Peat and Shoo

here's a pot-pourri of tasty tracks I've recorded with other people and bands. Usually I just turn up and blow...all the credit is due to the other musicians, so please visit their pages and support

Promiscuous Sax...I've been getting around

perelki

Classic

Jazz

Jazzzz

Nighty

From the debut album "Tills döden skiljer oss åt" for one of my bands Acacia.

ACACIA is:
Andreas Thorén - Guitar/Bass/Vocals
Christian Larsson - Guitar/Bass/Vocals
Ulf Nylin - Vocals
Seiya Ogino - Piano
Richard Schill - Drums
Moa Thorén - Vocals

Lyrics:
Serverad livet på ett silverfat 
Men trots det faller jag ner på knä och kysser 
Jag slukar allt tillsammans med min stolthet 
Med en ovilja bedjar jag för andras självcentrering 

Små ord har etsat sig fast 
Och slitit sönder min själ och mitt sensitiva skal 
Men likt förbannat så följer jag 
Repetitionens spår i samma mönster 
Och vid börjans slut väntar en förhoppning 
Och jag ger allt för att hasa mig upp till brantens topp 
Men där står dem igen 
Dryga och med kallhjärtade leenden 
De dömer ut mig, de förkastar mig 
De tvingar mig in i det låsta kretsloppet 
Och de njuter när de ser min akilleshäl blottas igen 

Utmattningen går tyst i min eufori 
Och den energi som finns omvandlas sakta till antipati 
Jag bär på den vekhet som sätter ett pris på allt 
Som jag någonsin har hållit kärt 
Där ytliga yttranden och förpliktelser 
Har lett till svek och vita lögner 
Jag ber om ursäkt för min förtvivlan 
För det tomrum jag upplever 
Hör min förlåtelse, låt det sjunka in 
Hylla mig som den uppoffrande idiot jag är 
Jag ber er inte om eran tröst 
Inte heller om er sympati 
Som en vanlig/tråkig höstdag 
Vill min verklighet glömmas bort 

Varför ge när man förföljs av hotande egenkärlek? 
Varför visa när man möts av ett förkrossande? 
Varför känna när jag blockeras av emotionella spärrar? 
Varför hämmas jag av samma sagolika omständigheter igen, och igen och igen? 

Jag vill undgå denna känsla av defekt otillräcklighet 
Min ork är snart tröstlös 
Den klaraste givmildheten bygger upp min intention 
Med den enda strävan att en dag få känna äkta kärlek 

Solo: Larsson/Thorén/Larsson/Thorén/Larsson/Thorén 

Sträck ut din hand och låt mig få älska innan mina andetag saknar rymd 
Vinn tillbaka din självkänsla genom mig när du känner att du begravs i mitt hjärta 
Våga släpp taget och sov lugnt mot mitt bröst, tyngdlöst och utan tvekan 
Snälla, snälla låt mig ge dig allt, först då kan jag börja leva

ACACIA - Amourens Redoxreaktion

Here is the second of recent klezmer clarinet recordings. This one is a dance that neatly describes the hustle and bustle of the 7.40 evening rush hour in Odessa, Ukraine.

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7.40, Trad. arr. Dave McKeown

Debut fullength, released October 16th, 2009.

1.	 Ödesdigrande Slentrian	15:28	 
2.	 Becksvart Logik	09:58	 
3.	 I Verklighetens Kval	09:47	 
4.	 Bråddjupets Spörsmål	09:45	 
5.	 Fobisk Sälta	16:04	 
 	01:01:02	 

Line-up on this album:

Andreas Larsen - Guitar and vocals
Christian Larsson - Guitars
Richard Schill - Drums
Niklas Kvarforth - Session vocals
Árni - Piano and violin arrangements

Becksvart Logik

SILK ROAD DESTINY is a bespoke track for an UltraHD/4K video about Burma.

