Rapster's innovative music features his compositions, vocal, guitar and bass talents. An award-winning composer of Chamber music with University honors, Rapster enjoyed the '70s playing in the San Francisco Bay area fusion band Clouds, then toured with The David La Flamme Band, enjoying his share of sex, drugs, rock and roll so prevelant during that era. Well, Rapster's baaack, with some new muscular tracks that should find happy homes in a number of TV, Film and multiple media projects. His ability to blend genres guarantees an innovative style of original music.
Rapster is the consummate musician. He composes, arranges, plays guitar, bass, keyboards, tenor sax, raps, and sings. He sure does his thing, which has kept him in demand for years. Throughout his career, Rapster has played with some iconic artists, including Woody Shaw, Jon Hendricks, Julian Priester and Mike Nock.
Rapster is a musician who believes in World music...seeking to blend many genres into a fresh and innovative style of Jazz.
Comments from Colleagues and Fans:
"G`Day Brother... All the best to you! You are definitely a musical mastermind...with an ingenius sense of melody & crazy mad skills on the guitar!" (norman goodman IMW.com)
"Incredible guitar playing, solos are out of this world! Blows my mind...great production and excellent song. You have taken things to a whole new level...." (norman goodman IMW.com)
"THE DUKE.. what gets me is your guitar playing. Man, I wish to meet you one day and have you Line-Me-out on the guitar lines. I hope to have the money one day to come see you, shake your hand and play some music with you. I think your the best guitar player online! AWESOME BRO! (dace yates IMW.com)
A better world? how can we be? we'll just never see.. the way to be free.. I wanna get on the boat and go... Rapping, singing, ambient swinging. Soulful, smokey male vocals, moving, touching and hopeful. Male Vocals, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Rapster is equally at home in instrumental and electronic music as well as in vocal music.. Ambient Buds is nu jazz.. sensual.. ambient.. innovative.. Instrumental, Electronic, Ambient (pending)
This song has won several OMD awards.. it features my guitar and 5-part jazz gospel vocal harmonies to awesome music by Big Daddy Cee.. it's really a jazz RnB ballad.. Male Vocals, RnB, Blue-Eyed Soul
This latin jazz song featuring trumpet pays tribute to a great American hero.. a great Chicano hero.. Cesar Chavez.. melancholy mood.. broad soundscape.. attractive beat and bass.. lyrical trumpet.. factual rapping vocal harmonies.. Male Vocals, Jazz, Nu Jazz
Rapster raps about things concerning the survival of the planet.. pollution, greed, politics.. this poignant reminder of the tragedy of our times is captured in his rhymes.. with lovely vocal harmonies in the chorus.. Male Vocals, Hip Hop, Political Rap
Rapster loves outside jazz.. dissonant jazz.. Crossed my Wires is certainly another of his theme songs and features catchy spoken vocals and delicious outside jazz guitar to a great funky beat.. Male Vocals, Rock, Progressive Rock
Rapster loves to do jazz ballads and counts them among his favorite songs.. Done It Again is full of sensual emotion and features lovely vocal harmonies on the chorus as well as a very expressive blues guitar solo.. Male Vocals, Rock, Soft Rock
This instrumental modern jazz blues was inspired by a BBC series commemorating the life and achievements of Charles Darwin. It features a B3 organ solo by Markku Vuollet and a synth solo from Dustin Graham as well as a lyrical outside guitar solo. Instrumental, Jazz, Jazz Rock
An environmentally aware tune with innovative beat and structure. This is Rapster's poignant lyrical rap and harmonies with a guitar solo by Bob Forbes. Great soundscape for environment-saving themes in any media production or ad campaign. Urban and club scenes, too, or Fight the Power... Male Vocals, Electronic, Electro Hop
A smooth Jazz tune that's also funky and very ambient with clean lyrical jazz guitar, acoustic piano, smooth vocals and metaphorically meaningful lyrics.. Male Vocals, Jazz, Smooth Jazz
A jazz blues ballad that goes above and beyond.. this song is shaking people up on many sites.. "daring!" "exploratory".. avante garde or steeped in the jazz tradition? Male Vocals, Jazz, Jazz (pending cat.)
