ALBUM - Parkland

Instrumental pop with a touch of jazz, a hint of classical, a splash of exotica and other bits and bobs.

Along Those Lines 2:15 ALONG THOSE LINES
A jazzy little thing… Ingredients: piano, classical guitar, double-bass, drums.

Sunday Painter 1:42 SUNDAY PAINTER

Something a bit early 18th-century (those were the days!), and a tribute to one of my favourite composers (hint: priest, red hair).
Ingredients: classical guitar, double bass, mellotron (flutes & strings), ukulele.

Va Cours Vole 2:03 VA COURS VOLE

A little bit folkish, almost pastoral… Ingredients: folk guitar, piano, double bass, drums, bongos.

Sunny Intervals 2:49 SUNNY INTERVALS
I recorded this while climbing Mt. Everest on my okapi (nobody reads these bits!) Ingredients: classical guitar, piano, double bass, drums.

Anita Puts Herself Into Grave Danger 2:40 ANITA PUTS HERSELF INTO GRAVE DANGER

The strange and dreamy one… Ingredients: double bass, autoharp (jv1080), classical guitar, piano, cymbals.

Drops In The Ocean 3:03 DROPS IN THE OCEAN

Guitars aplenty, left right and centre… Ingredients: folk guitar, electric guitar, rhodes (cp300), electric bass, drums.

Guiro Master Strikes Again 2:25 GUIRO MASTER STRIKES AGAIN

It only takes one to tango… first outing for my modestly named Weltmeister accordion.
Ingredients: acccordion, double-bass, piano, classical guitar, drums, percussion (guiro!).

Structural Reforms 2:46 STRUCTURAL REFORMS

Something quite minimal… the harps come from the Mellotron. Ingredients: piano, double-bass, drums, mellotron (harps), electric guitar.

Up & Running 2:25 UP & RUNNING
A hint of rockabilly about this one – except I don’t know how to slap a double bass (in a musically pleasant way).
Ingredients: drums, double bass, electric guitar, piano.

Hullabaloo 2:59 HULLABALOO
The drum-loop come from the Chamberlin’s Rhythmate, the daddy of all drum machines back in the 50s.
Ingredients: mellotron (Chamberlin library), double bass, accordion, piano, classical guitar, vibes (jv1080).

Cross Dissolve 2:32 CROSS DISSOLVE
As eerie as the park it’s paired with… Ingredients: piano, double-bass, cymbals, organ, classical & folk guitars.