‘Miniatures’ – Now Available! : D

It’s Wednesday 29th March – also known as World Piano Day, on account of its being the 88th day of the year – and you all know what that means, don’t you? It means that the release day of my stupendous new album ‘Miniatures’ is finally upon us! Yayyyyy!

The album is available in so many formats that it’s difficult to count them all. You can get a CD, you can get a download, you can get a streaming via Bandcamp… That’s at least 2 formats! (I’m not very good at counting.) And let’s not forget the extra special drinks mats I’ve had made specially to celebrate the release. What a good day indeed.

To mark the occasion, I’ve given the free track ‘Obfuscation’ its own platform on YouTube, for it to delight the world with its harmonious frequencies. Feast your ears here:

To find out more about ‘Miniatures’, have a listen, and grab yourself a copy, give this lovely big green button a click!

Or if you’re too excited and want to get your hands on the music as quickly as humanly possible, here are the product links:

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Before I go, it would be truly remiss of me not to mention that Jack Mitchell Smith (who has graced my album with his pianistic wizardry) is also celebrating World Piano Day by releasing ‘Twelve New Chapters’, a series of solos that take inspiration from each month of the Gregorian calendar. Actually, I’ll give him a big green button as well (but maybe just a pale one – this is my website after all):

Click here to learn about ‘Twelve New Chapters’, the brand new piano album from Jack Mitchell Smith!

March 27, 2023

New Music Monday, #13: ‘Sausage Theft’

Every Monday throughout 2023 I will be highlighting a different piece of music that I have either written or been closely involved with. And this week, prepare to hold on tight to your sausages because it’s…

What’s it called?
Sausage Theft.

What’s it from?
‘Mongolian Death Worm: A Puppet Show Musical’, the show what I wrote, starred in, directed, produced, edited etc. with my regular collaborator Mister James Ure during the first national lockdown in 2020. It’s a full 68 minutes of silliness, centring around the search for a mysterious creature that has been pilfering steaks from a village community somewhere near the Gobi Desert.

What’s it all about?
My my, it’s already week 13 of New Music Monday – an unlucky number for some, but especially so for Larry Chops, the unfortunate Mongolian butcher whose prize sausages are stolen to the sound of this music. The track as a whole accompanies the very opening of the musical, from the theatrical drum roll as the curtains open, to the ominous tuba notes as some hidden creature begins tugging at the string of sausages, to the final suspenseful build-up before Larry runs on shouting “AAAHHHH NOOOOO, MY THHHOTHAGETHHHHHH!!!”

Listen out for…
The distinctly ‘crunchy’ chord in the ukulele and piano at 0:20, which (for those of a theoretical disposition) is composed of two diminished 7th chords a semitone apart! Mmmm, crunchy…

Find out more at…
www.michaelgrantmusician.com/mdw

March 25, 2023

The Longest Night, from ‘Miniatures’ – Exclusive Video Performance!

‘Miniatures’ release day is almost upon us, but if your appetite for piano music isn’t already sufficiently whetted then I’ve got just the thing to get you in the mood!

Long by name, long by nature, this piece forms track 8 on the album and draws you into a dark disturbing world where at times even the piano itself seems to scream in desperation, before the subsequent tracks gradually move you back out into the daylight and towards a happy ending…

‘Miniatures’ will be released on Wednesday 29th March.

Don’t forget to pre-order your copy today and get a lovely little drinks mat featuring original artwork absolutely free!

March 22, 2023

Free Drinks Mats For Everyone! Hooray!

Everyone, that is, who pre-orders a copy of my brand new album ‘Miniatures’! Don’t forget, the album will be released on 29th March so you’ve only got a week left to pre-order and get your mittens on one of these beauties at no additional charge…

Mmm-mmm, dat’s a mighty fine mat!

Find out more here.

Watch me talk all aboot it here:

March 20, 2023

New Music Monday, #12: ‘Every Hero Needs A Villain (Trad Remix)’

Every Monday throughout 2023 I will be highlighting a different piece of music that I have either written or been closely involved with. And this week, prepare to take a break from me relentlessly plugging my new album because it’s…

What’s it called?
Every Hero Needs A Villain (Trad Remix).

What’s it from?
‘Mongolian Death Worm: A Puppet Show Musical’, the show what I wrote, starred in, directed, produced, edited etc. with my regular collaborator Mister James Ure during the first national lockdown in 2020. It’s a full 68 minutes of silliness, centring around the search for a mysterious creature that has been pilfering steaks from a village community somewhere near the Gobi Desert.

What’s it all about?
This lovely lil’ melody plays right at the end of the film, over the credits, while various outtakes and comical mishaps play on-screen and mesmerising scrolling text gives information about all da people who done stuff. It’s a jazzed-up instrumental version of a song that appears earlier in the show, when the baddie sings about all her evil schemes.

