Except for the singing all of the "members" are me. I play all instruments in the songs on this page but any vocals will be either by Chad Barker, Kelela Place or very rarely, myself. I can't sing very well so I'm extremely grateful for the help Chad and Kel have been.
Instruments that can be heard in my music (plus some that got edited out) so far:
acoustic & electric guitar, bass, sitar, mandolin, flutes & whistles, duduk, keyboards, doumbek and other percussion, badly played violin, MIDI programming...
Big thanks to...
Jon Gibbons, for getting me and Chad back into recording again.
Andy Miller, for keeping me playing music when I'd almost forgotten which end the cord goes into.
Kelela Place, for inspiring, encouraging and indulging me in this sometimes time-demanding hobby.
For more of my playing check out Chad's page. I play a few solos here and there and some bass/keyboard/mandolin where requested on a couple of his songs.
Influences
The Beatles, Queen, George Harrison, Concrete Blonde, The Chieftains, Chris Isaak, Death Cab for Cutie, Ravi Shankar, Gogol Bordello, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, System of a Down, The Decemberists, Cake, Ok Go, George Michael, The Monkees, Turkish pop music, Classical music, Indian Classical music, world music
Sounds Like
...whatever I feel like at the time. I tend to take a very mechanical/structural approach to writing so I like to explore different styles and techniques sometimes just for the challenge of writing in an unusual style/meter/mode/key. So perhaps the best answer would be "World Music" even though I'm about as suburban boring white bread as they come.
This page contains some of the music I've been writing and recording over the past few years, some with friends and some by myself. In case anybody stumbles across this page accidentally I hope you like the music.
Be sure and check out my YouTube page. There are music videos for a couple of my songs, random videos of me playing different instruments, preview of future songs I'm working on, and a few grainy, blurry videos of me playing for belly dance shows!
Ron on YouTube
After creating the World, the Gods wondered where they could hide the key of Life. One of them paused and said: “There is one place on earth where the Humans will never look. Their own heart”.
Hello, Ron! Thank you for your visit, and for accepting the friendship! I see you have a nice collection of instruments. I'm also interested in oriental instruments. Your music is very open-minded, which is a really rare thing.
This is Awesome... You have some marvelous, wonderful sounds... eewwww... sitar...???!!! you must bring that to Fort Worth Flute Circle... we would love it :) Missing you there, btw.... Happy you found me and sent the add... soft winds blessings rae
