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Welcome to my redesigned home page, the home of R.E. Fort. I am a Guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter by night and a software trainer among other things for my day job. The New CD's Thoughts and Strings and Keys are now available. I have just finished up the all new Astra Music Store so follow the link above to take a look. You can also download small snippets from select CD''s.

The player above has been updated with select songs from the new CD's and some of my favorite tunes. Simply click the Next or Previous buttons to scroll through and listen to a song. I am currently working on a new project that I think maybe my best work yet. But you will have to wait for more information on that.

The links above will take you to new pages I created for each CD with a player that allows you to listen to each song. There are also links to my blog, a short bio on me and a contact page where I hope you will send me your thoughts. Below is a very cool app that allows you to Chat live with me if I am online, thanks to Digsby the coolest IM program around. Also a Facebook link and status update.

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Much thanks goes to my family who has had to listen to all of these songs over and over again while a labor over, "was that string hit to much does that solo sound right for this song". Thanks for putting up with me.

Enjoy!

Without Music... Life has no Soul

R.E. Fort

Lust Love and other Distractions

By R.E. Fort

This CD is one for the lovers and thinkers of the world. It has songs that reach down, grab you, and make you feel things you might not have felt in a while. Songs filled with sounds of nature and the feeling of flying through the sky in the arms of the one you love. It will touch you in places you did not think you could be touched.

The player below has every song from this CD ready for you to listen to. Simply scroll through the songs and pick the one you want to play. Hope you enjoy

Island Life

By R.E. Fort

Island Life is a return to the basics for me. I started out playing the guitar years ago and on this disk, you'll find five new songs based on the guitar. The title song Island Life has a serious island feel to it. Oh Yeah is an upbeat grove that makes me want to dance and By Request is a Latin love song. Peace, and Lust Remix are keyboard songs giving me a chance to return to my second love, keyboards.

The player below has every song from this CD ready for you to listen to. Simply scroll through the songs and pick the one you want to play. Hope you enjoy

Thoughts

By R.E. Fort

Thought's, is a little bit of everything this time. With songs like La Rosa Roja and Thoughts we are back to the basics of guitar and piano. Then there is the more dance driven track Always Be My Girl. This CD offers a little bit of everything with smooth tracks like “Sunday Morning Groove”, “Loves Holiday”, “Sonora Nights” and ballads like “Through the night”. This disk offers songs with a Latin jazz feel and soulful ballads.

The player below has every song from this CD ready for you to listen to. Simply scroll through the songs and pick the one you want to play. Hope you enjoy

Strings and Keys

By R.E. Fort

Strings and Keys, is a combination of some beautiful ballads that touch and move me when I listen or play them and a cool funky moving song that is well just a lot of fun to jam to. It’s interesting while I was finishing up the project Thoughts, a lot of these songs where kicking around in my head, but I wanted these new songs to stand on their own. So Strings and Keys, was born so to speak. On this disk I play my Fender guitars of course, I love the Stratocaster and the acoustic electric. I also play my Ibanez nylon acoustic electric on some to give the songs that sweet deep rich sound only a nylon classical guitar can bring. I also play the bass guitar on this CD a lot, not using the keyboards for the bass. I found I enjoy playing the bass and will be doing it a lot more. Hope you enjoy.

The player below has every song from this CD ready for you to listen to. Simply scroll through the songs and pick the one you want to play. Hope you enjoy

About me

R.E. Fort

Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Los Angeles but grew up in La Puente Ca.

Musical influences: George Benson, Carlos Santana, Grover Washington, Spyro Gyra, Steely Dan, David Benoit, Bob James, Paul Hardcastle, Lee Ritenour, Sade, Seal, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Rush, Saga, Spandau Ballet, Earl Klugh and Earth Wind and Fire among others.

My favorite songs: Island Life, By Request, I Don't Know, Oh Yeah, Sunday Morning Groove, and One Thing is true are my current favorites. Use the Contact Me link to tell me yours.

Trivia: I have been playing music since I was a little kid. I started the guitar around sixth grade and started the piano in High School. I attended Cal State Fullerton as a music education major but moved to the computer industry. Since about 1981, I have been working with computers as my day job while I write songs at night. As you can see from my list of musical influences, my taste in music is wide. For years, I played in rock bands playing music like Rush and Saga. Now I find myself writing the music that has always been in my heart. For those members of my old band Trauma, I sometimes write the harder music but I have come back to my true love, Jazz. What can I say, I have come full circle.

Motto: Without Music Life has no Soul

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