Let’s start at the beginning …
In 1973, I had left my electric guitar and rock groups aside and was getting into acoustic guitar and banjo . My friend Jean-Pierre Béland had started his career in audio-visuals and another friend, Jean Laporte, had made a slide show and wanted to add a soundtrack to it. What followed was the first collaboration between Jean-Pierre and me, a recording of my first compositions on acoustic guitar and banjo. We chose as a “studio” the sacristy of the church in Rockland, a room with superb natural reverb. The twelve pieces which follow were the result, the original tape saved from oblivion by my brother Bob. Jean eventually chose the piece “Sacristy” for his soundtrack.
The recording includes six pieces never recorded elsewhere : “Sacristy”, four other pieces which I never named (thus, my orphans) and “Cluck Old Hen”, an old traditional banjo tune. “The Fiddle in the Attic”, “Almost Piano and “Girl From Canaan” (played here on the banjo) all ended up on my first album “First Fall”,recorded in Montreal two years later. In 1976, I recorded my second album, “Rumours in the Barnyard”, a collection which included “Northern Flower”, a piece I seemingly wrote for my wife (Hilde was born in Oslo, Norway) 23 years before I met her! You can hear the two banjo pieces, “The Oar” and “Down Stream”, on my third album, “Spring Water”, recorded in 1978.
After all these years, Jean-Pierre and Jean are still good friends. Jean helped produce my second and third albums while Jean-Pierre has published and produced all my music up to now, music that would certainly not exist if not for him.
So here is this page in my life, the first attempts of a young twenty-three-year-old guitarist from Rockland.
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1-Orphan-1.mp3|titles=1 Orphan # 1]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2-Orphan-2.mp3|titles=2 Orphan # 2]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3-The-Fiddle-in-the-Attic.mp3|titles=3 The Fiddle in the Attic]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/4-Almost-Piano.mp3|titles=4 Almost Piano]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/5-The-Oar.mp3|titles=5 The Oar]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/6-Down-Stream.mp3|titles=6 Down Stream]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/7-Girl-From-Canaan.mp3|titles=7 Girl From Canaan]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/8-Cluck-Old-Hen.mp3|titles=8 Cluck Old Hen]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/9-Orphan-3.mp3|titles=9 Orphan # 3]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/10-Northern-Flower.mp3|titles=10 Northern Flower]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/11-Orphan-4.mp3|titles=11 Orphan # 4]
[audio:http://eng.richardaseguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12-Sacristy.mp3|titles=12 Sacristy]
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