Richard
Powrie has been involved with music as a musician (double bass,
electric
bass), composer, technician, recording engineer and also CD mastering
. Some achievements are:
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May
2005: mastered the CD recording of "Cashmere",
the debut CD release of very talented Amy Rivard.
_____________________________________________________________ October
2003: recorded and mastered and released the 5 song CD of
the band Les
Singes Bleus - this project was a lot of fun as it
was loose, natural, and unforced - oozing emotion and spontaneity.
For a sample of this project, see the Les
Singes Bleus website.
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February 2003:
I'll refer to this as a recent event, but, sometime
in the summer of 1998, I co-recorded Kieran
Overs' latest release "For The Record".
I got bored of bugging Kieran with the re-occurring question: "what's
up with that recording ...?", only to find out that it was indeed
released this February. Other musicians on this recording
are Brian
Dickinson (piano), Ted Warren (drums), and Alex
Dean (saxaphone).
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Double
Bass Photo | December 2002
I was asked by Mike
Fellini of Fellini
Aerographics Ltd., if he could borrow my double bass in
order to have photos taken of it. I was happy and impressed to
learn that one of the photos that he digitally retouched, earned
the the December 2002 cover of Graphic
Exchange magazine. To see before and after the retouching
process click here.
_____________________________________________________________ June 2002,
engineered,
recorded, mixed, and co-produced the project named "Slow", a CD of original
works by George
Grosman, featuring George Grosman on vocals and guitar, Bohdan
Turok on percussion, Richard Powrie
on double bass, and special guest performances such as Teresa
Kelly on vocals.
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Paris |
June 2002
Richard Powrie and his new wife, Mary Margaret, have just returned from their
honeymoon in Paris, France, and London, England, after their wedding on June
8th. So here is a re-iteration of a site put together after their trip last year.
_____________________________________________________________ June 2001, mastered
the CD recording of "The Three Guitars", a three
song demo recording, featuring the fantastic guitar playing of George
Grosman, Kevin
Barrett, and Jesse Barksdale.
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December 2000,
recorded, mixed and mastered the recording, "That
Last Day" a collection of old-time swing standards by
the quartet, "Teresa Kelly and the Swing
Upstarts". The song "That
Last Day", appears on the new Drog
Records compilation, "Work
Songs" - this is a CD containing "59 new songs about
work by 59 different artists", compiled by Drog
Records cofounder Lewis
Melville. Richard Powrie also plays double bass in this band
that also features Rizaldo Padilla on guitar and Tom Melville on piano
(and of course, Teresa Kelly on vocals).
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September 2000,
mastered the most recent CD of "Muzika
na rohu", or "Music On The Corner",
a Czech group, led by guitarist/vocalist George
Grosman. This is one of several recordings that Richard Powrie
has mastered for George Grosman, including his recent "Off
The Floor" recording, released in the summer of 1999.
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July 2000,
mastered the upcoming release of "No Sudden Movements",
by Noodle House. This is a group that Richard Powrie played
in until about 1996 after their release of the acclaimed "Gasoline"
album, which was co-engineered, co-mixed, co-mastered, and digitally
sequenced by Richard Powrie.
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2000: CD
mastering for the weekly radio show of "Master
T and the Wall Of Sound Featuring Dave Campbell" which
airs every Monday night at 10:00PM to midnight on Toronto's
Energy 103.5.
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August 2000, was
audio designer for the Athletes
World television commercial, "Mix a Groove".
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July 1998, mastered
the Noodle House CD, "No Music, Just Engines".
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July 1997, co-recorded
the CD "Invitation", by Toronto pianist, Nancy
Walker, a trio with bassist Kieran
Overs and drummer Barry
Romberg.
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Edited
demo projects for
Anthony Montano, a Much
Music audio engineer, including his live recordings of the
Brantford Symphony Orchestra, Dick Hyman, and Peter
Appleyard.
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the CD "Curbside
Lapse", by Richard Powrie - a collection of ambient,
hypnotic grooves based around electric bass, drum loops and melodies
that trance the listener into another space - perfect late night headphone
music for the insomniac, and/or Sunday morning newspaper accompaniment.
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1993, co-wrote,
co-recorded, co-mixed, and co-mastered the premiere cassette by "Noodle
House". Members of the band included former Martha
and The Muffins Drummer, Tim Gane, a guest appearance
by Mark Gane and his brother, current Noodle House member Nick
Gane on keyboards.
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