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I have a self-produced CD and cassette entitled "Dreamstate" that I market myself. It's gotten radio airplay, primarily on new age programs, and sells through various stores and some music catalogs. There's a plethora of exotic instruments as well as an arsenal of synthesizers and is texturally lush in its overall sound. You can download a sample wav. file below. If you like what you hear, contact me and get a copy of "Dreamstate". It's available on both cassette and CD. I'm currently working on a follow-up and it's about 90% done. I hope to have it out by the middle of this year.

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My current band project is an ensemble sometimes numbering 7 members. It started out as a Tuesday night jam session of total improvisational jazz/rock/funk/space/ambient music with poetry sometimes sung over it. It's still very close to this but it's evolving to the point where we've enjoyed it so much and it's so fresh a sound that we're taking it out to do live gigs. This is music with a message that is out to alter, expand, and forever change the consciousness of the present day human. If you're a musician living in the Roanoke area and you think this musical situation sounds exciting, contact me by email or call me at 540-763-2589. I'm always looking for new and innovative musicians.

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I have played music for over thirty years and am well versed in many styles of music including rock, jazz, folk, reggae, funk, new age, afro/caribbean, classical, hip-hop, ambient, trance dance, speed metal hardcore death thrash... (just kidding on the last one). I'm an accomplished guitarist and bassist. I can play trap drums, hand drums, piano and keyboards, recorder, percussion, harmonica, mandolin, and various other exotic instruments including the two voiced ocarina. I'm a lead and harmony singer, can write and arrange charts, and am available for hire for studio sessions, live gigs, parties, solo, dances, nightclubs, coffeehouses, concerts, or occasionally catch me in someone's living room entertaining the troops. I have appeared on a number of music productions (CD's, tapes, etc.) put out by other performers as a guitarist, bassist, vocalist, keyboardist, and drummer.

Here's a sample wav. file of Dreamstate you can download.
Or give a listen to a moment of Tuesday night's Wildness if you dare.
Listen to one of my Classical compositions

Click here to read about my Musical Connections from the archives.

Want to learn more about the mechanics of making music and how to hear and recognize intervals, chords, and scales? Go on over to my Music Theory Tutorial .

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8920 Sugar Run Road
Copper Hill, VA 24079
(540)929-4106

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