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Tasty fast food restaurant chain Silver Mine Subs tapped into Mosaic Music again for a third year to write and produce a uniquely campy radio jingle for their western mining themed franchise. The songs are a series of throwback ditties that feature western style guitars, fiddles and an occasional harmonica.

Rich Rankin composed an original symphonic score for worldwide vehicle, engine and service company Navistar. Keep and ear out for the piece in national auto shows and commercial broadcasts.

Independent dance music mogul, singer, producer, re-mixer Georgie Porgie (Music Plant Records) has been busy recording vocals for a handful of songs at Mosaic Music. Mosaic's Rich Rankin is engineering and has also played guitar on one of GP's latest records "Hold On To Peace" featuring vocalist Richard Rogers. In addition to the many talented artists on his label, Georgie's discography includes remix and production work for such notable artists as Michael Jackson, Crystal Waters, Deborah Harry and Spice Girls.

Kate Simko composed music and Rich Rankin handled sound design and mixing for 137 Film's latest title "The Atom Smashers."

Rich Rankin produced and mixed a CD for vocalist, performer and composer Gayle Bisesi titled "Child's Eyes." Tracking engineer was Dennis Tousana.

Listen for the Mosaic Music composed and produced music theme for the new racing series "World Series of Off Road Racing' airing nationally on the SPEED channel.

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Eclectic artist Andrew Bird stopped by Mosaic to record "I Shall Not Be Moved" for the Old Town School Recordings Songbook Series. Distributed by Bloodshot Records.

Rich Rankin composed an original commercial track for high performance tire company Maxxis.

Mosaic's Rich Rankin and longtime co-writer Fannie Floros have placed four songs in soon to be released indie film "The Legend of Bloody Mary". The film was directed by John Stecenko with Executive Producer Joseph Domingo. The songs were recorded and produced at Mosaic, and feature recording artists Liz Larin and Slings & Arrows.

Mosaic has hired electronic music artist Kate Simko as assistant producer. She has released music as "Detalles" (with Chilean Andres Bucci) and has solo material coming out on Philip Glass' label OMM, Chocolate Industries and Badman. A classically trained pianist Kate is a graduate of Northwestern University's Music Technology program and has also studied at the University of Miami and in Chile. Get to know her better at her website http://www.katesimko.com

Rich Rankin has engineered and co-produced, along with Laura Doherty a music CD for the Old Town School of Folk Music. The CD "Wiggleworms Love You" is released in conjunction with the Wiggleworms® 20th anniversary as an accredited early childhood music program. It is an eclectic collection of best-loved children's songs featuring over 35 vocalists and instrumentalists from the internationally-heralded institution. The CD is available at retail and online. It has been getting rave reviews and has been in the top ten on the itunes children's album chart. Distributed by Bloodshot Records. Also available on itunes and Amazon.com

Mosaic's Rich Rankin with members of the Off The Street Club Band at the "Bozo Ball," a WGN-TV Children's Charity blacktie event to benefit the Off The Street Club in Chicago. This is Mosaic's 8th year arranging, producing and coordinating a featured live music performance at the event which this year raised well over $240,000.
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Rich Rankin has completed co-writing and co-producing an album project for inspirational retro-soul artist Kym Franklin. The CD contains a mixture of R&B, soul and gospel influences. In addition to a lineup of brilliant musicians, Rich played guitars, keys and percussion on the project. Kym is just back from a successful tour in Switzerland and recently performed songs from the CD on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago.

Nationally syndicated reality show "Starting Over" shot in Chicago and produced by hitmakers Bunim/Murray (Real World, Road Rules, The Simple Life) tapped Rich Rankin to produce three songs for Audrey Tucker, an aspiring singer/songwriter in the cast. A camera crew followed Rich around in the recording studio documenting the entire process; the episodes aired on NBC in 95 markets.

Distinguished Indian musicians Sudha Raghuraman, Bejjanki Krishna and G. Raghuraman, while in Chicago, chose Mosaic for a recording project co-produced and mixed by Rich Rankin. The famed artists all come from traditional families of renowned Indian musicians.