wonderful playing! very atmospheric and well paced :)

t feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters
And make fun of our exes, uh uh uh uh
It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight
To fall in love with strangers uh uh uh uh
Yeaaaah
We're happy free confused and lonely at the same time
It's miserable and magical oh yeah
Tonight's the night when we forget about the deadlines, it's time uh uh

I don't know about you but im feeling 22
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don't know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22, 22

It seems like one of those nights
This place is too crowded too many cool kids
It seems like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene and end up dreaming instead of sleeping
Yeaaaah
We're happy free confused and lonely in the best way
It's miserable and magical oh yeah
Tonight's the night when we forget about the heartbreaks, it's time uh uh

I don't know about you but im feeling 22
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don't know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22, 22

I don't know about you, 22, 22

It feels like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene
It feels like one of those nights
We won't be sleeping
It feels like one of those nights
You look like bad news I gotta have you, I gotta have you

I don't know about you but im feeling 22
Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you
You don't know about me but I bet you want to
Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22, 22

Dancing like 22, yeah, 22, yeah yeah

It feels like one of those nights
We ditch the whole scene
It feels like one of those nights
We won't be sleeping
It feels like one of those nights
You look like bad news I gotta have you, I gotta have you

22 - TAYLOR SWIFT COVER-GRACE A S

Meditation

Tanpura (Racheal Cogan 2014)

Paetzold Contrabass (by Herbert Paetzold), Kung Bass Recorder (designed and built by Geri Bollinger), Ganassi in G and C ( by Michael Grinter), Futujara ( by Vladiswar Nadishana),

Bells, Gongs, Skiddaw Stones, Tubular Bells (from soniccouture).

Performed, composed and recorded by Racheal Cogan.

I have always loved the resonance of the tanpura and jealously adored the overlapping resonance of this plucked string, drone type instrument.

I was aiming for the same feeling of resonance and notes overlapping on recorders - like a large organ, but with the sounds coming from different places and each with their own unique tone, length, and shape from the minds of each individual player.

With that in mind,  I began shaping this meditative piece with each note played into a different track, overlapping the one before to create long phrases made up of different players working together to make a cohesive, integrated whole. Even though it's just myself playing each track, as I created this piece I envisioned many players coming together to make up a moment of resonant space and sound. As I worked, this music felt to me like a form of falling deeper and deeper into an ocean.

Listen with a good set of headphones in a quiet space.

The image is a painting from a very dear friend who is an incredible and dedicated artist - Mitch Lang. I have adored both her and her art for at least 25 years now. The world is a richer and more generous place for her being in it.

 Mitch's image is both a reflection on living by the sea and the current Australian Government's long term and increasingly callous and inhumane treatment of refugees seeking asylum by boat in Australia.

Thank you to Violaine Corradi for always encouraging me to go yet further and to Andrew for always listening.

Tanpura

J.S.Bach Adagio E Piano

This is my cover of "The place I'll Return to Someday". All parts were played by yours truly. I semi-arranged it as well. I used the sheet music for piano and adapted it to 4 parts. Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass recorder. I used Medieval Legends Era II for the sounds. Mixed and mastered by me as well!

I hope you enjoy it! 

I did not write this piece!

Take care,
Matthew Harnage

The Place I'll Return to Someday (FFIX Arrangement for Recorder Quartet)

Another from a remix comp a few years back...

Roots Manuva - Witness (Mr Bird Remix)

Roots Manuva in Klan boogie mode.... produced by toddla t and roots manuva

Snake Bite - Roots Manuva

mix of two improvisations done with two violins held underwater in fast flowing river so that the different currents "bow" the strings. It's very much an interactive experience improvising with the river itself. The river is the Devil's Water in Northumberland, a tributary of the River Tyne between Corbridge and Dilston. this is the first experiment in a long-term environmental sound-art project.

Devil's Water 1

Matheson Recorder Trio

I grew up in Newcastle and began playing the recorder at primary school along with everyone else. However unlike everyone else I never grew out of it.  I studied for a music degree at King’s College London in 2001, whilst studying recorder at the Royal Academy of Music and later at the Royal College of Music. Whilst in London I put on and performed in various concerts, including performing for a Yoko Ono art installation in St Paul’s Cathedral. 

I moved to Gateshead in 2008 and am now in the process of setting up a business called Flautino, the focus of which is to change the commonly held perception of the recorder being an instrument purely for primary school children, and to show what beautiful music it is capable of producing. 

Meditation

Flautino

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