The Forest is an original that I wrote around April 2012, and upload onto YT May 25, 2012. It is a sad-beauty-spare ballad of lost love and the intensity of the memories. M voice just doesn’t do it justice, and it’s hoped it will be adopted by a good vocalist some day. © 2012. Copyright protected. All Rights Reserved.
New upload - The Hit, is composed, performed and recorded by me at my studio in The Lofts at Fountain Square, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Original recording in March 2012. Logic Pro 9 Loops gave me the beat tracks and some cool vocal loops. Lead instruments are from the LP9 voice library. Performed with Yamaha keyboard. Hope you enjoy this R&B/hip-hop number. Photographs downloaded from public websites and copyrighted materials of Ivana van der Veen (Putten, Netherland). Hope you enjoy this. Richard
I composed and recorded this song, Dancin’ With My Cat, on a Yamaha Motif 8, using the pro studio software Logic Pro 9, blending elements of electronic high-energy dance, with jazz piano and classic chorale, with a nice melody threading through the rhythms. Originally, it was called “Dancin with my Girlfriend” and then it was “Dancin’ with My Best Friend” and I finally decided to replace Girlfriend and Best Friend with Cat (“hahahah), which seemed to make sense, with the high frequency synth lead and some cute cat photos grabbed from public websites, which reveal the weird nature of cats (a good thing!). © 2012 All rights reserved. Richard
This is Ivana van der Veen performing my original, Nothing Left to Break which is now uploaded on YT (April 21, 2012). The song was written around 2007, and has been a work in progress, first with Doris Justis, and with Tsiana Las-Kaya, and now with Ivana. This is probably the best example of the song! REK
this is my boogie, called Fountain Square Boogie, with video from my iPhone, at the location of the central square in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). The piano style is the slow boogie, old school form, along the lines of Toots Washington, one of the New Orleans piano legends. Hope you like this!! Richard
Angel Blues is a folk-like song meant for musical theater, or contemporary acoustic pop, and involved voices from Logic Pro - piano, bass, string, and female ensemble choir. Lyrics are finished for any vocalist who’d like to try it.
Black Silk is an original R&B song I composed and recorded in Feb 2012. Hope you like the backup singers I grabbed from the loops in Logic Pro.
This is weird perc shit. Hope you enjoy. Can you imagine this is from New Zealand. How cool is that?? RK
State Road 47 is created and recorded by me, using the Yamaha MM8 digital keyboard (my Motif Classic workstation is in for repairs), along with the project app from Logic Pro 9. The song is inspired by a car ride on March 7-8, 2012, when I drove a total of 21 hours during those two days, to perform live at the Ritz-Carlton (Tysons Corner, Virginia) for the SFSP Chapter Gala Dinner (Professional Night). The driving took so long because of a horrible rain storm, and the incredibly difficult traffic around the Washington D.C. area.
Poolside Jazz is an original arrangement by me (Dick Kait), developed in under one hour with the Logic Pro 9 professional studio application. It is entirely made of multiple loop tracks from that app’s loop list. It was fun to blend the Brazilian bass, to the Latin horns, and the pop piano loop. RK March 2012
My Morning Jacket. Circuital. 2011. Performing live.
