Abstraction #8 by Midnight Media. Composed, arranged, recorded and produced by Richard Kent. The primary influences on the music are the atmospheric and ambient soundscapes of Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, Pink Floyd and David Sylvian.

in progress

Easy Listening - Enjoy it!

This is a piece I did a few years ago. It's basically an up-tempo instrumental rock thing. I was going for a bit of a "shred" vibe on this track & I nicked the idea of the slow blues ending from Ugly Kid Joe :-)

A little experiment... what would happen if you took a Gypsy jazz tune in the style of Django Reinhardt & played it with a rock band type line up? I reckon it might sound a bit like this :-)

This tunes was always being played around the house when I was a kid. Heard it recently for the 1st time in ages on a TV show & it sparked some great memories for me. Decided to do a cover of it. Hope you like my treatment of it :-)

This is a piece I did a few years ago. It's basically an up-tempo instrumental rock thing. I was going for a bit of a "shred" vibe on this track & I nicked the idea of the slow blues ending from Ugly Kid Joe :-)

written by Brent Kinder recorded for the Angie Fights Crime Cover Album 2015

This song's going on 32 years old... Some 12 years older than I was when I wrote it!! I borrowed the title from one of my favourite madrigals, The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons: "The silver swan who living hath no note, when death approached…

MEA Piano Studio Student Composition Background A student composition for the annual Jazz-Blues festival in Springfield, Virginia. Students spanning various ages and levels can study and thus perform two Jazz-Blues pieces. Considering the fact…