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Colin Farish
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Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Guitarist, Pianist, Producer |
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Country: USA
City: Mill Valley
State/Province: California
Region: Northern California
Subregion: Marin County |
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Contact:
Stillwater Sound
P.O. Box 29481
San Francisco, CA 94941
Email: colin@stillwatersound.com
Website: http://www.stillwatersound.com |
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Colin Farish's
Song Catalog
This list
includes all songs where this music creator
is a contributor (writer or performer). Click
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 | 1. | 'Round Midnight | | | Piano | | 4:14 | | | | Written by: Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 2. | A Child is Born | | | Piano | | 1:57 | | | | Written by: Thad Jones
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 3. | Acoustic Council | | | Cello, English Horn, Oboe, Penny Whistle, Piano, Tablas, Viola, Violin | | 6:02 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: The Colin Farish Ensemble with Paul McCandless | | |
| 4. | Always the Mountains | | | Bodhran, Classical Guitar, Oboe | | 2:57 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 5. | Amey Yangchen | | | Acoustic Guitar, Bells, Dotar (East Indian Lute), Electric Bass Guitar, Lead Female Vocal | | 3:46 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish, Tsering Wangmo
Performed by: Tsering Wangmo | | |
| 6. | An Island Evening | | | Bass, Clarinet, Frame Drum, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Soprano Saxophone | | 8:02 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 7. | Ave Maria | | | English Horn, Piano | | 2:10 | | | | Written by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 8. | Beauty So Wild | | | Acoustic Guitar, Ashiko Drum, Bodhran, Frame Drum, Percussion, Vocalizing Male | | 3:42 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 9. | Blossom in the Ice | | | Acoustic Steel String Guitar, Bass, Clarinet, Frame Drum, Oboe, Soprano Saxophone, Tablas | | 6:18 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 10. | Blues Medley | | | Piano | | 5:47 | | | | Written by: W. C. Handy, Johnny Mercer
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 11. | Bodas De Sangue | | | Steinway Grand Piano | | 6:13 | | | | Written by: Marcos Valle, Warren Bernhardt
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 12. | By The Sound | | | Acoustic Bass, Oboe, Piano, Shakers, Soprano Saxophone | | 2:54 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 13. | Chapel Dreams | | | Acoustic 12 String Steel Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Steel String Guitar, Bells, Bodhran | | 4:40 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 14. | Cheers | | | Bass, Guitar, Lead Male Vocal, Piano | | 3:58 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Y.B. D'uped | | |
| 15. | Christmas Time is Here | | | Piano | | 1:21 | | | | Written by: Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 16. | Cirrus | | | Acoustic 12 String Don Musser Guitar, Bass, Drums, Soprano Saxophone | | 3:47 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish with Airto Moreira | | |
| 17. | Come Back as a Flower | | | Piano | | 2:48 | | | | Written by: Stevie Wonder
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 18. | Compassionate One | | | Lead Male Vocal, Synthesizer | | 6:13 | | | | Written by: Heng Sure
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 19. | Confluence | | | Ashiko Drum, Frame Drum, Piano, Soprano Saxophone | | 10:43 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: Colin Farish | | |
| 20. | Conspicuous Mist | | | Bass, Cello, Drums, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Viola, Violin | | 3:24 | | | | Written by: Colin Farish
Performed by: The Colin Farish Ensemble with Paul McCandless | | |
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CDs
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list includes all CDs where this music creator is a contributor
(writer or performer) on at least one song in the CD. Click
on the Jukebox to listen and CD image or CD Title for more CD
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| 1. |  | A SongPeddler Christmas 2004 - Volume Two
Various Artists | | | 2. |  | Acoustic Council
The Colin Farish Ensemble with Paul McCandless | | | | 3. |  | Bluesville
Various Artists | | | 4. |  | By the Sound
Colin Farish | | | | 5. |  | Colin Farish Collection
Colin Farish | | | 6. |  | Confluence
Colin Farish | | | | 7. |  | Curious Species
Colin Farish with Airto Moreira | | | 8. |  | Daylight
Colin Farish | | | | 9. |  | Enchantment
Colin Farish | | | 10. |  | Forbidden Voice
Tsering Wangmo | | | | 11. |  | Influences
Colin Farish | | | 12. |  | Jazz On The Lake - Volume One
Various Artists | | | | 13. |  | Jazz On The Lake - Volume Two
Various Artists | | | 14. |  | Shadows
Colin Farish | | | | 15. |  | Spring is Here
Colin Farish | | | 16. |  | Stillwater Sound Collection
Colin Farish with Various Artists | | | | 17. |  | War Never More
Y.B. D'uped | | | 18. |  | Winds of the Muse
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Biography
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Colin Farish is a composer, pianist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded over twenty albums of original instrumental and vocal music. Additionally, he has recorded two albums of solo piano jazz standards (Influences and Spring is Here) and put fifteen poems of Robinson Jeffers to music (Enskyment). In addition to recording his own music, Colin has produced dozens of live and studio albums for other artists from his recording studio and performance space, Stillwater Sound (www.stillwatersound.com) in the Main Post Chapel of the Presidio of San Francisco, where he has worked since 1997. Tibetan songstress Tsering Wangmo's recording Forbidden Voice and Brazilian pianist and composer Weber Iago's Children of the Wind are among the other CD releases Colin has produced for his label Stillwater Sound.
