Name: Fly - Featuring David Hykes by Chris Birkett
Duration: 4 min 13 s
Description: This track from Chris Birkett's album 'Freedom' features a Harmonic Chant performance from David Hykes. Recorded and mixed at Chris Birkett productions, Paris, France.

I was on my magic carpet flying home to the planes of light, the Pleides. Great song and harmonic chant and acoustic work is stunning. I love the vocal quality.

Original Song. Written by Dale Sheppard. Lyrics by Kim Sheppard. Recorded, Engineered, Mixed, Produced by Dale Sheppard. All instruments played and recorded by Dale Sheppard except - Drums courtesy of Nicola D’Adamo; Companion Drum Beat (BOSS - DR-3); additional Synth and Keyboard tracks courtesy of  Russell Ovans; Lead Guitar and additional Rhythm Track courtesy of James Love. Vocals - Dale Sheppard. Chorus Vocals - Kim Sheppard and Dale Sheppard. Valuable mixing and arranging feedback - Chris Birkett, Russell Ovans, David Murphy, James Love, Kim Sheppard, Marisa Sheppard, Rob Golden.

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An original - Nalligivagit (I love you) 
Jordey Tucker on guitar and Sarah Page on the Harp 

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July 26th we lost a great warrior Poet, Sinead O'Connor. 
Here's an interview with Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell on BBC 5 Live July 27th 2023

Intreview On Sinead With Tony Livesey And Clare McDonnell On BBC 5 Live

This original song written by Shari Tallon was produced by Chris
Birkett to create a beautiful arrangement with me on flute, piano, vocals, and Chris on strings, guitars, horns, bass, drums, harmonies, vocal arrangements.  A wonderful experience as this song unfolded into more than I could have wished for.

Compassion

Do you ever listen to your inner voice?  It will guide you if you listen to it.  Act on your initial instinct before you double think and this will bring you peace and joy.  Recorded in Toronto - all instruments and vocals by Chris Birkett, with Shari Tallon on backing vocals.

The Voice

This song was inspired during my first summer at my home on a small bay of Lake Ontario by a Provincial Park.  I started remembering all that energy we put into enjoying the warm summer weather in my younger years and how much fun we had when I was watching the activity on the water starting with the Walleye Fishing Derby in May.
Produced by Chris Birkett.

Summer is a Torid Affair

This track from Chris Birkett's album 'Freedom' features a Harmonic Chant performance from David Hykes. Recorded and mixed at Chris Birkett productions, Paris, France. 

Fly - Featuring David Hykes

Some solos I played on Biohazard’s album “Uncivilization”. Featuring Corey Taylor, Jordy Jordinson and Mick Thompson of Slipknot, pete Steele of type o, Phil Anselmo of Pantera, and members of Sepultura

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Interview on  May 14, 2024  with Jeff Sammut about Chris Birkett's new album, "She's My Guitar" announcing the album release concert at Hugh's Room in Toronto on August 17, 2024.

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A song from Chris Birkett's album "Freedom" featuring David Hykes on Harmonic overtone solo

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JAMMIT Multitracks &amp; Transcriptions: <a href="http://jammit.com/store/all?artist=yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vocals</a>, <a href="http://jammit.com/store/all?artist=yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guitar</a>, <a href="http://jammit.com/store/all?artist=yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keyboards</a>, <a href="http://jammit.com/store/all?artist=yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bass</a>, <a href="http://jammit.com/store/all?artist=yes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drums</a>&#13;
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WE HAVE HEAVEN&#13;
Tell the Moon-dog, tell the March-hare &#13;
Tell the Moon-dog, tell the March-hare&#13;
 We have heaven To look around,&#13;
to look around He is here, Here is here&#13;
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FRAGILE&#13;
01.	Roundabout&#13;
02.	Cans and Brahms&#13;
03.	We Have Heaven&#13;
04.	South Side of the Sky&#13;
05.	Five Per Cent for Nothing&#13;
06.	Long Distance Runaround&#13;
07.	The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)&#13;
08.	Mood for a Day&#13;
09.	Heart of the Sunrise&#13;
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Bonus tracks available on the 2003 Expanded Remaster:  &#13;
10. America&#13;
11. Roundabout&#13;
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PERFORMED BY YES&#13;
Jon Anderson: vocals&#13;
Bill Bruford: drums, percussion&#13;
Steve Howe: electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals&#13;
Chris Squire: bass guitars, backing vocals&#13;
Rick Wakeman: Hammond organ, piano, RMI 368 Electra-Piano and Harpsichord, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer&#13;
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PRODUCED BY&#13;
Eddie Offord &amp; YES&#13;
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Released        25 July 1969 (UK)&#13;
Recorded        Spring 1969 at Advision and Trident Studios, London, England&#13;
Duration        41:17&#13;
Label   Atlantic, WEA&#13;
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Fragile is the fourth studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released on Atlantic Records. It is the first to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye in 1971, and the first to feature cover art by Roger Dean, who would design many of the band's records.&#13;
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Upon its release in the UK in November 1971, Fragile hit number 7 on the UK Album Chart, which would prove its highest position there.[1] It later reached number 4 on the US Billboard 200[2] during a stay of 46 weeks. Its release in the United States was held back for two months because of the chart momentum of their previous record, The Yes Album.&#13;
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See YES on Tour in 2013 performing 3 full-length albums: &#13;
The Yes Album, Close To The Edge &amp; Going For The One.&#13;
More info at: yesworld.com&#13;
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Yes - We Have Heaven (excerpt)

