Heavens, you must have time on your hands. I confess: this stuff is mainly freeing up space on my hard drive. Bunch of sheet music, guide tracks, sketches, etc., some of it really old.
Tango for BM, written after reading Tom Doyle’s fine biography of the Dundee singer. There’s a quote from Party Fears 2 in there somewhere. Theoretically possible for solo guitar (at least that’s how it was written). Be my guest…
A guide track only, but probably the only form in which this tune will ever appear, as we never did play this live. Because we couldn't! As Steve Hamilton pointed out the problems were less technical than evolutionary. I did play the bodhran and shakers on this, though. Apologies for the tenor solo. I blame the samples. Really ugly-ass chart here.
A companion piece to the other tune also called Where is the Rest of My Horse? but only conceptually. Nothing to do with it, really. Trio for Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Cello and Flute, performed at least twice by the Paragon Ensemble.
A piece written for the SNJO, Tommy Smith’s big band. Commission for St Magnus festival, and in memory of George Mackay Brown. Was studying Maria Schneider charts at the time, and probably should’ve studied a lot harder. Do click on the midi version if you’d like to hear it, though the score is the final one: the hocket at letter C is much better, and there’s a D section – a wee systems interlude – which is missing in the midi. No trumpet solo, and the drum programming is hellish awful.
Sleepless
An Astor-type tango thing, attempted live at least once. Wish I could remix it as the bandoneon is far too loud, but I’ve lost the midi. Never did figure out the ending.
DP / Alan Neave:
A few tracks recorded a few years back with the classical guitarist AN. Demo quality …
How to Get Up and Get Dressed
Alan on classical, and DP on electric. Lost the chart for this.
Waltz for Rosa
Old Lammas tune; rather odd arrangement. Hmm.
What I Learned Today
Lost the chart for this too. Damn
Road and the Miles to Dundee
Played here beh twa Dundee laddies. Pure weird eh no …
Wobegone
This is a really horrible unfinished harpsichord piece with a completely raw and unprogrammed loop thrown under it. No idea when this is from, but I must have been in a foul mood.
'Some'
Filthy wee tune. Donkeys, door slams, telecaster. The Hammond is actually a guitar synth played live. Then it goes all Euro-beat, when it really should’ve stopped.
Jenny Picking Cockles (trad.)
One from the archives. Me and Mike Donaghy from about 21 years ago.
Mister Nuthin
Scots version of the Jean Tardieu horror-poem.’How’ is Dundee Scots for ‘Why’. (That’s nothing: ‘do’ is Dundonian both for ‘do’ and ‘don’t’, and ‘is’ for both ‘is’ and isn’t’. Jihst thih wihy wih speak, ihs iht. Dih wih.)
