CG Ryche	Website:	www.CGRyche.com
	Genre(s):	Progressive, Poly-rhythmic, World Music, Contemporary, Rock, Pop
	Instrument(s):	Drums, Percussion, Keys, Programming
	Trademark(s):	Progressive, Rhythmic, World Rhythms
	Album(s):	X
	Collaborations:	Benise
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CG Ryche's self produced 2006 release, X, is a compilation of arrangements that CG had produced for various group efforts, TV and movie soundtracks. Being primarily a drummer and percussionist, CG's compositions on this CD tend to have highly developed rhythms that draw the focus of the listener. CG demonstrates a masterful aptitude for developing interesting rhythms with world music beats, as well as integrating these within the many styles of mainstream-flavored instrumental music that appear on this CD.

Ryche employs a number of interesting and unusual percussive instruments on the CD that make the CD a unique listener experience. Besides the more common drums from mainstream music, quintas, congos, tumba, bongos, and timpales from Latin and Afro-Cuban music, and the less common African djembe, CG integrates a number of other more obscure percussive instruments including repenique, taiko drum, hammer pads, tambourines, symphonic gong, cajon / bajo, and juggling pandeiro, among others. This unusual and diverse collection of percussive equipment gathered from around the globe, driven by the relentless, studius nature of CG Ryche has enabled him to integrate different rhythmic stylings and sounds into his approach in a coherent manner. The wide diversity and variation in percussive equipment also enables CG to produce a very distinctive and atypical sound in his productions.

CG first gain national attention as the rhytmic backbone of the Benise phenomenon that swept the country's instrumental scene in 2006, making appearances on PBS and at many of the major stage venues across the USA. CG's highly developed African, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Latin, and other world rhythms provided a dimension to the Benise sound that served as a foundation for Roni Benise's talented Flamenco fashioned guitar work and Jim Sitterly's amazing gypsy violin. The X album demonstrates Ryche's talents beyond the Benise collaboration by showcasing his skills in production, arrangement, and orchestration, as well as providing a larger sampling of the world rhythms he claims mastery. The X album serves as a great example of the integration of world rhythms to add depth and character to the wide variety of instrumentally-oriented musical styles that are explored on this album. The world beats add a key dimension to the musical soundscape that becomes noticeably absent from other similar efforts by comparison. CG reminds us all on this album that rhythm is the heart (beat) of all music. After listening to the rhythmic stylings and permutations on this album, the listener will deem anything else less rhythmically developed as measured, weighed, and found lacking relative to CG's demonstrative efforts on his production X.

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