God's Wonderful Railway

ODH · April 28, 2013, 10:37:12 AM

So here is a piece which I first wrote and recorded around 20 years ago in the early 90's. For a long time it had no title, just known as "bounces along keys". Lately I've been toying with the idea of rerecording it. Then a couple of weeks ago I was watching James May's Man Lab (a fine show). He had an article which featured an old Great Western Railway steam train. I thought to myslef "God's Wonderful Railway", that would make a good title for a song - hang on a minute, it would make a good title for this song.

This is a newly recorded version, all sounds from my Boss DR-5. Add a few suitable sound clips from my chums on Freesound.org and we're good to go.

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In the spirit of the attribution licence these clips were put up under;

Thanks to Acclivity on Freesound.org for the steam train sample at the start of the clip.

Thanks to Gadzooks on Freesound.org for the chuffuing train clip at the end.

Thanks also to Bidone on Freesound.org for the steam whislte clip in the middle.

Train Fest!!!

cuthbert · April 28, 2013, 11:09:11 AM

It's got a cool Motown-ish vibe that I really like - wasn't really expecting that, but it works perfectly with the theme. Driving piano chords, and the percussion really adds the right amount of chug.