Just when you thought the Christmas spirit was starting to fade, I have the most Christmassy thing EVER to get you right back in the mood! This is a very special seasonal remix of the very special song ‘I’m Having Trust Issues With Crispy Seaweed’, and has been put together by my good friend and …
Category: Recording
Christmas Bassoons and Video Game Tunes
Christmas has surely come early for you, most esteemed reader, for today I have not one, not three, but two lovely videos to share with you! The first is a festive medley for four bassoons, which I have put together as an exclusive video for the online Christmas carol service of St. Andrew’s Church. You …
Pedacito de Luna
I’ve got a li’l somethin’ for you to listen to today, which is the result of one of many remote recording sessions I’ve been doin’ lately. It’s a sultry li’l number called ‘Pedacito de Luna’, which translates as ‘Little Piece of Moon’ (if Gurgle Translate is to be believed). There’s a lot of really nice …
The New Original British British Trad. Revival Revival Jelly Roll Jazz Band Band’s Official 2020 Remote Collaboration Lockdown Moving Picture, 2.0
I think it’s time for another blog post, don’t you? Fortunately I have just the thing to write about, because The Jelly Roll Jazz Band have just released their second remote collaboration video! Their video skills are improving all the time, although it might take a few more pandemics for them to really get the …
Video For Thee: ‘These Empty Streets’
People sometimes ask me, “So what do you do when you’re not making outrageously silly hour-long puppet show musicals?” Well believe it or not, I am actually a very serious musician who likes playing proper music and gazing off into the distance introspectively. And today I’d like to share with you a recent project in …
Mongolian Death Worm: Free stuff! : O
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Apparently there is such a thing as free form architecture. Freeview definitely exists – I’ve seen it on my telly. Rumour has it that Free Nelson Mandela exists. There is such a thing as Free Willy – it’s a film, but I’ve never seen it. …
‘Cool’ Fugue, or, ‘One Man – Seven Instruments’
So here’s something I’ve been meaning to get around to for 3 years! Shortly after purchasing my baritone saxomophone at the start of 2017, I thought it would be fun to pick a woodwind-heavy piece of Broadway music and do a one-man reed section video. I imagined it would be particularly interesting for people to …
Fiore di Loto
Can you hear that? That distant sound, floating ethereally on the breeze… Is it: a) Just the wind? b) Just my imagination? c) MICHAEL A. GRANT tootling away on his CLARIONET? The correct answer is c), because I’ve been doing more recording work recently and the results are now available for all to listen to! …
On My Own with the Jelly Roll lockdown video
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, “It’s better to watch stuff than to do stuff.” So in that spirit I now ask you to stop whatever you are doing and watch this sublime pair of videos featuring everyone’s favourite person, ME! To start with, here’s a video from a few years ago that the …
Freshly Hand-Picked Organic Videos
It’s been a veritable hive of activity at MAG Labs recently, and there is no time like the present for sharing the juicy fruits of such labours. I hope you’ve got your video-watching spectacles on, because you’ll need them for the following selection of sweet delights… The Main Street Stride A few weeks ago …
