To the memories of David Drumm and Mary Ruth Wright.

recent work

My cover of the great Dylan song. As appropriate today as ever it was back in the day.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

By Donovan Leitch. 

Dedicated to Mary Ruth Wright.

Colours

How brilliant were the Beatles? Here's my affectionately faithful cover of this classic tune from my teenage years. I recorded this in the early 2000's.

Yes It Is

Another great Beatles song, slowed down a bit in this arrangement I recorded back in the late 90's.

I'm Looking Through You

My cover of the Stephen Foster song, inspired by the Dylan version.

Hard Times

Recorded in the late 90's. Please note the inspired bubbles part blown though a straw...

Clementine

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.

Gaveau

mechanism

drain

For piano, harp, violin, viola and cello.

Introduction and Allegro

Jackson Pollack

Starring Gregory Peck

Words by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Music by AKW.

Featuring Mike Sharfe on acoustic bass and Scott Lang on percussion. 
Guitar, flute, sampled vibraphone and vocal by Allen. 

(Photo from a very breezy and frigid Malvern Hills, England; Easter 2016)

 
I WILL be the gladdest thing	
    Under the sun!	
I will touch a hundred flowers	
    And not pick one.	
 
I will look at cliffs and clouds	        
    With quiet eyes,	
Watch the wind bow down the grass,	
    And the grass rise.	
 
And when lights begin to show	
    Up from the town,	        
I will mark which must be mine,	
    And then start down!

Afternoon On A Hill

Music and lyrics by Hank Williams

I wandered so aimless life filled with sin
I wouldn't let my dear savior in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I saw the light I saw the light
No more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

Just like a blind man I wandered alone
Worries and fears I claimed for my own
Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight
Praise the Lord I saw the light.

I was a fool to wander and stray 
For straight is the gate and narrow the way
Now I have traded the wrong for the right
And praise the Lord I saw the light.

I Saw The Light

All instruments by AKW. Pretty mad stuff, I know...attention deficit disorder jazz? (Please note, however; it does go back to the head at the very end : )

jazmid

Piano improvisation by Richard Fairhurst, additional instrumentation by Allen Wright. 

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

nebulae

Piano improvisation by Richard Fairhurst, other instruments and arrangement by AKW. (Piano: Hamburg Steinway Model O 198978 circa 1920 recorded at Long Lane Studio, Bermondsey, London).

elegy (in brief)

episode

Improvisational piano performance by Richard Fairhurst, additional instrumentation by Allen Wright.

troth

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

Improvisational piano performance by Richard Fairhurst, additional instrumentation by AKW. 

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

fluster

Composition, Steinway piano, and MOTU bass by Allen Wright.

meiosis

Mixed feelings on February 24, 2017 - leaving London for the United States; leaving friends, leaving the marvelous, soulful metropolis that was our home for the previous ten years.

Thanks to Adrian Lever for inspiration on the guitar. Strings by the Woodley Quartet.

Leaving London

Piano: Restored Hamburg Steinway Model O circa 1920.
Strings: Spitfire Audio BBC Orchestra

autumnal

Completed on election day, November 7, 2020; with joy for the present and cautious hope for the future.

cusp

1)Reverie   2)Caprice   3)Moderato

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

Three Pieces for Piano, Flute, Viola and Trombone

Piano: Fully restored Hamburg Steinway Model O #198978(ca 1920).
Harp: IRCAM solo instruments from UVI.
Tympani: Spitfire Audio BBC Orchestra and UVI Workstation VST.

Photo: Hansa Studios, Berlin.

faith

Piano: Steinway Hamburg Model O ca 1920 (fully restored).

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

Lento

I've repurposed this piece (which was previously solo piano by rerecording the sampled piano part using my Steinway and adding the violin and viola. There's a better flow now, I think...

Piano: Steinway Hamburg Model O circa 1920 (fully restored with Ronsen hammers).
Strings: IRCAM orchestral solo instruments (UVI).

supra et subter

untitled

For piano and prepared piano.

Dedicated to Hu'o'ng Than, whose music opened up an entirely new and wondrous universe of sounds to my ears.

minute movements for prepared piano

I'm a former piano technician and restorer/conservator in the US and England. My most recent compositions utilize my restored 1920 Hamburg Steinway O as the foundation around which various sampled instruments interact.

"The contemporary project is not really to build an epic work, but pieces of meaning and uniqueness; fragility."   - Thiago Coser

Allen Wright

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