Rachel Flowers cover of "Starless"

All the Mellotron strings were played on the Nord Piano 2 HA88. The drums are Garritan's fusion kit, as well as their percussion (different blocks and cow bells) all from the Jazz and Big Band library, plus the orchestral percussion (triangles, suspended cymbals, gongs and bells), and oboe from the Vienna Symphonic Libraries. I also played the Muramatsu flute, the Ibanez guitar through the Vox Valvetronix VT20X, and the fretted jazz bass through the Line 6 Bass Pod to get the right mixture of clean, and distortion. Then added some low strings using the Yamaha M06 keyboard by itself. Both the vocal and guitar were recorded through the Lewitt condenser mic.

Hi,

I wish there were enough words to describe what this woman id doing to some of this music.

Anyone that doubts, and does not believe in "progressive", or "prog", just is not listening and does not have ears to even have any idea what it is what they are saying.

Absolutely astounding, how she can bring out something that is not easy to play and so few musicians have the courage to even get close to. And her piano/organ versions of Keith Emerson need to be released as a CD/DVD, so folks in an academic setting can see what real music is really all about, instead of some sort of idealistic music that has no life whatsoever, or some DAW perfected piece of crap.

Well done, Rachel ... really well done, and this is just ... too much ... just totally awesome and out there, and she deserves to be mentioned as a very special "progressive" artist (on PA, too!), for her efforts in helping so much of the music we love come alive!

And in hands like hers, it will live, even further ... I hope RF hears this, and I'm sure he has, and is probably just sitting there and going ... my gosh ... I think we did something right!