The Swing Ninjas second album “Stop Killing The Jazz Man” is out and I’m on it! The release was yesterday at the Mesmerist in Brighton and it was jam packed with swing lovers and lindy hoppers.
Check out the Facebook gallery from the night.
Category Archives: Band
Lele Lele playing one of my old songs
My old balkan-indian world fusion band Lele Lele are still going strong, even after I left them. Here they are playing my composition “Cogs And Gears”
If you’d like to hear this song in it’s original form (with me instead of the trumpet and clarinet) you can listen on Spotify or get it from CD Baby or iTunes.
Review of Fred Kinbom’s EP
Fred Kinbom’s new EP “Quit My Job” has been released and I’m on it. Both musically and photographically. For some reason all of the bands I’ve played have chosen not to have a band pic on the cover so this is actually the first time my face is used to sell something. Well apart from ABBA the Show of course but then it’s my face just because it looks a bit like Benny’s. Anyway, the EP got a really brill review at whisperinandhollerin, go check it out!
Great review of Nybakat’s Torfaen gig!
The Jazz Mann has written about Nybakat! before and it was a great pleasure to meet him at the gig we did at the Torfaen Jazz Society in July. He wrote a detailed review of the gig so if you weren’t there you can almost hear the music through his writing. Check it out here!
Nybakat! at Östhammars Kyrka
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.
NACOA Charity single release
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.
Call Me by Maria McAteer
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!
Line Up by Ian Stephenson
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.
First gig with Fred Kinbom
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)
Maria McAteer – Take the Blame video
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.