New album to be released by April, 2012

There will be a new album released by April, 2012 with original compositions and exclusive recording production by Kevan Paul. The emphasis is on electric-violin in various fusion styles overlay-ed across a background of jazz-rock, smooth-jazz, and ambient electronic styles. The album will be initially available through Google Play, but will try to get published on iTunes, etc. as the project progresses. At least half of the songs will be added to the YouTube channel (2010media) to experiment with other visual elements and related ideas for the compositions. A more detailed description of the songs will be added to this web page. The name of the album is "Passing Through The Portal" which is also the name of track 4 of the album. The intent of the album is to continue the exploration of using electric-violin in fusion styles, especially where synthesizer sounds can be added and invented. The intent is to go beyond the dance-beat influences and provide an interesting sound-scape to overlay melodic violin to blend into an interesting ambient quality of sound. There are obvious influences from classical, new-age, jazz-rock fusion, and smooth-jazz that tend towards allowing the violin to create effortless melodies. This is the foundation for this album.

December Recording and Performing Update

December has been a busy month for rehearsing and performing several Christmas party concerts - mostly in Richfield, Utah area for private parties, with the group LATIGO. We are also going to the studio on January 2nd and 3rd for a marathon recording session to lay-down tracks for the best songs that we perform that are not on the latest CD release "A Cowboy's Life". These tracks should be available via the www.latigowest.com website for sale or streaming sometime in January after some re-mixing.

The Jamendo tracks have received some attention, but the day that my album was published, there were a flood of others at the same time, so those who were following current releases may have missed it. I want to explore the "creative commons" license process to re-mix some violin parts on top of some creative experimental music found on Jamendo that allow for derivative use of the content. Specifically, I will take some of the Tom Fahy tracks and re-do with violin parts -- I find that Tom Fahy group has some very interesting soundscapes that appeal to me as a springboard for some experimental violin sounds --- the vast melodic and almost perpetual motion of some of the songs lends itself to further melodic and rhythmic development. If you are curious go to Jamendo website and search for Tom Fahy, or find under the newage or experimental tags. - Kevan