in Gordon Square

In celebration of a certain lovely restored small Gaveau piano from the 30's that I recently regulated and voiced in Kent, England.

Gavotte

From "pocket music (for prepared piano)".

vestibule

Photo from St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

A Baroque Bagatelle for Betsy

Steinway piano, with sampled harp, trombone, alto sax, viola, and prepared piano.

Quintet

From "pocket movements (for prepared piano)".

Music in search of the right documentary on insects...

antennae

Starring Audrey Hepburn

Cab Calloway

For flute, viola, harp, piano, Chinese percussion, handbells and electric bass.

zephyr

Steinway piano, with sampled harp, contrabass, and Bian Zhong gongs.

wayward

rubato

filament

Larghetto

This is a repurposed mix using the piano part from "untitled" and adding a harp part; ie. the original piece reflected back with a difference.

reflection

sequester

equipoise

Andante

Aerial

John Dowland

Thanks to the brilliant composer Noël Morrow of Paris for creating such a compelling alter ego (or alternate universe?) for this piece. 

Explore Noël's work here: https://soundcloud.com/user-761136541?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

equipoise (Noël Morrow remix)

south molton street strut

Words by Edna St Vincent Millay, music by AKW. Vocal, guitar, mandolin by Allen. Mike Sharfe on acoustic bass. (Photography from British Airways i360 Brighton, England)

In remembrance: Laura McKinley

Travel                              - Edna St Vincent Millay

The railroad track is miles away, 
    And the day is loud with voices speaking, 
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day 
    But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by, 
    Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming, 
But I see its cinders red on the sky, 
    And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, 
    And better friends I'll not be knowing; 
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, 
    No matter where it's going.

Travel

Words by Robert Frost, music by AKW.

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart a change of mood,
And saved some part 
Of a day I rued.

Dust Of Snow

Words by Emily Dickinson, music AKW.

Featuring Bridget Matros, harmony vocal and Nick Lyons, alto sax.

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you–Nobody–Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise–you know!


How dreary–to be–Somebody!
How public–like a Frog–
To tell one's name–the livelong June–
To an admiring Bog!

- Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! (sax mix)

Words by Emily Dickinson, music by AKW. (Photograph from The Seven Sisters, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England)

With Mike Sharfe on double bass, Chris Philpotts on English horn; other instruments AKW. (Zak Morgan was sound engineer on the bass tracks).

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"Hope" is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul - 
and sings the tune without the words -
And never stops at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm - 
That could abash the little Bird -
That kept so many warm -

I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Prelude / Hope is the thing with feathers

Improvisational piano performance by Richard Fairhurst, string arrangement by Allen Wright. 

(Piano: restored Hamburg Steinway Model O 198978 circa 1920 recorded at Long Lane Studio, Bermondsey, London).

strinGtheory

Mixed feelings on February 24, 2017 - just before leaving London for the United States; leaving friends - leaving part of my heart - in the marvelous, soulful metropolis that was our home for ten years.

Thanks to Adrian Lever for inspiration on the guitar.

Leaving London

1)first light   2)caprice  3)reverie

Piano: fully restored Steinway Hamburg Model O (ca. 1920).
Flutes, Violas and Trombone: IRCAM solo instruments by UVI.

Three Quiet Pieces

Piano: Restored Steinway Hamburg Model O ca 1920.

Cellos and violins: IRCAM solo instruments (UVI)and Spitfire Audio BBC Orchestra.

Lento

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Allen Wright

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