Some of the tracks listed here are now links to RealAudio clips - the player is free from the RealAudio website. The quality is obviously not as the original DAT recordings, but good enough for a taster. To save you searching, they are: At the NDG, One for his Nob, A Light Shining, Sing the Grand Electric, Riverside, What a World, Once Forever and Let the Trees Grow.
Since providing the realaudio clips, I have been busy converting the DAT recordings into
MP3 format. A number of these are now downloadable
here and
here. So, you can now hear some
of my recordings in full high quality stereo. I am also currently mixing up a CD from past
tracks - it will be called 'Mountain Airs' and will be available by the end of 1999. E-mail
me if you're interested in a copy.
In the process of learning how to graft my own music into DOOM II WADs, I came up with a table that matches up the general midi note number drum assignments to the drum pads on the Roland R5. If you would find this useful, you can see it here.
The Grasmere Collection was composed and recorded between May and December 1990 and is dedicated to my good friend JF, without whom. It is a wholly instrumental recording.
| Side 1 | Side 2 |
| Dawn (4:00) | Walking down the Avenue (2:30) |
| Drivin' Hard (5:53) | On High Crag (1:23) |
| Flying (1:28) | Chop Suey (2:42) |
At the NDG (5:02) |
A Friend Passes By (3:14) |
| Grasmere (1:59) | The Sausage Pub Rag (2:30) |
| High Grass on the Hill (1:45) | |
| At the Day's End (4:00) |
Grasmere II - Hot Nights Golden Days
The recording was done between January 1991 and April 1992 and again is inspired by various days spent several thousand feet above sea level, in solitude and silence. This recording is all about the track 'The Winds Four Quarters' which remains to this day one of my most favourite compositions.
| Side 1 | Side 2 |
| Hot Nights (3:48) | Golden Days |
|
One for his Nob (1:25) |
Early Morning (4:50) |
| Days of Wine and Roses (4:10) | Spring Bolero (5:26) |
| One for Two (1:25) | The Wind's Four Quarters |
| Down the Brasserie | Boreas (N) (3:53) |
| Only in Dreams (3:12) | Notus (S) (7:11) |
| For Friends (2:16) | Argestes (E) (5:16) |
| Froop Froop (4:32) | Zephyrus (W) (3:05) |
| Once a Flame (5:20) | Two Goodbyes (0:50) |
| Side 1 | Side 2 |
| The Birches (7:00) | Bounce (3:52) |
| Hoskins (2:03) | Judith (1:21) |
| Birthday (2:18) | Circles (3:42) |
| On the Line (2:51) | For Jo (1:14) |
|
Sing the Grand Electric(3:58) |
Rocking in Heav'n (4:00) |
| And so I Wept (4:28) |
A Light Shining (8:00) |
Recorded in 1994, this tape contains a mix of both instrumental and vocal tracks, and for the first time features friends who helped it all along. In particular, I say thank you to Grilla and Jo, two good friends of mine who wrote and performed the title track.
| Side 1 | Side 2 |
|
Riverside (4:32) |
A Palace of Ice (6:52) |
| Summertime (4:12) | Sailing Away (3:39) |
| Poetry/Castles of Sand (2:37) | 7 Up (3:46) |
| The Girl with Dark Eyes (3:01) | All Bar 12 (1:54) |
| Heatwave (3:28) | Coffee (3:29) |
|
Once Forever (6:37) |
Faces in the Fire (3:34) |
|
What a World (3:15) |
Rain Dance (4:58) |
This was in a sense a return to my instrumental roots, being a wholly instrumental recording. This was my last recording done in 1995... yes I know it's 1999 now but I've been busy doing other things... like this for example, and creating DOOM WAD files (available here) !
| Side 1 | Side 2 |
| The Birches II (6:53) | Tomorrow Always Knows (6:04) |
| Spindrift (5:36) | Gymnopedie no. 1 (2:18) |
| Roy's Theme (7:17) | All that Jazz (4:03) |
| Chellean Vean (4:33) | Florence's Lullaby (4:50) |
| Just to Please (1:59) |
Let the Trees Grow (11:46) |
All of these recordings were sequenced using Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Gold on a baby PC (386 DX-40). Voyetra's V24-S provides two midi INs and 4 OUTs. One of the INs is used for some old MTC coded cassettes I still have kicking around, the other is to receive input from the various instruments. Philip Rees provide the switch box to select from the input devices. All the tapes were mastered to a Sony portable DAT (thanks to my friend Simon who seems ever willing to lend it to me !)
Sound effects are either spun-in live, or recorded and locked up using SMPTE via Voyetra's SMPTE daughter board. I used a number of sound effects CDs from a couple of Hollywood Edge collections for the effects. Vocals are also locked up using the same SMPTE technique and recorded using a variety of (pretty crap but free !) microphones. My 4-track is a Tascam 644 Portastudio and all the monitoring is done on headphones, Sennheiser HD230 and HD340, and the tape duplication is done at Goldust Studios in Bromley, Kent.
Ok, so here's the instrument list:
I've had a bit of a rationalization lately and a lot of the older stuff has gone... and due to lack of funds has not been replaced yet. However, I still have the Wavestation and the M1R so I am slowly progressing on tape number six... hopefully it will be finished sometime late in 1998, DOOM II WADs permitting !
This page last updated 25 October 1999
