Birch Trees

the title track from the "Meltdown" album. the rest of the tracks are here on Bandcamp: http://malcolmmacfarlane.bandcamp.com/ to listen to or buy for a nominal price of £2. the other tracks are relatively short - "Meltdown 1" is 22 minutes long and maybe it would best not to listen to it in the dark on your own late at night :-)

Meltdown 1

an improvisation from a few years ago - a small tribute to one of my biggest heroes!

One for Jimi

when I was nominated for a Scottish Jazz Award in 2009 I submitted this demo of a little Samba that I wrote for the Sermon Organ Trio...the 'comping' guitar is my FRAME nylon (pictured)

37 11

a VERY old track! released in 1990 and recorded '88 or (more likely) '89...some great musicians on here: Greg Chapman (keys), Trevor Thornton (drums) and the amazing Laurence Cottle (bass) - production by myself, Les Davidson and Damian Korner!!!

Magic Carpet

here's the very first stages of a brand new track. this is my demo version which we will be considering for inclusion on the new MMG CD (our first in a more than a decade…) it will be fascinating to hear how it ends up in about a year's time! ...that's if it makes it on there :-)

Sunrise

the new album in nine and a half minutes...this has been my main focus for the last six months and is quite different to anything I've done up to now! it's over an hours worth of original 'electronic' compositions and features the wonderful John Burgess on clarinet. "Winter's Journey" will be available on iTunes very soon!

Winter's Journey edit

This is one of the tracks from the new project "Spoken Mirror" with Allon Beauvoisin. Still at the demo stage but it shows some of the aspects of the music that we're creating... we're playing live in June 2013!!!

Inhabiting Emptiness - intro section demo...

I'm using Soundcloud to give people a taste of various new album projects. The new music will be available through Bandcamp! More info about this will be posted on my website as things take shape...thanks for listening :-)

Malcolm MacFarlane