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.. Male Vocal, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap and Swing 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 Music, Ambient
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 Vocal, RnB Music, 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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Latin 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 Vocal, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap and Swing 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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Neo-Lounge Vocals
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 Music, Acid Jazz
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 Vocal, Electronic Music, Electronic (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Smooth Jazz | miscellaneous
This song can only be described as metal jazz funk rap.. Rapster flashes both lyrically and on his guitar.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, New Age Music, 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 Vocal, Blues Music, Blues Music (pending)
Hunger! is really avante 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 choir style vocal harmonies and factual rap and you have the picture.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz Fusion
This meloncholy jazz tune features lead vocals and patented rapster vocal harmonies, acoustic and electric guitar solos.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, Neo-Lounge Vocals
Lost is ambient modern dark gothic jazz.. patented rapster vocal harmonies and innovative guitar soloing complete the sensually expressive music.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, Acid Jazz
Rapster and Reason 4 make a good team.. this is a hiphop love song with jazzy vocal harmonies and catchy music.. Male Vocal, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap and Swing Rap
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 Vocal, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap and Swing Rap
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 Music, Ambient
Another of rapster's innovative jazz blues tunes.. with a bouncy bassline, cool ice blue beat, sensuous vocals and wailing jazz guitar.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, 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 Music, Modern Period
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 Music, Modern Period
Rapster created a song to trane's alternative "summertime" changes from the 60s.. featuring a funk beat, vocals and lots of modern jazz guitar playing over the advanced harmonies.. Male Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, RnB Music, 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 Vocal, Pop Music, Pop Music (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 Vocal, Rock Music, Rock (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, Rock Music, 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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
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 Vocal, Reggae Music, Reggae (pending)
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 Vocal, Hip Hop, Jazz Rap and Swing 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 Vocal, Electronic Music, Industrial-Electronic
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 Vocal, Pop Music, Pop Groove
A smokey voiced tune skillfully blending progressive rock with electronics..
and another smoking rapster guitar solo.. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
Margot spins her web of spine tingling of arachnophobia.. her haunting gothic style vocals inspired dark music from me.. Female Vocal, Indie Rock, Goth
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 Vocal, Jazz Music, Jazz (pending categorization)
The Ring is another of rapster's ambient electronic instrumental works..
sensual and jazzy ambience at it's best.. Instrumental, Electronic Music, Ambient
