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After completing a full calendar of gigs in the past year, Rich and the band are now focused on recording the follow up album to “Terracotta skies”. With most of the material written and demos currently being worked on, Rich will be heading for the recording studio in February. A release date will be posted in the new year so watch this space.
Festival dates and a small tour are being lined up to promote the forthcoming album.
Rich Somers, grew up in Brighton and received his first guitar at 11 years of age and started trying to emulate some of the great musicians of the day. It was the likes of Wilson Pickett, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, The Eagles and many others who all later became an inspiration to Rich’s individual songwriting talent.
Rich left school and trained as an antique restorer and worked his way to running his own business in the Brighton area but there was still a burning ambition inside to express himself through music and this wasn’t possible through the restoration business so Rich Somers started spreading his wings. It was these early travels to places including Bermuda, Mexico,Australia, Barbados and Brazil which prompted Rich’s song writing career and without realizing it, “Terracotta Skies” was now in the making.
As the portfolio of songs grew, the passion for playing live increased and intensified, as Rich played set after set around the resort bars of Mexico. “Terracotta Skies” was dreamt up while enjoying a Mexican sunset late on one balmy summers evening.
Back home in Brighton in 2002, Rich performed in a duo playing the local scene for a couple of years and requests of a record started coming in so under the banner of “Terracotta Skies” the recording journey began.
In 2004, Rich got to work with musicians and producers who empathized to his style of songwriting and after nearly four years of very hard work, “Terracotta Skies” by Rich Somers was finally born.
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