Rich Mangicaro Music & Media

11/26/2024

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I’m very excited to finally introduce my 3rd album to the world - “A Dream I Had”! This album is a sonic journey…meditative, ethereal, visual…dream-inducing.  Eyes closed, it ransports the listener to places both familiar and unfamiliar.  Comfortable yet uncomfortable. Contemplat...

10/26/2024

Thank you to my dear friend Aldo Mazza for inviting me to on his podcast, "Shaping Your Journey"! T'was fun joining him in conversation about all the things we face in our challenging industry. Check out all his other interviews on his podcast...he welcomes some of the greats in drumming and percussion! Thank you, Aldo!

In this episode of Shaping Your Journey, my special guest Rich Mangicaro explains his varied talents both as a percussionist and drummer performing and/or re...

08/05/2024

not a day goes by....

07/17/2024

Ya'll - I can't recommend this film high enough - one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen! Soooo great. Do yourself a favor and watch this soon! What a beautiful, informative and entertaining piece...congrats to Denny Tedesco for another great one!

Immediate Family tracks the rise and collaborations of a group of legendary studio musicians through the 1970s and onward, chronicling their illustrious part...

07/08/2024

Like so many he touched, my heart is heavy today with news that my dear friend for over 30 years, Jack Cameron White passed away, after his long battle with cancer. Those who know Jack, knew him to be truly one of the good ones. He was my dear friend...we collaborated for many years on very creative things and shared amazing times together. A great drummer, photographer and a true friend. Here's some photos of some of the good times with our drumming brothers...hangs we loved so much. Jack took this photo of me with Joe Porcaro, Emil Richard, Jim Keltner and Jeff Porcaro...it was actually the last photo taken of all of us with Jeff, before we lost him, way too soon. Jack also left us way too soon. He fought so hard. So bravely. My heart goes out to Katey, Jackson and Sarah today. I will miss my dear friend always...I'll miss his smile, his big bear hugs and his warm spirit. He loved life so much. He lived it fully. Love you, Jack.

06/19/2024

Hey ya'll, the podcast I created and host for GON BOPS has a brand new episode, featuring Eagles drummer Scott Crago! Scott & I have been dear friends for 30 years...we shared the stage for 15 of those years, in Glenn Frey 's band. This is a good one - check it out, ya'll!! This year, Scott celebrates 30 years as the co-drummer/percussionist for America's most iconic band as well as tracks he's played on and co-wrote with Don Henley and Stevie Nicks. Hope you dig it and please subscribe to the podcast! Thanks everyone!

‎Music · 2024

05/01/2024

I have a big favor to ask of ya’ll. If everyone seeing this would add me on their Spotify playlist & follow me, it would mean so much to me! Thank you in advance & much love!

Rich, a user on Spotify

04/19/2024

Hey ya'll, I'm proud to share my recent compositions for Commercial/TV/Film Underscore, co-written w/my amazing partner Jonathan J. Clark , in our duo called "At Noon". We just completed our 'Ad-Pop' collection, which I just uploaded here on our Sound Cloud page. Hope you dig it!

'at noon' is the music composing partnership of Jonathan J. Clark and Richard Alan Mangicaro. Together, they've composed original underscore music for Bedheads Music, for the GEP Software Company and

02/22/2024

After over 35 years in this business, I still remain extremely thankful for the people I get the privilege to work with. These 3 guys are probably my 3 main influences as a percussionist. All just amazing talents and equally amazing humans. Last year, I became the Artist Relations Manager for Native Tongue Percussion (check this company's cool instruments out!) and just recently, I signed all 3 of these guys to NTP's artist roster. Last week, NTP's owner/creator Mike Lenz came out to LA and we had a great week, turning these guys onto the products. New videos coming soon. Thank you always to Alex Neciosup Acuna Luis Conte & Lenny Castro !!

07/29/2023

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Today’s blog focuses on 3 percussionists who have inspired me for many years and continually blow me away.   These 3 guys have pushed boundaries in percussion and are true masters of the art-form.   Click on their images below, to view their videos. From Israel - Itama

06/02/2023

Hi all, I wanted to announce today that, in addition to my current work with GON BOPS , I'm now working with this fine brand as well! Helping them with Artist Relations and Marketing, Native Tongue Percussion has created a very cool mounting system for blocks and bells, making it much easier to access them when playing grooves. You'll be able to incorporate these sounds into your playing seamlessly w/their concepts. If you're interested, please private message me and I'll provide my NT email contact to give more info. Happy to be aboard the NT Team!
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Creating and manufacturing innovative percussion instruments and accessories.

04/22/2023

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One of my favorite film composers is Great Britain's John Barry. Truly one of the greatest of all time, John Barry composed some of the most beautiful, emotional and memorable film scores and, if you think of the films he wrote for, you can't imagine the movie without his music. Just a few of the

03/25/2023

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My dear friend, colleague and mentor Alex Acuna turned me on recently to this amazing Iranian percussionist. I’d not only never heard of him, I wasn’t familiar with this percussion instrument - the Tombak. At the age of just 20 Mohammad Reza Mortazavi was considered by many as the world’s best...

03/06/2023

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Celebrity Fight Night has a nearly 30-year history of engaging a global philanthropic community, funding nonprofit organizations. The annual Fight Night gala is a celebration of the spirit necessary to end cancer as we know it. It was thrusted into the national spotlight in its third year when Muha

02/28/2023

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My dear friends from the band Venice have just put together this video tribute featuring six songs that we performed with David Crosby over the years. Venice, along with Jackson Browne co-founded a foundation called "Artists For The Arts", which raised a lot of money for music and arts

02/27/2023

My latest podcast for Gon Bops with all their Signature artists! GON BOPS

02/22/2023

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Something that I’ve been doing for years now is creating and editing video content…for both personal and business and I have really enjoyed this artistic process. Today, I wanted to let you know that I’m now offering my video editing service to you. Do you have photos or videos of a special oc...