This is a collection of pieces appropriate for movies/tv/commercials composed by Max Vasquez
Featured in this volume are Original Jazz pieces old and new, composed by Max Vasquez
I started this group with my partner/student Tim White last year. We've been working on this all that time and are almost ready to start doing performances!
Image courtesy of Jon K and Lotus Magazine
This is an anthology of various diverse compositions ranging from Jazz to folk to pop and classical. Unorthodox as it may be, I wanted to display my eclectic writing moods. It is the follow-up to the Sound For Shadows project for music for screen.
Nicely enough it has been nominated for Best Jazz Album of the Year 2006 by The L.A. Music Awards!
This Ambient/New Age project is a resurrection of works that were considered lost in "the big fire of '98(read blog)", until an unopened copy(from 1989!) surfaced in '04 from a family member's vaults. I immediately went to work on restoring, remastering and remixing the original material co-produced with my old partner Carl A. Craig, and I added newer material to lengthen the album, as it was done in the days before CDs(remember cassettes?). The original work was carefully crafted for relaxation, with the help of our old friends Dr. Marilyn Ferguson and Dr. Timothy Leary.
Eleven years in the making ('1994-2005), I consider this hommage to the electronic music (I so love to dance to out in the desert under the full moon) to be a small masterpiece, because of all the wonderful friends that contributed to it, especially Treavor Walton, Gary Lenk, Jason Johnson and Jake Maguire. It was the album I was working on finishing on the day of the fire in ‘98 and thankfully a few copies were given to my agent Brett O'Brien a few days before the tragedy,or it wouldn't exist today! One of the tracks, "Jahcai" is in the pilot of "My Name Is Earl". The original cover was created over five years by my best friend of over 30 years, Will Karnatz, who I consider a master.
This is the newest Electronic Music project I put together this year. All original compositions by Max and collaborations with Treavor Walton, Bassland - Jimmy Street and Jeff Stetson guest star on a couple of tracks.
