Inspired by Tuco Salamanca, a character from AMC's Breaking Bad.

From Pram Trio's debut record "Visitor Parking", composed by Mark Godfrey.

Released September 3rd, 2013.

Download here: 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/visitor-parking/id695357372

Mixed by Jeremy Darby at Canterbury Studios, Toronto.

Mastered by Peter J. Moore, Toronto.

Tuco

Music Composed by MASAYOSHI MATSUNAGA in 2023
In Use Instrument: Native Instruments THE GRANDEUR

↓There is the piano roll movie about this track. You also can listen to it.
YouTube
https://youtu.be/5Uu8NyghIwY
ニコニコ動画
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm42210559

small pieces for studying piano

Massiveness [for studying piano No.10]  ～ ピアノ作曲&打ち込みの為の練習曲 No. 10 ～

McDuff composed by Mark Godfrey

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-f7YZ8VI8Y

Recorded by Jeff Deegan

McDuff

Graphic score for five instruments and field recordings.

Commissioned for the Arraymusic Young Composers WorkshopPremiered by Array Music Ensemble, 2018

Performers: Stephen Clarke, Colleen Cook, Sheila Jaffé, and David Schotzko. Workshop director: Martin Arnold. Conductor: Richard Sacks.

Program note:
Denge is a “tuned atmosphere”. The piece is conceived of as part of a series of chamber music works called fictional atmospheres, each of which asks the performers to create sonic approximations of field recordings. With these pieces the field recordings are amplified in unusual ways inside of chamber ensemble to create listening scenarios in which audio recordings and acoustic instruments become sensorially entangled. The physicality of sound and the threshold between noise and tone are areas of interests for me with these pieces. Denge uses a variety of methods to explore this, mainly by augmenting the acoustic instruments with audio amplification. For example, by using transducers on the piano strings and bass drum to amplify recordings through the instruments, and using contact microphones on the violin and a turntable to create feedback.  

The field recordings used in this piece were made along the English Channel (UK) in 2016. This coastline is home to a former Royal Air Force base called Denge. It’s also the site of the so called “sound mirrors”— a series of massive concrete objects that were constructed by the English military before WWII, as an experiment using sound to locate incoming aircraft (before the advent of radar). Currently, Denge is the site of an active nuclear power plant. The presence of the power plant has created a bazaar, almost tropical ecosystem in the waterways around Denge. Thermal pollution from the plant warms the sea and unnaturally enriches the biological productivity of the water. This site, and the “sound mirrors”, were part of an exhibition I made in 2016, at 811 Gallery in Toronto, called "Every sound is a small action and broke world".

Fictional Atmospheres: Denge

From Pram Trio's second official release "Saga Thirteen." 

Release date: March 8th, 2016. 

Recorded July 10th and 11th, 2015 at the Canterbury Music Company. 

Mixed by Jeremy Darby (Canterbury Music Company), mastering by Peter Letros (Wreckhouse Mastering), artwork and design by Camille Lauren. 

Composed by Jack Bodkin.

Treptower Park

Undercurrent

From Pram Trio's second official release "Saga Thirteen." 

Release date: March 8th, 2016. 

Recorded July 10th and 11th, 2015 at the Canterbury Music Company. 

Mixed by Jeremy Darby (Canterbury Music Company), mastering by Peter Letros (Wreckhouse Mastering), artwork and design by Camille Lauren. 

Composed by Mark Godfrey.

Control

Mrs. Kim Visits The Living Room Alone

Bucket List

April

Pram Trio is a Toronto-based ensemble founded in 2009 by Mark Godfrey (bass) and Jack Bodkin (piano). Joined by Eric West (drums) in 2014, Pram Trio was awarded the Grand Prix de Jazz from the 35th Festival International de Jazz de Montreal by a unanimous panel.Dan McClenaghan of Allaboutjazz.com describes the group as: “edgy and interactive, often urgent, and very much in the school of the modern-leaning piano trios.”Influenced by a wide range of traditional and current jazz artists as well as many other styles, their music is “very contemporary, composed and multi-sectional” (Peter Hum/Ottawa Citizen Jazz Blog). Pram Trio puts a strong focus on collective improvisation and creates an experience that appeals to listeners both familiar and unfamiliar with jazz.