studiobee music

I was honoured to be invited to have a piece played at the electronic music end of year concert at MUN on April 9th. I jumped at the chance, and have been working at re-working, starting with a piece that I wrote back in 2006 called Jarresque (named after one of the pioneers in electronic music, Jean Michel Jarre).  In its original form, Jarresque was about 60% acoustic, with strings, piano, guitars, bass and drums, as well as a couple of synths.  Now its almost entirely synths, except for a cameo by the amazing LA Scoring Strings that make a brief appearance at the five minute mark. 

The re-incarnation will be called Jarresque Nouveau, and it’s six and a half minutes of relaxed almost completeness are in the player below…

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The original version if you want to compare, is in the player below.

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Chris Kirby had the release of his latest CD, Vampire Hotel, in Toronto last Friday night, July 24th.  Rich played trumpet on several tracks alongside horn players Susan Evoy, Chris Harnett and John Duff. This is one funky CD!

Next Saturday, August 1st, Jason Noble sees the release of his book The Stupendous Adventure of Gregory Green.  Rich was the engineer for the CD that accompanies the book featuring a small orchestra and the incredible voice of Gordon Pinsent narrating.