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A new and unreleased album by Colin Cannon
Featuring members of ymusic
This is a 4 track sample of a 13 track album. Please contact ColinCannonMusic@outlook.com to hear the full length album available in download or streaming format.
About McGolrick
It’s hard to say much about this music without getting into all the technical detail involved in writing it. But the truth is no one would care about that shit, nor should they. I often think of something a friend said to me about composing, “the science is only a means to the soul.” So, with that in mind, I’ll just say this say this:
I’ve noticed a couple of trends in the arts recently: a romanticizing of the past or an obsession with the future. I avoided both. This music was inspired by a day to day reality of writing, thinking and listening to the sounds of a small neighborhood in Brooklyn.
It takes place around a loud but lovely little park called McGolrick. My sister, Devin, lives at the south end of the park and I live at the southeast corner - next to the preschool - with my new wife, Kayo. My friend Derek lives around here too, probably in the actual park itself. I’m not sure. It began after the 2016 election and it comes to an end now, during the pandemic in New York, but it’s got little to do with all that. It’s more like this:
Before the virus, the preschool kids would scream relentlessly... endlessly... all day. It was like spiders on my brain. They made me so sleep deprived that I began finding myself drunk on a bench in the park, surrounded by joggers. I’d focus on traffic noise, play voicemails on repeat, scramble sentences in my mind. I’d do anything to get their shrieks out of my head. They drove me fucking nuts.
And then came this storm that washed them all away.
As I write this, the kids are all gone. Devin has left for now. Derek is hiding out there in the park somewhere. There’s this stillness in the neighborhood. I sleep well now. Kayo wakes me up each morning instead of the kids, and the only noise left is the faint sound of the Long Island Railroad in the distance. It still runs every day. It’s this beautiful reverberation, and it’s heard best from the westside of McGolrick.
-Colin 4/18/2020
Album Credits:
Compositions: All music composed and arranged by Colin Cannon -with the exception of references to "You Are My Sunshine," popularized by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell in the 1940s and said to be written by Paul Rice or Oliver Hood in the 1930s.
Instrumentation: *There are no “fake instruments” of any kind used. Everything that sounds human, is indeed human.
Members of yMusic
Hideaki Aomori (clarinets and flute)
CJ Camerieri (trumpet. Track 1, 3, 6, 12)
Rob Moose (violin and viola)
Gabriel Cabezas (cello)
Colin Cannon (guitars, electronics, vocals, mandolin, glockenspiel and hand percussion. Bass track 11)
Devin Collins (drums)
Derek Van Wormer (electric and upright bass: tracks 2, 5, 6, 7. Vocals: track 11)
Marcos Varela (electric bass: tracks 3 & 12)
Madison Stratton (vocals)
Devin Dunne Cannon (vocals)
Jesse Fischer (piano)
Dave Carkner (flugelhorn. Trumpet 10, 11, 12)
Engineering: Recorded at Samurai Hotel Recording Studio in Queens, NY - RIRO Muzik in Brooklyn, NY - and by members of yMusic and Colin Cannon @ Colin Cannon’s studio in Brooklyn, NY. First mixes by Jesse Fischer with Colin Cannon @ Electrik Indigo Sound in Brooklyn, NY. Final mixes by Colin Cannon. Mastered by Nate Wood in Queens, NY.
Sound Design: *There are no keyboards synths, or any other standard electronic instruments used. All electronic sounds were designed by Colin Cannon through sound synthesis of personal voicemails and other home phone recordings. All samples are direct off an old AM radio or from the above mentioned voicemails with the exception of You Are My Sunshine, recorded by Jimmie Davis in 1940.
Artwork: Collage and designs by Colin Cannon. All illustrations by Kayo Yamada.
Produced by Colin Cannon
© Colin Cannon 2020
About Colin Cannon
Colin Cannon is professional guitarist, composer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. This will be his 4th studio album. For more information on Colin Cannon, click HERE.
For all questions, comments etc. Contact ColinCannonMusic@outlook.com or call 585-739-5867