Written as a 10th anniversary gift for my wife, Beth.  

Darrell Johnson: lead vocals
Christian Hastings: guitar
Joel Perry: bass
David Northrup: drums
Crystal Miller: background vocals
Ken Soper: Keys, background vocals, production
Tim Shean: engineering, mastering

From This Day On  (1999)

I won an AGO competition in New Jersey  in 1974 and was obligated to perform a recital. I don't recall the church or the instrument, only that I was 15 and my dad made the recording on a cheap cassette recorder. 

Apparition de l'église éternelle (Olivier Messaien)

I won an AGO competition in New Jersey in 1974 and was obligated to perform a recital. I don't recall the church or the instrument, only that I was 15 and my dad made the recording on a cheap cassette recorder. 

Pièce Héroïque (César Franck)

I played the organ for a friend's wedding in the late 80s.  He asked that I record the wedding music on the synthesizer as a gift.  This uses what I'd consider to be very modest gear of the era, an Emu Emax, Roland JX-8P, a Yamaha TX-81Z, an Alesis Midiverb II and MMT-8 sequencer. Mixed down directly to cassette--and toward the end it got a little hot. Some unintentional tape compression. At the start of the B-section I sampled Virgil Fox's version.  Just thought it was cool. Hence the ridiculous tempo.

Widor Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F minor, 5th movement "Toccata."

It's 1958, Manhattan. A dark, smoky bar.  Shades, beard, beret seated on a barstool bathed in a soft blue light.. Strung out guitarist to his right, alien percussionist on the left.  Stool guy think's he's The Raven. All he's got is two words. Hey Bobby. 

Moog Etherwave Theremin through the Moog MurF. Tortured guitar by Nashville session maestro, Jason Roller. Percussion from Stylus RMX.  The Etherwave seems to know who daddy is.  

Hey Bobby (2006)

Recorded on 10/26/11 at b.d.c.f. studio by Eric Doucet and Ken Soper.  Eric improvised on the Korg Wavestation and Roland JX8P polysynths, over a  Moog Voyager/Model D ostinato. Ken plunked a note or two on the Alicia Keys piano sample for Kontakt.

Ken Soper

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