Listen out for…
My wonderful green ukulele! At a mere £12, that uke is one of the cheapest instruments I own, and it doesn’t get many opportunities to record on account of the acoustic compromises inherent in such a low-priced piece of equipment (to phrase it politely). But none of that matters if you whack the thing hard enough, as I demonstrate with aplomb in this recording.

Find out more at…
www.michaelgrantmusician.com/mdw

March 18, 2023

Cascades, from ‘Miniatures’ – Super Special Video Performance!

So I says to Jack, I says, “Would you be up for doing a video recording of one of the Miniatures? Just to keep the publicity ball rolling!” And what do you know, within two hours he had sent me not one but two videos of him expertly performing pieces from the new album! Here’s the first one, a short quirky piece called ‘Cascades’…

‘Miniatures’ will be released on Wednesday 29th March.

Don’t forget to pre-order your copy today and get a lovely little drinks mat featuring original artwork absolutely free!

March 15, 2023

‘Miniatures’, for Solo Piano – Now Available to Pre-Order

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my new album of solo piano music, ‘Miniatures’, is now available to pre-order! Here’s a friendly fellow to tell you all about it:

The album will be released on Wednesday 29th March (a.k.a. World Piano Day – see what I did there?), however if you place a pre-order between now and then I will also post you a free gift, in the form of a lovely drinks mat with a drawing of a piano on it:

You can find out more about the album and place an order via the following links:

michaelgrantmusician.com/miniatures
michaelgrantmusician.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures

And finally, don’t forget to tell all your friends, family and enemies – remember, there’s no publicity like word-of-mouth publicity!

March 13, 2023

New Music Monday, #11: ‘If Only Your Legs Were On Your Head’

Every Monday throughout 2023 I will be highlighting a different piece of music that I have either written or been closely involved with. And this week, prepare to contemplate the various advantages of alternative limb configurations because it’s…

What’s it called?
If Only Your Legs Were On Your Head.

What’s it from?
This is the first EVER single from the most absurd band you’ve never heard of, ‘The Atwood Project’. This ‘band’ is essentially an excuse for me and my regular collaborator Mister James Ure to let our hair down and be as relentlessly peculiar as we want, by taking a title suggestion from an innocent member of the public and using it as inspiration for a surreal comedic musical dreamscape.

What’s it all about?
As the title would suggest, it’s all about someone mulling over how great it would be if his lover’s legs were on their head. This issue is explored in great depth from many angles, resulting in such enlightening suggestions as being able to “do a headstand with ease” and “swat away all the wasps and the bees”.

Listen out for…
Ohh, it’s difficult to pick just one highlight when the entire thing is so utterly absurd in so many wonderful ways. Definitely listen out for the central section which somehow combines rapping with an impersonation of Tom Jones’ cover of ‘Venus’ (nobody has yet worked out why). Also there are the last couple of lyrics, which manage to succinctly negate the purpose of the entire song.

Find out more at…
If you like behind-the-scenes video footage of me working at my computer in a dressing gown, you’ll LURRRRVE the music video, which charts the entire creation of the song from writing to recording right through to the final mixing:

March 6, 2023

New Music Monday, #10: ‘The Foundling’

Every Monday throughout 2023 I will be highlighting a different piece of music that I have either written or been closely involved with. And this week, prepare to reconnect with long-lost relatives because it’s…

What’s it called?
The Foundling.

What’s it from?
‘Music for the Moving Image’, my ever-expanding album showcasing pieces that I’ve written for various film projects, with all the pesky sound effects and dialogue removed.

What’s it all about?
This was my entry for the 2022 Zurich Film Festival International Film Music Competition, the task of which was to write a new score for Barney Cokeliss’ short film ‘The Foundling’. The basic story centres around a mother reconnecting with her son, whom she had given up to the circus many years before on account of his having been born with a grotesque deformity.

Listen out for…
My use of a dissonant 12-piece woodwind section to mimic a slightly out-of-tune fairground organ.

Find out more at…
youtu.be/gCXIZAInaoU , where you can watch the full film to the accompaniment of my lovely music.

March 5, 2023

Video: The Blob – A Tribute to Burt Bacharach

I was saddened and surprised recently to hear of the death of the legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach, at the age of 94. To be completely honest the main surprise wasn’t so much that he had died, but rather that he had still been alive so recently – but that’s beside the point! At any rate, I thought this would be the ideal time to record my own version of a particular Bacharach song that for many years has occupied a special place in my heart.

That song is the theme tune for the 1958 cult horror B-movie ‘The Blob’, which I believe to be the greatest ditty ever written and which makes me happier than pretty much anything else on the planet. Give it a listen and you’ll see what I mean. My version features me and 10 of my clones playing a mixture of ukulele, bassoon and saxophones, as well as singing and making a small selection of bodily noises. I hope you like it and that it doesn’t give you nightmares!