Rich Millin Drums: Remote Sessions

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17.12.14

Merry Xmas, 2014!

A lovely festive picture for you :-)

So, Christmas time is here again... And that means 2015 is only a couple of weeks away.

It's been a busy, exciting, strange, happy yet mildly depressing year for me in 2014.

It started off well enough - A trip to the UK to record demos for a rather well-known singer, my drum school in Berlin starting to get busy, a few serious bits of remote session work which helped to break my studio in and various live projects in Berlin and across Germany; so all-in-all, not a bad start to the year...

...and it started to pay off too, with work leading to more work and my time being taken up more and more with recordings, teaching, shows, workshops...

The summer came and went with the end of this year full of promise, but then a series of unfortunate events meant I had to cancel everything for a month, and then with the end of the year looming it seemed like an uphill struggle to get motivated and make things happen again before the start of the new year.

The end of this year has, well, sucked.

Roll on 2015!!!!

But hang on... this year isn't finished quite yet...

...so, before 2014 has gone, I'd like to offer a little gift of a free drum recording for anyone who wants it!

This Friday I have some spare studio time at Legato Sound Studio in Berlin and so can offer to record drums for FREE for one song for you - this is a one-time, one-off, limited to the first person to email me their song (mp3), offer.

The usual rules apply (rules and information), apart from you won't have to give me any cash for it. The only other exclusion is, seeing as it's a free gift, I can't offer any revisions...

Apart from that, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

And here's a list of thanks to the projects, recordings and bands I have played for this year:

Recording in 2014 - Thanks to:

The Blowbacks

Realized Soul

Josuke Sato

Idan Altman (& The Summer Folk Project)

Giulio and Nadav at Legato Sound Studio
The guys at The Funkhaus Studio

Live in 2014 - Thanks to:

Music education in 2014 - Thanks to:

Super-S Super-Sessions.de

Dr. Paradiddles WonderDrumporium

The Berlin RockSchool

All of my lovely students :-)

Special thanks to Ibrahim Diril at Diril Cymbals for his continued support and wonderful cymbals.

Thanks to every fantastical, amazing musician I have had the pleasure of working with this year. I hope we can find more projects to work on next and beyond :-)

And I hope to meet more inspirational and talented people to work with in 2015!

11.11.14

Session Recording - New prices and Studio Options

I have some amazing new studio options for your remote or studio drum sessions with me.
See what I can offer here:

http://richmillindrums.blogspot.de/p/session.html

14.8.14

Recent, current and upcoming projects...

I am now officially international!

Here's a nice picture :-)

Recent, current and upcoming sessions include recordings for artists from:

England, Germany, Italy, America, Denmark, Canada, Israel, Pakistan and Japan!

(This is just a mini post - I just got excited and had to have a little boast...)

Listen to some of the sessions I have recorded here:

https://soundcloud.com/rich-millin-drums

with more coming soon...

:-)

27.6.14

Halfway through the year...

So far, 2014 has been a mixed year: Some good, some not so good, some exciting stuff, some boring stuff, some promises not kept and some very nice surprises...

As far as my music and drumming goes, I have had a lot of varied projects so far with what looks to be like a lot more to come in the second half of the year.

I will think back and start at the beginning of the year and work forward chronologically up to now, and beyond... This list is purely for recording work. My live shows can be viewed here.

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At the beginning of this year I had the opportunity to work with two amazing singer/song-writers, one here in Germany and the other back in the UK.

Zeki Min (ex-frontman of The Driftwood Fairytales) asked if I would play drums for his debut solo-album, "Majestic". I of course said "yes"... So, he and Mr Hadl (producer extraordinaire and bassist for the album), came over to my place and we recorded the album live in a weekend!
The resulting album is stupendous and I am extremely proud to have been a part of it...
We also played a few shows in Berlin and I was asked to help in the creation of this interactive video too:

Click on the icons and have a play around with the awesome interactiveness!!!

If you like your music to be edgy yet familiar, glorious, yet understated and acoustic with a punk attitude, then you should definitely check Zeki's debut album "Majestic" out immediately!
Visit Zeki's website here!
Buy Zeki's debut album "Majestic" here!

Not long after recording with Zeki I was asked to fly over to England to work with Mr Josh Kumra - we spent a week writing and recording demo's for Josh's new album.

Hopefully work on the album will commence soon and a release won't be too long in the waiting...
Visit Josh's official facebook page here!

I also have been involved with loops and beat-making. Mr Ilkka Ala-Fossi, AKA Ile, used some of my loops in one of his songs which you can listen to on mysoundcloud, here:
"The Best Day (Demo)".
Visit Ile's SoundCloud page here!

