Words & Music: Jeffrey Bhasker, Emile Haynie. Phil Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson. 'Unorthodox Jukebox'. 2012
Vocal cover Luke Mumford. 14yrs.
Cajon: Giovanni Cornell-Lombardo. Courtesy of Evilyn
Guitars, shaker & backing vocal: Steve Finch


Locked Out Of Heaven - Luke Mumford

Words & Music: Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
Voulez-Vous. 1979
Mamma Mia! Catherine Johnson. London Premiere 1999
Vocal cover: Hannah, 12 yrs
Guitars & shaker: Steve Finch

I Have A Dream - Hannah Taylor

Traditional Welsh folk song.
Vocal cover: Carys Barnes, 6yrs
Piano: Bunny Thompson.

Y Lili Wen Fach

Words & music: Leslie Bricusse - 'Scrooge'  1970
Vocal cover: Joe, 9yrs
Piano: Bunny Thompson, courtesy of The Glen Miller Orchestra.co.uk

The Beautiful Day - Joe Adams

Artwork: Banksy
Words & Music: Glen Ballard, Dave Stewart & Bruce Rubin. 2011
Musical: Ghost
Vocal cover: Hannah McCall, 16yrs
Piano: Steve

With You

Words & Music: Kodaline - In A Perfect World. 2013
Vocal cover, harmony arrangement & backing vocals: James, 16yrs
Keyboards & additional backing vocal: Steve

Big Bad World - James Stevenson

Artwork: 'By Your Side' - Karen Willis. Oil on canvas.
Words & Music: Samuel Smith, James Napier & Elviin. 2013
Album: In The Lonely Hour.
Vocal cover: Hannah, 14yrs.
Piano: Steve

Lay Me Down - Hannah Taylor

Words & Music: Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh
Musical: Man of La Mancha
Book by Dale Wasserman

Adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote. 

Vocal performance: Luke Mumford, 15yrs
Piano: Bunny Thompson
Strings, bass & guitar: Steve Finch

The Impossible Dream

Chase Your Dreams Till They’re Too Tired to Keep Running Away...
Artwork: Pink Sherbet Photography - 'Run Till You Fly' by D.Sharon Pruitt

Words & music: Francis White & Adele Adkins. 2007
Album: 19
Vocal Cover: Hannah Taylor, 15yrs.
Piano & backing vocal: Steve

Chasing Pavements

Artwork: Nature Walk, by Aakash Nihalani and Noah kalina.
Words & Music: Paulo Nutini, Matty Benbrook & Jim Duguid. 
Album: These Streets. Atlantic records 2006
Cover vocal & acoustic guitar: James Stevenson
Bass & backing vocal: Steve

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New Shoes

Words & Music: Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber
Musical: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 1970
Cover vocal: James Stevenson
Instrumentation & backing: Steve
http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/#1

Close Every Door

Artwork: Replica of the Hall of Music of the 1931 International Architecture Exhibition.
“… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”
Wassily Kandinsky. (1866 - 1944)

Words & Music: Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, Johnny McDaid, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle & Kevin Briggs. 2017

Vocal cover: James Stevenson
Backing & Instrumentation: Steve

Shape Of You

Artwork: 'The Stages Of Life' - Casper David Friedrich, 1835.
Music & French Lyric: Charles Trenet. "LA MER". 1945
English Lyric: Jack Lawrence.
Piano: Bunny Thompson.
Cover vocal: James Stevenson
http://uk.businessinsider.com/moynaq-ship-graveyard-uzbekistan-desert-2017-1?r=US&IR=T/#once-one-of-the-four-largest-lakes-in-the-world-it-was-26300-square-miles-the-aral-sea-dried-up-when-the-rivers-feeding-it-were-diverted-for-irrigation-purposes-1

Beyond The Sea

Photography: Blue & Green Tomorrow. 6 Jan 2017
"After just five days, Brixton Road in London has already exceeded the air pollution limit for the whole of the year, Friends of the Earth reveals today."

Words & Music: Noel Gallagher 1994
Vocal cover: James Stevenson
Guitar & Keyboard: Steve

Naomi Kline: 'This Changes Everything'. 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/08/how-will-everything-change-under-climate-change

Half The World Away

Photograph: Dazman/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Words & Music:  Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell (John Davenport). 1956
Vocal: Hannah McCall
Piano: Bunny Thompson

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

Fever

Photo: Sam Headland, Catching the Sunset. Unsplash Community
Words & Music:  Shawn Mendes, Teddy Geiger, Geoff Warburton and Scott Harris. 
Reissue album 'Illuminate'. 2017
Vocal cover: James Stevenson
Keys, guitar: Steve
Mobilise. Divest. Everywhere.
350.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6mJOYV70aw

There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back

Photograph: thoughtco.com
https://www.thoughtco.com/environmental-consequences-of-oil-spills-1204088

Words & Music: Amy Winehouse & Mark Ronson. EMI 2006
Vocal cover: Hannah McCall.
Guitar thanks to: http://www.youtube.com/user/myamywinehousetribut/videos

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpuSt_ST4_U

Back To Black

Artwork: Hypotrochoid magnetism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

Words & Music: Tom Odell & Rick Nowells. 2016
Album: Wrong Crowd
Cover vocal: James Stevenson
Electric piano & French horn: Steve

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Magnetised

Words & Music: Leonard Cohen. 1984
Backing track courtesy of: Karafun.com
Vocal: James Stevenson

OurSound 2017

Hallelujah

Performance coaching in SW London

email: oursound@icloud.com 


Techie stuff -
System: iMac, Mid 2011
Software: GarageBand
Interface: one by Apogee
Microphone: M-Audio Nova. Large-Capsule Condenser 
Midi keyboard: M-Audio keystation 61es
Digital piano: Yamaha P-155
Acoustic: Vintage ve2000GG

Educational stuff:
Musical Theatre -
London College of Music.
Vocals covers -
Rockschool.

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