NEWS
WINTER
2010
The focus for most of this year has been on writing new music on the 12 string guitars. A number of new pieces have already been completed or are very close. The first new piece was finished in January during my rehab and is entitled "Brace Yourself." It is dedicated to Dr. William Klempner and his surgical team over at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ. That dedicated group was responsible for reconstructing my "seriously compressed" neck back on December 28, 2009. Other completed new tunes include "Tru Dat" (inspired by the incredible HBO series The Wire) and "Purity Control" (for an old classic X-Files episode.) A new Taylor 12 (355CE) has been added to the family and will make it's stage presence felt in July.
As the result of a hard drive crash, the first four CD's...Sound & Spirit, In Theory, The Learning Curve and White Magick have finally been reproduced and packaged professionally. The wonderful artwork originally conceived by Colin Biedermann has been faithfully reproduced by Bob Findlay and Stan Wasilewski of Fairway Productions http:www.fairwayproductions.net
Three videos covering five pieces (Jansch, A Cafe Somewhere, Cascade, Circles and Copenhagen) from a Cablevision TV show taped on November 2, 2009 "...Horses Sing None Of It..." are posted up on YouTube. The host / producer of this long time running program is Ralph Litwin http://www.folkproject.org
The house concert series (Cellar Concert Series) that my wife Joanna and I have been hosting since last September will feature a special performance on Saturday, May 1st. This show will be a fundraiser for the Colin Biedermann Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship was started up in 2007 with Ralph Alessi...the visionary Director of the Center For Improvisational Music (CIM) in Brooklyn, NY http://www.schoolforimprov.org The sole purpose of this scholarship is to support young musicians that could not otherwise afford to attend the two week summer program the school has been offering the last number of years.
Last...but not least...my friend Mark Williams has been recording a number of my solo acoustic shows at various libraries on his amazing portable Zoom recorder. The goal is to accumulate and document as much new material as possible for an eventual live recording to be released sometime later this year. Working title..."Coming To A Library Near You..."
THE PAST IS NOT FORGOTTEN...
My son Colin Biedermann passed away on August 27, 2005. He was 19 years young. CB was the rhythmic force behind our duo work as well as that of White Light's. Besides the responsibility of maintaining the pulse, he pushed the music forward with musical sensibilities attributed to a musician of many more years' experience. His ability to improvise in a group context was of the highest order and allowed the other players extraordinary freedom to interpret the music and play with abandon. His abilities as a musician were only surpassed by his human qualities...the understatement of a lifetime. Colin will be sorely missed...however...never forgotten.
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