March Sound Bytes

In like a lamb... yeah, that's more like it. On the heels of some pretty slow months to begin the new year, March rolls in weakly but there are new projects on the horizon for Hear and Now Music.

One of the most exciting bits of news to report is the renewed interest and forward motion of the musical project closest to our hears, Planet Camp. For those of you not familiar with PC, it is a proposed "GREEN" kids tv show/interactive web presence/multimedia project that H&N Music is producing the music for. We now have some very powerful allies helping us to get the project to the likes of Kenny Ortega, the choreographer/director of Disney's mega-franchise, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. More on that as things develop. We anticipate a flurry of activity based on Planet Camp production duties. Besides music, Derrick also provides voices for several of the characters, including one of the main characters, Woody The Cool Talking Tree.

Other musical projects on tap for H&N this month include some original Blues songs for a project being pitched to Absolute Music, a music licensing library. Derrick is reaching back to his early days as a front man in several blues bands about town in Milwaukee WI for inspiration. Blues is a fun genre to work in because there are so many flavors of blues to color the songs with.... urban, country, rock, acoustic, jazzy, etc. The real fun begins when Derrick gets to blow some mean harp on these tracks!

Other clients this month: Jake O'Brien, who read a story and sang a couple of songs as part of his 6th birthday celebration gift. A grand time was had in the studio, including finding out how many ways one can enhance and digitize a burp!

Terry Abrahamson is back for yet another Mitvah musical number to include in his multi media presentation for a client. Lots of fun, challenging vocal work for some very interesting and funny tunes about a gal who loves CHOCOLATE!