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Birth name
  
Douglas R. Docker

Associated acts
  
Tony Mills

Role
  
Singer

Name
  
Douglas Docker

Years active
  
1974–present



Born
  
16 June 1967 (age 56) Auxerre, France (
1967-06-16
)

Genres
  
Rock, progressive rock, progressive metal, AOR, hard rock, heavy metal, electronic, European classical, Music of Thailand

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, songwriter, singer, composer, producer, musicologist, ethnomusicologist

Instruments
  
Piano, keyboards, vocals

Website
  
Docker's Guild Official Website

Record labels
  
Lion Music, Massacre Records

Similar People
  
Docker's Guild, Tony Mills, Roxy Petrucci, Jeff Watson, Federica De Boni

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Douglas R. Docker (born 16 June 1967) is an American-French musician, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work in the progressive rock/metal, AOR and classical genres. He has worked with artists including Biloxi, Area 51, Shining Line, Therion, Rustfield, Frantic Amber, Tony Mills, and the Vivaldi Metal Project.

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Classical Music (1977-1999)

From 1977 to 1981 Docker performed as a second violinist in the orchestra of the Istituto Musicale Corelli of Pinerolo. From 1978 to 1988 he competed as a pianist in about a dozen international classical piano competitions (Senigallia, Stresa, Bardolino, Torre Pellice, Capri), receiving two first prizes. He also performed in recitals as a classical pianist throughout the 1980s.

In September of the same year he obtained a BA in Classical Piano at the Conservatory of Cuneo. He was then hired to play piano and organ on the album Ave Maria by Italian tenor Antonio Caffaro.

In June 1996, Docker briefly returned to classical music with a recital called "Paesaggi Esotici", performed at the Turin Museum of Natural History. Featuring Mio Nakamura on vocals, the program included operatic arias and traditional songs linked by the common theme of "the exotic" (particularly Asia).

In November 1999, he performed Allegro de Concierto by Enrique Granados at the SFI-Västertorp in Stockholm for its yearly Kulturdagen (Culture Day).

Docker's Guild (2008–present)

Docker returned to Italy in January 2008. In 2011 he published an article cataloging the Waldensian musical heritage.

In 2008, Docker began a project named "Docker's Guild". Its album The Mystic Technocracy – Season 1: The Age of Ignorance was released in 2012 on Lion Music, described by the artist's record label as a progressive rock space opera. Performers on the album included Tony Franklin, Guthrie Govan, Jeff Watson, Greg Bissonette, Goran Edman, John Payne, Tony Mills, and Amanda Somerville. In 2016 Docker released a crowdfunded sequel entitled The Heisenberg Diaries – Book A: Sounds of Future Past. A Season 2 --- "The Age of Entropy" --- is planned. Docker has indicated that "Season 2 is in the works, but the format will change. The age of rock operas has passed and it's time to focus on the music rather than on the names."

Spleen

  • GentiEmergenti 2 – compilation cassette (1986), keyboards on "Autolesionismo"
  • Anatema

  • Suonomodo – compilation LP (1988), keyboards on "Love You Sometime"
  • Antonio Caffaro

  • Ave Maria (1989), classical piano and pipe organ
  • Douglas R. Docker

  • Beloit Corporation / Leykam Murztaler – industrial video soundtrack (1990), keyboards and programming, composer, arranger, engineer and producer
  • Beloit Corporation / PWA IP – industrial video soundtrack (1991), keyboards and programming, composer, arranger, engineer and producer
  • Biloxi

  • Let the Games Begin (1993), did not play on album, but was featured in all album credits and photos, and supplied keyboards on US promotional tour
  • Area 51

  • In the Desert (1996), keyboards and programming, lead and backing vocals, composer, arranger, engineer and producer
  • Rustfield

  • Demo 2009 (2009) guest keyboard solos on "Compromising", "Waxhopes" and "High Waters"
  • Kingdom of Rust (2013), guest keyboard solos on "Compromising", "Waxhopes" and "High Waters", piano on "Love Moan"
  • Docker's Guild

  • The Mystic Technocracy Demo (2009), keyboards and programming, lead and backing vocals, composer, arranger, engineer and producer
  • The Mystic Technocracy – Season 1: The Age of Ignorance (2012), keyboards, lead and backing vocals, composer, arranger, engineer and producer
  • The Heisenberg Diaries - Book A: Sounds of Future Past (2016), keyboards, lead and backing vocals, arranger, engineer and producer
  • Shining Line

  • Shining Line (2010), guest keyboards on "Strong Enough"
  • Tony Mills

  • Over My Dead Body (2015), songwriter, arranger and lead vocals on "Bitter Suite", songwriter, arranger and keyboards on "Free Spirits", arranger and keyboards on "My Death" and "We Should Be on Right Now"
  • Frantic Amber

  • Burning Insight (2015), guest keyboards on "Entwined" and "Soar"
  • Anatema

  • "Love You Sometime" – videoclip (1988)
  • Douglas R. Docker

  • Beloit Corporation / Leykam Murztaler – industrial video (1990)
  • Beloit Corporation / PWA IP – industrial video (1991)
  • Les Ensembles pi phat dans le village de Nang Rong en Thaïlande – "Épisode 1: Nang Rong et le Club de musique classique thaïlandaise Khok Makharon" – documentary (2006)
  • Les Ensembles pi phat dans le village de Nang Rong en Thaïlande – "Épisode 2: Le Festival de Khao Phansa et le Club de musique classique thaïlandaise Khok Makharon" – documentary (2006)
  • Les Ensembles pi phat dans le village de Nang Rong en Thaïlande – "Épisode 3: L'École de Nang Rong et les élèves de la classe de musique classique thaïlandaise" – documentary (2006)
  • Les Ensembles pi phat dans le village de Nang Rong en Thaïlande – "Épisode 4: L'Ensemble pi phat Maeo Thai et la risiculture à Nang Rong" – documentary (2006)
  • Biloxi

  • "Run for Your Life" – videoclip (1994)
  • Area 51

  • "No More Dreamers (In the '90s)" – videoclip (1996)
  • Docker's Guild

  • "A Matter of Energy" – trailer (2012)
  • "Darwin's Tears" – short film (2013)
  • "The Heisenberg Diaries - Book A: Sounds of Future Past" – trailer (2016)
  • Therion

  • Adulruna Rediviva – limited edition DVD (2012), translator and voice-over for the 5 "Making Of" documentaries
  • Writings

  • "Les ensembles pi phat dans le village de Nang Rong en Thaïlande", Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2006
  • "Phrá Phírâp et sa musique – Le shivaïsme tantrique au cœur de la musique traditionnelle thaïlandaise", Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2007
  • "La catalogazione dei beni musicali del patrimonio valdese", La Beidana, year 27°, n° 70 (February 2011), p. 48–52.
  • References

    Douglas R. Docker Wikipedia