Rick Wakeman / Valentina Blanca - Live From ElcheRecorded in 2018 at the Gran Teatro de Elche, in Spain, Live From Elche captures a momentous collaboration between a bona fide legend and an up and coming star who deserves to be known the world over. You've got to be something special to get Rick Wakeman's attention, and Italian singer Valentina Blanca delivered the goods when she emailed the former Yes keyboardist out of the blue, asking if he would record with her. "He told me he received hundreds

Since his first full-length

With stellar reputations that precede them

Puddle of Mudd) of Red Attic Studios in Jacksonville

" a reggae-tinged reimagining of Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange

" - Jazz Journal

and is being released by Bridge Records in tandem with the world premiere staging of The Thirteenth Child by the Santa Fe Opera in July and August of 2019

these three tracks were originally released as a mini-CDr format in a signed and numbered edition of 300 copies

including "Shine"

the old mans gorgeous wife

alongside a lengthy resume of past contributions (Gnarls Barkely

drink-slinger Isaac (Ted Lange)

will play the piano