Bruce Reynolds

Guitarist/ Composer

Producer/ Writer

 

 

 

June 2010

•A concert tour and recording in London and Switzerland with the Luna Llena Duo. Our repertoire includes songs and instrumentals from Tchaikovsky, Turina, Rachmanninoff, Fauré and a collection of traditional Neapolitan melodies. We also play live Nocturne Nr7, from "Dedication".

July 2009

•Cry Wolf, from the Bruce Reynolds Rock Trio. Recorded live at Dex Studios in the Wettsteinallee Cultural Centre in Basel in front of a few invited friends. Raw rock and roll.

May 2009

•Produced and mixed Dedication, my solo CD featuring many friends. Thirteen tracks of rock/ classical crossover with Arabic folk melodies and swing thrown in for good measure. A tour de force of rock and roll with 3 opera singers, 3 drummers and a deceased guitar soloist

July 2008

•Co-produced Volume I, Luna Llena Swing Project - the tracks were recorded at my Fullmoon Studio in Bern and at Dex’s Basel studios and mostly mixed at Dex’s studio.

June 2006

•Recorded Umehange, another co-production with Dex.

December 2004

•Produced and played guitar on 5 Blue, from Chris Jaussi.

March 2003 onwards

•Co-wrote and gigged 20 songs with Peel in the UK and Germany.

2002

•I co-wrote and played on tracks for 2 library compilations from Connect to Music with Nick Graham (Back to the 70's and Back to the 80's). Ricky Gervais used one of the tracks for his Cemetery Junction movie trailer.

January 2001

•Guitar with the Fullmoon Blues Band on the 1998 Live in Moscow CD featuring the UK rhythm and blues legend Bill Hurley, at the Chesterfield Club in Moscow. In 2001 I compiled the live takes in London and applied some gentle mastering.

October 1999

•Recording the The Classical Album, a solo classical guitar CD, in Notting Hill, London.

March 1999

•Recorded and mixed Don’t let the Blues from the London Blues Band in the same Denmark Street studio Jimi Hendrix rehearsed and recorded in in the early days of his London career.

November 1997/ Spring 1998

•Touring Europe and the UK with Gilbert O'Sullivan Band.

•TV appearances in London and Amsterdam.

Spring 1997

•I produced, and co-mixed, Mystery Bay from Mich Gerber ... I discovered Mich at a gig in the Reithalle, Bern. The CD was recorded in London and mixed in Switzerland with Stefan Moser. After a career of 10 years and 6 albums, Mystery Bay is often reviewed as being Mich's best (1997)"....Es ist eine Freude, dass Mich Gerber auf seinem vierten Studioalbum «Wanderer» (Weltrekords/Sound Service) seinem stärksten seit dem Erstling «Mystery Bay» aus dem Jahr 1997 exakt zu jenen Tugenden zurückfindet, die ihn so einzigartig und unentbehrlich machen.(....)"
- Ane Hebeisen, Der Bund, 13. September 08

•Sessions for Mark Sayfritz on his library CD (Bruton) later that year.

June 1995

•Production and guitar playing on Something Must be Wrong from the Bernese band “Big Buisness” The CD, featuring members of Züri West, Mich Gerber and Patent Ochsner, was released on Record Junky.

January 1995

•Composing music for BBC kids tv trailers.

March 1990

•Guitarist with Mammoth.

February 1989

•Four tracks co-written with Colin Peel for the US film project The Strokers.

•Demoed Midnight Sun for the Shadows.

Summer 1988

•I wrote and produced the music for the Battersea Power Station Development Project. The fifteen minutes of quadraphonic music were synched to 12 film projectors and located in a suite within the Power station. The Audio/ Visual presentation was seen by the Prime Minister of England and heads of industry.

May 1985

•Lead guitar with "Ik, Jan Kremer" rock opera. Toured Holland and Belgium. TV appearance in Amsterdam.

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Writing

  • Battersea Power Station Development
  • Back to the 70's (Connect to Music/ Universal)
  • Back to the 80's (Connect to Music/ Universal)


Bands

  • Mammoth - John McCoy and Nicky Moore
  • Gilbert O'Sullivan Band
  • Nick Graham
  • U-Cef
  • Bill Hurley and Fullmoon


Productions

  • Ricky Gervais - Cemetery Junction trailer (with Nick Graham)
  • Mich Gerber - Mystery Bay
  • Dedication
  • Hydrogeena


Sessions

  • Mark Sayfritz,
  • D.O.G. - Verve /EMI
  • Nick Graham
  • Hit and Run Music
  • Ik, Jan Kremer Rock Opera

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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