One Friday afternoon, over a couple of beers, tired teacher colleagues got together and jammed. Guitars: Marshall and Steadman, Bass: Dabelstein, Drums: Johnson, Theremini: Whitehouse. This is the result, the 2021 "Touchstones". 

I would like to dedicate this to the loving memory of Dr Winston O'Boogie - I hope the sound system in the afterlife can be dialled up to 11.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3OZDU2-zas   Read More: http://www.wonko.info/atonal/

Come Together

The Touchstones Come Together (spatial)

One of three funeral marches composed for the Retour des Cendres, 1840.

Modern edition by Craig Dabelstein

Daniel Auber, Marche Funèbre (1840)

Moreton Bay Big Band performs the Beatles tune, Got to Get You Into My Life. Big Brassy opening, followed by the sublime vocals of Rose Salemanesa. A Freddie Hubbard inspired flugelhorn solo by Chris Hudson. A high energy track with a touch of Earth, Wind & Fire.

Got To Get You Into My Life

The Suite 1984 was composed for the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain and conducted by Harry Legge. The work is drawn from the composer's music for the film and is scored for a large wind orchestra. The Suite is in one continuous movement; it begins with a setting of the old poem which Winston recalls while sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe. This is followed by a march, The march alternates with varied reflective treatments of "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" until a final hymn to Oceania leads into a peaceful coda. He looked up again at the portrait of Big Brother. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of a smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. But it was all right, everything was all right, the
struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Daniel Auber, Marche Funèbre (1840)

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