LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEOS!
Finally! Live performances (on YouTube? well, what did you expect?) THe top one's the longtime Blues for Laurel: be warned, not a New Age. THe second is the quick Sunday improvisation I ran as a tryout. Now, this proves I'm not just an overenthusiastic mouse torturer, doesn't it? But...well...it's a bit like watching, umm, not paint drying so much as, er, perhaps...the house painter putting it on with a roller? Ho hum, maybe the theatre will come later....Rolf Harris did it sooooooo much better with a paint roller...sigh...
Incidentally, the collapsing sheet music is the original draft of Le Moulin du Bruel, sitting on HMS Pinafore vocal score. Strange, very strange....
THE MUSIC
Classical and neo-classical, neo-celtic and western european-folk harmony, New Age melody and rhythm. Played on acoustic piano, digital pianos and keyboards, with layered and midi-supported orchestral and band interpretations.
License this music for commercial use through Pump Audio
INFLUENCES
Tim Fatchen's keyboard music is influenced by the more contemplative instrumentals of Yanni and Enya, by the soft jazz of Mancini, the minimalist and folk-based themes of Mike Oldfield, and by mixed undercurrents--classical, traditional blues, and the far older Anglo-Celtic dance and folk song filtered through Cecil Sharpe and Percy Grainger.
The music is also inspired by a continuing love affair with the freedom and joy of water, wind and light, the movement of lake and sea, and the counterpoint of the Australian deserts
LE MOULIN DU BRUEL CD (New Release!)
Come and walk through the tranquil springtime green of the limestone woods of Ginals, France, along the rippling stream of La Seye, from the poignant serenity of Abbaye de Beaulieu, to the cheerful Grand Mill, le Moulin du Bruel.
Piano and keyboards in simple and layered neo-classical, ambient and New Age soundscapes.
Available now at CDBaby and soon at iTunes.
MORE MUSIC (FREE!)
There's more of Tim Fatchen's music, including other free downloads, at music.download.com/timfatchen.
And a mix including the satire and blues of alter ego Flying Tadpole, is waiting for you at Soundclick.
And for the truly courageous, Flying Tadpole also presents the one, the only, The Internet Opera! Musically, that's HMS Pinafore meets Rocky Horror...
...(which is why there may be some music up from time to time in the style of Rodgers & Hammerstein/Gilbert & Sullivan ...resistance is useless)...INSTRUMENTS
The acoustic Grand Piano is by John Brinsmead & Sons, London, 1880. Rescued from a barn in the famous vineyards of the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Other than hammer felts, the piano is entirely original, and is undergoing a slow odyssey of restoration.
Electronic keyboards used are Medeli MC710 and SP-1 keyboards/stage piano. They have an edgy, synthetic and Chinese brilliance to their sound, a very individual quality. There's also a Yamaha PSR-310 keyboard in there, possibly the last still in captivity!
Orchestral samples in most of the current offerings are by Garritan Personal Orchestra .
MIDI files and sequencing are all notation based, using Notation Composer .