Gary Husband News

There are now audio soundtracks featured in many of the various photo albums in the Gallery. Click into each album to hear them!

Enjoy!

Hi and welcome to the all new GH.com!  It’s been a while, but with the splendid vision and skill of Nadja von Massow at nadworks we are firmly on our way.  Needless to say there’s still a huge chunk of work and development to be done so please check back with us regularly for exciting new updates and features. If you would like to be kept in the loop about the launch, please feel free to subscribe to “Gary’s newsletter”.

Of the up and coming features I’m looking forward to working towards with Nadja will be a new Downloads section, where I will be able to offer new, rare or previously unavailable music (not featured on any CD releases) as mp3 downloads. There’s also a whole new Press Lounge area that is ideal for visiting journalists, containing hi-res pictures, masses of information and more.  We resisted building any kind of forum or blog area on the website, despite many requests to me over the years, but there is a contact section here that you most welcome to use for comments.  If you do wish to submit any questions or enquiries to me that are related to music, there’s a “sticky” thread over at the Drummerworld forum entitled “Gary Husband here!” which I set up some time ago. A bunch of us look in there, rap and exchange ideas from time to time, and when there’s time permitting, I do answer!

We hope you enjoy your visits to the website, thank you always for your support and hope to see you here again soon!!

This is my current project, and one I’m working towards around plenty of other tours and commitments!  But I’ll get there, and it will be finished by the end of September this year!

I’ll share with you something my great friend (bassist) Jimmy Johnson reminded of recently, and this is that “a deadline is a really good thing!!”  Great advice!  Some I needed to hear! more…

John McLaughlin's "To The One”

I am proud to announce this new release which was recorded in Nice, France, during the last week of November 2009.  I was given two tracks to play as principal drummer, while on two other tracks I recorded as additional drummer (along with principal drummer in the group, Mark Mondesir.)  Apart from this I am the keyboardist and synth player on all tracks, so I feel very “present” on this album!  The recording features John in electric and inspired form and features the debut of (new addition) the great Etienne Mbappé in the group.

It’s available via Amazon, the Abstract Logix label website and I’m sure pretty soon for download at iTunes.

Gary Husband on new Alexander Shulgin material piano album

The new album featuring piano interpretations of the music of Russian composer Alexander Shulgin (that I arranged, performed and produced myself recently) will be entitled “Book of Tales . Skazki for the Boys”, and it looks like there will be a release around Sept/Oct 2010. This is my second project arranging Alexander’s music, and this one is a particularly creative endeavour that I feel really happy about.  A lot of my old methods again appear in the arrangements such as layered piano performances, “in-piano percussion” etc, and the album also features a guest appearance by Steve Hackett on acoustic guitars.

There’ll be further updates on news of the CD in due course.