2007.  Jazz, rock and latin tinged pop songs about a world of random thoughts on subjects  from supermarket trolleys, chocolate and cheese, Geordie Sangria to more serious reflections on self-reflection and loss.

Pop melodies combine with an underlying vibe of jazz influenced harmonies and textures; space and lightness contrast with denser sections.

Guest musicians include the fabulous virtuoso jangly acoustic to overdriven power guitar playing of Tom Cantwell .  

Andrew Long plays a vibrant musical drum accompaniment.

Ian Ainsley, with a voice laden with rich bubbly,  rocky yet gentle depth, adds his special sound to some of the tracks, thank you so much to them.

The songs (listen to excerpts):

'The Life and Death of a Trolley' is both sad and full of pathos as well as being hopefully humorous. See the video on YouTube.

'Catching or Throwing' is an Eastern sounding song, the melodies and harmonies illustrating the lyrics, which depict parallel kinds of loss and reflection.

'Musical Land' was inspired by using a quirky web lyric generator, in the style of the band 'Yes',  leading to a new age /prog style song.  The vocals make use of a high register, not heard that often in today's releases, to try to reflect the Prog Rock era.

'Wisdom'  is a ballad with an anthem-style chorus. The vocals sit emphatically  above the piano, bass and guitar.

'Fromage' is a tongue in cheek Franglais bilingual offering about delicious foods, delivered with a up tempo Latin feel accompanied by sounds of cutlery and clapping.

'Geordie Sangria' – another song about the senses, featuring flamenco work on guitar along with Mexican style trumpet playing, intended to have you reaching for the sangria jug. See the video on youtube.

'At the Shore' is a wistful song, which conveys the essence of a sea landscape and self reflecting introspective mood of one person reaching out to another.

'I'm Sorry' is an  hybrid of reggae rhythms, brass section, English rap and pop chorus, telling the story of a someone with a misguided sense of humour. The guitar provides playful motifs over a brass and organ sound.

'Love Lives at Night' is a ballad with a light funk/pop/jazz feel, with Miles Davis style muuted trumpet. The chorus provides an uplift of vocal harmony.

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'Timetable' is a true story based around the misery of trying to make a rubik's cube of a college timetable tenable. It is set in a laid back funky ballad setting with raunchy guitar and rocky bluesy piano.

'Wisdom – instrumental' explores jazz, mixed with smooth jazz and Latin rock sounds. The solos are here to use up all of the notes that couldn't be used elsewhere.

'Trolley - instrumental' is an epic with big chorus, overdriven guitar and a more melodic style on bass guitar.

'Yeast Meets Vest' is a frenetic Eastern/Asian influenced piece in 7/8 featuring the bass and unusual vocal and sitar sounds. It will bring out the belly dancer in you!

Full tracks

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Caroline Guirr music original songs, instrumentals and other news. Albums and videos. Trumpet piano bass guitar. Songwriter. Arranger. Diamonds and Stars. Accessible. Poppies. Happy Birthday. Pond Girl. Nature Boy. Female musician. England.