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Flying Tadpole
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Tim Fatchen "Le Moulin du Bruel" and "Tidewater" CD available on iTunes, and at http://www.CDbaby.com/all/timfatchen as well as multiple other digital downloading services.
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The Cairo Marriott Crow
Welcome!/Cold Fusion
How the Lovelife of Coelenterates was Granted
The Old Year Dying
Embers 2 (Live)
Embers 1 (Live)
Le Moulin du Bruel
The upstairs room
The kitchen and the Sketcher
The Mill Pond
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A mix of Flying Tadpole, Tim Fatchen, and performances of The Internet Opera.
Flying Tadpole has Blues, satire, light rock on offer.
Alter ego Tim Fatchen concentrates on new age/neoclassical, usually instrumental and keyboard based. Styles like: George Winston, Yanni, Enya.
The Internet Opera is musical and light opera, intended for performance with additional artists. Rocky Horror meets HMS Pinafore.
Flying Tadpole has Blues, satire, light rock on offer.
Alter ego Tim Fatchen concentrates on new age/neoclassical, usually instrumental and keyboard based. Styles like: George Winston, Yanni, Enya.
The Internet Opera is musical and light opera, intended for performance with additional artists. Rocky Horror meets HMS Pinafore.
Why this name?
We thought we'd float the idea, but were impressed with the soaring speed. Flying Tadpole started as a boat and became a frame of mind. www.flyingtadpole.com
Do you play live?
Tim Fatchen is back to playing live, as a repetiteur for local choir/singing groups with baroque through to late 1950's repertoire, and community musical theatre.
"Like it" doesn't quite match...I needed the discipline to force me to get my keyboard technique (and sightreading) back up to where it should be.
Special moments: the very first gig with the Alexandrina Singers: I'd been with the choir a week: no piano at the venue: no stage piano: had to use my keyboard with a _borrowed_ amp, incidentally a Fender Sidekick bass amp. Didn't kill anyone with the first chord but I'm sure bats fell dead onto the ceiling.
Flying Tadpole and its blues precursor hasn't played live since the mid 70's, sigh.
"Like it" doesn't quite match...I needed the discipline to force me to get my keyboard technique (and sightreading) back up to where it should be.
Special moments: the very first gig with the Alexandrina Singers: I'd been with the choir a week: no piano at the venue: no stage piano: had to use my keyboard with a _borrowed_ amp, incidentally a Fender Sidekick bass amp. Didn't kill anyone with the first chord but I'm sure bats fell dead onto the ceiling.
Flying Tadpole and its blues precursor hasn't played live since the mid 70's, sigh.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
More variety, more ease of exposure,more opportunity, more access, more audience, less money (but 5 outta 6 ain't bad). Also more trash'n'crap, including some of my own, but it's easy to sift through and you're not stuck with it.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Original answer: Yes, but they'd have to be desperate!
Subsequent answer: Yes, but I'd have to be desperate too!
Current answer: But I'll settle for backing music work!
On the other hand, any possible production of The Internet Opera....
Subsequent answer: Yes, but I'd have to be desperate too!
Current answer: But I'll settle for backing music work!
On the other hand, any possible production of The Internet Opera....
Your influences?
Just about everything other than an abiding hatred of cowboy songs. Though even there I'm not wholly consistent ("rollin' rollin' rollin'..."). Classical, church, rock, pop, new age, and English, anglo-celtic and north American folk, some jazz, with blues as relaxation.
Equipment used:
custom 2.8 GHz 1GB Pentium with Audiophile 2496 soundcard, running Notation Composer for input, writing and music editing, and sundry Steinberg programs and Cakewalk Music Creator for production; feeding either or all, a Medeli SP-1 stage piano 88 weighted keys, a Medeli MC-710 76 key GM keyboard (better sounds than the preceding, but not the piano feel), an antique Yamaha PSR-310, various soundfonts. Acoustic:
John Brinsmead & Sons 6'6" string boudoir grand piano, ca1880, with a Tascam master recorder (tape), two Sennheiser m200 mics. Newer material uses Garritan Personal Orchestra, Bandstand also.
And assorted crap incluing my eBay guitar, so bad I haven't recorded anything with it yet...
John Brinsmead & Sons 6'6" string boudoir grand piano, ca1880, with a Tascam master recorder (tape), two Sennheiser m200 mics. Newer material uses Garritan Personal Orchestra, Bandstand also.
And assorted crap incluing my eBay guitar, so bad I haven't recorded anything with it yet...
Anything else...?
Notation Composer from www.notation.com is a truly magic notation program, and midi sequencer/writer for those who use musical notation in an everyday sense. It doesn't have all the whistles of the big boys but it's close, and an intuitive interface! Thanks Mark! AND it keeps getting better. AND it didn't require my bank manager's signature to buy it. New edition out shortly!