Nightwind – The CD

Night Wind, Guitar Instrumental was my very first effort in recording music and making a CD. There are 19 compositions on this CD as listed below under Included Compositions. Every one is a rookie at sometime in their career:)

My intention was to make a Demo CD so I could have some documented evidence that I did indeed, at some point in my life, write some music. To me and just as important was learning the process of recording music and learning what was all involved in making a CD from scratch.

I set out to conquer the world with a dozen songs, my guitar and hope to complete a project quickly, but, as fate would have it, there where mountains to climb before I could complete the CD.  It was a matter of circumstance that just prior to leaving work one day, I was involved in an Industrial accident that crushed my left hand and shattered the first bone of my middle finger. As a Guitarist, this is a huge problem as one would guess. In between corrective surgeries, yes there were a few, I was able to use the Guitar as a form of Physical Therapy. My doctor, Dr. Jeffrey Copeland out of the St. Charles Missouri area, saved both the effective use of my hand and finger as well as, in many ways, my musical life. So a huge thank you to his incredible skill as a Surgeon. My Guitar skills were lessened but I somehow managed to make some recordings anyway. The results were not first class but they were good enough to document some of my music. The CD was never commercially released, at least to date that is:)

The first recordings for Night Wind were completed at Prizm Studios in St. Louis Missouri and produced by James Gast, was my Engineer/Producer, on 5/12/1994. I later recorded more songs in Madison Wisconsin at the Madison Media Institute on 7/30/1995. Jennifer Collier was my Engineer at that time. I recorded more music basically in one recording session. It was Jennifer who prompted me to push myself and to make more music.

A while later, I completed the recording of the included music in Rockford Illinois at In Flight Productions. Here, Greg Skolaski was my Engineer and he helped me to produce the final CD. The concluding recording sessions that took place over a four day period, 8/23 through 8/27 in 1997 at In Flight Productions were quite the learning experience. The end result was Night Wind, my very first CD project and finally some evidence that I could and did write some music.

Included Compositions

Here is the list of recordings included on this CD, Night Wind;

Jasmine – Length: 02:29

Prisms – Length: 01:47

Trail of Tears – Length: 01:51

Psalm of Praise – Length: 02:54

Leprechaun Song – Length: 01:21

Close To Home – Length: 02:28

Dedication to Trees – Length: 01:23

Mad About You – Length: 01:52

Carousel – Length 00:56

Come To Me – Length: 02:23

In The Glen – Length: 02:29

Lonesome Rider – Length: 01:45

Requisite For Rainbows – Length: 05:00

Sea Scape – Length: 01:56

Night Wind – Length: 03:31

Waltz in A Major – Length: 01:20

Simple Lullaby – Length: 01:59

Celtic Swirl – Length: 01:06

Bouquet – Length: 01:36

Requisite for Rainbows, Reprise – Length: 02:15

As time went on, I did redo and rewrite all of these compositions for Solo Guitar and I have also arranged them for the String Quartet and for Small Group Ensembles, some remain as arranged only for Solo Guitar. All of the ADAT and DAT tapes are still available and all of the original Masters are still available.

…and so it was, my first steps into recording a music album. When I began, I had no idea as to what was involved, how long it would take, what trials I had to endure and how many decisions a person has to make to produce a single CD. I didn’t think I would tackle the process again, but, that was three CD’s ago and more than ten years have past since I first stepped into a recording studio.

At this time, I have been unable to redo this CD as I had intended. The original is out of print, sadly. Hopefully, I will be able to get back to the studio to finish this work. Please be patient. I will get it done:)