Mourrnful, clean electric Guitar. Composed to highlight the dawn after battle. The sun rising on a broken world

Then the lights went out

A bright and happy instrumental track featuring classical and electric guitars and textures from low whistle. Composed, produced and recorded in one afternoon. All rights Tom Oakes

Sunday's Theme

A bluesy number for 2 nylon strung guitars. Recovered from a notebook from a couple of years ago and composed on a lazy, sunny afternoon on the isle of Skye. Recorded at Comfort Food with an Aston Origin microphone.

Not a cloud

A tune written at the age of 15 recorded at 34! Comp, prodution and all instruments Tom Oakes

Milleens

An electronic/glitch track inspired by the nordic traditions. Vocals are an Icelandic nursery rhyme sung by KB Sigfusdottir telling of the ghost of a baby haunting it's neglectful mother. Flute melody original composition by Tom Oakes based on medieval Swedish marches. Electronic replication of Finnish Harmonium groove. 

All instruments, production and performance by Tom Oakes
Mixing and mastering, Tom Oakes

Copyright Comfort Food Records 2017

Ghost

Field sample of rain in Reykjavik, Iceland. Live Air Traffic control from Bakersfield , California and original piano composition. All rights, recording, composition and performance. 2017 Tom Oakes, Comfort Food Records

Bakersfield

Looped guitars and guitar synth patterns all taken from analogue sources. Improvisation and melody for low B bansuri from Delhi, India.

Spennufall (Pressure drop)

A piece written to describe the clouds which slip through a valley. Recorded with multiple guitar, percussion and flute samples. Original melody and all arrangement by Tom Oakes 2017 Comfort Food Records

Dalalæða

A composition for the township of Breim in western Norway. Featuring Daniel Thorpe and Jon Bews on Fiddles. Composition by Tom Oakes. Arrangement by Oakes, Bews and Thorpe

Breim

A Nordic inspired 'bridal' march for Wooden Flute and Electric Guitar. Inspired by the rollling hills of Sharpham near Totnes in Devon.

The Sharpham Bridal March

Library music samples by composer and multi-instrumentalist Tom Oakes

Comfort Food (Library)