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Audio Samples 1973 -
2009, with notes
on my own contributions where appropriate. Most of the earlier mp3 samples
are at the fairly low resolution of 64k. The later ones are 128k or 160k. This is to facilitate streaming on older or slower
systems and the sound quality is quite compromised. Please bear in mind that the original wave files have a MUCH better sound quality!
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Paul Daly x-andra - Bay of Love Bach Sinfonia Cantata 29 midi & mp3
Peggy's Leg - Grinilla Skid Row
Jimi Slevin Band Home to the Heart
Male Order
McNeela & the Boys Karl-Heinz Maisel
Eamon Toland Barney Rushe
Bachelors Walk Live!
BW - Train to Galway Michael Lynch
Wulli & Co. Heinz Pöhlmann
Freeflight
Sinfonia to Cantata Nr. 29 - JS Bach.
Here's a great midifile of Bach's Sinfonia to Cantata Nr. 29. If you have a midi editing facility,
you'll have great fun playing around with this, and trying it out with different instruments. It's a wonderful piece of
music. This is only the Sinfonia to one of Bach's cantatas. He wrote perhaps over 400 of them, which amounts to an hour
of brilliant music every week for the years he was cantor and musical director of the St. Thomas church in Leipzig in the 1720s. A little more than 200 have survived. Bach died in relative poverty, having struggled most of his life to make ends meet for his large family. Most of his works were seldom if ever performed during his lifetime.
I have also included an mp3 (5mB 120k) example of my studio's sequencing and midi sampling capabilities. Here,
I haves substituted the lead organ voice with a concert grand. This seems to work nicely and gives a pleasant percussive
feel to the melody. Many of the other instruments have also been changed around. I stress that this is purely an example
of my studio set-up and my own taste in how I feel this might alternatively sound. It is not meant to be taken seriously!
If you like what you hear get the original, or better still, hear it played in concert.
The Sinfonia is included because I used to play it live on guitar with the Jimi Slevin Band back in the late '70s, and the band were excellent musicians and did a great job of it. Unfortunately there are no surviving recordings. The JSB [see below] also played Bach's famous Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite which was included on the EMI 'Getting There' album. The full mp3 [64k] download of Bach's Air below will give you an idea how the Sinfonia sounded back then.
Nearly 300 years after it was written, this wonderful and inspired work is a shining example of Bach's genius
in composition and orchestration.
x-andra.
(late '2008)
This should give you a fair idea of what to expect from the forthcoming
x-andra & Jimi CD. This is only a demo of the song. It will sound much
better when it's finished and mastered.
 x-andra is an
inspired musician from Ireland who writes and records her own music at home using a midi keyboard and multitrack computer software. In a previous incarnation she has mixed live sound for a host of acts including Chuck Berry, Ronnie Scott, Eric Clapton, The Boomtown Rats, Paul Brady, The
Chieftains, Alan Stivell, Janis Ian, Don Everly AND The Jimi Slevin Band! She also lectured at Queen's
University Belfast before retiring to concentrate on music & sailing. x-andra recently visited Riteroad Music Studio to give a selection of her music the finishing touch.
Bay of Love features myself on guitar and Dave MacHale on
percussion - x-andra did all the rest. She is currently in Australia writing
songs and recuperating after a short illness. Not only a very talented lady but one of the nicest people I have had the pleasure to work with, I wish x-andra every happiness and success in the future. You can contact her through this website.
Bay of Love (x-andra)
Paul
Daly
A Cry From the Heart
When a Flower Dies
Exploration
Seven Gypsies
The Jimi Slevin Band ('77)
 These tracks were recorded in Dublin in '77 and have been cleaned up and digitally remastered. Versions of some of them appeared on the EMI album 'Jimi Slevin & Firefly - Getting There'. This music shows clearly that The Jimi Slevin Band was quite a force to be reckoned with back then, and that our music stands the test of time. I plan to make a CD of the JSB available later this year.
Jimmy Gibson must be commended for his tasteful background fills & chord structures throughout, and particularly on the Bach Air. The line-up: myself - lead & acoustic guitars, vocals & backing vocals, Brian Despard - drums & percussion, Jimmy Gibson - guitars & backing vocals, Micky Hanway - bass guitar on 3, 4 & 5, Dermot Kerins - bass guitar on 1 & 2, Trevor Knight - keyboards on 1.
1. Magical Lady (Gibson arr. Slevin)
2. Eternal Crown (Slevin/Gibson)
3. Zodiac (Gibson /arr. Slevin)
4. Bach's Air From The 3rd Orchestral Suite (complete download. JS Bach arr. Slevin/Gibson)
Skid Row ('76) The line-up here was Brush Shiels - bass guitar, mandolin and lead vocals, Nollaig Bridgeman & Timmy Creedon - drums, percussion and vocals, and myself on lead guitar and vocals. Philip Begley was the engineer. These samples came from an old scratched up, worn out 45
and although I have managed to squeeze a bit of quality out of it with my digital mastering setup, and apart from showing in no uncertain terms that this was indeed a world class rock band, they bear no comparison to the great sound of the original recordings.
