Help Oscar to finish the new album
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On November 23rd 2020, our son Ian was killed in a tragic accident in our home. He was just two years and ten months old. Since then two things have happened which have helped Erica and myself to survive. One was the birth of our daughter Lena in September 2021. The other was that, out of the depths of unspeakable grief, an intense flow of short compositions came to me, on guitar and mandolin.
I shared these pieces with Martin Tourish, friend, composer, arranger, and accordion maestro. Martin was very taken by the melodies, and added orchestral arrangements which have taken the music to another dimension.
The result is a seventy minute album with over twenty musicians involved, within touching distance of completion. We need about €10,000 to push the production over the line.
Ian was in love with the colour yellow, so we have named the album 'Il Palloncino Giallo'.
It is much more than a tribute to him: he was right with me in every note of its creation. The music came to me through him and with him, and out into the world. The album is fully instrumental. There are no words.
Listen to the sample track Giro Giro Tondo. Now fully recorded and ready for final mixing by maestro Giacomo:
Will McNicol, guitar. Saverio Gabrieli, violin 1. Alberto Martinelli, violin 2.
Laura Hernandez, viola. Nicola Segatta, cello. Nicola Zilliani, double bass. Martin Tourish, accordion.
Written by Oscar McLennan
Produced and arranged by Martin Tourish
Engineered by Giacomo Plotegher
Video by Kevin McAleer
©Oscar McLennan 2023
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Oscar McLennan
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