My long-time musical collaborator and friend Dave McKeown﻿ in Exeter did an amazing job on the ethnic flute parts. Composers looking for remote woodwind sessions using anything from ethnic flutes to clarinets and saxophones of different registers, make contact with Dave!

Éanán Patterson is an established film and tv composer from Ireland and has performed an electrifying violin part for this composition. Also available for sessions, link below.

Composer and producer: Oliver Sadie (http://oliversad.ie)
Flutes: Dave McKeown (https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown/)
Violin: Éanán Patterson (https://soundcloud.com/eanan-patterson)
Mastering by John Elleson-Hartley﻿ (http://www.musiklab.co.uk/)

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Silk Road Destiny - Oliver Sadie, with Dave McKeown and Éanán Patterson

Joy Spring by Clifford Brown has long been a favourite jazz standard of mine, one of those tunes that uplifts, a perfect reflection of its wonderful title.

I suggested making a version to Derek and he came back with this wonderful arrangement; his feather light acoustic guitar and easy swing tempo are a perfect counterpoint to my clarinet. It's a lovely combination and one that comes as close as I've come to capturing the elusive spirit of this sweetest of jazz tunes. 

Clifford Brown died at the age of 25, pretty typical for a jazz musician in the '50s you might say. The tragic irony is he bucked the trend, was famously clean-living but died in a car accident travelling between gigs.

Please listen to more of Derek's brilliant music at https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett



Joy Spring, Dave McKeown with Derek Cornett

I recorded these samples on a recent trip to Scotland...this track contains nothing else but Scottish water from Campbeltown in Kintyre and Uig in Skye poured into my Mac. There is no EQ added, just a little reverb and delay for depth, a touch of limiter for smoothness...this track mixed itself and is free of additives and artificial flavourings. Just water.

Music Made out of Scottish Water, Dave McKeown

I can't really define the groove on this track by Martyn Wilding, aka Penguin Fawkes, but the first time I heard it I thought it was irresistible. Then along came the muted trumpet at 1.55, like Miies Davis visiting from the other side, and I just wanted to join the band. Consequently Martyn very kindly allowed me to vandalise his brilliant tune in the name of jazz.. You have him all to yourselves though before I come in honking on alto sax about half way through to the end.

You will find more of Martyn's music here...
http://soundcloud.com/nastym

Dancing with Bears, Dave McKeown with Penguin Fawkes

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Here is a piece for piano and tenor saxophone. Big thanks to <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dgreening" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">♬ Dave Greening</a> for very kindly allowing me to root around in his extensive back catalogue for another tune suitable for collaboration; with it's wide open spaces at the beginning and end and with the beautifully voiced and intense middle section, this piece fits the bill perfectly.
All the different moods in the piece are created and played with gorgeous sensitivity and a sure-footed sense of structure by Dave. It was a huge pleasure to spend time adding an extra layer on saxophone.

I took the picture in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

Bliss, Dave McKeown with Dave Greening

This is a song about a song.  Paul Sale wrote the sparkling guitar part as a response to a magical moment, sat in front of a crackling fire with Darcy DaSilva, listening to her performing the song 'Magpie'. You can hear Magpie here...http://soundcloud.com/paul-sale/magpie
Paul sent me the guitar part a couple of months ago but I wasn't sure what to do with it. It was Emma Shanley over in Ireland who added the beautiful words and melody. Emma's voice is exceptional...a rare thing of beauty. She has the delicacy, dynamics and control of the incomparable Sandy Denny...her voice defies gravity.
I've added some melodica as seasoning and spent a lot of time twiddling the knobs. This is a special song to all three of us and I hope so much that you enjoy it.

http://soundcloud.com/emma-shanley

http://soundcloud.com/paul-sale

http://www.myspace.com/darcydasilvasongs

The picture is Paul,s and shows the Rayburn stove where he heard D'arcy's singing




Eyelight by Firesound, Dave McKeown with Emma Shanley and Paul Sale

Here is a sweet collaboration on a minor key blues with the fantastic Swedish guitarist Anders Isberg, aka http://soundcloud.com/single_espresso

This has been bouncing backwards and forwards between Sweden and the UK for a few weeks now but we've finally got the version that we like and you deserve! Anders played guitar (look out for a super cool solo), organ and bass, I played tenor sax and sequenced the drums.

