Strolling Spring Garden Road

This piece was written in July of 2009 while I was at the RNSI Tattoo. I fell in love with the city of Halifax, its people, its places; the events that I experienced there were life altering. I have several memories of Spring Garden Road - riding the bus and having a conversation with everyone around me - a story I have told many times publicly, but I also have many private inspirational memories that I will never forget.


The first track was the concept piece. It is largely unmastered and unengineered, contains road noise from Halifax, as if I was actually out walking, and ends with a solo piper - conceptually - playing in the Public Gardens at Spring Garen Road. I thought the music stood on its own, and thus, the finished piece demonstrates that - without road noise, minus some over dubbing and minus Irish whistles, which I am still attempting to master - I'm still very pitchy at times....

The second track is, as it stands, now open for public listening. I performed and recorded each of the tracks on a Zoom R16 multi track recorder in Ottawa. Thanks to Graeme Ogilve for his loan of the electronic Daeger pipes, and to Mo Aller for loaning me his three drone key of A John Walsh small pipe. Thanks to Scott Shpak for his sonic wisdom.

Start to finish, this represents six minutes of music. Beginning to end from composition, rehearsal, recording, mixing and now publishing, it represents about three, sleep free, weeks of my life. My music is inspired by a muse, and it is a labour of love.

I hope you enjoy this. Click on the file factory widget below - both tracks will play eventually play.