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!
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…