The picture was taken in secret by a Swiss fellow, Guillaume Briquet, showing the deserted city of Prypat next to the Chernobyl Nuclear power station. The weather, radioactivity, natural degradation and looters show how transient mankind's mark on the landscape is. meanwhile, enough radioactive plutonium to kill 100 million people, with a half life of a quarter of a million years, lies behind a concrete sarcophagus that is already in an advanced state of decay.
http://soundcloud.com/single_espresso

Smoky Blues, Dave McKeown with Anders Isberg

Here is a collaboration with a lovely old friend Liz Monument. Liz and I both studied music at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire a few years ago. Those of you who have had the chance to do something like that will know that the friendships you make there go beyond the social...you share creativity with your classmates and for me, I always keep a cozy seat in my heart for anyone with whom I make good music. Back then, Liz was a fantastic classical guitarist, but since then she has widened her range to encompass many more styles and stringed instruments....including the sparkling harp that features here alongside the guitar. A couple of years ago we renewed friendship via facebook and this year we're making music again via soundcloud. Please listen to more of Liz's beautiful playing at http://soundcloud.com/lizmonument

Here I play the Uillean Pipes and Low Whistle. I absolutely adore the pipes, but they also frustrate me as I don't think I'm physically cut out to play them to the standard I'd like to. But now and then I give them a day out. If by any chance you like the sound here, please do me the favour of going to youtube and checking out what REAL pipers can do, like Paddy Keenan, Cillian Vallely and Davy Spillane.

Liz's harp provides a perfect setting here for Louis MacNeice's amazing poem The Strand. The harp's chords lap like waves on the poet's beach. I have a strong identification with this poem; my father was also a Northern Irish clergyman who “kept something in him solitary and wild”. The last quality time I spent with my father was a wordless walk on such an Irish strand. The image attached to the song is a washed out old slide I took that very winter afternoon....'white Tintoretto clouds' behind Slieve Donard, towering above the beach at Newcastle, County Down. All that's missing is the 'square black figure' beyond the viewfinder to the left. 

The Strand

by Louis MacNeice

White Tintoretto clouds beneath my naked feet,
This mirror of wet sand imputes a lasting mood
To island truancies; my steps repeat

Someone’s who now has left such strands for good
Carrying his boots and paddling like a child,
A square black figure whom the horizon understood -

My father. Who for all his responsibly compiled
Account books of a devout, precise routine
Kept something in him solitary and wild,

So loved the Western sea and no tree’s green
Fulfilled him like these contours of Slievemore
Menaun and Croghaun and the bogs between.

Sixty-odd years behind him and twelve before,
Eyeing the flange of steel in the turning belt of brine
It was sixteen years ago he walked this shore

And the mirror caught his shape which catches mine
But then as now the floor-mop of the foam
Blotted the bright reflections - and no sign

Remains of face or feet when visitors have gone home.

The Strand, Dave McKeown with Liz Monument

vinyl = https://alexkozobolis.bandcamp.com/album/the-seasons-are-not-four

i promise

Here's an Eastern accented jazz mood piece from Paul, aka http://soundcloud.com/deeplydazzled, http://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett on guitar  and myself on soprano sax. Paul's idea was to reference the connection between marijuana and jazz...definitely worth checking out the accompanying video for a laugh...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQH4rctd0fU&feature=youtu.be

I'm not sure about the connection...most of the greats abused substances of one sort or another. Take two trumpet players...Louis Armstrong was reputedly stoned every waking moment of his long life while Clifford Brown was a completely clean-living guy only to die young in a car smash....That's life. Anyway, the whole subject just makes me think of the bit in the Muppets when Zoot plays Smoke Gets in your Eyes and all this smoke starts billowing out of his sax...hence the picture.

