"Stick Insect" CD - Nick Beggs

I'm proud to announce our debut release of "Stick Insect", a multifaceted new CD by Nick Beggs that from a Stick player's standpoint really captures it all. The 15 tracks are packed with novelty and variety at every twist and turn. This amazing album transcends all categories except for the consistent style of the artist himself and his approach to the instrument he plays. This is a dedicated Stick album, written, arranged, engineered, performed and produced by Nick, and with a polished final mastering by Greg Howard. It is also an elaborate production, with at least three prominent elements of special interest to Stick players. The first element is ethereal in nature, the intimate Stick strings themselves, filling every kind of recorded sonic space, sometimes in live solo, sometimes overdubbed within creative "windows", often backed by The Stick's MIDI triggered voices, including piano, orchestral strings, looped tabla, arpeggiated harp, and rolling surf "Soundscapes". Often his melod