Portfolio
Thank you for taking the time to explore my journey through music. Below you will find compositions and songs I have created over the decades, I am delighted to share them with you and hope you enjoy them.
Recent Work
The following videos are new original songs I have been working on in 2025. With the addition of a looper, I have found a wonderful new tool to utilize during the writing process.
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Jude Haines: Music, lyrics and acoustic guitar.
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Current Album Project 2020 - 2024
This studio project has steadily been crafted into being over the last 4 years. This is mainly due to the fact that I have only had a few hours every month or so to devote to the process.. Tracking, editing and mixing has taken place at Playhouse Studios in Toronto, Ontario with the brilliant talents of Snappy Homefry engineering and co-producing..
This project broke my 10 year hiatus from writing and playing and has been instrumental in honing my songwriting skills. Each of these songs is very personal, as I wrote them during a period of intense upheaval in my life. They reflect the learning and wisdom I accumulated as I navigated through a failed marriage, continuing recovery from addiction and the trials and tribulations of living with bi-polar disorder. The songs speak to loss, journeys into the unknown and the strength to find love and hope within the bewildering atmosphere of change in all our lives.. It would be an understatement to say this project helped me to heal. With it, I was able to find the strength and courage to move on, and find joy and happiness again in my art.​
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Below are 12 songs selected for the album as mixes in progress, and some in-studio video moments captured during the recording process.
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Jude Haines: Music, production, lyrics, vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboard instruments and percussion.
Snappy Homefry: Engineer, co-production, bass guitar, percussion.
Marito Marques: Drums.
Mike Tyup: Lead electric guitar, electric slide guitar.
Dan Walsh: Weissenborn slide guitar, lead electric slide guitar and pedal steel guitar.
Jacob Gortzhaltsan: Saxophones and clarinets.
Mira Lutsenko: Backing vocals.
Treasa Levasseur: Backing vocals.
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Sketches, Demos and New Material
Since the songs on my album project were all written by the end of 2021, I have been busy writing and recording demos of new material. The included below are some of them. They speak to a time of renewal, a time of growth.
I have been extremely fortunate to have had a chance to reflect on where I've been, and to focus on where I want to go. Within this inward leaning period, I have been able to celebrate the triumphs and catalogue the losses: the choice to begin a new path in my career and life, the tragic passing of a dear friend, finding love and then losing it again, watching my children grow into marvelous human beings. These moments have been reflected in my recent songwriting and compositions; they are snapshots of feelings, musings, passions and perspectives gleaned through lived experience.
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I have also included videos of new song material and some that capture new song ideas as they begin to manifest. They are a glimpse into my creative process.
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Jude Haines: Music, production., engineering, lyrics, vocals, backing vocals, all guitars, keyboards and programming.
Snappy Homefry: Bass guitar (Stupid Things, Twilight, Praise).
Dan Walsh: Slide guitar and pedal steel guitar (Stupid Things, Twilight).
Craig Halliday: Drums (Stupid Things, Twilight, Praise)..
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Selected Recordings 2000 - 2010
In my 20's, I experimented with some of the first DAW software applications available and became extremely interested in them. I landed on Cubase and began to wrap my head around the software. I have never been a very astute engineer, but I loved having the ability to record as fast as the ideas came. As a teenager, I had a trusty Yamaha MT-100mk2 4 track and this evolution seemed ground breaking. Over this period I recorded a number of songs. I have labelled these as the Massey St. recordings as this was where I was living at the time. When the stand alone software platform Reason came out, I began creating electronic music under the artist name 'Hyperchase'. These electronic compositions were inspired by my love of groups like Boards of Canada and Air.
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When I got clean in December of 2009 I began to concentrate more on a refined recording process. While living in Guelph for a year in 2010, I began utilizing the Record application that piggybacked onto Reason and recorded a number of demos. After moving back to Toronto, I made a conscious decision to focus on my family and stopped playing and writing until the spring of 2019.
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The Guelph Sessions were recorded in 2010, the Massey Sessions between 2000 -2002, and the Hyperchase Sessions were recorded between 2002-2010. Below is a selection of these recordings.
Guelph Sessions
Jude Haines: Music, production., engineering, lyrics, vocals, backing vocals, all guitars, keyboards and programming.
Snappy Homefry: Bass guitar (Leave It All Behind, Stone, Twilight, Oh Karina, Just Ain't Right).
Dan Walsh: Slide guitars, pedal steel guitar (Stone, Leave It All Behind).
Craig Halliday: Drums (Oh Karina, Leave It All Behind, Stone, Twilight, Just Ain't Right)​​
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Massey St. Sessions
Jude Haines: Music, production., engineering, lyrics, vocals, backing vocals, all guitars, keyboards and programming.
Michael Louis Johnson: Trumpet
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Hyperchase Sessions (electronic instrumental music)
Jude Haines: Music, production., engineering, and programming.​​
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Debut Album 2005
The following songs were created and crafted into a solo album project with the help and collaboration of my friend and fellow songwriter Ben Heywood. Ben had been a guitar teacher of mine for a couple of years in my teens, and perhaps the only one to whom I listened to and followed direction with. As a teenager, I was keenly interested in getting the music out of my head and into reality, but was very disinterested in the fundamentals of theory.
When we reunited in my early 30's, we began working on the album project. Ben helped take some of the songs I had written to the next level and taught me many important aspects of songwriting that have been instilled into my process. I only wish I had been healthy and mature enough at the time to have seen this project through to the level it deserved,. Unfortunately, shortly after we finished recording, my mental health had deteriorated and I was living in full blown addiction. However, I am very proud of these songs. We were fortunate enough to record at Canterbury Sound with the legendary Jeremy Darby at the helm. The players on this record are sublime, and the production level world class.
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Jude Haines: Music, lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars and production.
Ben Heywood: Music, lyrics, electric baritone guitar. and production.
Jeremy Darby: Engineering, mixing and production.
Russ Boswell: Electric and upright basses
Paul DeLong: Drums.
Rob Gusevs: Piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer and organs.
Kevin Breit: Electric slide guitars, and electric lead guitars.
Treasa Levasseur: Backing vocals.​
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