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Studying performing and composing music for over a quarter-century, Leland has spent a lifetime pursuing the joys of music. He's played in what feels like countless bands, and has aspirations of composing for film as well.
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Producer/Engineer
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Seattle's own purveyors of improvisational Funk-Soul-Jazz, Marmalade, released their first live album Volume One in 2004. The album was Produced and Engineered by Leland. Leland and his co-engineer, Skot Gilbert, recorded a three-hour performance, Live at Seattle's ToST nightclub. Leland then whittled the improvised performance down to a single hour of uninterrupted music. The artificial transitions he created from the band's performance were so seamless, that the band itself was unable to identify some of them.
A link to music samples will be provided once available. |
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Apple Jam with Alan White |
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Apple Jam -- an offshoot of a Seattle Beatles' cover band that only plays the music of the Beatles' members' post-Beatles careers -- played a special show with Alan White, the drummer from Yes and John Lennon's solo albums. Leland engineered the live on-site recording of the show. It has not been made publicly available. |
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Producer/Engineer
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Although never released, Leland recorded and produced a live recording of the Asylum Street Spankers from Austin, Tx on Halloween, 2004. Perhaps it will become available someday. |
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Leland bought his first 4-track recorder when he was 15 years old. He began learning the unusual techniques required to get decent recordings at a very early age, and studied the notes of The Beatles' Abbey Road Sessions to help him develop unique ways to build songs with far more than four instruments.
His Senior Year of High School, Leland's US Government teacher let him submit a 30-minute album in lieu of a written final term paper.
Leland has no idea whatever happened to that old cassette tape, and is probably thankful for that |
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Composer
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Several years ago, Leland met a young filmmaker who was just finishing up his independent film, The Winter of Her. His plan was to score the film with traditional classical music from the public domain.
Leland asked if he could audition to score the film. The filmmaker provided Leland with the first cut of the film's trailer, which was cut with some of that classical music. Leland created a short score based solely on that trailer.
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