Monday, February 28, 2011

New RPM Recording

Just a quick post to say I've completed my February 2011 RPM recordings of new folk instrumentals for both the 6 and 12 string guitar. The preliminary link is here:

http://rpmchallenge.com/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userprofile&user=5340&Itemid=296

The RPM crowd, I'm guessing, will make a proper website when all the RPM submissions are in. In the meantime, scroll down the page for the MP3 player.

I'm really happy with most of these songs, and hopefully as I get better at playing them (as I had to come up with the material in February) I will incorporate them into my repertoire.

Enjoy!
http://www.danficken.ca/

Sunday, February 6, 2011

New Website!

Hi folks, another long due post in this blog. Just wanted to write three great points:

First I have made a new new website!

http://www.danficken.ca/

I am hoping to divert traffic from this site to the new site. Although you can still add posts to this one because it is a blog. Anyhow, feel free to browse and enjoy the new site. It contains a biography, testimonials, MP3 clips, contact info, links to other sites of interest and a variety of photographs and artwork, and photographs that I have turned into blue-themed "artwork".

Second, I have signed up to do another RPM album this February, I have some good ideas brewing for new songs, and if I have time, I am going to record a few previously unreleased songs as well. I am thinking of new ideas and tunes for the 6 string guitar as well as the 12 string and I have also decided to explore how I used to write my older compositions and mix it with the new for a more varied and creative, fresh sound while still maintaining the essential and familiar Dan Ficken guitar sound. I will post the link to the RPM site when the songs are uploaded at the end of the month.

Thirdly and equally as exciting, a new song I had written in 2010 called "Pulling at the Moon" is being featured on a CD of featured artists and songwriters compiled by the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl (AAMP - http://www.aamp.ca/) to be released in 2011. I will make a new post when the cd is ready

Stay tuned, it's a good productive time for me :)