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july 27 2008Welcome into my refreshed website ! Since this morning, my second album is available (download only) exclusively on my website for only 90 days before it will be launch into retail stores (CD) and webstores (CD and download). I am very proud of this second solo album. I put many, many, (too many !) hours over the last 2 1/2 years composing, recording, refining, mixing and editing this music, so it will reflect, at the end, exactly what I intendend to create. Whit this album, I had the privilege to discover and work with great musician : Catherine and her marvelous "warm" voice, the creativity of Elad on drums, and Lee with his sensitivity and the presence of his play (what a gifted drummer !)... thanks for your patience ! I deeply hope you will spend as great time listening to these songs as I had to created then ! Some songs will take several listening before appreciating all their subtleties... so give them a chance ! Thanks to Nancy from Moonlight Mastering in Texas for her precious collaboration, patience and advices !
November 18, 2007Yesterday, Patricia Barber and her jazz quartet did a really exceptionnal performance in Quebec City, even if the had not slept (their flight was delayed by 7 hours related to a computer failure). Patricia Barber (piano & vocal), Neal Alger (guitars), Micheal Arnapol (Bass) and Eric Montzka (drums) had a awesome complicity on stage and it reflects over the "communion" with their plublic... they also had the chance to perform at the Palais Montcalm, a mediaum size classic hall (980 seats) newly rebuilt with exceptional acoustic specifications. "Wish you were here!"... this quartet could also be seen most mondays evening at the Green Mills in Chicago.
October 6, 2007Tonight Gary Burton ( vibraphones) and Makoto Ozone (Steinway grand piano) have performed a really nice "intimate" jazz show into a " refreshed new hall " in my home town ....the accoustic was exceptionnal ! ...Great , great musicians
September 15, 2007Yesterday I went to the Genesis show "Turn it on Again" in Montreal.....or I might it call " Turned it Off ". The sound was horrible on the ground level (as always inside the Olympic Stadium) and the songs selection from the band did not reflected the "prog history" of Genesis...too much "pop oriented" ! .....easy show, just for the money..not for the fans !
June 5, 2007Last night I was attending the Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) show in my home town. I can’t remember the last time I have seen such a show: visual effects as it was in the ‘70s and ‘80s for the Pink Floyd’s shows but with more reserve, and sound quality as if we were sitting in a theatre ( or almost !). What a gentleman Roger Waters is. He did 3 to 4 shows per week in different cities since the last 3 months and he still give you the impression they performed it for the first time ! We have really appreciated his kindness when they played “Wish you were here” and with the oversized screen projected tapes, pictures and private moments they spent with Roger “Syd” Barrett ( their long time friend and co-founder of Pink Floyd in the ‘60s) who died last year. A great show wich let us appreciate real good music and a perfect gentleman !
May 2, 2007Hello, For the last 8 months, I was working on my next album. The recording sessions are over now and I will spend the next months "refining" the mix and the mastering before going with the glass master. Also since january, my first album (Falling Back To Where I Began) is available in Japan and also on MP3 download in Asia at Aladin Music Japan and also at Windows Media and at MSN shopping .
January 3, 2007Hi, Best wishes for 2007. I hope you will be doing all you have planned to do over the coming months....and most of all, staying healthy while listening to good music !
November 8, 2006For the next few weeks, I will be in studios to record my second solo album. It will be launched on the market in the middle of 2007. Thank you to CHUO-FM (89,1FM Ottawa) for adding my music into its programming.
August 21, 2006Several radio stations and webradio are playing songs from my album. Thank you to AFK radio in Munich (94,5FM Germany) and to Baja Prog Webradio in Mexico (Baja Webradio). Actually, I am working on my second solo album. I am planning to get back in studios for recording in the middle of november.
June 13, 2006Thank you to Digital Dream Door to have chosen me on their "spotlight" as " progressive rock artist for june 2006 " and to iO Magazine (The Netherlands) for their review of my album on the june issue of their progressive rock printed magazine !
May 11, 2006Hello, Several radio stations are playing songs from my album (see the section “listening”) ..... A special thank to station FM 105,5 of Rio de Janeiro for its impact in Brazil and to Progrock radio in New-York area!
March 3rd, 2006Hi, Today we are launching this new website and you are amongst the first visitors...so thank you ! Hope you will appreciate the work we have done and most of all...what you will be listening to ! So don't hesitate to e-mail me any comments/suggestions/questions you might have and I will get back to you !
December 21st, 2005Canadian progressive rock musician Robert Beriau, who has been composing for the last 25 years, has just released his first solo album. This new CD, “Falling back to where I began” is in stores since december 19th, 2005. Songs are:
Novembre 30, 2005Robert and his colleagues of Qwaarn, a progressive rock band from Canada, are entering into session at “B+ Studios” for the second album of Qwaarn ( to be released in mid 2006) |
Selfishness : Source of War & Violence
Mastered by Nancy Matter at Moonlight Mastering, Austin, USA 10 songs, 65 m 17s
This is my second solo album. also a concept album, the lyrics and the music decry the abys that exists between rich and poor countries, and how every personnel gesture is so important. Flute-driven melody, sober use of mellotron, phaser sax and acoustic guitar, dark piano talking to synthetizers and electric guitar, the melodies are somewhere very complex... but always in harmony. Several musicians were invited to contribute to this album:
Falling Back To Where I Began
Mastered by Renee Marc Aurele at SNB Mastering, Montreal, Canada 8 Songs, 63m24s
“Falling back to where I began” is a instrumental prog album ( but the presence of nice melody lines replaces vocals very well), very spacey and mystical songs make reference to major events in everybody’s life. This is really a concept album as all pieces go together with the same music, sound line and “mood”. It offers a pretty dosage of synthetizer, acoustical piano and guitar, electric guitar with special effects (routed sometimes within synthetizers) and a subtile use of saxophones that reflects Van der Graaf Generator influence into my music. |
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