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Paul Gruet

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator I am a keyboard player who has played with several local bands, including Across the Frontier and Different Corner.These days I play in my local church music group, I compose and record my own music and also work in collaboration with my friend and former Different Corner member, Ian Edgson.There are four of my tracks here but you can download many more from my website at http://www.paulgruet.co.ukOn an unrelated note, I am also a member of Flickr and post quite a few photos there. You can see them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulguk/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/16/2006
Band Website: paulgruet.co.uk
Band Members: Just me!
Influences: Chopin, Weather Report, The Beatles, Beethoven, Enya, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Bach, Thelonious Monk - who knows! Many more besides!
Sounds Like: Some people have said a few of my tracks (not the ones on myspace) sound like Tangerine Dream, which is strange because I have hardly listened to any of their stuff - go figure! I think I just sound like me.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Crimson Wings

The album is now complete! I have to figure out how I will distribute it now. At the moment I have just been giving disks to friends. I am going to break my own rule (just a little anyway) and tell yo...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:02:00 PST

Joe Zawinul

I'm a bit late with this news but I just learned that one of my keyboard heros, Joe Zawinul, passed away on 11th September. Joe was a Jazz keyboard player who is most well known for his work with Weat...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:10:00 PST

Crimson Wings latest

The track 'Oblivion' is starting to sound complete and I am working on another track called Out of Body which again is a soundscape kind of thing but with a sort of dance beat behind it. I also record...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:23:00 PST

Music, mood and art.

I'm having trouble gauging how much to say in this blog at the moment. I think all I will say is that I am going through a tough time and feel very down. I am glad I have music with which to express m...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:42:00 PST

just a random update

Yesterday I got down to some serious work on "Oblivion" I was off all day because of several medical appoinments and I didn't feel up to going into work in between. I made some use of some sound sampl...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

CD - a change of direction

When I started composing the music for my next CD I was aiming for something a bit more accessible. I was writing it with my audience in mind, something I have not done before. However ...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:28:00 PST

CD Work in progress

There is much going on musically (albeit at a steady pace). The latest Edgson Gruet CD is taking shape. A new version of In The Name Of Jesus (an old Different Corner number) is nearly complete. The a...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:37:00 PST

New CD Work In Progress

Buried deep in the recesses of the dustier corners of my soul, lies another CD full of music waiting to be born. The good news is that the first track has found its way onto my hard drive and there ar...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:48:00 PST

Gig - latest

We raised about £440 for our church building project - thank you so much all who donated. There are a couple of recordings on the Edgson-Gruet myspace page at   http://www.myspace.com/edgsongruet...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:55:00 PST

Gig

A big thank you to all who came to our gig tonight. We had great fun. Thank you to all those who helped out and all who made donations to our church building fund. I don't know how much we raised yet ...
Posted by Paul Gruet on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:02:00 PST