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LINER
NOTES:
All
music composed, performed and
produced by Preston Reed
Published by Suite Hoodeet
Music, ASCAP.
Recorded January 10-24, 2005 at
StarVu Studios, Savage,
Minnesota, USA
Engineers: Matt Fink,
Steve Hall, Paul
Baron. Mixed and mastered by
Paul Baron
Thanks to Catherine Maguire,
Bruce Muckala, Paul Baron, John
Shand and Kaman Music
Corporation, Jon Balingrud,
Janice Kirkpatrick, Ross Hunter,
Jonathan and Olga, Malcolm and
Claire and Preston Reed
Senior
Special thanks to all of my fans,
old and new, around the globe,
for your fantastic support. This
record is for you.
HISTORY OF NOW is my first
recording since moving to Europe
in 2000. Living and playing in a
new culture has introduced me to
a lot of inspiration and
evolution, both personally and
musically.
One of the biggest changes to my
music over the past several years
is that I have started playing
and writing on different guitars
- not just steel string acoustic
guitar but solid body electric,
semi-acoustic, baritone electric,
12-string and classical
guitars.
I started playing multiple
guitars with the intention of
adding variety to my live
concerts, but what I received
were benefits I didn't know were
coming; new musical evolution,
and connectiong with new
audiences. I found that I can
communicate much more with six
instruments than with one. My
personality seems to come through
no matter what instrument I play.
The more instruments I play the
more places inside myself I can
explore.
I had goals in mind for this
project, the first of which was
to present the new compositions I
have written since 2000's
Handwritten Notes. I also
wanted to give new life to some
favorite compositions by
performing them on new
(e.g.electric or classical)
guitars.
Finally, I wanted to make
available - by re-learning and
re-recording them - a few of the
many compositions of mine that
have been locked up in major
label vaults since the early
nineties.
In 2000, in the booklet to
Handwritten Notes, I said
that playing music for people of
different cultures around the
globe had taught me that we are
all really the same.
I believe the tragic events of
the past five years have made it
clear that communicating with
people in a meaningful, personal
way across cultural, religious,
and language lines is more
important than ever before. I
hope that the music on this
record achieves that.
Thanks for listening.
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