Colin's musical collaborators in the jazz and world music genres include Paul McCandless, Glen Velez, Kai Eckhardt, Glen Moore, Airto Moreira and many others, all of whom perform and record with him on numerous CDs in his catalogue, many of them recorded at George Lucas's Skywalker Sound. In the New Age genre, Colin has collaborated and played with Sudhananda of Dragonfly Studios, Dueter, Govi, James Twyman, and hosted Mitten and Premal for a concert for their latest recording project produced by Kit Walker. Colin regularly records and performs with members of local San Francisco Bay Area symphony and opera orchestras and has composed cello quartets, guitar duets, and dozens of small chamber ensemble pieces that appear on his various recordings (please see discography). He has hosted, co-produced and recorded many concert events in the Chapel including: a Latin Jazz series, Bay Jazz (co-produced with Linda Woscow) with Omar Sosa, The Snake Trio, Frank Emilo Flynn and others; a World Music series (Co-produced with the Cultural Conservancy, www.nativeland.org) with Glen Velez, Ustad Sultan Khan, the Throat singers of Tuva with Paul Pena, Steven Kent and Lisa Rafael, Linda Tillery and others; and an ongoing orchestral series featuring the music of twentieth century composers performed by the Worn Chamber Ensemble.
In 2000, Colin and Richard Worn invited composer Gunther Shueller to conduct one of his octets at the Chapel as part of a two day Gunther Shueller Festival. Colin has also recorded composer Ron McFarland and Australian baritone Maxwell Jarmen both to favorable reviews worldwide. From 1997 through 2001, Colin was a member of and hosted the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra with Seth Monfort and together they organized the first and second annual piano and vocal competition culminating with an opportunity for the young winners to perform with a full orchestra at different venues throughout San Francisco. In 1998 Colin hosted "Sing For Your Life" (with Stephanie Hendricks), a 24-hour a cappella participatory singing event originally founded by Bobbi McFerrin at Grace Cathedral featuring members of his Voicestra (Rhiannon, Joey Blake and others) to welcome in the New Year. Due to its acoustical architecture, the Chapel lends itself especially well for recording a cappella music and Colin has helped to produce several albums and concerts for different groups including the all women vocal ensembles of Solstice, Kitka, Juju and French Noel.
Along with his passion for original music and audiophile recording, Colin is deeply committed to using music as a vehicle for social change. He is concerned with creating a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world and this social consciousness is reflected in many of Colin's selected performances. Colin performed for the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations and at City Hall in San Francisco, the Bioneers Restoring the Earth Conference in San Francisco, the United Religions Global Summit at Stanford University, and numerous other Earth Day and Interfaith festivals. Together with his wife native ecologist, author and educator Dr. Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and cultural geographer Philip Klasky, they created the Storyscape Project of The Cultural Conservancy (www.nativeland.org and pbs.org/circle of stories), assisting indigenous communities in recording their native languages, songs and stories. Colin recorded the historic Salt Songs of the Southern Paiute nation, the Mother Earth Songs of Western Shoshone elder Corbin Harney, and is currently involved in helping to establish the Digital Tribal Village project (scdtv.net) in San Diego County.
Born on March 15, 1961, in Pasadena, California, Colin Farish grew up surrounded by performers. By age three, Colin's prodigious musical gifts were already emerging: he was playing the piano by ear, picking out popular tunes and melodies. By age nine he began performing piano for live audiences, playing the guitar, and was composing music. He continued to study at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and with jazz artist Bob Phillips in Monterey, laying the groundwork for the eclectic, stylistic mastery that has become his trademark. While traveling in India in the late 70s, Colin learned about classical East Indian music, began learning to play the sitar, and performed with many different musicians. This exposure to the East shaped Colin's musical development and continues to influence his musical sensibilities.
Since 1987 Colin has owned and operated his own recording studio. In 1991 and 1992 Colin toured the universities and colleges of the Pacific Northwest performing on piano and guitar. During this time he also studied classical guitar and piano composition at Cornish School of Music in Seattle, Washington. From 1995 to 1997, Colin performed at the Pebble Beach Lodge on piano and guitar. To date, Colin has composed music for film soundtracks in Hollywood, dance productions and a full length musical. His music can be heard regularly on local radio stations, events, festivals, and hotels through the Bay area and at his concerts and CD release parties at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco. |
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Accolades
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Airto Moreira's impact is so powerful that Downbeat magazine added the category of percussion to its readers and critic's polls, which he has won over twenty times since 1973.
Voted number one percussionist by Jazz Times, Modern Drummer, Drum Magazine, Jazzizz Magazine, Jazz Central Station's Global Jazz Poll on the Internet, as well as in many European, Latin American and Asian publications.
Grammy Awards include "Planet Drum" (1991) for World Music and "Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra," which received the award for Best Live Jazz Album.
In September of 2002, Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso named Airto Moreira to the "Order of Rio Branco," one of Brazil's highest honors. The Order of Rio Branco was created in 1963 to formally recognize Brazilian and foreign individuals who have significantly contributed to the promotion of Brazil's international relations. |
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Staff Notes
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| Colin's prolific catalog of music spans a broad spectrum of instrumental textures, moods and vocal content - from Classical, Jazz and New Age, and Chants. |
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