I most definitely see an asphalt garden, and the best part of big city living  -- the energy, people, and possibilities. Great dreamscape, Andy!

A lovely track and composition Andy with your inmitable and unmistakable style.

So nicely performed. Love that totally clean sound. Just instruments, lots of feeling and skills.

Such clean and confident playing--beautiful.

Thanks to David Dunham for allowing me to revisit his piece originally issued three years ago. It is always a privilege as well as a pleasure.  Visit David's page to hear more of his eloquent and peaceful music. @david-dunhamuser589535203

Don't Say Goodbye with David Dunham, guitar

A colaboration with the composer Oghamyst and the songwriter Mary Kils.

Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

Que fais-tu baby?

Things

Jaguar

1982 golden period remembered. Thanks for the inspiration George...
High resolution track:
https://andymclean.bandcamp.com/track/asphalt-gardens

Asphalt Gardens

song  of june

Storia di una notte d'agosto

This is a song that JJ came up with on the electric piano and shared with the rest of us. He's done a significant portion of the songwriting for the Eclectic Collective, and always gives us quality songs, to which are easy to add our voices. When he sent it to us, he had a rough bass on there that sounded like Lust for Life. Ken came up with a killer and appropriate beat, which, if you can picture Lust For Life, included a lot of accentuated bass kicks. So, Josh took and went with that, and came up with a funky bass line. Ken and he kicked it back and forth a few times till they linked up. Then JJ added some funky ass organ and trippy retro synth to spice it up.
  Then it was time to send it to the guitarist. Tez laid down some smoking lead solos throughout, with his signature fiery guitar tone and amazing licks. Then Stephen funked it up even more with a fonky-ass wah guitar track.
  Ken produced and mixed this one for us, and what an excellent job he did, too. This was so much fun to create. We all hope you enjoy listening to our jam as much as we did playing it.

Home's Album

Tonkas and Matchbox Cars - by The Eclectic Collective

Psalm

Sole To Soul

This song is a love story of sorts, a temptress who is luring in this man with her wild ways, getting him to leave his normal mundane life behind and live with her in the forest of blue. In my mind this had a fairy tale feel to it but with a darker element...  The music I feel works great with the piano and strings, giving it a great atmosphere and really fits in well with the storyline

Cat's Whiskers

the forest of blue (2 Rightly/Aine Parkes)

the 2018 was a very difficult year for me ...
understanding after so many years of having come to the end of a relationship was not easy to accept. I tried with all my strength to save something that escaped me like sand in my hands.
at the same time I poured all my interior experience into the creative act, as a source of salvation, into a cathartic act.
suspension between abyss and ecstasy ...
I was feverishly working on the realization of my first album.
project which, moreover, was interrupted due to the breakdown of my mac .. I lost several important information, such as sounds created with the help of different vst plugins .. and I still try to recover data etc .. to continue the project.
even today it is not easy for me to listen to this piece again.
it takes me back in time, and inevitably a few tears still line my face.
however, it is one of the few pieces accompanied by a text written at the time. I find it extraordinary how pain is able to take new shape through art.
here is the text to follow:

Packaged lives.

Packaged lives.


And in all our going
Without an arrival

Enjoy the trip, at least

While pretending to be tired

Packaged lives

With the heart immersed
Inside a well

Packaged lives

Looking for my place
In the world.


A place in time, with you

Packaged lives

And in all our going
Without an arrival

Packaged lives

Enjoy the trip, at least

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Many thanks to Freesound.org  and the following user: 
TobiasLudwig - For the sample: heartbeat (on freesound.org)
Timbre - For the sample: Yet more static from another old cheap portable analogue television.flac (on freesound.org)
Rucisko - For the sample: traffic (on freesound.org)
for their great sound capture.

Packaged Lives

Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone Saxophones, EWI.
Thanks for passing by! Appreciate you taking your precious time to listen, comment and share.
High resolution audio of my new album "Interstellar" featuring the fantastic musicians I have collaborated with, is now available on my Bandcamp site!

Musical Youth band member, saxophones

Asphalt Gardens

Andy McLean

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