Community Contributed Music

I Want You To Do This(When I Say So)

Domino — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:40:04 -0500

Words and music,from the album,Black Tie.

I Want You To Do This(When I Say So)

Domino — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:37:49 -0500

Words and music,from the album,Black Tie.

HOLD ON

ian_1969 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:57:34 -0600

Here is yet another song from my talented students in London. It is original and was recorded in our studios during November, 2011 as part of our BTEC Music Technology - Production course.

Ananya composed the instrumental backing back in 2008 when he was preparing works for his GCSE Music composition exam. Two years later talented vocalist, Mena decided to collaborate with Ese and write lyrics and a melody for the backing.

A Star Burns Bright

ian_1969 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:11:17 -0600

This is a professional recording which I produced/arranged the lead vocals for and conducted the choir while a lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium of Music (University of Sydney).

My teenage daughter Clare is singing the lead vocals with a beautiful angelic voice, while the duet section is with her older sister Jodie. The choir that enters later in the piece is the talented Forrest Primary School, in Sydney's Northern Beaches. This was recorded in EMI studios in 1991 and appeared on the Christmas Looney Tunes Classic Collection Cassette of that year for distribution in Australia and the US.

Roxi Raga

ian_1969 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:34:52 -0500

Sometimes the most spontaneous things become surprisingly memorable. One morning Vijay Marcus and I decided to collaborate and record in our studios a spontaneous raga. This was a first take. A dedication to Roxi for rescuing a poor stray dog in the middle of Mexico.

Walk Away

ian_1969 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:00:51 -0500

This is the arrangement we performed live at Glastonbury '09 minus the raps ( which occurred in the interludes prior to the solos.
This is an original work written by my students and me. I am playing the guitars and keyboards as well as the digital drums. Marcus Fox is on bass and Sarah is of course the vocalist.

Waking Up

ian_1969 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:49:38 -0600

Sarah (15) is a gifted female vocalist and song writer (photo above right with X Factor finalist Laura White). Her composition is titled "Waking Up" and the lyrics tell of a teen's insecurity from parental rejection. Happy to say it has a positive ending! Sarah chose a southern blues style with slide guitar. Based around an altered minor blues progression, Sarah firstly recorded her vocal melody live with just our drummer. Next she recorded the guitars that had to follow her melody line. We would have loved to have re-recorded this with the band first just to improve the over-all feel.

You Don't Care - excerpt

ian_1969 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:30:49 -0600

Chris (15 when this excerpt was recorded) is a very talented guitarist/singer/song writer. He can be heard here with a "live recording" of his GCSE Popular Brit Song style "You Don't Care After All". Chris is generally inspired by Brit rock groups as well as bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

WALKAWAY

ian_1969 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:20:31 -0600

Sarah, Marzuq and Chili composed a song to help combat London knife crime. It is in an R'n'B style with female vocals contrasted with two different rapper segment of 16 bars each. It was written and recorded all on the same day with bass, drums and guitar. Though the chordal sequence consists of just two chords, the syncopated rhythm and major 7th to minor 7th sequence is very affective.
This song won them a Nobel Peace of Art Award and a performance at Glasonbury 2009 with the band "Future Heads"

Theme for Jaco Theme for Jaco

ian_1969 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:08:39 -0600

Aiden (15) is a very talented bass player/composer who worked on a syncopated bass piece inspired by jazz bassist virtuoso, Jaco Pastorius for his UK final GCSE high school music exam.
He performed his piece with our drum tutor (Peter Huntington who recorded 90% of the drums on the last WHO album) and with me on electric guitars. The rhythm section was recorded live on our multitracker and the synth melody and keyboards were added later.