Peter
MEASROCH
Electric Desert Music

With the exception of the Tchoupi series and the Innerland project, in which I played and sequenced all the instruments  and parts,  the music elsewhere on these pages would not have been possible without the gifted friends and collaborators I have been fortunate to meet and work with along the way.   Let me introduce you to those you have heard here....

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Thanks to Peter Alves for recording, production and percussion on the Innerland project.

Tchoupi and all my subsequent film and media music sessions were recorded and mixed by François Arbour.

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Live at the Blues Cafe was recorded "from the board" with the piano and vocal mic mixed mono to one track with an overhead on the other.  My frequent off-mic wanderings, due to having to turn my head to the audience, didn't help either!   Thanks to  Gavin Fernandes for taking a first pass at these messy tracks, but I owe a huge debt to Michael O'Farrell, for having somehow produced a useable result and also for rescuing the classical archives.   Thanks too, in no small part, to Thom Meredith and his team who gave me the opportunity to showcase the new tunes and who, as MC for the evening, said some very kind words...    

 

Abstract Truth   George Wolfaardt (bass&drums), Sean Bergin (saxes) and Ken E Henson (both Sean and guitarist Kenny have unfortunately since left us).  I should also mention our hugely under-appreciated (at the time) producer, Clive Calder, without whom Silver Trees would surely have been much less than it was!

 

Daddy Longlegs   Cliff Carrison - drums, Norton Holderman - lead guitar and Thomas Mitz - bass guitar, who has

been  a constant collaborator over the years.  His paintings are seen in a few places on this site. a talented lyricist, he also wrote the lyrics for the Charlie and Mimmo theme song, the English version of Tchoupi, the French version having been written by Catherine Measroch. 

 

The source music extracts for The Beachbum Variations, L'Homme Ideale and Angkor, were recorded with bassist Stephen Barry, drummers Gordie Adamson and John McColgan, and Jody Golick on sax with myself on keys.  Electric guitars were Andrew Cowan on Angkor, Michael J. Browne on La Florida and Jordan Officer on l'Homme Ideale.

    

Puffball's Redhaired Woman used the same core group but owes a lot to the wonderful Irish fiddle work of Chris Crilly, who was a co-composer of the original score along with Delphine Measroch.

 

Terry Gillespie's Blue Soul extracts  feature the then rhythm section complement of  Lyndell Montgomery on bass and  Wayne Stoute on drums

This core group was often expanded to include the laid back Owen Brown on bass and Trevor Brewster on guitar. When this happened things took a very reggae-like turn!  In fact Owen is also seen on the Canoe Bar Video in Jamaica along with drummer Erol "Sticks" Clark.

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Much listening inspiration provided by the wide ears and eclectic mixes of Neil "Mac" McCallum for many years now...

 

And with humility and gratitude, thanks to my formative piano and theory teachers, Adolph Hallis and Alan Solomon, who taught me much more than just the notes...

 

To all those above and others not mentioned here - thank you for enriching my musical world!