"It Will Remember Itself" by Narrowing Weeks is now available! Narrowing Weeks is a collaborative project between: Jeremy Mayall (various keys and electronics), Chris Lam Sam (various keys), Nick Granville (guitar), Rob Burns (bass), Robbie Craigie (percussion). On one day we got together to make music. To communicate. To share ideas through sound. This album is a representation [...]
Tag: funk
Silent Image
As part of a project Mike Holland was running with his studio production third year class at Otago University, he asked me if I would like to get something recorded in the studio. So I wrote this piece, 'Silent Image' - a kind of minimalism meets funk groove thing... lots of tuned percussion, synths and [...]
New Funk Music
As a break between "serious" music projects, I put together a little funk track for fun. I was inspired by the music of Prince and Nile Rodgers, but presented with my own twist. Very lucky to have had Nick Granville lay down some tasty guitar for the track. It will eventually have lyrics, but in [...]
Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm
'Sketches of an Intergalactic Earworm' is a suite in seven movements for piano trio and boombox. It was written for The New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Katherine Austin, Lara Hall and James Tennant) and was premiered on the 19th September 2013. During the early stages of writing this piece I got together with my frequent collaborator [...]
Where things are at…
It has been a hectic past few weeks... and looks to be more of the same until October. Things that have been going on recently: You can now find all of the videos from my PhD Concert Showcase collected in one handy little vimeo channel. You can find those videos here. Writing more words for [...]