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As I noted in my previous post God of the Sea and my Plan of Attack, I was debating releasing each song in full for 1 week as I finalized them.

This weeks free full length song is Giver of Life (Sol) from the upcoming La famille du solénoïde CD.

La famille du solénoïde is a musical tour through our solar system inspired by the book “The Planets” by Dava Sobel.

Giver of Life (Sol) is available in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure for a limited time!  (FYI, Mars and Neptune were reduced to samples again )

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

- Keith Richie

As I noted in my previous post God of the Sea and my Plan of Attack, I was debating releasing each song in full for 1 week as I finalized them.

Well, this one is really complete, and I don’t see myself making any structural changes to it other than overall tonal post production.  Therefore, this week is bonus week .  Not only is God of the Sea (Neptune) available in full but God of War (Mars) is also available in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure!

For the fans, you will notice that God of War (Mars) is actually a variant of Redshift (Part II – Movement IV) from my CD The Maestoso Interstellar Suite.  This version is extended and the base melody is changed up a bit, and found it fitting for Mars.   I made this version shortly after releasing The Maestoso Interstellar Suite, because it appeared to be the most popular song from that CD.

Give it a listen, and let me know what you think!

 - Keith

This weekend, I created the first draft of what I believe will be the last song on my forthcoming CD La famille du solénoïde.

La famille du solénoïde is a musical tour through our solar system inspired by the book “The Planets” by Dava Sobel.

The track is God of the Sea (Neptune) and remember, it’s a work in progress, and will not be the final version that shows up on the CD

Like I did previously with Ouranos the Progenitor (Uranus),  I’m releasing the current draft in full. The rest of the tracks (Like all the other CD Products I have listed on my music site) are just 2 minute samples of the full tracks.  I have also reduced my previous full release of the draft of Ouranos the Progenitor (Uranus) to roughly a 2 minute sample.

Speaking of the CD, now it’s time to start going back through all the tracks, and determining if I feel they are finished, or what more I want to add/take away, etc on them.  I also want to spend a great deal of quality time in these tracks before releasing this CD.  I’m currently planning on focusing quality time on 1 track per week, which would put me to final post production on the songs in just over 2 months.  Add an extra week for finalizing the cover artwork, and liner notes, then a couple of weeks while they are shipped to CD Baby.  So in roughly 3 months, I’m estimating that the CD will be ready for purchase, as well as beginning it’s journey to the digital distribution sites like iTunes, Rhapsody and others.

Sometimes I can be very impatient, so I’m trying not to let my impatience get the best of me and rush this thing out the door, but I also want everyone to be able to get a taste of the final songs without just giving everything away for free all the time, so at this time, I’m debating releasing each song in it’s entirety for 1 weeks duration each.

For example, when I finalize Sol, I’ll release the full version via this blog for 1 week.  Then, when I complete Mercury, I reduce Sole to a 2 minute sample, then release Mercury in full, etc, etc.

Only time will tell if I decide to do this, so keep checking back!

So, go listen to God of the Sea (Neptune) and I would be interested in your feedback!

- Keith Richie

It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to sit down and do some music, so during a portion of the day on Sunday, and some time this evening…I whipped up the first draft of the latest song for the new CD I’m working on.

The track is Ouranos the Progenitor (Uranus), and the “Work in progress” CD is currently titled La famille du solénoïde

La famille du solénoïde is a musical tour through our solar system inspired by the book “The Planets” by Dava Sobel.

Unlike the other tracks currently listed on the CDs page, I’m releasing the current draft in full. The rest of the tracks (Like all the other CD Products I have listed on my music site) are just 2 minute samples of the full tracks.  I’ve decided to release Ouranos the Progenitor (Uranus) in full at this time.  (Remember, it’s a work in progress, and will not be the final version that shows up on the CD).

(Update 02-26-2007: Removed the full draft for this song, check out God of the Sea (Uranus) for the latest full draft song)

I would be interested in your feedback!

- Keith Richie

  La famille du solénoïde, a musical tour through our solar system.

Inspired by the book “The Planets” by Dava Sobel

Due to the success of The Maestoso Interstellar Suite, I began work on my next CD La famille du solénoïde (The Family of Sol).

I have samples of the drafts of the first 6 songs complete as follows:

•   Giver of Life (Sol)
•   Thief in The Night (Mercury)
•   Goddess of Love (Venus)
•   Terra (Earth)
•   God of War (Mars)
•   Optimus Maximus (Jupiter)

And I am currently fleshing out the first drafts of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.   There may be a few more songs placed on the CD which represent Ceres, Pluto and Eris (the primary Dwarf Planets), but it is yet undecided.

Give the above songs samples a listen and let me know what you think!

- Keith Richie

I updated the video eye candy for The Maestoso Interstellar Suite which features the first 5:30 miniutes of Part I – Movement I (Event Horizon).  The video is only available in Windows Media 9 format.

Check it out here:

• Broadband users
• Dial Up users

- Keith

The following indieOpolis products are now available via Napster!

• Sidetracks – Volume 1 by Keth Richie
• Sidetracks – Volume 4 – Eye of the Innocent by Keth Richie
• The Maestoso Interstellar Suite by Keth Richie
• AlienCarChase by Mark Akin
• Heart of Stone by EelMada

Enjoy!

 - Keith

A good friend of mine (Let’s just call him Mr. Krueger ) was over this past weekend and asked me to demonstrate my music creation workflow.  So, I sat down and tried to doodle around a bit, to show him the process.

The end result was this piece:

Krueger Was Here

Mind you, it’s rough and crude.  Don’t know if I’ll polish it up for any commercial release at this time.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

- Keith