A year and a half ago, Rhiannon and I spent 600 pounds on an audio recording software package, and set out to record, on my laptop, the first fully independent, mainstream rock/pop album. This record, our band RIDINGHOOD’s debut album RIDING HIGH is now available online.

Science goes where Culture leads it. Forgive the boldness of this statement; I intend fully to provide eloquent proof in due course. Suffice it to say for now that it is one of my most firmly held beliefs. While working on the album, it made me constantly mindful of the fact that the technological advances enabling us to record it, were preconditioned on a cultural development that has always been rather repugnant to me: the democratization of the music industry. Even worse: I was certain that, with the release of RIDING HIGH, the democratization of the music industry would come full term. On top of this came the realisation that in the current climate RIDING HIGH could not have been recorded any other way than on a laptop in my living room.

It is my intention to explore, in these pages, the irony of that circumstance - an irony of which at times I seem to be some kind of personification…

Sebastiaan