Jazz Joint, Dave McKeown with Deeply Dazzled and Derek Cornett

Here is a simple duet with pianist and composer http://soundcloud.com/michelle-eaton. I really enjoyed listening to her exciting and skilful piano playing and superb orchestrations so I suggested a collaboration. By return of post I received this deliciously delicate miniature...an arrangement of a song I don't know by George Shearing. Michelle's playing here is beautifully feather-light and adding my part on clarinet felt like painting with a one-haired brush. Hope you enjoy it. Please do call by Michelle's page for more delights.

Ramona, Dave McKeown with Michelle Eaton

Jeff Benjamin: Bass, Drum Programming 
Chaski Dye: Violins 
Alex Tate: Saxophones, Engineering 

Written by Jeff Benjamin
Mixed by Alex Tate & J Witzgall 
Mastered by J Witzgall

Shamrock Likkas

He Goes There Alone (improvisation)

Hope you like this number.
It started off as a solo piano improvisation and I added a string bass and a sax solo in the middle. Trying for a more modern jazz type sound. You decide:)

299 - Quiet Waters - Modern Jazz Trio - 320kbps

Here is a song with two of my loveliest friends on the cloud. It's a bit special I think. 

Paul's guitar part on its own is a beautiful filigree of gossamer threads and Emma's stunning voice and lyrics soar and shimmer above. I was nervous about adding anything, so I tiptoed around on the soprano sax and hoped for the best. 

I don't like using the word 'romantic' when it comes to music…but to me, this is romantic music in the best sense; pictorial, true to the heart, a thing of beauty and I'm so pleased to have had a tiny part in it. Please visit Emma and Paul's pages for more wonderful music

http://soundcloud.com/emma-shanley

http://soundcloud.com/paul-sale

Moonlight Shimmers, Dave McKeown with Emma Shanley and Paul Sale

Here is a beautiful song written and performed by http://soundcloud.com/anj-7 from Germany with a few subtle additions by the wonderful Michelle Eaton on piano and myself on clarinet. 

Anjù writes brilliant songs that are simple and direct. There are no pyrotechnics. She manages to imbue them with the deepest of emotions with the pure and intimate tone of her voice and impeccable phrasing and timing. Meanwhile, Michelle just captures the dark melancholy of this song perfectly on the piano. Just such a pleasure for me to be involved with such talent. 

Like the Sea, Dave McKeown with Anjù and Michelle Eaton

The Last Time.

A-Punk Flute cover

A song from one of my bands Reciprocity's debut demo "Prelude".

Music by Christian Larsson & Seiya Ogino

Released in Jul/Nov 2011; purchase the demo at: http://www.reciprocity.jp

Reciprocity - Drops from a heart

"Kasteret Pa Ambolt"  from GRAVDAL's 2010 album "Tortrumantra". Part of the prolific Bergen music scene, GRAVDAL was formed in 2005 by guitarist Phobos (AETERNUS, MALSAIN, GALAR) and drummer Taakesjel (BIZARREKULT), and now includes Galge on vocals and Specter on guitars. “Torturmantra”, the band’s sophomore album, was produced by ENSLAVED’s Herbrand Larsen, and recorded by Larsen, Bjørnar E. Nilsen (VULTURE INDUSTRIES, BLACK HOLE GENERATOR) and Arve Isdal (ENSLAVED, AUDREY HORNE) at their Conclave and Earshot studios in Bergen. The track "Mishandlet", which features SHINING's NIKLAS KVARFORTH on vocals was recorded in Sweden at the Erebus Odora studios and produced by Peter Bjärgö.
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/gravdal 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gravdalofficial 
ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/gravdal 
Band Contact: info@gravdalsadist.com 
Management: patriciathomas@btinternet.com 
Booking: info@gravdalsadist.com or patriciathomas@btinternet.com


Kasteret Pa Ambolt

I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.