August 2012 Blog Posts (3)

I've re-worked this composition, arrangement, recording, mix, etc. This features Chris Alpiar on sax and Adrian Peek on drums.

Each summer I retire to my old countryhouse in les Vosges, in eastern France. This year I spent 6 weeks virtually alone on the mountain where my house overlooks de valley. It is, each time over and over again, a time of creative and hard work - in a sense.

This time was no different and the day I arrived - July 7th - I began immediately writing solos for harpsichord. It was as planned, because during May and June, I had intensively studied harpsichord suites by Jaqcues Duphly…

Yes, I've been a member here for about that long now. Since joining, my musical productivity had gone up, I've built an amateur recording studio for guitar and even released my first amateur studio recording (all amateur, of course :P). I've made some new friends and tons of colleagues both inside and outside of this site. So, overall, I'm happy to have joined and plan on continuing to be as active a member as I can.

Outside of music, my life has seen some significant ups and…