Soundtrack to "Weekend in Summer" (2012).  Composed by Brendan Fay.  Recorded by Cooper Reid and Brendan Fay in the Barn to 1/4" 8-track.  Mastered by Ryan Power.

Brendan Fay - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo
Cooper Reid - Upright Bass, Electric Bass
Tyler Reid - Drums

This soundtrack is dedicated to Reid brothers whose friendship defined my coming of age, inspired this film and enabled it to be made.  Eternal gratitude and love to them.

Hiding Place On The Hill

Crabapples

First Ride For The Recruit

The Motorcyclist

Summer In Town

Island Road

Beach

Bicycle Ride

2016/2018

Marcus DeGrazia - Alto Sax
Brian Dewan - Accordion
Eric Margan - Upright Bass
Otto Hauser - Percussion

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Tyler Wood

Composed, Arranged & Conducted by Brendan Fay

This piece was originally composed for sax and accordion in October of 2016 when Maiz Vargas Sandoval (of Mal Maiz) asked if I would put together an "act to be performed at a cemetery" as part of his annual Dia de los Muertos bike ride in Burlington, Vermont. I had one week, a tiny block of time for a snail-paced composer, but the piece seemed to flow from me with ease, which showed me just how much my process can be motivated and accelerated by circumstance. I continue to learn this lesson every time I end up with a deadline and am grateful to those who present them. I performed the piece at the closure ceremony of his bike parade at Radio Bean with Tim Lang on accordion and myself on alto sax. Later, after moving to Catskill, NY I extended the piece and fleshed it out to include upright bass and percussion and recorded it with the great individuals listed above in April of 2018. It was my first time in a recording studio, my first time conducting, my first time hiring professional musicians, and my first time composing for percussion rather than leaving it up to the percussionist. It was a lot of firsts and I learned a great deal in the process. As of this writing, it is the most fully-realized recording of any of my compositions and I look forward to bringing more of my pieces to life in this way.

Death On A Deadline

As the new year approaches, I can offer at least this, a new blessing of hope wrought from one of the oldest carols, "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen".  What began as a musical impulse became a process of secularizing the carol into something that felt true and useful to me and along the way the new words lost the melody.  Rest assured, the melody will outlive my treatment!!

Don't rest, you weary menwomen, although there is dismay
For plain is it to see that there is work to do this day
To right our path in healing ways since we have gone astray
To be guiding the people to joy 
To be guiding the people to joy

How would it feel tomorrow to be called upon by name
To bring as pure a love as was the one from which you came
To meet the gift that is this life with blessings of the same
To be guiding the people to joy 
To be guiding the people to joy

Brendan M. Fay

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