Album listing

The Big Easy – Mardi Gras

New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, old school rhythm and blues and funky Latin-infused jazz grooves are imbued with piano, powerful horns and strong male and female vocals.

We were lucky enough to record this album during the joyful celebrations of Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 2019. The authentic sound derives from the many talented local musicians that we were fortunate to work with. Post-production involved the taklents of others from across the world.

Among those we worked with were the following. all musicians are New Orleans-based unless otherwise shown:

Trumpets – Mark Braud and Leon Brown, Trombones – Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, Clarinet – Evan Christopher, Saxes – Jason Mingledorff, Piano – Josh Paxton, and Leandro Lopez Varady (Chicago), Organ – John ‘papa’ Gros, and Steve Lodder (London), Bass & Sousaphone – Matt Perrine, Bass – Ryan Trebilcock (London), Drums – Eric Bolivar, Guitar & Banjo – Don Vappie, Guitar – Chris Siebold (Chicago), Vocals – Aurora Nealand, Dana Abbott, Sean Carey, Derek Procell (Chicago), Paul Mabin (Chicago), and Greg Stafford, Vocals & Percussion – Jeff Meegan (Chicago), Vocals & Organ – David Tobin (Yorkshire UK).

Studio 1: Esplanade NOLA – Engineer: Mischa Kachkachvilli,
Studio 2: Music Shed NOLA – Engineer: Jack Miele

Here Comes The Parade

Grooving New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration with piano, horn section, Afro Cuban rhythms and male vocal

3:28

Knock Knock

Catchy old school rhythm and blues song about New Orleans with upbeat male vocal

3:22

Mississippi Water

Funky Latin-infused New Orleans jazz groove with piano, horns & ”Mississippi water” group vocal chants

3:22

You’ll Never See Me Blue

Positive straight-ahead blues song with powerhouse female vocal

3:29

When I Say Jump

Bouncy Caribbean party pop song with male vocal

3:09

Back To Blues

Funky Southern blues-rock song with powerful horns & strong female vocal

3:03

Meegan&Tobin · Spirit of New Orleans Vol 2

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Sousa’s greatest military marches.

J P Sousa’s most anthemic works – from rousing to celebratory, spirited and sprightly to exuberant, arranged for military bands.

Stars and Stripes Forever
Rousing arrangement of Sousa’s most celebrated march

Liberty Bell
Spirited arrangement of Sousa’s iconic military band marc

Semper Fidelis
Celebratory march by Sousa arranged for military band. The official march of the US Marine Corps

The Thunderer
Lively military band arrangement of Sousa’s classic march

National Emblem
Exuberant arrangement of the classic military march

Washington Post March
Arrangement of Sousa’s sprightly march for military band

Old Comrades
Sprightly arrangement of classic German march for military band

Meegan&Tobin · Stars and Stripes Forever

Posted in Album discography, Album listing, Americana, Sousa

Range of New Orleans Jazz

New Orleans jazz with everything from a Mardi Gras feel to traditional Prohibition-era and cool 1970s cop show funk with horns and funky rhythm section. Brass bands and banjo join energetic drums and percussion.

Esplanade

Happy-go-lucky New Orleans brass band with energetic drums and percussion. Mardis Gras feel. 2:55

Hoodoo Mama

Bustling up-tempo New Orleans trad jazz from the Prohibition era. 2:59

Piety Street

Cool, laid back New Orleans brass band with sleazy lead trumpet & funky rhythm section. 2:38

Psychedelic Love Funk

Cool 1970s cop show funk with slick NOLA horn section. 2:48

Second Line Time

Grooving New Orleans horn section over a busy second line beat. 3:45

Po Boy Tango

Tongue-in-cheek, maudlin New Orleans Latin jazz tango with plaintive lead trumpet. 3:31

My Oh My Oh

Breezy New Orleans brass band with banjo builds to wailing trad jazz. Street party feel. 3:03

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A variety of jazz moods, from relaxed, with cool sax, guitar and piano solos, to easy-going, swinging dinner jazz, and Latin-inspired guitar jazz.

Late Night Jazz
Relaxed jazz club quintet with cool sax, guitar, and piano solos
(5:19)

Straight Ahead
Up-tempo, bustling jazz quintet with walking bass, piano, guitar, drums & sax
(3:41)

Dinner For Two
Easy going, swinging dinner jazz with straight-ahead rhythm section and sax lead
(4:32)

Five Over Four
Cool jazz quintet waltz featuring piano, guitar & sultry sax lead. Mellow 1960s vibe
(4:47)

Just A Mirage
Bustling jazz quintet with Latin flavours featuring sax and piano solos over a grooving rhythm section
(3:38)

A Night in Brazil
Smooth Brazilian-inspired dinner jazz with laid back rhythm section & mellow lead sax
(3:27)

Song for Sophia
Sexy Latin-inspired guitar jazz with a relaxed rhythm section
(4:24)

Posted in Album discography, Album listing, Cocktail Jazz, Latin

Risers composed for Asian sports media

A variety of risers, from tense and exciting to dark, dramatic hybrids featuring Asian percussion, traditional woodwind, melodic string instruments, erhu, flutes and drone.

