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Hold the Vision

On December 12th, I completed the recording process for this album, “Hold the Vision.” The creative process began in June, so the entire album has come into being during this amazing and most unusual pandemic year.

 

A time of lock-down and isolation, it has also been an inward journey of great deepening. A time of letting go of many details that seemed important to the life flow, and in the space that resulted, a new experience of what is really most important to this life journey. The other side of letting go is stepping into new life.

 

“Hold the Vision” is the freest and deepest expression to come through so far, and I’m excited to see where the Muse Dance takes me next. Even as this physical temple shows signs of aging, I am nevertheless at the top of my game, and inspired to explore any and all new musical territory that Muse still has in store. Thanks to you, whoever might be reading this, for sharing this journey with me. Your connection with the music completes a creative circuit, and sparks the continuation of a creative adventure that is “beyond imagination of expectancy.”

 

So much love,

Doug

12/12/20

 

 

 

What a Ride: A book, a concert, a life

 

 

Click on the image to watch the documentary Doug’s sister Jaine created, inspired by Josh Rice’s wonderful video footage taken on Doug’s 60th birthday concert weekend in May of 2016.

The night before the concert Doug’s family presented him with a birthday book, which chronicles a rich swath of Doug’s musical journey from childhood to Rainbowland Man.  Doug and Jaine collaborated on the historical record of the film as well as the final production.  The video will give you a sense of the abundant and extraordinary musical life Doug continues to weave.

Muse in Love: Poetic Dances and Meditations

 

It’s May 13th, my mom’s 89th birthday—coming down the home stretch of this new album that began on January 1, the first day of the new decade. Simultaneously, we began a global dance with a virus. The world is a different place, and life itself is in the balance…or so it seems. The opening words of this new project are a paraphrasing of Emerson: “What is coming and what has been, are but small details for the light awakening within.” These words have been very much with me as we traverse this strange time. Strange, yes…and also deeply inward, rich with space and insight.

My previous album, Notes from the Bus Stop, explored “forever in the fleeting,” the magic and transcendence of the life right under my nose. Muse in Love reaches for the vibration of the place the Bus will take us. The projector is smiling.

If you’re reading this, you must be a good friend. Thank you. Enjoy the dance with the Muse as she comes to you.         

Love and Light,

Doug

 

60th Birthday Concert Clips


Now available in the video section of this site is a collection of concert clips from Doug’s 60th Birthday.  It’s a 22-minute sampling of the spectacular show he performed for friends and family at Rainbowland on May 21st, 2016.  Click on the photo above for a direct link.

Spark Video

 

 

Click on the image for the link to the video 

Spark is a visual interpretation of Doug Rice’s poetic piece of the same name from the album self to Self.

Created by Jaine Rice.

 

Doug Rice’s 60th Birthday Concert

After a four-year circuitous journey, the film of my 60th birthday concert is on the website.

While my 60th birthday was April 4, 2016, the concert took place on May 21, 2016.

The sound loses something in the translation to film. Still, it is lovely to have this document of a special day.

There is a detailed accounting of the event, along with a wonderful slide show, earlier in the sequence of this “News & Notes” feed.

Enjoy!

 

 

Notes From the Bus Stop: Songs of Nature, Philosophy and Home

“Notes from the Bus Stop” was conceived and composed across the months of January through April 2019. It is an articulation of my deepest explorations and understandings of this life experience, during this time window, as I turned 63.

The poetry and musical ideas were collected separately, and then paired together. The lyrics were written during my daily walks out Rice’s Crossing Road. My beloved gave me a small, hardbound notebook. It is engraved with a guitar, and fits in the back pocket of my jeans.

The journey of this album, composing, orchestrating, and now enjoying, has been the deepest satisfaction for me. I am complete, and ready for more… the abundance of enough… ever new joy.

The bus stop is a meadow, with a cottage and a rainbow. The bus stop is a heaven of my own reflection.
And the bus is coming to a moment just like this one.
So much love….
~D

 

Latest Recording

Early in 2018, I read an interview with Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones. At age 72, he had recently overcome an aggressive cancer, his girlfriend gave birth to twins; he had an art gallery showing of his paintings, wrote a book, and was about to head out on tour with the Stones. When asked how he copes with this-that-and-the-other, his response was: “I just let it all go, man. Just let it flow…let it all go.”—A seeming cliché that never the less spoke to me like hearing it for the first time.

The exploration of “letting go” became the heart and inspiration of this album, and touching back into the lyrics continues to be my polestar in this world of madness. “Inner Light” is offered in gratitude to the Music Muse. God may very well be a sadistic tyrant, but the Muse is an independent spirit and does as she pleases. She laughs at his folly, and any time I turn to her, she comes. Thank Dog for music, the only sanity.

Special thanks to my buddy, Nelson, for his inspiration and keyboard performance on “Black Belt.” Nelson IS the black belt.

 

 

 

New Recording

With the help of my beloved sister/webmaster, Jaine, we have uploaded my new album to the website. It is called “Heart Whale: the Wail of the Heart.”

The concept “Heart Whale: the Wail of the Heart” came first. It was born of a deep place of despair for the rudderless state of amerika and humanity in general, at a time when the sand in the hourglass is running out to reverse the impending environmental train wreck. It is a lyrical album, though almost all the musical ideas came before any lyrics. For me, what is most compelling about the album is its atmosphere. There is an emotional tenor that colors the whole, while the music itself explores a wide range of textures. It was as if the music was reaching for the heart whale wail before any words gave voice to those textures. As with my previous album, “The Unobstructed Light”, this new album seeks to find a new and deeper ground of being. It follows a road that passes through the experience of sorrow, to discover that place of transcendent benevolence and joy that is the infinite container of the pendulum-swinging world story. It is my personal journey of new awakening and discovery. I hope it is a story that has resonance for you.
                                                                                          Love and Light!
                                                                                          Doug
                                                                                          11/11/17

  (Album Cover art by Jaine Rice) 

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Check out Starpeople Band’s new promo video on YouTube, filmed at the Nevada County Fair, August 2017:

Star People at Hot Summer Nights in Nevada City, 2017

Doug with Star People at Hot Summer Nights in Nevada City, July 12, 2017

On July 12th, Star People had what was arguably our most enjoyable show ever, playing for a Hot Summer Nights event in Nevada City, CA. Every year on three consecutive Wednesday evenings, the town of Nevada City closes the streets to cars, and brings in a variety of foods and crafts vendors, along with live music. We have had the blessing of playing at Hot Summer Nights events for many years now, and this year was the best one yet. The temperature was cooler than it has typically been in past years, and this was a welcome change. We played up at the top of Broad Street, looking down street at the throngs of humanity out having fun. Fortunately for us, many of the folks attending came up to party with us, and a grand time it was for all! Much dancing, singing, laughing and celebrating. A beautiful man named Jerry Kennedy approached after the show, and said he had taken some pictures. We loved them, and he was kind enough to make them available to us. Two of those photos are included here. If you are interested in Jerry’s photography, you can contact him at jkauburn30@gmail.com. Have a great rest of your summer!
Love, Doug

Doug and Morningstar with Star People at Hot Summer Nights in Nevada City, July 12, 2017