NOVEMBER NEWS …

… and we have finished a new set of pieces.  Some of my recent library tracks and some new material has been collected together in a compilation called LAST BUS HOME; one of the tracks (WEARY) is now in the player.  The cover graphic is in progress and the music should be available from  iTunes in a week or so.  There are half-a-dozen pieces in this set and the late night bus mood pervades in its various shades.

I’ll post the cover in this site as soon as I have it.  We don’t really have an artists’ name for the set: it is not CHRONOMETER territory, nor really right for my concert music releases under my own name.  (A complication here with the fact that nowadays Artists’ names are more usually listed and searched for than Composers’, so the “David Stoll” title tends to be reserved for music which I don’t actually play myself but write on paper for others to perform – concert writing, what some people call modern classical.)  But we shall probably go for David Stoll – as this is, after all, my music.  Other artists appearing on the tracks are Steve Bingham, James Halsey and Howard McGill, and there is some brilliant drum programming by Jonas Persson, who also engineered most of the sessions.

And the style of LAST BUS HOME?  Concert influenced, but also very jazz influenced.  These pieces are actual musical statements, but easy to listen to and willing to take their polite place in the background of an evening’s conversation.  So a form of music which is not so common nowadays: the instrumental.