Renaken
We are duo musician from British Columbia, Canada. We picture our music as a soundtrack for the good times of your life.The works are mainly instrumental we combine acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and analog electronic instruments. We're aiming for a distinctive sound blend-- two musicians who come from different musical backgrounds and training. We work all aspects of the production, from composing, performing, recording/mastering to the artwork and graphics. Hard to say what exact category we fall in, but we hope you will think it is category of nice tunes. We are trying to make your day or night or life a bit better with our songs.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
We played independently for years, locally. Kent did play in few local rock/dance bands and around camp fires lol, Rena (having classical musical education) as 'for hire' pianist musician to accompany singers, choirs and playing in theaters.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Not anymore. We are trying to record some music now concentrating more on, we hope, good stuff.
Your musical influences
Kent - Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, BTO, Mike Oldfield and many more....
Rena - Enigma, Robbie Robertson - Music for Native Americans, Adiemus, Amethystium, Jeniffer Berezan, Phil Sawyer, John Adorney, Crimson.
What equipment do you use?
Synths - Korg M3, KingKorg, Alesis Fusions, Roland Integra7, Korg SV1, Roland V-SynthGT, and few more,
Guitars - Godin LGXT, Godin Session, Epiphone SG doubleneck 12/6 string modified, Fender/Roland Stratocaster Classic and few more,
Effects - Eventide Factor stompboxes, PigTronix and Wampler compressors, OCD overdrive, Roland GR-55, guitar synth, and some more rack stuff.
Recording on PC based music workstation.
