and main performers to a range of performances presented within the Dalvadis theater. 8 MIN FROM THE SUN, visual designer and director Idalotta Backman, Dalvadis Theater, Kiruna, Sweden appr. 200 performances and versions for Swedish and Norwegian TV.
    1990- 91 Rich spent one year with a commodity trader in Finland, dealing with international importers and exporters. Finally they managed to secure a barter trade with a Russian coal mine.

    The coal was shipped in batches of 30.000 ton to a Swedish steel plant, via the Tallinn port in Estonia. In return they shipped commodities like canned food, TV's, cars etc. to Russia.
    1991 - 2000
    on and off..    		 Working with the musician, composer and electronic studio technology pioneer Marios Orozco (2) (He later started the band called U.R.D. Denmark) Our most prominent concert probably was the warming up before a Nina Hagen concert in Grey Hall (Christiania, Copenhagen) 1993 - 94.

    They prepared the music on Atari Cubase, recorded it onto a DAT, excluding the bass and guitar lines and then performed it with a guest rapper, a girl singer as well as us, also, singing, playing bass and guitar.

    They made one single (vinyl)
    1992, "99% Circumstances" together with Nial Rogers, artist and song writer from Ireland. Recorded in Teen Town Studios, Copenhagen.

    Later, as the technology developed I observed and sometimes assisted Marios in building up his digital recording music studio.
    1992 - 1995 He worked as vegetarian Cook in Morgenstedet, a cosy beautifully situated restaurant in Christiania, famed, not only in Denmark, for its healthy and internationally inspired kitchen.
    1993 Co-composed and recorded the music for an album (that never was published) with Martin Taarup, an excellent impressionistic painting artist in Copenhagen that absolutely wanted to make an album... The album was going to be called "Caribbean Dreams", inspired by Martins experiences in the West Indies. Recorded at MOX Studios, Copenhagen, during two weeks.
    1994 - 96 Imported CD ROMS and computer games (Nintendo, sega, gameboy etc.), that he retailed by mail order. The concept was based around a free catalogue containing hundreds of titles which he updated and mailed out monthly to the growing customer base (pre Internet).
    1995 - 97 Worked in the Sunshine Bakery, Christiania, Copenhagen. Here he was trained to make hand made croissants with real butter, danish pastry and all sorts of breads.
    1996 - 2001 Digital g raphics and the Internet. Produced a series of postcards and posters. Inspired by Kati Vääräniemi's art. A painter and handcraft artist from Finland. As well as he produced his own drawings.

    Developed a few experimental web sites. Kalaha.com (domain discontinued) for Kati's art. Developed another web site, artyart.com (domain discontinued) for our postcards and posters. After one year of Internet promotion he managed to get Artyart.com into the top 10 - 20 search engine ranking with the keywords 'free image downloads'.

    Also built a site that was called 'qubenzis Internet marketing', dedicated to Internet promotion. Obsolete since he moved to Spain 2001. In conjunction with this site he developed an ezine, also dedicated to Internet marketing, where he had over 800 (volunteer) subscribers.
    2001 Moved to Spain from Denmark. Couldn't keep up the Internet connection and therefore discontinued much of his previous work related to the net. He actually tried, but the local telephone line supplier, Telefonica, failed to service the first ADSL connection and he decided to wait until a better opportunity arise.
    2002 - 2004 Started one boutique (retail) in Fuengirola called XL Dreams. When he took over it was a Smart Grow Shop, a Dutch concept, retailing legal accessories for home growers of marijuana as well as 'smart' herbal drugs. 'Smart' because they're natural and harmless for the body (no side effects like many Pharmacy and illegal chemical drugs might cause) but still regulates functions like sleep, low or high blood pressure etc.Soon he changed the shop into art and gifts, biased towards an up market customer base.

    However, the infamous Fuengirola city planning killed the dream by starting a huge, one and a half year, building project right outside our entrance. First the main square underground parking project, right beside our street, and then the actual street itself (C/Emancipation).
    2003 Made one CD with mixed electronica music called 'Word Of Action' The music was integrated into the production called KALAHA CD ROM, which included the above mentioned discontinued web sites.
    2004 Then he made a decision to start playing music on a more active level again and ended up playing keyboards with theCeltic Tigers, Irish folk pop and rock music, during two months. Irish bars and clubs in Marbella, La Linea and San Pedro.

    Then I joined a reggae group, for half a year, the Jah Garden House Crew. They played a few gigs in Marbella and made a mini tour in Pais Basque, Victoria, San Sebastian etc.
    2005 Played synthesizers (Clavia Nord Modular), three sessions, with the DJ called Fly Fluss in clubs in marbella as well as in Granada.May 29 he played synthesizers at the Rocket Festival, Andalucia, together with Fly Fluss.July 12 he presented his "Cosmic Embryo W.A.T.E. suite", own compositions played live with synthesizers along with it, at the Colonial Café, Marbella, Spain. The tracks where compiled on a CD with the same name.

    July 19, presented the "Cosmic Wate suite" at the annual La Chispa festival, playing live synthesizers with it.
    2006 During the spring and summer he worked on the
    XEN suite. It became XEN Breaks and XEN Techno and Cosmic Embryo Electronica.
    2007 Released TWO albums. Cosmic Embryo Electronica and Xen Breaks

    DJ'd at various parties.AL ANDALUS TRANCE FESTIVAL (August 24-27). Qubenzis is in the lineup for Chillout Live.


    Posted: May 2, 2008 by QPA. Filed in Category Biographies

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