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:: News 2004::

Dec 19 '04 A couple more RHP gigs have been confirmed: feb 4th at Blijburg, Amsterdam, feb 3 at The Cafe in Leiden and a clinic from Lale Larson on februari 8th at Tune Up in Haarlem, starting at 21.00. According to Lale, he will speak about practice tips, technique, how to focus, rhythm and how to use it in your playing, melodic improvisation and his unique my approach to scales and chords. An event keyboardplayers and guitarists don't want to miss, so sign up here! Check out RHP live: (check venues for tickets and availability)

januari 30: Brasserie, Emmen. Start: 15.00 (0591 616675)
februari 3: The Cafe , Leiden. Start: 21.00
februari 4: Blijburg, Amsterdam Start: 21.00 (020-4160330)
februari 5: Nighttown, Rotterdam, Guitar Day Start: 17.30 (010-4361210)
februari 6: Buckshot, Groningen. Start 16.00 (050-5892758)
februari 8: Clinic Lale Larson, Tune Up, Haarlem. Start: 21.00
(023-5441637)

Dec 05 '04 I finished recording a couple of guitar tracks last week for various projects: the new Flowriders single that will be out on 4Lux Records in january. Listen to a rough mix of 'Soul Searchin' here. Also recorded a new track called 'One Spirit' for Frans Vollink's new album, this time on nylon string acoustic. You can listen here.

Dec 03 '04 The Richard Hallebeek Project CD has made the Top 100 of the Annual Global Progressive Rock Discs in the US Radio Listener Poll. RHP will be featured this Saturday, 04/12/04 at #50 as part of the '8th Annual Global Progressive Rock Top 100 Discs of the Year' listener poll. The program begins Saturday at 10pm US Eastern Time. If you're on broadband, tune in on Saturday night by clicking here. If you're on dial-up, click here. Start 10pm-2am via Aural Moon.

Nov 18 '04 I fnished playing a new track for bassist Frans Vollink's new album with special guest Randy Brecker. You can listen to a rough mix of 'What's In Store' here. While listening to that, read a little interview with me about the Sena Guitar Awards on Gitaarnet.
Nov 11 '04 I have been asked to be on the jury of the Sena Guitar Awards, semi-final:sunday nov. 14th and final: sunday nov. 21th at Gooiland, Hilversum. Other jury members are Adrian Vandenberg (ex-Whitesnake) and producer Tom Pearce, a.o. This event is well publicised in magazines and on television so watch out for it! All the players good luck!
Nov 06 '04 I will be at the MILE 2004 Musical Instruments Live Event, sunday oct. 7th, on behalf of guitarmagazine and bassmagazine. Hope to see you there!
Nov 04 '04 RHP LIVE! We will do a couple of live dates for the Richard Hallebeek Project jan/feb '05 with: Lale Larson-keys, Bas Cornelissen- drums and Frans Vollink- bass. Confirmed are: feb. 5th: Nighttown-Rotterdam, jan.30: Brasserie-Emmen, feb.06: Buckshot-Groningen. More dates will be added as they are confirmed, so stay tuned! More live dates: The Flowriders, friday nov. 5th '04 at Blijburg, Amsterdam. [For info, call theater 020 - 41 60 330.] and jan. 13 '05 at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam.

Oct 31 '04 A great RHP review in the latest issue of Bassmagazine. Read it here and it's also translated here.

Oct 15 '04 Music from the Richard Hallebeek Project will be played on various radio shows/webcasts this weekend! Australian radio show FretNet will be doing a special on Liquid Note Records and will be playing 4 hours from their catalogue, including J.A.M., RHP and E-250. Be sure not to miss this event, and click here to listen. Metropolis Radio is a radio show playing symphonic and progressive rock. On sunday evening between 22.00 and midnight they will be playing music from the RHP album. Listen to it here. Thank you both shows for supporting the music.
Oct 12 '04 I finished playing a couple of tracks for a cd from Amsterdam-based band The Flowriders. (no, that's not The Blowdryers) I have been a longtime fan of their jazzy and harmonically interesting dance music so I'm pretty excited they've asked me. The cd will be out in march on 4Lux Records. Their first single is out now and is called 'Pheromone'. You can check it out on the 'cd's' section of this site. We will be doing a couple of gigs shortly.
Oct 07 '04 Thank you award-winning Essential Guitarist site for a terrific review of the RHP album. Read all about it here.
Sept 20 '04 The latest issue of IO Pages features a three-page interview with me that speaks about the making of RHP and past and present. Read it here (Adobe Acrobat file, from page 8 on) Also, a new RHP review from Ragazzi, check it out.
Aug 24 '04 An interview with Jennifer Batten has been added. Two more long interviews, one with Steve Vai and another one with Frank Gambale coming up next month.
Aug 18 '04 Just finished recording a track for the fantastic bassplayer Frans Vollink. The album will also feature trumpet and flugelhorn legend Randy Brecker . Lale Larson and Bas Cornelissen are on there, too. Go check it out here and give it a listen. It's on the 'News' page.
Aug 15 '04 This new site has been opened. All the different sections have been updated.Thanks to the patience and the talents of BerD, you can now enjoy a nicely designed HTML site which will be easier for me to update every once in a while. Better believe I will do it! Until then.. kick ass and chew bubblegum..
April '04 RHP has made the top 5 chart in the UK's most respected jazz magazine, Jazz Wise. Check it out here.
may '04 The Alchemists will be repressed by Liquid Note Records. It's a double album featuring 27 of the worlds finest guitarst. Everybody contributed one song and I'm on there with 'Seasons', featuring Lale Larson and Bas Cornelissen . Simply click here to order.

May 09 '04 If you live in Europe you can now purchase the Richard Hallebeek Project from UK distributors Matchbox Recordings. Simply click here to order RHP. Best of all, postage is completely free anywhere in the world!For our American/Rest of the World buyers, you can still purchase from Guitar 9, Audiophile Imports and Abstract Logix .

May '04 RHP has topped Guitar 9's most popular CD's chart, and is the most popular current fusion release. Of course, we're over the moon that it's doing so well and attracting such great reviews. Again thanks for all the support and thanks for buying the music!
March 25 '04 The Richard Hallebeek Project featuring Shawn Lane and Brett Garsed is out! Nothing to do with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers though..but..nine explosive tracks of jazz-rock! Sparks are flying between Bas Cornelissen (drums), Udo Pannekeet (Bass) and Lale Larson (keys). And if that isn't enough for you, Shawn Lane and Brett Garsed both play 4 solos each! I'm very excited and proud that I was able to work with all these incredible players on my first solo album and I couldn't be more happy with the end result. Get you copy now at: www.liquidnoterecords.co.uk or www.guitar9.com/richardhallebeek.html
may '04 RHP will be played on Australian radio show Fretnet coming sunday, you can listen to their live webcast here.
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update sept/14/2008
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