Live At The Tallyrand

Gumption (Live at The Tallyrand 13th July 2019)

Live acoustic version of a fine original Manchester song by Charlie Pink

Pirate Studios 18.12.5

Under Arches at Pirate Studios

Souvenir

This is a personal song about life and friendship. After meeting up with an old friend, the song became a reflection of the conversation we had, and of the thoughts and feelings it invoked when you find out what each of you has been through during the years you have spent apart. The song runs on just two chords as the rhythm and melody intensifies before returning to the original simplistic musical theme.

Music by Charlie Pink and Darren Lea-Grime with synths by Jon Arrandale
Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Jon Arrandale
Still Life EP Cover produced by Jon Arrandale
Still Life EP Cover |Photography used with kind permission by Rik Jundi

Still Life EP Track 1: Gumption

The music and title for this song came from Darren, who had originally written this floating bluesy tune as an instrumental. This is a song about a Ferny Meadow on the outskirts of Partington where Darren and his family would visit during early summer mornings when he was a young lad. The song is quite simplistic and retains a childlike quality, the lyrics are very visual that help to provoke a nostalgia of happy childhood memories.

Music by Charlie Pink and Darren Lea-Grime
Synths by Jon Arrandale
Recording, production, mixing and mastering by Jon Arrandale
Still Life EP cover produced by Jon Arrandale
Still Life EP Photography used with kind permission by Rik Jundi & the Republik of Mancunia

Still Life EP Track 2: Ferny Meadow

Wishing Well has a 6/8 rhythmic feel that subtly shifts and changes throughout the song. The theme of the song is the loss of things that were once commonplace, be it physical or social and reflecting the changes of the current (political) era. There are two polarising themes at play here, one is of escapism, and the need to 'get lost'. The other is a call for us all to 'stand together' against those who wear masks and to try to see a deeper sense of what is happening in our world, our country, our neighbourhoods, though we will all end up being 'stuck in the mud', whether we are happy with this ideal or not.

Still Life EP Track 3: Wishing Well

Still Life EP track 4: Life Underground

Charlie Pink is a Manchester based duo of Charlie Pink & Darren Lea-Grime. We play acoustic guitar and bass and we enjoy playing our own original music inspired through living and working in Manchester

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