Tubular Cover part 1

Cantina Cover

Ol' red eyes is back. This one was written by Johnny Mercer in 1943. I've tried to capture a bit of that vintage vibe.  "Poet"/"Know It" is an ironic paradox, an execrable rhyme for which there was, and is,  really no excuse.

One For My Baby

JL Composer Demo 2022 - Extracts from 'Into The Wilderness' Album

This was arrangement work for the fantastic songwriter Eliza Delf. Presented here without the vocal lines, this record had a wide variety of orchestral sounds and represents the best part of a years work. I'm very proud of it, and it was a pleasure to work on this project. Check her out at https://elizadelf.com/

JL Composer Demo 2022 - Extracts from 'Into The Wilderness' Album

Snippets of various orchestral textures, playing with sounds and different moods. Not much in the way of big themes here, these are mostly underscoring beds, although there's a couple of bits that might be familiar.

Jon Loomes Composer Demo 2022 - Various textures

Tom's highly influential solo album, state of the art of English fiddle playing, here playing a 3/2 hornpipe from 18th Century Cheshire in a startlingly contemporary manner.  featuring Freya Ray on clarinet, Marit Falt on Nordic latmandola and Jim Molyneux on drums.  I think this one was nominated for a Folk Award.  Probably the best technical record I ever made on the soundtracs desk.

Tom Kitching - Cobblers Hornpipe - 2014

From Alice's debut Solo Album "Poor Strange Girl", a haunting ballad from (I think) the Warner Collection.  Stage Piano and vocal, little bit of compression and reverb, very clean and simple. A lovely record that's had a lot of critical acclaim.  I put the vocal a little further forward in the mix to capture a sense of isolation.

Alice Jones - Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still - 2015

From time to time I do open days so people can come and see what we do here - Owen and Louis came for a morning and recorded three tracks, of which this is one. Two Neumann TLM103s one of which previously belonged to the late, great Dave Swarbrick.  Louis (guitar) is at The Royal Northern College Of Music in Manchester and Owen (fiddle) is finishing his A levels.  Terrific musicians and lovely lads, they'll go a long way.  So this is a fairly typical record process, mic placement is key, then I follow the signal chain, EQ, a little compression and some reverb to glue everything together.  If you can hear my edits I'm not doing my job right.

Owen Spafford And Louis Campbell - Reel - 2019

This is a compilation of tracks in different styles - These are mixes rather than original recordings so the fundamental quality varies a bit.  I like to do these as exercises, I limit myself to an hour's work on each full track.

2019 Talking Cat Mix Demo

Talking Cat Recordings is a studio in West Yorkshire specialising in acoustic music.

Talking Cat Recordings

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