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With over 25 years of experience as a performer and composer, Kayle Clements (BMI) has been incorporating diverse musical styles into a variety of settings. He has composed for choir, stage and television, most recently having been commissioned to compose an original ballet entitled {i} Second Chances{/i}. An in-demand performer and accompanist, Kayle has performed throughout West Michigan and the Chicagoland area. Kayle has released three albums to date and is currently working on his upcoming album due to be released autumn 2010. An avid jazz fan, Mac user, sometime logo designer and interweb buff, Kayle stays busy writing and producing music for a wide variety of media. In his spare time, Kayle enjoys taking walks with Suzy and Puppy, watching TV and eating. You can usually find Kayle hanging around his website: www.clementunes.com

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New Album to drop this week

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Well, after many delays and months of work, I am happy to announce that my latest release, XI, will be available later this week. It is currently available for download at http://music.clementunes.com and the physical CD's will be availble on Monday, December 13th. You can check out the video for my first single on Vimeo and YouTube, or watch it below.

New Smooth Jazz Single - Kayle Clements from Kayle Clements on Vimeo.

The latest release from Kayle Clements | clementunes

Brisa Del Caribe from the upcoming album XI is a smooth jazz tune featuring Bryan Lubeck, Guitar and Kayle Clements, piano.

Band:

Kayle Clements, Keyboards
Robert Pace, Bass
Charlie Royce, Sax
Andy Sheneman, Drums

 

Thanks - more info to be posted soon.

Focus

Over the summer I have been doing a lot of thinking. And as I sat there working on yet another new design, it occurred to me – I spend more time thinking about and designing new looks, finding the right templates, customizing them to look cool and re-writing the text to fit, all at the expense of actually sitting down and writing music. It seems to me that lately, my website has been mostly show and very little substance. And certainly lacking in focus.
Well, I have turned a corner my friend, and have designed my last website. No more fancy graphics and flashy roll-overs. No more shopping for new templates and new music players and new widgets, and new gizmos. I am committed to getting back to basics. With this post, I have switched to WordPress and this very simple, clean theme. My goal is to shift the time I spend constructing a fancy website to writing more music and updating my site more often. No more working on new logos. No more putting off writing music for just one more tweet.
Now, admittedly, I am an internet addict and I am easily distracted. There are a number of very cool developments online, sites such as bandcamp, soundcloud, kickstarter and others that I think open up a ton of opportunities for independent artists. It seems everyday there is a new way to promote, publicize, and get the word about about what indy artists are up to. And I love finding out about them, taking them for a test drive and kicking the tires a little bit. So I will use this space to comment on things I find from time to time. Maybe that will provide the outlet for my addiction and allow me to focus on making music again. I’m calling it controlled distraction.
For the last year or so I have tagged myself as a composer and musician. Now, it’s time to focus.