I finally took the time to upgrade my DAW over the past two weeks by upgrading to Sonar 8.5, landing it on a re-purposed high end workstation running Windows 7 with 8 gigs of memory, etc…and I have FINALLY started working on new music.

My first new track is titled “Sea Dragon” and you can listen to a sample of it here

If you have a FaceBook account, I’ve created a new fan page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keith-Richie/131900043275 .  Be sure to check it out as you can hear the entire draft of Sea Dragon on this page.

As far as the indieOpolis site, it’s in DIRE NEED of an overhaul.  I need to completely re-write/replace it with something that’s going to allow me to streamline my update process for it.   More news on that as it develops.

Off to do the day job now, and tonight, more music

- Keith

For you iTunes users, I’m happy to announce that my latest CD, La famille du solénoïde, is now available via iTunes!!!

Check it out!!

- Keith

Life is based on what is placed before you.   The one thing I wanted to do over the last few months is put La famille du solénoïde into it’s final resting stage and call it complete.   But the more I listen to the final renditions of what I have completed, I realize that it is done.  The key question, is ….Is it something that others will enjoy.    While I love it and enjoy it, it can have a few points that need refractor, but I am a perfectionist and know that nothing I do will ever be completely satisfactory.  So I have to open it up to the listening audience.  If you feel that the CD is worth releasing in it’s current form, then I’ll do just that.

Therefore, I have released the album in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure until I finalize and send the media to CD Baby for conclusion.

My question to you is, does it suffice?   Is it something you would purchase?

All the songs at this location are being released in their entirety for your listening pleasure.   If you are a follower of my blog, you’ll let me know if something is out of synch and needs further work.  Otherwise, I’m ready to ship this product.   Of course, when I ship, I will reduce the availability of the tunes to just samples, but I would be highly encouraged by your feedback.

Therefore, listen to La famille du solénoïde in it’s entirety and let me know what you think!

Again, each track is the full track that will show up on the CD.   Let me know what you think!

- Keith

We had a really smokin’ run through Utah , Cali , Oregon , Washington , Idaho Made a lot of new friends , and kicked some musical booty..

Along for the ride was The Travis Larson Band , a most excellent band you need to check out asap . Instrumental music with groove , melody and style to boot ! Not to mention dang nice peeps

Check them out !

www.travislarsonband.com

Tristan ( driver / sound engineer ) are sitting a TA truckstop in Denver , a rare day off . We are going to be at the Englewood Colorado Guitar Center on 7-10-07 from 3pm – ? .

Check out all the cool gear and the amazing DigiTruck..

Cheers , Mark

Look forward to seeing you there…

This week, there are two free full length songs from the upcoming La famille du solénoïde CD.

• Thief in The Night (Mercury)

And

• Goddess of Love (Venus)

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

Thief in The Night (Mercury) and Goddess of Love (Venus) are available in their entirety for your listening pleasure for a limited time!  (FYI, Sol was reduced to a sample again)

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

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

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

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

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