Here’s a YouTube playlist with songs from Nybakat!’s concert at Östhammars Kyrka 7/7 2011. It was part of Östhammars Musikdagar and we had just done our first tour of the UK. It was great to finish with a concert in a beautiful Swedish town on the bright evening of a gorgeous summer day.

I’ve started a new project with Paul Richards (who leads the Brunswick Jazz Jam). It’s a duo with nylon string guitar and clarinet or bass clarinet and we play Brazilian choros, sambas and some straight-up jazz. Very sophisticated with a gentle sound. We’ve done a few gigs at the Gallery in Hove so far. Be sure to check back here to see when the gigs come in.

You might notice a new item in the top called Brighton Beam radio show. I’ve been doing this music discovery show together with Maria McAteer for a while now: It all takes place at www.bhcr.org every Wednesday between 3-4pm. I’ve put all the shows we’ve done so far there and I’ll keep adding them as we go along. You can listen on the archive pages on bhcr but it’s a bit complicated finding this show there. Here’s this week’s show: Brighton Beam Show 7 Mar 30 2011

If you are in Brighton this Sunday, do come and see me at the Mesmerist 3:30-6:30 as I’m playing my clarinet with the Magic Number. It’ll be a nice old swing set. Here’s a pic from last week:

The Magic Number

NACOA Charity single

It’s on iTunes and CD Baby! The charity single I have worked on with Maria McAteer, that is. The song is a version of Sam Cooke’s classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” and features Maria’s gourgeous vocals, my tinkling piano and beautiful strings played by the Stanford Quartet, humbly arranged by yours truly. All the money made from the sales of this single will go to the charity NACOA (National Association for Children of Alcoholics). Among many other things they provide a helpline for children with alcohol dependent parents to call if they need someone to talk to. I think it’s a wonderful cause.

We’ve done it again. A new song and a new video. Maria wrote the melody and the words and I added some chords. Enjoy!

My friend Ian Stephenson have finally finished his solo album “Line Up” that has been eight years in the making. I met Ian when I went to Newcastle in 2006 and I recorded some soprano sax on a jazzy polska he had written. Well, that track “Coming Home” is included. The music on the CD is based in Celtic folk with lots of Scandinavian influences. You can get it here on Ian’s site.

I met up with the amazingly talented slide guitarist Fred Kinbom last Sunday and 5 days later we did our first gig. Not the last I hope. The magic was instant! We played at the Moulettes release party in Brighton and were joined by Matthew Gest on accordion and Olli Austin on drums. All of the night was great, with an incredible puppet show, Liz Green‘s marvelous voice and of course heavy medieval acoustic folk rock with the Moulettes. A bit of our show was filmed and here’s a treat for you all:

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• Album: Moulettes, Moulettes (Balling the Jack) (independent.co.uk)

We have done it again! Yet another video is up on YouTube with a song by me and Maria. It’s on it’s way to iTunes as I write this. The video features a lovely Brighton original – rollerblader Spendoody – and the gorgeous Brighton bandstand.

I’m currently working on a slow release of singer Maria McAteer through singles on CD Baby. What I mean by slow release is that we will release the album one song at a time instead of putting it all out in one go. It all ties together with videos on YouTube as well. So far two songs have been released for purchase and three videos are up on YouTube.

Baby
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Colourless Rainbow

Or rather, Brighton mimes to Maria McAteer’s voice and my piano playing. We felt it was time to do a cover and played around a bit with Justin Bieber’s song “Baby”. What we came up with is quite different from the original. So, what to do for a video. Well, we wet down to the Meeting Place and asked people passing by if they’d like to mime a phrase from the song. They were wonderful. All different sorts agreed to do it. 3 hours later we had the fifty lines and just needed to add them together and sync them to the track. A few more hours (the rest of the night actually) was spent pasting in and time stretching clips and we had something. It’s up on YouTube, have a look and a listen!