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Hey Hey Hey – just a quick update. Gettin’ very excited about the next release, half a dozen tracks very near finished, sounding much to my liking

Also – coming very soon: a new video; not the one for “New Seven” that I’ve been working on but by a director who goes by the name of “La Alta”. Can’t wait!

The free download offer still stands for those who take the time to friend me either on facebook, myspace and now on reverb nation. Once you’re there just shoot a message or email to me and I’ll send you the link, and thanks!

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Happy Easter – He is Risen! Love – SO

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I know it’s been quiet around here – I’m not a blogger by nature and I’ve been pretty busy promoting my trio’s latest release…but things are perking up on the electronic side of things and I’ve begun aggressively working on a new cd – finishing up the aforementioned “Hot Potato” track and starting several others. It feels great to be working/creating in this manner again. I couldn’t give an estimate on when a release will happen but I do have serious plans to pop out a Christmas e.p. in the meantime. Most likely it’ll be download only – but you never know.  I’ve also already conceived the concept for the following album – if you can stand it.

One of the synth designers I use the most is Krakli – an amazing array of all kinds of free, very well made vst’s – with totally awesome interfaces I find so enticing, and a consistency of quality and reliability I haven’t found in many of the other designers who share their synths at no charge. Through the KVR newsletter I found that Ian has just released a new synth – and was actually charging something for it (albeit only a donation) – so I knew it had to be something incredible. It’s called RMP2 and it has plenty of presets. I got myself a copy this afternoon and was not disappointed. I’m not good at describing sounds – magical is not a word you’ll ever find me using – but these are nearly that – and lush. There are audio demos over on his blog page – which is where you can get your own RMP2! Go do it!

I want to welcome any new fans who’ve come here from Facebook – since I’ve put the free mp3 post up there a lot of folks wind up around here instead – so… hey! (If you’d be so kind to go back and “fan” me sometime that’d be sweet!)

Finally wanted to give long overdue thanks to a few of the many radio stations that gave some amazing support to “Simple Work”, including: WXDU (Duke Univ.) who played it for months and gave me that sweet #1 spot, WBNY (Buffalo) who played it this spring (!) and for the not to shabby #5, WPTS in Pittsburgh gave it a lot of love (#6), WRCT (Pittsburgh), WEFT (Champaign, IL) and WBGU (Bowling Green) who spun it for the entire 13 weeks. There were many others but these were the ones who embraced it – thank you a thousand times! Thanks also to my friends at WUSB Stony Brook who are simply the coolest.

Oh yeah – I’m also working on a video for the track “New Seven” – it should be ready when it’s totally irrelevant and pointless (lol) so if you like that song – it’s gonna be fun.

Thanks as always for visiting. If you wanna show your love over at the burgeoning facebook page – here’s a link. Be well and Peace – Kenny

Well - according to Facebook, anyway…

I’m sure I have a couple more – I hope?! But apparently not too many fans come to this site either…well if you do like the tunes and you get the unction, please stop on by to the fb site and tell the world. Here’s the link.

Meanwhile, still pretty busy with the follow-up business of the latest jazz trio cd (”There You Are”) – and getting ready for a major relocation, so not a lot going on on this front. However, I’ve helped produce a few short films (horror) with some middle school kids I work with, and of course added some music to it – under the Seven Octaves name. Here is a link to download the theme music to the “Fish Movie“.

Thanks for stopping by - don’t forget to say hey if you like. I’m disabling links in the comments box because of all the russian shemale spammers…but if you send me a link to your site (via the contact page) and I like it I’ll mention it here. Be well and Peace – Kenny

Surprise!! The old blog is gone with the cold long island wind! I’m going to look it over later to see if anything warrants re-posting. This is so I can more efficiently add media here and an rss feed elsewhere, and now you can leave comments should you want or need to.

Also – I’ve added a new “Stuff” page to the SO site which has all sorts of nonsense like links to the new facebook page, videos to a few tracks, links to reviews etc… A place for fans to completely and frivolously waste their free time.

In the slightly artistic column – I’ve been doing some extensive work on what will probably be the opening track on the next release. The tune is called “Hot Potato” – it’s pretty uptempo and pretty elaborate (24 audio tracks so far).  Still have it in the plans to release the next jazz trio cd first so the new SO cd will probably be very late 2009 or early 2010.