{"id":10876,"date":"2015-08-31T06:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2015-09-01T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:32:22","slug":"victorias-nick-la-riviere-moves-ahead-with-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/08\/31\/victorias-nick-la-riviere-moves-ahead-with-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s Nick La Riviere moves ahead with second album"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Victoria\u2019s Nick La Riviere started to put together the material for Another Time Around<\/i>, his second studio album, he knew that there was going to be one major change: the album was going to have vocals on it. His debut, 2009\u2019s Too Much to Do<\/i>, was completely instrumental, but the music dictated singing this time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe singing went hand in hand with the genres of music on this album,\u201d explains La Riviere. \u201cIt made sense to do an all-instrumental album for my previous jazz record, but for this album I wanted to branch out into other genres. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to play a lot of different styles of music with the various bands I work with, and I wanted my own band to reflect that musical diversity as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victoria musician Nick La Riviere and one of his beloved conch shells (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the most unique aspects of La Riviere\u2019s music is his tendency to play conch shells. He says he first discovered conch shells as an instrument through Steve Turre, the trombonist in the Saturday Night Live<\/i> band.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty unique-sounding instrument, and in [Turre\u2019s] groups they can sound almost like a choir of human voices,\u201d he says. \u201cThe transition from trombone to conch shells is pretty natural: you do basically the same thing with your mouth to make the sound, so when I had an opportunity to try playing one it was an easy decision to keep up with it. It\u2019s great being able to do something at a show that many people have never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long road to conch shells began at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, which is a Camosun satellite campus. La Riviere studied there in the jazz program; he says it\u2019s important for students to support local creativity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played in all kinds of bands, and one of the things I always really enjoy is playing in a band that\u2019s performing its own original music,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s great to work with people who are actually creating something of their own, which is what I\u2019ve tried to do here. I hope the students can support that. Of course I don\u2019t want them to listen to my album only because it\u2019s local; hopefully the quality of the music and recording production also makes it something that can just be enjoyed for what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when he\u2019s not creating his music, La Riviere is teaching two large community bands: one that plays big band music and one that is R&B. He says that the two are totally different from each other, but both are a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of satisfaction watching as those groups go from just receiving their music for the season to really playing it well and rocking it. Creating music for me is more of a personal experience. I haven\u2019t done a lot of group writing, so most of my music starts with just me at the piano trying to work out my ideas, whereas teaching the large bands is a lot more of a group effort to make something work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Victoria\u2019s Nick La Riviere started to put together the material for Another Time Around, his second studio album, he knew that there was going to be one major change: the album was going to have vocals on it. His debut, 2009\u2019s Too Much to Do, was completely instrumental, but the music dictated singing this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-august-19-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}