Rise of Tradition
Rhythmic bed with electronic rise, string instruments, flutes, Sheng, distortion and vocal fx to drum and synth impact
(1.00)

Transcendental
Tense, exciting riser with dark synths, wailing erhu and insistent percussion
(0:50)

Rise of the Phoenix
Hybrid riser with Asian percussion & woodwind, sound design elements, big impact & eerie tail
(0.34)

To the Mountain Top
Escalating Asian hybrid riser with drone, authentic woodwind, percussion & sound design. Builds to epic impact
(1:15)

Organic Infusion
Growing percussion & flavours of Myanmar with pulses, rising erhu & synth elements
(1:04)

Filled with Courage
Slowly building percussion bed with flute, drone & synth rise
(1:00)

Ultra
Driving pitched riser with Asian influence, aggressive impact & bamboo flute ending
(0:25)

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Our two new riser albums

Risers are used as transitions from scene to scene or to create drama in an edit. On film when a shark is about to attack the best way to add the sense of the impending doom or the sound of the attack itself is through the use of risers and impacts.

They can be used in any production but ours get used the most in reality television shows that the have many cuts to convey the story. Shows like River Monsters, Mysteries at the Museum, and Life Below Zero.

Risers Return
Long risers with epic drums and drones, vocal FX and adrenaline-surging climaxes come together with atmospheric synths, big hits and distorted guitars.

Risers return 2
Fast risers, with monster FX join with metallic swooshes and massive impacts, while unsettling drones, guitar swells and growing drums build to massive impacts and a variety of decays and tails.

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Gustav Holst’s timeless, celestial classic.

From a dramatically building orchestra and choir through mercurial moments and a cheerfully epic romp, together with quieter, more magical reveals and ethereal choir with cosmic harps, Holst’s suite contains a universe of orchestral moods.

Mars, Bringer of War
Epic, dramatically building orchestra & choir with an explosive ending. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at full tilt. 3.53

Venus, Bringer of Peace
Calm, atmospheric & tender orchestra & choir. Sparkling woodwinds & celesta with ethereal strings & brass 2.08

Mercury, Winged Messenger
Flighty, lively, mercurial orchestra with intricate woodwinds & celesta. Big orchestral crescendo. 1.58

Jupiter, Bringer Of Jollity
Cheerful, epic orchestral romp throughout. 2.29

Saturn, Bringer Of Old Age
Gently developing beautiful orchestra with rousing, tense middle section & serene resolution. 2.13

Uranus, The Magician
Dramatic symphonic opening into sprightly, magical orchestral theme with choir & rousing ending. 1.55

Neptune, The Mystic
Nebulous, stirring orchestra with magical reveal, ethereal choir & cosmic harps & bells. 1.51

I Vow to Thee, My Country
Patriotic, stirring English hymn arranged for choir & orchestra. 2.07

Posted in Album discography, Album listing, Classical

Pastoral Patriotic

Pomp and Circumstance’s joyful orchestral march, Land of Hope and Glory’s rousing choir and the stirring Nimrod are the ultimate patriotic anthems.

A passionate Cello Concerto and Dukas’s dramatic, magical Sorcerer’s Apprentice complete this collection.

Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 Prelude

Joyful, patriotic orchestral march builds to stately ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ instrumental theme. 4:17

Land of Hope and Glory

Rousing choir & orchestra perform the ultimate British patriotic anthem. 2:26

Cello Concerto in E Minor

Passionate & virtuosic cello building to a thunderous orchestra. Gentle, glowering ending. 3:02

Nimrod

Stirring, patriotic orchestral anthem. Powerful ending. From Enigma Variations performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 2:12

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4

Regal, celebratory orchestral march. Upbeat & proud. 2:22

Salut d’Amour

Elegiac, romantic & beautiful orchestral theme (1888). 2:56

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Magical, stormy orchestral romp. Full of drama & fantasy. 2:52

Posted in Album discography, Album listing, Classical

Saint-Saens’ whimsical suite features everything from the Lions’ prowling orchestral themes to Kangaroo piano pounces and the Aviary’s fluttering flute runs. A string quartet make asses of themselves as Donkeys, whilst xylophone and flutes evoke Fossils.

Fossils

A chaotic, mad skeletal dance featuring xylophone, flute, clarinet, piano & strings from Carnival of the Animals (1886)