| Artist: | echodrift |
| Album: | echodrift |
| Title: | Kessel Run |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Genres: | Alternative & Punk / Soundtrack / Electronica/Dance |
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License
Selected License: All Rights Reserved
License Contact: For more info please contact Ante Novaselic email: www.AnteNovaselicMusic@gmail.com cell#: (424) 308-1220
About the artist
Ante Novaselic – Musician/Guitarist/Songwriter
Website: www.AnteNovaselic.com
Email: AnteNovaselicMusic@gmail.com
Cell phone: (424) 308-1220
Instrument(s): Electric/Acoustic Guitars (Primary Instrument), Backing Vocals, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Percussion, Drums…
Ante Novaselic is a musician/Guitar Player & songwriter from the Los Angeles port town of San Pedro California where he was born to immigrant parents of Croatian descent. A musical family to say the least. Ante started showing an interest in music at an early age.
Ante’s first cousin Krist Novaselic noticed Ante’s talent for the guitar when he taught Ante how to play three basic chords on his electric guitar. A couple of days later not only did Ante play those chords as if he had been playing the guitar for years. Ante also learned three more chords and strummed his way through the Bob Dylan classic- “Knocking on Heavens Door”. That is when Krist told Ante’s parents what had happened and suggested that they buy him an acoustic guitar and enroll him in a music school.
On Ante’s ninth birthday his parents surprised him with a gift that has yet to be matched to this day. His very first guitar. A beautiful nylon string classical Yamaha acoustic guitar, and guitar lessons at the Grey School of Music.
Ante still owns and regularly plays that guitar, and it has been on countless recordings throughout the years. Many years later Ante was offered an endorsement deal with Yamaha Instruments, which he still has to this day.
Just two years later Ante’s first cousin & early mentor Krist Novaselic along with his family decided that it was time to leave sunny Los Angeles & relocate to the rarely sunny and damp climate of Aberdeen, Washington. Shortly thereafter Krist was introduced to a young misfit kid who was very much into the same things, bands & music he was into, and they quickly became best of friends. A couple of years later they formed a band that went on to change the face of music forever, and touch the souls of people all around the globe. The young misfit kid he met was Kurt Cobain. And the band they formed was Nirvana….
Ante’s early musical influences were the Croatian pop and folk songs that his parents listened too, Ante credits his older brother Sergio for introducing Ante to Hard Rock & Heavy Metal music and bands such as: Rainbow, RUSH, Thin Lizzy, Dio and Judas Priest until finally coming into his own when he first heard the sounds and guitar playing of Mark Knopfler and David Gilmore.
Around this time Ante moved to Croatia Ante and a couple of his buddies formed a band that set the course for many other musical journey’s & experiences to come for Ante. The band they formed is “The Dvor” (Croatian for The Neighborhood).
The course it set was a chance encounter with a well-known Croatian producer who just so happened to be staying in the hotel the band was playing that night. An introduction led to a phone call two months later which led to an audition which ultimately led to Ante’s next gig. Playing rhythm/lead guitar and singing backing vocals for Croatian pop star Liliana Nikoloska. Barely twenty years old and working as a professional musician touring and recording studio albums.
Ante was living the dream most musicians have, but just two short years later everything in Croatia and former Yugoslavia came to a grinding halt and echoes of civil unrest and war became louder and harder to ignore. Especially when the war was just a few miles from Ante's doorstep Ante had no choice but to leave Croatia and return to the United States.
Back in the US and hungry to play music Ante got in touch with a couple of his childhood friends and formed echodrift. Around this time Ante began to write his own originals and echodrift was the perfect band at the perfect time with the perfect musicians echodrift also had the luck and privilege to be asked several times to be the opening band for their idols. Palm Springs very own Alt-Rockers, Masters of Reality. echodrift also opened for underground cult icons Tito & the Tarantulas several times as well as being asked to do a few west coasts shows with Ante’s cousin Krist Novaselic post Nirvana Band Eye’s Adrift.
Ante is also a founding member, co-songwriter and guitar player for the female fronted pop/rock band COSTIN. A band with a lot of talent & potential.
Costin had a knack for writing well-crafted and catchy three-minute pop/rock songs. That was evident when their song “NAKED” cracked the Billboard Top 100 Dance/Club Chart and climbed up to the 12th spot, and stayed on the chart for nearly a month before falling off.
Another Costin track the deeply personal & inspirational “Better Days” also found success as the theme song for The American Cancer Association (ACA). Sales from downloads of “Better Days” went above and beyond all expectations with all proceeds going to family’s and people suffering from cancer.
Other notable credits:
Charted on the Billboard Top 100 Dance/Club Songs chart at 96th/peaked at 12th with the Costin song 'Naked'.
Exclusive contract with The American Cancer Association (ACS) for the Costin song 'Better Days'
European (Croatia & Switzerland) Top 40 Terrestrial radio airplay for the Costin song 'Devil Inside of me' and for the echodrift tracks 'S.O.L and if and when'.
Four consecutive summer tours with 80’s Synth Pop Pioneers: Naked Eyes who had a Top 10 Single in the US with a cover of the Burt Bacharach song “Always Something there to Remind me”, And a Top 20 Single in the US with “Promises, Promises”. Ante played Guitar, Keyboards/Synth, Backing Vocals while on tour with Naked Eye’s
Belinda Carlisle of The Go Go’s – Guitars (Acoustic/Electric, Backing Vocals)
Crowded House- Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
Air Supply- Guitars (Rhythm/Lead) and Backing Vocals
- Ante is a founding member, played guitar & backing vocals for the localy popular 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s cover band: Mara & The Big Rock Stars
- Other worthy mentions:
- Winner of the Broadjam.com song of the month contest for March 2016. Song 'S.O.L'
- #1 on the Broadjam.com New Age Chart North America. Song: 'Trying to Reach the Ground
- #3 on the Broadjam .com New Age & Best Production Charts Europe. Song: 'Trying to Reach the Ground'
- For the past 7 years Ante has had an endorsement deal with YAMAHA INSTRUMENTS
- Ante has been able to secure and win publishing and sync/licensing contracts with:
- Broadjam Top Ten Publishing
- Music by the Sea Publishing
- One Night Stand Music Publishing
- Chris Bell Publishing
- Noted Audio
- Outboard Music
- Foley Entertainment
Ante has been steadily growing his catalog of original songs and has just under 100 songs written/co-written and recorded.