Chris Birkett Bio 

Chris Birkett is a multi-talented, award winning producer, singer/songwriter, composer and sound engineer. His music collaborations with A-list international artists like Sinead O'Connor, Alison Moyet, Dexys Midnight Runners, Talking Heads, The Pogues, Bob Geldof, Quincy Jones, Mel Brooks and Steve Earle have sold over 100 million records and earned four Canadian Junos, a Grammy, a Polaris Music Prize and three international AMPEX Golden Reel Awards for excellence in the music business.
Chris is no stranger to Canadian music, having co-produced five award winning albums for the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie, including her comeback album “Coincidence and Likely Sto-ries” (1992) and the Juno winning “Running for the Drum” (2009). He received a Canadian Screen Award for best sound on the 2022 feature biograph “Buffy Sainte Marie: Carry It On”.
His career began as a guitarist, playing in London clubs before touring with Memphis artists Rufus Thomas, Ann Peebles and King Floyd. At 23, Chris was performing with the pop group Love Affair, whose song "Everlasting Love" ruled the UK charts. The following year, he joined the band Omaha Sheriff who had just signed a major recording deal with Tony Visconti, man-ager of Good Earth Records and producer for David Bowie and the Moody Blues.
With Visconti as a mentor, Chris expanded his career to include producing, engineering and mixing many UK and international hits including Sinead O'Connor's #1 song “Nothing Com-pares 2 U”. His London studio was a beehive of activity that was rated #2 in the world on Bill-board's top studio charts.  At the same time, Chris' own single “Where Do We Go From Here?”(1992) was picked by Ed Bicknell (Dire Straits' manager) to play alongside U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Marley, Tears for Fears and Queen on Polygram's “One Voice One Love” al-bum.
In 1993, Chris left the UK for France and built a recording studio inside his chateau near Bor-deaux. There he produced albums with the Buena Vista Social Club and other world-class musicians, including Etran Finatawa, whose debut album was nominated for a BBC Radio best world music award. In 2006, he moved his studio to Paris, where he released his second album, “Freedom” and received growing acclaim for his work with world musicians like Alger-ian sensation Ali Amran.
In 2012, Chris moved to Toronto and finished work on his third album "Be Creative" featuring performances from many talented Canadian artists including Glen Milchem (Blue Rodeo) and Rick Emmett (Triumph). Now a Canadian citizen, Chris' latest album credits include co-pro-ducer of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Polaris and Juno award winning album “Power in the Blood” (2016) and the recent Juno winner, “Medicine Songs” (2017), both for True North Records. In 2019 he released 11:11, his fourth album under the band name The Free Spirits. 

Chris is currently creating new recordings for a range of talented Canadian and European mu-sicians and mentoring and producing Inuit artists through the Hitzmaker's label. He's also im-mersed in his own upcoming albums and has been releasing singles that include “Precious Love” for his documentary filmmaker wife Joan Prowse, “2022” an upbeat refllection on 2 years of social isolation, “Icky Cottage Blues” a summertime sing-along song with his fun-lov-ing band The Happy Campers, and “Everyone Deserves a Home”, which earned a provincial community service award and a spot on Global News with Susan Hay.
www.chrisbirkett.ca

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