More about the CD

In case you wanted to know a bit more about the new CD...

Why "What Happened to The Foot"?
After recording 9 tunes for the album we decided in the end not to include our tune 'The Foot' on the CD. So the title reflected this, and became the story of what happened to this tune. Not only this, but the original melody for this tune was based on a project Dylan did for a harmony teacher at Berklee. This teacher walked into a class one day limping, and no-one asked him what was wrong with his foot...

What do these song titles mean?
FT gets its name from a Native American drum called Flying Turtle. It was inspired by the first time I heard David Tronzo play live, with V16. What a gig! The intention was to deliberately write a tune that was just based on a riff, not a melody with chords. The chords for the solo section came later and were based on the final section of the head.

Kiokya is the only tune we know of that was named after a car numberplate! It gets its name from the car I was stuck behind with plate K10 KYA, and was inspired by hearing a Kenny Wheeler composition where the melody moved up a semi-tone part of the way through.

Horizon started life as a ballad, and was written after a conversation about adversity in which the advice "keep your eyes on the horizon" (think of the future) came up. It was written in between teaching students on a Saturday morning.

Imposition. I once overheard the expression "music imposes itself too much", and was horrified...

Come As You Are. This medley of Nirvana classics was given a twist by playing it in 5/4. Always good fun to play.

Note Salad was inspired by the term "word salad". This is the common name for schizophasia - a condition which causes the sufferer to mix together random words when speaking. The melody gave the tune its name originally, but over time the free improvised section has come to dominate the song more and more - a real note salad!