Possibly the last in my gamelan series, sadly this track was finished too late for my "Jazz gamelan" CD, but if there's ever a re-issue it'll be there! Katrina performs heroically as ever, with a suling she bought in Lombok that just happens to be in tune with my Javanese-influenced track. Ripples merges into Fireflies at about the 7 minute mark, but Katrina manages to hold it all together. She is currently working on a flute choir treatment, without my vibraphone.

Ripples/Fireflies : Felix Jay (vibraphone) and Katrina Emtage (suling and bass flute)

Fire Maps Part 2

With Love 
"soprano saxophone vertion"
Nicola Alesini : soprano sax
Mauro Tiberi: electric bass guitar

With Love/ With soprano saxophone

A short sample/arrangement of the Beestaara 20 stringed "Indian Cello" built by Alexandre Lettelier at the Nouvelle Lutherie Lab. Comprised of 5 or 6 multi-tracked layers playing together however no reverb or EQ has been used on the recording.

Beestaara 20 stringed "Indian Cello" sample (layered, no EQ or reverb)

This is a short clip of the "Suuk Huur", a Siberian one-stringed fiddle, extremely rare instrument made from a bull's bladder(!). This is recorded to a simple electronic drum loop, however the fiddle recording has no reverb or EQ at all so you can hear the exact sound of this curious instrument.

Suuk Huur (one Stringed Fiddle) Demo

Selection of music tracks recorded/produced by Martin Kingston

D.A.T.A BBQ at Worlds End (Acoustic/Jazz/Free Improv)

Live from Olga Stezhko's 'Et la lune descend' album launch 
Zigfrid, Hoxton Square, London 22 November 2018

Piano - gamelan - trumpet arrangement and improvisation on Debussy's 'Pour la danseuse aux crotales' and 'Pour l'égyptienne' from the suite 'Six epigraphes antiques'.

Olga Stezhko - piano
Byron Wallen and friends - trumpet, gamelan

Improvisation on Debussy's 6 epigraphes antiques - Olga Stezhko, piano/Byron Wallen trumpet, gamelan

Interview between Dorian Ford and Byron Wallen about Byron's musical life.  Plus excerpts from his gig on 1st February 2013.  
Lineup: Byron Wallen (trumpet, flute, shells), Oren Marshall (Tuba), Neil Charles (bass), Tom Skinner (drums)
Gig recorded by resident sound engineer Andrew Josephs.
Excerpts: Mr Lawrence D. Morris - Byron Wallen, East St Louis Toodaloo  - Duke Ellington, For Ravi (Shankar) - Byron Wallen, Humpty - Byron Wallen, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Billy Taylor