Unnecessary Music, by Jonathan Coe

Unnecessary Music

by Jonathan Coe

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1.	Memory Loop 01:40	buy track
2.	Best Forgotten 03:05	buy track
3.	Suspended Moment 04:51	buy track
4.	Battersea Park 02:03	buy track
5.	Kaleidoscope of Rainclouds 05:43	buy track
6.	Empty Mornings 03:06	buy track
7.	Christmas Eve, Little Heath 04:58	buy track
8.	Sarah at the Beach 01:16	buy track
9.	Snow Sequence 06:40	buy track
10.	Repeating Myself 03:18	buy track
11.	Back into the Garden 03:31	buy track
12.	Memory Loop 2 01:33	buy track

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All of the pieces in this collection are performed by me alone, on guitars and keyboards. Some of them are old, and some are relatively new.

The earliest tune, Empty Mornings, was written in 1984. Best Forgotten, Snow Sequence and Kaleidoscope of Rainclouds date from roughly the same time. They were written using an analogue keyboard, the Casio 1000P, which featured a simple arpeggiator, generating the repetitive melodic patterns which form the basis of each piece.

I wrote many hours' worth of this kind of music in the 1980s, but then my output tailed away as I began to concentrate on other things. In the early 2000s I started playing the piano again, and wrote pieces such as Memory Loop, Repeating Myself, Back into the Garden and Sarah at the Beach. Some of these tunes were written as lullabies for my then young daughters.

Christmas Eve, Little Heath, Battersea Park and Suspended Moment are all more recent pieces, written and recorded using Ableton Live which at the moment is my software of choice. The privately-pressed CD containing these twelve tracks was originally intended only for my friends, but some of them have since persuaded me to share them online.

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released May 10, 2015

Mastering by Kenneth Brake at Regal Lane Studio, London

Spa Road Records SPA 002

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