Hide and Seek is decidedly an industrial heavy funk groove albeit with definitely eastern flavor which has been emphasised by rapster's here very unique vocal style.. Hide and Seek won a song competition at the end of 2006.. and it just might have been the first internet love song.. Male Vocals, New Age, Ethnic Fusion
A Rapster theme song we might call this.. acoustic guitar blues with soulful vocals and tasty electric leads.. with a trad. delta feel but a unique form and structure.. Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
Hunger! is really avant garde fusion jazz. The abstract cyber beat by Brian Mattson emphasizes the seriousness of the world hunger situation, the absurdity of it. Add some expressive outside jazz guitar and choral style vocal harmonies and factual rap and you have the picture. Male Vocals, Jazz, Nu Jazz
Lost is ambient modern dark Gothic jazz. Patented Rapster vocal harmonies and innovative guitar soloing complete the sensually expressive music. Male Vocals, Rock, Progressive Rock
A humerously cynical look at the world of artists, musical and otherwise.. to magical and catchy jazzy hiphop music, rapster's vocals, lyrics and solo guitar make this a truly unique, fresh and innovative track suitable for any kind of media.. Male Vocals, Hip Hop, Trip Hop
This music might be best described as ambient experimental.. a sort of gothic jazz choir over an abstract beat and structure in loop form.. Instrumental, Electronic, Experimental
Another of rapster's innovative jazz blues tunes.. with a bouncy bassline, cool ice blue beat, sensuous vocals and wailing jazz guitar.. Male Vocals, Jazz, Jazz Rock
This was written during the first gulf war, 1991.. a new world order is what bush senior proclaimed.. since then we've only been shamed..
the wind quintet portrays humanity in all it's vulnerable confusion..
the electronic pounding sounds represent the military/industrial jugernaut.. Instrumental, Classical, 20th Century
How appropriate that i had to split this long composition into 2 parts.. one for each bush! part 2 is shorter but features "SHOCK AND AWE"
if you've made it through both parts.. congratulations, you survived the bombing!! both parts are filled with terrifying sounds and tragic poignant laments.. Instrumental, Classical, 20th Century
Rapster created a song to Trane's alternative "Summertime" changes from the 1960s, featuring a funk beat, vocals and lots of modern jazz guitar playing over the advanced harmonies. Male Vocals, Jazz, Jazz Fusion
Rapster loves bebop but puts it into a modern context: modern vocals, funk beat, sustain on the guitar solos.. all over classic chord changes:-), Male Vocals, RnB, Blue-Eyed Soul
This beautiful music by global trancemission (Peter Coultas) inspired my most sensitive vocal harmonies and rapping.. an ambient love song was the result.. a very popular song on many OMD sites.. Male Vocals, Pop, Pop (pending)
Rapster shows his roots with this impressive hard rock/metal song featuring a powerful vocal, engaging lyrics and unique guitar leads.. TURN IT UP!! Male Vocals, Rock, Rock (pending cat.)
You can't be paranoid in paradise with this catchy melodic rocker rocking you with both classic and modern elements.. Margot's vocals and lyrics are sure to touch many while Rapster's music and guitar playing will convince the musicians. Female Vocals, Rock, Melodic Rock
Rapster creates all new harmonies for a blues and then solos to perfection in what may well be his most flowing jazz guitar playing to date.. Male Vocals, Rock, 60s Rock
A powerful modern reggae with vocal harmonies to rival the great Third World in their heyday.. meaningful lyrics that don't overdo.. if you love classic, serious reggae, this bud's for you:-), Male Vocals, Reggae, Reggae
Every hiphop song sounding the same? try my game.. jazzy, provocative and anything but tame.. unique beat and flow with harmonies that will put the rest to shame.. Male Vocals, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
This is an older track from 2005 commemorating the New Orleans disaster..
featuring speed rapping and many industrial and fx sounds (middle interlude) that would be perfect for any film usage.. sci fi, disaster, docu, horror, war.. Male Vocals, Electronic, Industrial (pending)
This is easy listening nu jazz pop.. featuring lead vocals and gorgeous vocal harmonies, catchy music with a great beat, sax, guitar and keyboard solos.. Male Vocals, Pop, Pop Groove
A smokey voiced tune skillfully blending progressive rock with electronics.. and another smoking rapster guitar solo.. Male Vocals, Rock, Progressive Rock
A sensual hiphop tribute to our bi-cultural relationship with Japan.. long a fan of the Japanese language, rapster and margot lend an understated steamy, sauna like atmosphere to this rather sexy song.. Mixed Vocals, Hip Hop, Hip Hop
An avante garde nu jazz blues for my cat, Paddy.. featuring some outside jazz guitar solos.. difficult to keep the groove happening in a slow tune so i'm told and also that i got the flow mastered.. Male Vocals, Lounge, Neo-Lounge Vocals
The Ring is another of rapster's ambient electronic instrumental works.. sensual and jazzy ambience at it's best.. Instrumental, Electronic, Electro Ambient
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