| 1. | Muppet Show | 0:59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The opening track comes from the famous TV series and is added as "the funny part".
The principel arrangement has been done by Jim Henderson, instrument allocation and
backround parties are arranged and played by me.
| 2. | In the Pool | 2:37
| This illusterous track was written by Mike Oldfield and form the start of the Mike
Oldfield section. Marc Samarra plays the piano, drums and vibes. All guitars and
bass, and distict watermovements were performed by me.
| 3. | The Bell | 3:23
| The Bell was recorded by a large group of members from the
Amarok Mailinglist of which i was at one time a very active member. The track
symbolises the communities spirit and unison. Well sometimes it was like that :-) the slightly flanged and so
me acoustic guitars are by me, as well as the glockenspiel, vocals and the bells.
| 4. | Single | 4:40
| Mike's Single in the arrangement of Chris Kimber was recorded on a rainy day just
after i became single again. Chris plays the bright piano, drums, flute, vibes
bass, acoustic and electrical guitars were played by me.
| 5. | Orabidoo Part I (Lulleby) | 2:04
| Orabidoo was my first attempt at a "long" song. It is the story of an airplane
which gets in great difficulty due to heavy weather. 3 Acoustic and 1 electrical
guitar, take you off the runway in Part 1.
| 6. | Orabidoo Part II (Airborne) | 4:40
| Once we are airborne, we glide over the clouds listning to the towers weather
forcast. All guitars, bass and vocals were done by me, Allan "The Viking" Näslund
supplied the wonderfull percussion.
| 7. | Orabidoo Part III (Thunder Storms) | 2:19
| Supprised by the Thunderstorms we run into dark clouds, Don Tano magnificant piano
play leads us to a climax where the drums sequences of Rene de Vreng surround us.
(all other instuments and vocals by me)
| 8. | Orabidoo Part IV (Out of the Clouds) | 3:40
| Swooping out of the clouds we head back home. Distorted, flanged, steel, spanish
bass and flamengo guitars as well as the pauken were played by me.
| 9. | The Voyager | 4:30
| The Voyager brings us from Mike Oldfield to the Celtic section. I personally like
this track a lot. It represents myself in many ways, as a traveler, celtic music
lover and musician. George Horvath plays bodhrán, keyboards, flute, fiddle,
bagpipes, congo's, leaving acoustic, electric and bass guitars to me.
| 10. | Star of the County Down | 3:18
| This traditional track was recorded in 1998 when returned from Eíre.
Inspired by the wonderfull music and the large pints of Guinness.
| 11. | The Zoological Gardens | 2:57
| Who ever went to Dublin and missed the Zoological Gardens should not miss this track.
Recorded, as the previous track, for the 1998 project "Irish Blessings"
| 12. | La Decouvert d'Ignorance | 2:30
| This track originates from a famous Breton band : "Tri Yann" Their music has been
a great inspiration for me and i am very proud of this track, since the essence of
of the original lyrics were that you do not have to be born in Bretagne to be a
real Breton.
| 13. | Black Star Rising | 0:40
| Yngwie Johan Malmsteen shows us the way into the classical music his beautiful
introductions have always inspired me a lot. 1 Classical concert guitar, played by
me.
| 14. | Kemp's Jig | 1:40
| The alternative to the general campfire songs. As once recorded by the famous
Jan Akkerman. Now in a new arrangement made and played by me.
| 15. | Bach's Bouree | 1:18
| A homage to the greatest composer of all times, a bouree, originally composed
for lute, in a reduced arrangement (2 bass line removed due to limitations of the
the guitar) but with great speed. Happy dancing.
| 16. | The Tale of Sir Robin | 1:41
| This is the tale of Sir Robin, the not quite so brave knight of Chamelot, he who had
almost fought at the battle of etc. The story gets told to you by Paul Hutchinson
and myself as minstrel. Adam Collyer plays flutes, horns and toms. The first
Sir Robin chickend out during the recording section :) but you can now hear Sir
Allean from the cold North.
| 17. | Air in G | 3:25
| Bach returns in this famous piece, now arranged for classical guitar.
| 18. | Mr Dowlands Midnight | 2:40
| Another favourite period of mine is the "Romance". John Downland is a famous
composer for that time, and a nice piece of him for lute and organ is recorded, by
myself on guitar and Peter Blanchette on Organ.
| 19. | Tocatta in Dm | 5:00
| The longest of the classical pieces is again by Bach, but this time in a rocky
arrangement as recorded by Sky. One could call it the upside-down version of Tubular
Bells. Vanessa May is playing the violin in the introduction, the guitars are
takinging it up from there, yes even that extremely fast piece.
Stephen Johnson plays the keyboards and drums and did the arrangement.
| 20. | Gold and Brown | 2:20
| My first attempt at keyboard playing. The timing problems are left in, since it
was all played free hand one of the first evenings that i was permitted to
borrow it. The song is dedicated to girl who introduced me to piano, her hair was
indeed ......
| 21. | Moondance | 4:26
| The first and only jazz piece was written by Van Morrison. The passport assemble
had created a midi file which i was kindly permitted to use. Their brilliant
playing needed no additional instruments so took the remaining vocals upon me.
| 22. | Watermark | 2:04
| Enya's first world famous track marks also my first attempt at computer aided
piano playing. Supported by an instrument that is more to my nature, it turned
out quite nice.
| 23. | Maya Gold | 2:51
| Mike Oldfield returns in Maya Gold, one of my favourite tracks. It is intended as
the closing piece of the disc. Although it sounds very slow, the fast bits turned
out to be extremely tricky.
| 24. | Bookends for Borken | 1:22
| And so the book ends, the story closes and the disc comes to an end. I hope you
enjoyed it.
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