Name: If You Believe - The Living Daylights by Donnie La Marca
Duration: 4 min 36 s
Description: I have about fifteen keyboard parts involved in the intro alone on this cut - was part of the Living Daylights CD sessions at Paisley Park but ended up on Rick Barron's CD "Five Minutes from Elvis" - back when we rolled in with a 32 space rack (six feet tall) double sided full of keyboard rack session gear top to bottom. The good old days...real tape...yep.

This classical soul composition would complete the Gitcha Groove On album. The work is about the the streets vs the schools in tough urban neighborhoods, such as this Detroit enclave. It is about the rejection of education in any form in my hometown. The ensemble is CutTime Simfonica as initially launched with musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2010. Read and hear more at cuttime.com.
   Performers are
Geoff Applegate, violin I
Kim Kaloyanides Kennedy, violin II
Jim VanValkenburg, viola I
Caroline Coade, viola II
Robert DeMaine, violoncello
Rick Robinson, double bass
Mike List, percussion

Rick Robinson - Gitcha Groove On!

Highland Park, MI: City of Trees

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Rick Robinson- Highland Park, MI: City Of Trees

I have about fifteen keyboard parts involved in the intro alone on this cut - was part of the Living Daylights CD sessions at Paisley Park but ended up on Rick Barron's CD "Five Minutes from Elvis" - back when we rolled in with a 32 space rack (six feet tall) double sided full of keyboard rack session gear top to bottom. The good old days...real tape...yep.

If You Believe - The Living Daylights

When Craig asked me to play on this project, I thought he was kidding. Gary Berg on tenor - OLD school baby - was a fixture on this scene here - Dean Granos on Guitar is brilliant, and sick. There are no meds for his sickness. It is incurable, and we are grateful for that. Kenny Horst on drums and Chris Bates round out the section along with our leader Craig - and this CD basically goes EVERYWHERE. I laugh every time I listen to it, remembering the "liquid" groove at the sessions masterfully recorded by the great Steve Weiss at Creation Audio, and, well - dig it!

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Improvisation On "Danny Boy"

This reading of a dramatic elegy captured my shock, grief and recovery when my FATHER suddenly passed in 2011. He was so grounded, generous, and loved to dance.
I've decided in 2020 to include this work in a career-long series I'm calling "New American Elegies." First Grief is now considered Book 2 in that series. Hence NAEBk2

Robinson - First Grief NAEBk2 reading

AVERAGE DAY

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A Festive Holiday Fanfare For Brass And Percussion

Here’s an original song of mine that got re-arranged and produced by my dear Brother Ricky P, along with great guitar and bass performances by my friends Joe Elliott & Tony Axtell.

Demo II

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happy birthday Colin Hay!!

"Overkill" composed by Colin Hay

love Hans and Larry

Overkill (Men At Work) - HANS GROINER VERSION

Tours and performances include Bobby Caldwell, Jeff Lorber, David Sanborn, Donny Osmond, Jonny Lang, Ann Nesby, Ricky Peterson, Kip Blackshire, Rocky Robbins, Ricky Peterson, Italian pop superstar Giorgia, The Blenders, and more.

If You Believe - The Living Daylights

Donnie La Marca

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