A couple of months back started a surge of recording work with UK singer/songwriter Si Hall calling upon my [remote] service for his forthcoming E.P.
More along the lines of Chuck Ragan, Dave Hause and Tim Barry, Si's E.P. is almost ready to be unleashed on the world...
Find out more about Si Hall and his music here!

The work, coming in thick and fast, then took a slightly more exotic turn (no offence Si!):
The wonderfully colourful Mr Rameez Khalid emailed me and asked if I could record drums for his new single.

Another amazing opportunity... I jumped at the chance and I must say it was a pleasure to work for such a talented and kind man. I look forward to working again with Rameez sometime in the future... Who knows, maybe I will even get to do some live work with him one day...?!
Visit Rameez's official facebook page here!

Keeping things international, I have been working on an album for Italian duo "Mr Dog The Bear". The album is in the very early stages, but I am being encouraged to have a lot of input: Some production input (and happily a lot of creative input too!), the first song, (self-titled) can be heard on their soundcloud page here:
"Mr Dog The Bear"

This about gets me up to speed as far as the year has gone so far...
...but what does the rest of the year have in store?!!!
Well, let me divulge a little more:

There are 2 new projects definitely coming up in the next couple of months, not to mention the continuing & "in-progress" work I already spoke about and also the possibility of 2 or 3 more projects which are "under-discussion"...

The two projects coming up that I can say are both quite simply amazing:

The first is a chance for me to stretch my funk muscles. Rachelle Jeanty has been singing professionally for the past 20 years. She has toured the world as a backing vocalist for Celine Dion and has given performances as a solo artist at ''Les Francofolies de Montréal'', with the Vienna Boys Choir and at the United Nations in New York.

A powerful and soulful presence on-stage (I've seen her twice and she is quite simply outstanding), the talented Ms Jeanty has a new project with an American based guitarist and song-smith underway, which will see me on-board as the beats man - excited is an understatement!
Visit Rachelle's website here!

The most recent session to land on my table is a studio album for Le-Thanh Ho. This one is so fresh, all I can say at the moment is that the studio is booked for August and I am the drummer (unless I totally mess it up in rehearsals!)
Here's looking forward to working on this project as much as the rest!
Visit Le-Thanh Ho's website here!
Visit Le-Thanh Ho's official facebook page here!

So, there it is. 2014 so far with some things to look forward too :-)

And I hope you enjoy the music as much as I do.

12.6.14

Latest Session - Mr Dog The Bear


Mr Dog The Bear

The song-writing and producer team "Mr Dog The Bear" have recently employed me to record and mix some drums for their debut E.P. being released later this year...

Listen to the initial mix for the self-titled song on my SoundCloud here!

And listen out for more coming soon... :-)

22.5.14

Recent sessions...

Some of my recent recording sessions have now been completed and will soon be available to buy...

Here's one by the fantastic Zeki Min:

https://soundcloud.com/gunner-records/zeki-min-go-on

His debut solo album is coming out next month on Gunner Records, with the album launch party seeing us playing Live in Berlin on 6th June - you can find out more here:
http://zekimin.com/

Most of the recording for this album was played in two live sessions in my studio in Berlin... :-)

You can read more about the recording sessions on Zeki's blog site:

http://zekimin.com/2013/11/09/studio-day-one/

and

http://zekimin.com/2013/11/24/studio-day-two-and-another-show/

I have also been recording an eclectic mix for some artists from all over the world, including a single for an Indian singer and composer which mixes traditional Indian musical ideals with a western pop groove, a post-punk EP for an English singer and song-smith and starting on a soul album for an amazingly talented singer here in Berlin. Once I have official info I can share links for both projects...

There are lost of other projects under way, but only in their infancy... as soon as I can, I will post up some links to the lovely music I am lucky enough to be a part of.

Happy Music Days!
:-)

30.4.14

Bookings!

You can now book me for lessons or recording time, online!

For lessons at Dr. Paradiddles WonderDrumporium in Berlin, book HERE.

For recording time, book HERE, HERE or HERE.

Alternatively you can email me: richmillindrums@gmail.com

12.3.14

New Web Presence...

I am very excited to announce that I now have listings here:

SoundBetter.com

and

BrokenMusic.com

So, you can book me directly, or via one of the above links - (25% discount if you book through SoundBetter! - (limited time only))

Whoop!

6.2.14

Session Exchange

What a brilliant resource for remote session musicians!

Here's my page:

http://sessionexchange.org/find-a-musician/drums-percussion/rich-millin/

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