Driving, uplifting song about the beauty of love in all forms.
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - lead vocals, lyrics, drum programming
Makeda Rose - back vocals
Keiko Shiga - keyboards
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

Potential Difference

An inspired soprano sax story; sultry and compelling.
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - soprano sax, flute, drum programing, string programming
Makeda Rose - back vocals
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

BLUE SEED

Uplifting vocals over Latin rhythm and soaring lead guitar.
Makeda Rose - lead vocals, back vocals
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - lyrics, drum programming
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

PEARL

Up tempo Instrumental fusion piece touching on many influences of Vektur
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, drum programming
Keiko Shiga - piano
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

BOUNCE

A soft, alternative rock piece with uplifting vocals and lyrics.
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - lead vocals, back vocals, lyrics, shakuhachi, drum programming, keyboard programming
Makeda Rose - back vocals
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

Be Yourself

Whazzuwuz

Soulful vocals over driving rhythms and punctuated lead guitar.
Makeda Rose - lead vocals, back vocals
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - lyrics, drum programming
Mixed and Mastered at TheBigFishStudio, Kumamoto, Japan
Engineer - Richard Gilbert

FLAMINGO JOE

An alternative rock piece pushing the Vektur feel, with sultry back vocals by Makeda Rose, horns, and some gnarly guitar work by our very own Grant Crawford,  for juxtaposition.
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - lead vocals, lyrics, all horns, drum and keyboard programing
Makeda Rose - back vocals

Reachin

REACHIN 3 - 30

Vektur
Grant Crawford - lead guitar, bass, guitar synth
Gabe Landry - rhythm guitar
Jeff Cairns - drum and keyboard programing, lyrics
Makeda Rose - all vocals
Mixed and mastered at BigFish Studio, Kumamoto Japan
mix and mastering engineer Richard Gilbert

WAVES

Silent Cry of a Heron (2016) is part of a continuing effort to devise a notational system with the aim of imbuing my music with a distinctively Japanese aesthetic. The score is designed with an element of rhythmic indeterminacy and uses proportional notation to facilitate a flow of musical time based not on a fixed pulse or meter, but rather on the natural patterns of the human breath. In this piece, I attempted to seamlessly blend the two instruments in a way that emphasizes their similarities and potential correspondences by means of imitative gestures and seamless fusion of their respective timbres, resulting in a soundscape where imagined boundaries between the “East” and “West” become blurred and transcended. 

In Japanese culture, among other traits, the heron represents gracefulness, patience, longevity, tranquility, and partnership. In this work, I seek to evoke these qualities in a musical soundscape of understated and timeless expression.

This work was commissioned by Kiku Day and Kenneth Larsen.

Shakuhachi: Shozan Tanabe 
Clarinet: Thomas Piercy

Silent Cry of a Heron (2016)

Marty Regan (b. 1972) has composed over 75 works for traditional Japanese instruments and since 2002 has been affiliated with AURA-J, one of Japan's premiere performance ensembles of contemporary-traditional Japanese music. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 with a B.M. in Composition and a B.A. in English and East Asian Studies. From 2000 to 2002 he studied composition and took applied lessons on traditional Japanese instruments as a Japanese government-sponsored research student at Tokyo College of Music. In 2002, his composition Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds (2001) for shakuhachi and 21-string koto was premiered at the 5th Annual Composition Competition for Traditional Japanese Instruments at the National Theatre of Japan. He completed his Ph.D. in Music with an emphasis in Composition at the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa in 2006. His works for Japanese instruments riverrun (2003), Light of the Rainbow (2003), dragoneyes (2004), wildfire (2005), Maqam (2008), Evanescent Yearning...(2008), Shadows of the Moon, (2008), 21-String Koto Concerto No. 2: “Love” (2009), In the Night Sky (2010), and Shadows of the Flames (2011) have been recorded and released on various record labels in Japan. His English translation of Minoru Miki’s orchestration manual, Composing for Japanese Instruments was published in 2008 by the University of Rochester Press. In 2010, Navona Records released a compact disc of his works entitled "Marty Regan's Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, Vol. 1: Forest Whispers..." The second volume in the Selected Works for Japanese Instruments series, subtitled Magic Mirror, was released in 2012 by the same label. In 2011 he was affiliated as a research scholar at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he took applied lessons on traditional Chinese instruments. His newest work, a chamber opera entitled "The Memory Stone," was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and was premiered in April 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University. For more information, visit www.martyregan.com

今までに60曲を超える邦楽作品を作曲している。'02年以降は、現代邦楽を演奏する主要グループの一つであるオーラJに所属。 '95年オハイオ州オバーリン大学作曲科及び東アジア研究科卒。国費研究留学生として、東京音楽大学院作曲専攻に在籍していた。'02年文化庁舞台芸術創作奨励国立劇場作曲コンクールに尺八と二十絃箏のための「東雲の詩」(2001) で入賞。'06年ハワイ大学作曲科博士課程修了。「riverrun」(2003)「虹の光」(2003)「dragoneyes」(2004)「wildfire」(2005)「マカーム」(2008)「細雪を想い...」(2008)「月影幻想曲」(2008) 「二十絃協奏曲第二番：愛」(2009)「夜空にて」(2010) 「炎影」(2011) 等の邦楽作品がCD化されている。三木稔著「日本楽器法」（音楽之友社）の英語版翻訳を'08年版。'10年ナボーナレコードによって、自作品CD「マーティン・リーガンの和楽器による作品集第一番：森が囁いて...」がリリースされた。そして和楽器の為の作品第II集となるCD「魔鏡」は、同レーベルより2012年にリリースされた。'11年研究員として上海音楽院作曲専攻に在籍し、中国伝統的楽器の個人レッスンを受けた。ヒュストングランドオペラによって委嘱された「メモリー・ストーン」という新作室内オペラはテキサスセンターのアジアソサイティにて２０１３年４月に初演。現在、アメリカのテキサス州、A＆M大学にて教授として後進の指導にあたる。ウエブサイト参照：www.martyregan.com



Silent Cry of a Heron (2016)

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