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In 1977, Tarock Music, was started as a music publishing company, in Philadelphia, PA, by Rick Shaffer, founding member of The Reds®. In 1982 the company moved to New York City to combine artist management and music licensing by partnering with Basic Management, adding an independent record label in 1992, with the release of The Reds® album, Cry Tomorrow. In 2006, to accommodate an in-house recording studio, the company relocated to Pennsylvania midway between New York City and Philadelphia…
Episodes
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicPleasure
Atmospheric guitar treatments a textured Iggy / Bowie sound.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicDance Of The Siren
Dance Of The Siren, has flute like synths that play on top of a syncopated spacial sound. Strings elevate the music for this dance of death by the deadly Siren.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicBogalusa ● Rick Shaffer
“BOGALUSA” is a tough late 60's R&B’s influenced rock track. "Heading for the Land of a thousand dances."
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicFunkasaurus ● Bruce Cohen
Funkasaurus has a pounding bass and drum drive, while keyboards and synths blast insanely around the beat to increase your heart rate.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicYou Don't Know (Remastered) ● The Reds®
"You Don't Know" is track 6 on the remastered album, Fatal Slide. It has a mid-tempo Stones/Clash rocker, Bowie 80's keyboard, driving drum and bass, with Mick…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicLike Fire ● Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer’s track, Like Fire, is a late night classic full of haunting emotion that’s a poignant overdose tale that harkens back to the psychedelic undertow…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicUnder The Nova ● Bruce Cohen
Under The Nova has some Enoesque funk, with groove oriented bass and drums, while synths and organ sweep in and out.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicKilling You (Remastered) ● The Reds®
Killing You is track #8 on The Reds® remastered album, STRONGER SILENCE.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicWhat Is It ● Bruce Cohen
All funk all the time, while bass and drums drive the groove and sweeping synths add the melody,
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicBig Guy Returns ● Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen's single release, "BIG GUY RETURNS," has a has a great 1970’s Herbie Hancock Head Hunters funk groove, with ambient textures.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicRave Up ● Rick Shaffer
This instrumental by Rick Shaffer is a Link Wray / Yardbirds homage . . . let it rock.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicModern Lie ● Rick Shaffer
Modern Lie is a reflective cautionary approach to deception, with a 1970’s British hard rock glam style production.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicGoing Down Slow ● Rick Shaffer
"Going Down Slow" is track 2 on Rick Shaffer's album Outside Of Time. The song is late 60’s early 70’s late night hard rock pile driver.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicSo Tired ● Rick Shaffer
So Tired is track 4 on Rick Shaffer's sixth solo album, Jitterbug Shake. The song is a reflective freewheeling approach to one’s morality, and media overload.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicHard Times Sixty ● Rick Shaffer
Influenced by the British Rocker style of the 1960's, HARD TIMES SIXTY, is another Rick Shaffer instrumental single.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicLink ● Rick Shaffer
With the single release of Link, Rick Shaffer, founding member of The Reds®, has now focused his talent beyond his garage rock solo albums, to boost the garage…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicSome Say ● Rick Shaffer
Some Say is track 2 on Rick Shaffer’s 2014 album release, MISADVENTURE, and it has him back in the garage again, with some of his best songs, performance and…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicCool Treatment ● Rick Shaffer
Written and produced by Shaffer, STACKED DECK continues the "sonic minimalist” blueprint of his previous solo albums. The sound combines hard fuzz guitar…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicOne More Heartache ● Rick Shaffer
One More Heartache is about living in the present with your convictions, not being swayed by money or media, with the aspect of sometimes having the truth…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicFunky Gojira ● Bruce Cohen
Funky Gojira is for all the Godzilla hipsters. But, this time, the Big Guy’s theme is a funky Eno exploration, with bouncing bass plugs, along with stomping…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicBuy And Sell ● Rick Shaffer
Buy And Sell has a reverb soaked guitar hook, oversaturated riffs, driving Maureen Tucker drum beat, and a subdued confessional lead vocal, with some nice…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicNecessary Illusion ● Rick Shaffer
The heart of Necessary Illusion's sound is delivered in the opening track, ”Lucky Day,” where bad luck and fate take an altered metallic stomp, thumping drum…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicJogger's Stakeout ● The Reds®
Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, a/k/a The Reds®, composed and performed the score of "MANHUNTER." The soundtrack album was released in limited quantities in 1986…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicAnd How ● Bruce Cohen
Trip and hop to And How's heavy groove with the melodic strings of the Angelo Badalamenti orchestra. This song is track #8 on Bruce Cohen's solo album, ONE BC.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicDiggin' It ● The Reds®
DIGGIN' IT is track #3 on The Reds® album, EARLY NOTHING. FOLLOW THE REDS® on TWITTER at twitter.com/TarockMusic, or join Rick Shaffer on Facebook at…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicWild ● The Reds®
Wild has a Rolling Stones loose feel rocker, mid tempo with 60's style percussion and very Jagger like vocal. Track is alternative sounding and would be good…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicCry Tomorrow ● The Reds®
CRY TOMORROW is track #8 on The Reds® album, CRY TOMORROW.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicLaughing ● The Reds®
In 1984, The Reds®, consisting of founding members Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen, found themselves in a situation, not unfamiliar. Constant adversity, but with…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicFive Year Plan ● The Reds®
Hard drum heavy modern rocker, driving bass, hard guitar, possessed vocal and electronic keyboards in an Eno style. Track #1 on The Reds® album, Fatal Slide.
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicKilling You ● The Reds®
KILLING YOU is track #8 on The Reds® album, STRONGER SILENCE. In February 2020 Tarock Music released a remaster of Stronger Silence. Go to the track on Tarock…
https://soundcloud.com/tarockmusicVictims ● The Reds®
Track #1 on The Reds® debut album entitled, The Reds.