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Jack Rieley & Machiel Botman
6+ albums
popexperimentalorchestral popbaroque popfolk pop
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Jack Rieley (Producer, Arrangements, Vocals, Synthesizer, Celeste) used to work as a journalist in the United States and Puerto Rico before he entered the professional music world in the early 1970s, as manager and songwriter of the Beach Boys. He is credited as guiding them back to critical acclaim. The Beach Boys met Rieley, while promoting their album "Sunflower", and hired him as their manager. He wrote lyrics to several of the Beach Boys songs, such as "Long Promised Road", "Feel Flows", and "Funky Pretty". He sang lead vocal on "A Day in the Life of a Tree". He also narrated the bonus disc for the "Holland" album: "Mt. Vernon and Fairway (a Fairy Tale)". For the recording of the "Holland" album, Rieley convinced the band to move their families and studio to Amsterdam for eight months in 1972, costing Warner and the Beach Boys a small fortune to produce. Rieley quit his job as manager of the group after their return to the US. Rieley also worked with Kool & the Gang. Dutchman Machiel Botman (Vocals, Acoustic guitar) started out writing songs on the acoustic guitar. Later he composed music on a pump organ at his home. For "Western Justice" he collaborated with Jack Rieley. The album was recorded in the Netherlands and its concept is set in the not-too-distant future, it relates the trials and tribulations of the Western nations at the hands of the Third World, to whom the global balance of power has shifted. Botman now works as a professional photographer. User-con
