Barry Craig passed away on September 4, 2011. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially in the 1990s when he was most prolific.
It’s sad to take note of Barry’s passing since he’s in the Echoes generation of musicians if you will; artists who are about my age who grew up listening to the same music. Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Steve Tibbetts are all artists who fall into this group, the now 60-somethings, and that’s much too early to leave the planet. As A Produce, Barry Craig created sweeping expanses of sound that owed a debt to Steve Roach. But unlike Roach, A Produce usually had a hint of melody in his music, even in some of his most abstract, drone-zone works.
