Welcome

Here’s the website for my new recording. You can listen online using the jukebox player, download the whole album free as MP3’s, make your own CD using the artwork PDF’s, or purchase a CD from me.

I spent most of June writing and recording this album, It’s a departure from my usual music in that it’s fairly commercial. It includes new compositions, reworked old ones, and a few funky covers.

Comments

Luuurv it all  x - Ffi

wow what a good groove album...have been playing it...really like it. Sarah

Fab album Si! Well done! Victoria

This 'new stuff' is excellent and I look forward to my copy of the album. Cheers mate!
John Y

Your new website is wicked!!! you must have worked realy hard on it. Like the songs
TopazXXX

Totally loving the groove...what a fantastic album!
Clare


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Extras

Bonus Fusion track - extra track which I decided didn’t fit on the album
Alternate Let it Flow take - with over the top 80’s style guitar solo.

Inspiration

Thanks to the following musicians for their incredible music, musicianship, heart and passion (in no particular order):-

Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Birelli Lagrene, Ben Castle, Pat Martino, Joe Pass, Scott Henderson,  John Coltrane, Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, James Brown, Richard Bailey, Tony Mason, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Mark Edwards (the greatest pianist in the world!), George Benson, Robben Ford, Butch Thomas, Bela Fleck and Chick Corea.

Special thanks to Russell Jarrett, Felix & Curtis Ruiz without whom I wouldn’t be playing the music I’ve always wanted to play.

 

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Track Listing

The Red Baron - Billy Cobham
Groove - Simon Taylor
Belleville - Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli
Affirmation - Jose Feliciano
Boogaloo - Simon Taylor
Night Danse - Simon Taylor
Mr PM - Simon Taylor
Nooks & Crannies - Simon Taylor
Let it Flow - Grover Washington Jnr
Don’t Call Now - Simon Taylor
Mauve Up - Simon Taylor
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
                                      - Billy Taylor



FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ZIPPED FILE

Alternatively, purchase a CD, click here.


Cover Art

Download PDF cover by clicking here (note that the CD label will print onto “A4 Neato CD Labels 2UP” stock). Click here for poster.

CDGrooveFront CDGrooveBack

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Equipment

Instruments - Peerless Monarch, Fender Standard Stratocaster (Mexico) fitted with Tex-Mex Pickups, Yamaha SG700S, Epiphone EB0 Bass and Yamaha P85 piano

Amplification - Kingsley Deluxe 30 valve combo fitted with Celestion G12H Heritage speaker.

Microphone - Røde NT1A positioned around 12” / 30 cm from amp.

Effects - The Original Crybaby Wah by Jim Dunlop USA, Daphon Flanger, MI Audio Tube Zone (used only as pre-amp for bass, all overdrives generated by amp)

Recording - Phonic MM1705 mixer, Maxi Studio Isis sound card, Emagic Logic Audio Gold software on PC.

Miscellaneous - George L’s guitar cables, Piranha guitar cables, Jim Dunlop 204 & 205 plectra / picks, Thomastik Jazz Swing Flatwound guitar strings on Peerless Monarch, Ernie Ball 10 gauge strings on Fender Stratocaster and Yamaha SG, Korg Guitar Tuner, FujiFilm S1000fd Camera, Nokia 5000 phone, Casio G Shock watch, Gola Leisure Shoes, Fiat 500 transport, Samsung Microwave, Panasonic flat screen 100Hz TV.


All guitars, bass and piano by Simon Taylor, recorded June 2009 in Islip, Oxfordshire.
Copyright © 2009 Simon Taylor

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