marky's fresh faves pt2

A lively fantasy action track that was a ton of fun to write. I wanted to challenge myself as far as orchestration goes. Artwork: http://koshelkov.deviantart.com/art/Airship-Of-Doom-387098027

The Mighty Airship Chase

The piece that I'll always think of as my first "real" orchestral writing. Deeply textured orchestration moving through several dramatic themes.

Recorded at Smecky Studios with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, November 14th, 2018. Cond. Richard Hein.

  Composed, orchestrated and mixed by Dave Dexter.
 Mastered by Nimrod Sound.

Icebreaker (thematic, adventure)

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

You’ll get dressed up
Jacket and tails
Ready for the day
Like a magpie, caught in the nude
You hide yourself away
You’ll put one foot forward
Then you take it back
Restless feet on a broken track

You’re a loud-mouth
Say what you hear
And speak before you think
Put your ear that close to the ground
And dirt will soil you speech
Won’t you let us in
And we’ll watch you cry
Smiling broadly with arms held wide

Don’t mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t Mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t you go
No don’t you go
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you

When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you going to learn?
How long, how long, until you learn?
I said when you gunna
When you gunna
Learn?

I won’t

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

Don't Mind Me

Heart Food for Hard Times is out on Friday 15th May 2020. 

Track credits: 
Nealo - Vocals & Lyrics
Adam Garrett - Music 
Uly - Trumpet
Adam Shanahan - Production 
Marcin Ciszczon at Diffusion Lab - Mixing & Mastering


For more information please contact: 
Sheena Madden
+353 87 245 8046
sheena@amplifyagency.ie

HEART FOOD FOR HARD TIMES

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Dave Dexter is a composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist, specialising in classical, choral and orchestral writing for live players.

His string quartet piece "St Clement's Isle" was recently played on Classic FM on Jessica Curry's "High Score" show, and his works "Descendentem Sicut Columbam" and "Leaving the House" on BBC Radio York & 3 respectively. His choral setting of "I Sing Of A Maiden" was chosen for recording by ORA Singers and Suzi Digby in 2019 as part of their Christmas Gift scheme.

It's always risky to find an epoch one feels best represents music as a whole and state "This. This is what I want to do", but Dave certainly prefers the more traditional approach to scoring and composing. He'll work with samples if he has to, but the best moments come from hearing great musicians planting a glorious flag in the earth of a piece and making it their own. His music ranges from the beautiful and intimate, the achingly sad, the whimsical and the thunderously exciting; if not watched like a hawk he'll probably attempt to combine all four.

Dave is writing in the third person but is totally a cool guy and not arrogant in the slightest.

Music fan, all genres, ears only, tone mute, two left hands, despite all this supports new music in the form of moderator on https://freshonthenet.co.uk/
Find me on Twitter @lobsterbane

Icebreaker (thematic, adventure)

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