“Toronto’s David Barrett Trio releases their first full-length CD with help from no less than Alex Lifeson and Alan Parsons (live at the Mod Club April 18).”

Speaking of videos, our video for Great Eastern Sun was finished around the same time, it initially started as a trailer for the new album featuring part 3, but Kenny Balys was good enough to finish the video before he left for his home country of Iceland, where he shot all the stunning outdoor imagery.

And it was back to Ravenswood in Bobcaygeon in early February for the sold out guitar summit which had about a dozen guitar players attending DB guitar workshops, a Saturday night concert with DB3 (with full 24 track HD recording), and some awesome late night acoustic jams. Other highlights were my brother Stephen’s Jim Beam ribs and wine tasting, Paul Ried’s photography hike, and Sascha Gatien masterful cooking! We’ll do it again next year!

After the guitar summit DB3 hung around and shot a new video for Disappearance with Paul Reid again taking over the production duties. It was great fun shooting outside in the great white north!

When we returned to Toronto the next day we found ourselves at BAHM studios recording Saga vocalist Michael Sadler. Michael offered to sing on a DB3 track a few months ago, and we put together a special tune for him called Coppermine, a tune that Michael loved, and he nailed it, it’ll be on DB32.

We have a listening party for the DB3 album at The Orbit Room in Toronto, we’ll hang out and play the entire new album in an intimate setting. Everyone is invited Tuesday February 26th at 7:00pm! And we won’t be playing live until the album release party which is at The Mod Club Thursday April 18th, we have some special things planned, details coming soon!

Our debut album will be released digitally everywhere on Anamnesis Records February 26th, and physical cds will be available at all DB3 events and at our website www.davidbarretttrio.com!

We got all the text together, running song order and thank you’s, as well as the photos and album design. Many thanks to Paul Reid of HotHouse Inc. Paul also recently produced a video for the first song on the album called Dive. It was shot in a beautiful house in Cambridge, Ontario. Thanks to Danielle Benning and Martin Rawlinson for their hospitality.

Our good friend Kenny Bayls created an album trailer that is now available on YouTube, it features his original footage of the sun that he shot while in his home country of Iceland. It features the third part of Great Eastern Sun, the last song on the record, and a bit of an epic with all of Alex Lifeson’s arrangement ideas and Rich’s over the top production skills!

We’ve been getting some great help from d’Addario Canada, Mack amps, and Pigtronix Futuristic Technology with promotional ideas for both their products and DB3. I’ll be using another entirely new guitar rig featuring most of the Pigtronix line up of effects and two or three Mack amps. It sounded killer in rehearsal last week, where we’ve started again trying to learn and reproduce what we’ve recorded.

Believe it or not we have another albums worth of material written, arranged and ready to go! But first things first, we’re gearing up to talk with the music industry and play our first cd release party in the new year. This fall we have a fundraiser to play for BILD/Habitat For Humanity, and another live performance at the new Google Offices in Toronto, where we’ll have some more news to announce!