The introduction music for the trailer that film maker Gregg Schiffner put together, and that  I composed the music for, at the 2010 SYRCL Wild & Scenic Film Festival.

And here is a link to the video that this music was composed for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLr-Lxc-tg

Just came across this and thought I'd share it, hope you enjoy.


Wild & Scenic 2010 Introduction music

An unreleased track from the Rites Of Passage studio recording and live performance project 1996. 

Written by Mikail Graham & Rich Stanmyre. 
Mixed by Brian Foraker.

Performed by Rites Of Passage: Roger Hodgson guitar, Andrew Hodgson drums, Mikail Graham guitar & vocals. Rich Stanmyre electric bass, John Helliwell tenor sax, Jeff Daniel keyboards.

A note those who are interested…
Twenty years ago in the late spring and summer of 1996 I was in a band called "Rites Of Passage" with Roger Hodgson, his son & my buddy Andrew Hodgson, another pal Rich Stanmyre, saxophonist extraordinaire John Helliwell, and keyboardist composer Jeff Daniel. Together we played the entire summer working from 10a to 10-10p 5-7 days a week having a lot of fun and getting to know one another as much as one can do in a band situation.

We made a lot of music together, we laughed, we argued, and in the end the band and its music became the name of a Roger Hodgson solo album, his third in fact. There's some good tracks on that record and a few that never made the cut.

This is one of them called "Not Enough Time" featuring Roger on electric guitar, Andrew on drums, Rich on electric bass, John on tenor sax & solo, Jeff on keys and me on guitar and vocals.

It was composed during our non-stop jams with both myself and Rich taking credit for the music and me for the words.

It was originally mixed for the album by my old friend and Nashville mastering buddy Brian Foraker (look around & you'll find his name on lots of great records). Alas it didn't make the cut for the album and has been languishing in my archives all these years along with several other unreleased work tracks. 

Seeing as how it's currently the 20th anniversary of that project it seemed fitting to finally release it to the world, I mean why not?

There's a couple of others I will be posting as well soon, but for now I'll start with his one.

Hope you enjoy,

mikail

unreleased live track - not used on the final ROP album

Not Enough Time

Rites Of Passage
Untitled rop work track - never finished - unreleased
a work-in-progress from our sessions in 1996. 

OK, for those curious here is another work-in-progress track from our ROP sessions back in 1996. Note it is quite unfinished and abbreviated, though there are longer more detailed versions in me archives. Alas once John joined the band this direction did not seem to gel very well with his style, so we dropped going any further down this path.

Rites Of Passage
Untitled rop work track - never finished - unreleased
a work-in-progress from our sessions in 1996. 

This one is a piece of mine that Andrew Hodgson and I were working on with Roger and Rich adding in some really nice additions. 
Roger is playing the more lead like guitar parts, I'm playing the main edgier sounding rhythm guitar that starts the song. Andrew is on drums with Rich on electric bass. 
There are other longer versions, but without vocals and final touches I think this is little snippet is enough to give an idea of what we were up to with this track.

NOTE: This is pre John Helliwell & Jeff Daniel.

rop a work-in-progress unreleased from our sessions in 1996

Untitled - rop work track - never finished

Rites Of Passage
Mommy - rop work track - never finished - unreleased
a work-in-progress from our sessions in 1996.

OK, for those curious here is yet another work-in-progress track from our ROP sessions back in 1996. Note that it is semi-produced yet very much still unfinished and abbreviated. And like the other tracks here there are longer more detailed versions in my archives that may see the light of day down the road, time will tell. This one was most definitely a bit more experimental on the outside edge of our ideas.

This song was performed LIVE only once at the old Mad Dogs & Englishmen PUB in downtown Nevada City in the summer of 1996. 

As with the other unfinished track it became clear that once John joined the band that this was not the direction we were going to go for various reasons, and so it goes. Nonetheless it was powerfully creative and fun spring and summer for us all and this track shows yet another direction of where the band could have gone had the timing and situation been a bit different.

Credits: Andrew Hodgson drums; Rich Stanmyre electric bass; Mikail Graham tp trem + lead & slide guitar, child samples, & 'the mix'; Roger Hodgson vocals & 12 string picked guitar.

This song was composed by the band…

NOTE: This is pre John Helliwell & Jeff Daniel.

Mommy - rop 1996 work track - never finished

a promo for the re-airing of the very First Good News Show heard on KVMR FM back on Jan 27, 2005.

1st Good News Episode promo

These are three tracks composed for a March 12, 2013 interview with The Moore Brothers that took place on the KVMR FM program The Other Side. They were composed after receiving the lyrics to four of the Moore Brothers brand new songs from their new album 'California Sister', but without having ever heard 'their versions'. So these covers are based only upon reading the lyrics and nothing more. An interesting experiment to say the least.

Performers include: Meri St. Mary; John Deaderick, Menlo Macfarlane, & Mikail Graham.
"Rock And Roll Again" sound design by JDead
"She's So Far", "Toy Guitar" & "The Round" sound design & music by Mikail Graham

Many thanks to both Thom & Greg Moore for their support and inspiration to create these pieces.