Hi Ken,
I'd be interested in hearing that MP3. My hotmail account is synthasaurus at hotmail.com

Thanks!

Oh, and if anyone is reading this, I posted a link to some of my MP3s in the "Forum member's music" thread awhile back. Nobody has commented yet, so either the music is terrible, or it just hasn't been noticed yet. heheh... ;D

Hi Ken! I am definitely interested in hearing the piece. Havent heard any stuff from you yet but I have noticed from reviews and people around the net who thinks your music is great. It seems that Yahoo mail accounts has a 250 mb storage, so if you could please send a copy to htfonline@yahoo.se

Thanks!

Be glad to send you a copy, Befrost. btw, I should've mentioned that this track is called "Waiting Room" and is on a cd-r called "A Little Chin Music" that I had available a while back. So...if you have that disc then you have that track. But, I sold about 10 copies so I doubt it!

Here's a review of that album; they compare it with Kenso (I believe ! www.marquee.co.jp/world_disque/down3.html

I noticed Greg Walker has three other CD's from you still in stock: synphonic.8m.com/country/usa.htm

Hello Ken,
I just listened to your track, and I really liked it! Nice chord changes throughout (very HTM!) and I also liked the square wave lead/melody that came in around 2:15 and the end of the tune. Do you have anything else online like this?

Hi Ken! Got the Waiting Room tune from you and ...this is the best music I´ve heard in a long time. Those hamonies fits my music mind like a glove. It starts off nicely and keeps getting better and better and towards the end I really wanted the tune be be twice as long. It is very much in the HTM vein but at the same time I can hear some masterful originality. I believe there is a drum machine that lacks the overall music "feel" a bit but at the same time it´s so full of substance and musicality that the drum machine soon falls into oblivion.

I give this tune 5 out of 5 ;D

Thanks so much for the encouraging comments

Yes, the drum programming does stink! - except for the last section, I think I would keep that.

Here's an idea: Maybe we should all contribute pieces to an HTM tribute record and get Bill Plummer to produce!

Thats a great idea. Bill and Gulliver...any thoughts?

Great, great idea! I am extremely busy these days... but I would gladly discuss this on the next week.

So, let's talk about our HTM tribute record!

I think I can contribute a tune or two...

I don't know about producing (all the pieces would be recorded and mixed already, right?) but I'd be happy to assemble and master it.

Here's a few things that would make it easy.

1. No covers. Original tunes by the performer(s) only.
2. Reasonable song lengths.
3. If it's to be sold (at a very reasonable cost), let's do it through an accessable internet co. Maybe Cafe Press (That's who Kit has been using lately)
4. Any profits (after manufacturing costs) should go to a reputable charity like Doctors Without Borders or other tsunami related charity.

So what do you all think?

BTW - Ken, please send the tune to me as well -
bp@tinderarts.com

Ken, sorry for such a late response... It seems like private threads are very unreliable on these boards... First of all I just noticed your message from the last year! I don't know why I didn't notice it before... But anyway, it was impossible to reply to it in that same thread so I'd better do it here and now.

I will look for that Alo Mattiisen record and will let you know as soon as I'd find it.

Hey guys Im just wondering about that HTM tribute record you talked about. Is something happening at the moment?

I, for one, have a song for the tribute! I think its synth solo resembles Kit's style a little... The song itself is a bit over 3 minutes long and previously it did appear on one of The Keyboard Corner compilations. However I think that it would be very appropriate for HTM tribute as well.

Wow, thats really great news, and I am really looking forward to an eventuall tribute cd. I wonder if Ken has some tune as well. And who else will contribute?

I might be able to contribute a song if the details were laid out, and enough time was allotted to compose and record the music.

If it's a tribute to HTM, yet our own original music, would the style be expected to be similar to HTM, or is anything fine?

Imho it won't hurt if the music would slightly resemble HTM... After all we are talking about a Tribute to HTM, our favorite band!
At the same time I think it doesn't have to be a "wannabe" stuff...
To summarize my thoughts on the subject: if we could manage to collect tunes that would stay in the realms of prog-jazz-fusion (be it symphonic, ethno or electronic or a mix of them all - shouldn't matter), that would be cool.

I am up for a contribution. I am currently working on some new pieces.

Check Ken's my space for a sample which is more in the Frank Zappa "Jazz from Hell" vein. I really like this stuff.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=39786706

Man, imagine Ken in a band! He has it all!
B.t.w., funny side-comment: Ken has copied a painting that originally comes from the booklet from one of my favorite albums: England's Garden Shed. Go to the lyric-page of the site and look at the lyrics of Midnight Madness.
Another B.t.w. I noticed Ken also loves Lyle Workman. I had to think of this great guitarist while listening to this track, because Lyle did almost everything himself too on his debut-album Purple Passages. Listen to the incredible drum-programming and you know what I mean.

Ken's composing skills are awesome but I think he is originally a guitar player if I remember correctly. Listened to Lyle Workman and I agree that his drumming is really incredible.