Hemisphere

Some picts from this weekend's session, I was going to take the day off but here they are... a magical time at Spragueland studios, the Unity album drops WW July 1st 2022 with Tinderbox Music!

We are so excited to…

Shinno is a third-generation Japanese American. He’s a director of the Japanese American Citizens League, composer/musician for Hemisphere and a technologist for Dassault Systèmes who lives in Hillcrest. 

As we honor Fred Korematsu, who fought against the internment of Japanese…

We are excited to share that our second music video to hit 100K views is the live version of ‘Big World’! … a big shout out to everyone who watched/shared/liked and commented on it… thanks to Sam Sprague/PEMDAS for the…

Click the Unity album cover (releasing June 2022) to read the update in the San Diego Reader...

Hemisphere is Rob Shinno: Guitars, Backing Vocals and Vocorder, Don Bowman: Lead Vocals and Sax,  Michael McQuilken: Drums, Nate Brown: Bass and Groove…

I wanted to start a series of blogs on local original musicians that I ran into, saw live or just liked their work! So let's get started..

1) Donna Larsen & Messengers - Donna and the group are a bit…

An interview on PixelatedGeek with San Diego guitar legend Peter Sprague and Rob Shinno from Hemisphere on composition, recording, inspiration and future plans... see Hemisphere live at Humphrey's BackstageLive Oct 2nd... 

https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/a-conversation-with-peter-sprague-and-rob-shinno/

I had asked Peter Sprague what track he liked the most when we finished mixing the AD album, and after a pause he said 'probably Home, yes Home...' well 10 months after the album release, Home is a sleeper hit…

Promoting the spirit of unity, diversity, and equality, Hemisphere features openly gay members Rob Shinno (guitar, vocoder) and Don Bowman (vocals, sax), as well as Mike McQuilken (drums), Nathan Brown (bass), and Max Zape (keys). The band draws on rock…

We are super excited to announce our appearance at SXSW 2022... details to follow soon!

We had our first full band rehearsal for the 'American Dreams' live show, look for us in October for this special performance in San Diego!

Here is the Friends and Family preview of the 'Home' video from Hemisphere, just a few days before it's official release. Sometimes you write something and you don't know where it came from and it takes on a life of…

My last gig: Guitarist and band leader Rob Shinno: ‘It all seemed unreal’

The band’s most recent gig, in 2020, was a fundraiser for then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg 

MARCH 14, 2021 5 AM PT 

Guitarist Rob Shinno, 62, is the…

Check out the latest in Grab Chicago. Print and Digital pages 30-32: 

Grab Magazine

The second video single 'These Are the Days' from the American Dreams album. The only song on the album written during the first Covid lockdown, it was written to highlight the injustices that we still face for BLM, LGBTQ+ and…

American Dreams Nominated for Album of the Year from the San Diego Music Awards

San Diego Music Awards nominee for Album of the Year, Hemisphere draws on rock, pop, jazz, fusion, and metal for inspiration. Their new album American Dreams…

Check out the band interview at 

https://ventsmagazine.com/2020/11/11/interview-hemisphere/?fbclid=IwAR3gWN94pT0ClWekXQ-SM70DFsXa9CxoHDF-6G8Wm-u5dG5LwRUKZY8_8kk

Sandwiched between two of our favorite artists! Gaga and Chrissy...

Elizabeth here: I’ve known my friend Rob Shinno for almost 20 years, but I had no idea until recently that he’s a professional musician, and his band Hemisphere has just released a brand new album, American Dreams. So I sat…

American Dreams debuts at #9 for the most radio downloads 5 days after shipping to radio!

Bernie Grundman On The Emotional Experience in Mastering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a9W_FG1St0&feature=youtu.be

As we wait for our tracks to be mastered by the legendary Bernie Grundmann, it is amazing to hear his take on the mastering process, as well as his background in…

Well today’s milestone, played the last lick for the new album, and we are safely in the hands of the mix by Peter Sprague, followed by mastering September 10th with the legendary Bernie Grundmann. I can’t wait to share the…

Three more days of sessions, mixing on September 5th, and mastering with the legendary Bernie Grundmann on September 10th!

What a great day tracking with the one and only Tommy Aros! So happy to hear him light it up on the ‘American Dreams’ tracks!

San Diego guitar legend Patrick Yandall will be ripping it up on the tune 'These Are the Days'!  Looking forward to trading licks with Pat on the new album!

Click the photo to see Patrick's site!