An epic journey through so many tine landscapes, stopping off for side quests on synth on the way and a triumphant finale ! Great stuff chaps, much enjoyed, kept my interest right through.

Excellent collab with wonderful playing and contrasting sections :)

So calm and soothing, Really like this ;)

great for evening and night, with a glass and talk about all and nothing...

Lots of satisfying territory covered, and great bass sounds throughout.

Stopping off at so many interesting places….beautiful work, guys

Superb song and so liked reading the liner story explanations of the instrumentation and history of the monster players..

A journey through mostly keys of A. The journey starts at Mellowsville and ends in Proggyville. 
The Sound Hound is kept busy as guitar gear exchanges in between the various sections: 
Hagstrom HJ600 w. 012 flats, finger style
Tele * Red Llama - fingerstyle
LP * Blackstar - fingerstyle "mysterious"
Tele * Red Llama - plectrum {revisited some of the ideas from the Hagstrom section but with gain & bending }
LP * Blackstar - finger tapping - classical influence to accompany the synth arpeggios
LP * Blackstar - plectrum w. pick-tapping finale

On the bass side the sound man had an easier job as the bass used is a Fender Geddy Lee Jazz. Starting on a single amp solution - Ampeg SCR DI which later changes to dual amping solution where Ampeg SCR DI is used as amp one while EBS Multicomp and Tech21 Sansamp Oxford are exchanging as the 2nd amp role. Mellowsville bass is finger style, Proggyville is pick (Herco Flex75) bass.

The song started as a practice on finger style bass playing and progressed thereafter. The inspiration for playing finger style came from music I've listened to recently.
In the recent months I've listened to two particular bass players where both master finger style and pick style. The bass players are Jonas Reingold of Karmakanic, The Flower Kings, The Fringe, Agents Of Mercy, Kaipa, The Tangent. He is in my eyes the finest bass player in the prog rock scene. His playing covers everything in between Jaco and Chris Squire. The other bass player is Gordon Midgley of Napier's Bones and Bowing Tide. Like Jonas Reingold his bass playing is inspired by several big names but from different backgrounds and different playing style - Jack Bruce, Percy Jones, Jaco, Geddy Lee & Pete Trewaves. Gordon finger style bass technique is quite unique and extremely effective. He tends to alternate between pick style (with or without pick) and pure finger style on the fly, just take a careful listen to Napier's Bones bass playing to discover the depths of the his bass playing. The fact that most people tend to focus on the guitars (and he is a very skilled guitar player)and he synths tend to "hide" his great bass playing.

The song itself is somewhat inspired by Karmakanic, a prog rock band which likes to blend jazzy elements and prog rock. 

Gordon Midgley: guitars
Guy Mauseth: Bass, synths and drums arrangment. 

Mixed and mastered on iPad Air2 & Auria Pro DAW.

A Journey To A --  featuring Gordon Midgley

Bass player, and (mostly iOS) musician. 

* Member of the Rock group Rude Duke.

* Member of the Celtic Prog Rock group Dun Aenghus

* Member of the rock band/ collab WTMD

* Bass playing/ recording sessions for STDM

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