The Spanish Lady (trad arr. Skid Row)
Elvira (Brush Shiels)
Jimi Slevin - Freeflight ('82)
Summer
The Children Of Lir
White Cottage
Lords Of The Rocks
Jimi Slevin - Home To The Heart (2000)
Keem Bay
We Got Guns
Gem
Peggy's Leg - Grinilla ('73)
Formed by myself and Don Harris in Dublin in the spring of 1973 after I returned from the US and also featuring
Jimmy  Gibson, Vincent Duffy and later John Brady, the band was an overnight success on the Irish rock scene.
Within a year we appeared in Dublin's National Stadium as best new band, with myself and Don winning
Best Guitarist and Best Drummer awards in the local New Spotlight polls. Our only album, Grinilla,
is widely recognized as a classic of '70s progressive rock - see Reviews. The original recording has
been digitally remastered and critically well received, being compared favorably to Yes and Emerson,
Lake & Palmer. Grinilla is now back in the hands of the band, our licensing arrangement with Kissing Spell records
having expired in late 2005. We are currently offering a remastered and improved CD package including more
previously unheard material plus the 1973 William Tell/Brown Ox single A & B sides.
Please contact this website: info@jimi-slevin.net for further details.
History Tells
Variations For Huxley
Male Order Live ('84)
Recorded live in Dublin back in '84 on a tiny cassette machine and cleaned up as much as possible in my studio, these are samples from this, the only surviving recording of that talented outfit. The line-up: Benny White - lead vocals & guitar, Jack Costello - bass guitar & backing vocals, Greg Donaghy - drums, myself - lead guitar & vocals. Benny White has been in contact and has sent
a pic of the band, through his brother Joe, which you can see by clicking on the thumb [left]. Joe has kindly also sent a great pic of Benny's original band, Elmer
Fudd, together with Phil Lynott, Nicky Ryan, roadie Pete Selwood [who later worked with Alyce in America] and the famous Terry O' Neill, which was originally a b/w photo and which he has cleverly changed to
colour. The pic firstly appeared on the internet on this website. Thanks to Joe. Fudd
Something of interest to Thin Lizzy fans - this is the same Benny White who in ‘73 recorded the Funky Junction album with Phil
Lynott, Brian Downey, Eric Bell and keyboard player Dave ‘Mojo’ Lennox, who was leader of the great 'Uptown Band' from the early days of the Dublin group scene. The album was titled 'A Tribute To Deep Purple' and is something of a rarity these days.
With A Little Help From My Friends
I Believe To My Soul
The Midnight Hour (With special guest Eamonn Gibney)
Something's Happening Here (great fun)
I Feel Good!
McNeela And The Boys
Selection Of Reels - Peter Corbett played the fiddles, Tiny played guitar and bodhrán and I played the bass.
Viva La Quinte Brigada - Here I scored the brass section, played bass & keyboards and added some acoustic guitar licks. There's a memorial to Tommy Patton and his Irish comrades who fought and died in the Spanish civil war near
Dooega on Achill Island. Driving past that windswept spot after a gig late one night I stopped the car, got the guitar out,
and sang the song for Tommy & his comrades with the howling wind and roaring sea adding a fitting backdrop.
Eamon Toland
That's My Home -The jazzy feel to the guitar solo hopefully shows that my style is not limited to folk & rock. That's my old friend and ex-Boomtown Rats keyboards wizard Dave MacHale on piano & rhythm section programming. Dave is currently based in Frankfurt and can be contacted through this website. If you're looking for someone who can REALLY
program bass and drums as well as playing a mean keyboards, Dave's your man. info@jimi-slevin.net
Black Is The Color - This tasteful keyboards 'pink oboe' solo is an example of how I can find and implement
just the right sound and colour to give your song that extra touch.
Barney Rushe
Aishling - I'm featured here on mandolin & bass guitar.
Born Again Strangers - One of my more solid contributions on electric guitar, bass and backing vocals,
and some nice pedal steel licks from Alfred Höller.
The Boy From Eblana - Here I played bass guitar, electric guitar and sang backing vocals.
Bachelors Walk Live!
Salamanca Set
As I Roved Out
Brian O'Connor Solo (two self-penned reels)
Bachelors Walk - Train To Galway
Spancil Hill (with the great Chris Jones)
Planxty Johnson (solo guitar piece)
Give Us A Life (complete download)
Michael Lynch
Cold Blow In The Rainy Night
The Banks Of Red Roses
Wulli & Co
Just For You
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Heinz Pöhlmann from the CD 'Nürnberg' (late '90s)
One time front man with the excellent Nürnberg-based band Saitenspinner and an old friend of Karl & the boys, Heinz is a prolific singer/songwriter and has penned many a classic in the German language. This is an example of his writing and is the title track of the Saitenspinner CD 'Nürnberg'. I am featured here on 12 string guitar and guitar synth [the flute solo] and was also involved
in post production on this CD which features a fine string quartet arrangement by Lenny Napier from Liverpool who is now based in Stuttgart, and was recorded at
Lothar Schrems' much recommended Power Station studio in Cadolzburg, Germany.
Nürnberg
www.heinz-poehlmann.de
Karl-Heinz Maisel (late '90s)
 Karl is bass player and singer with Saitenspinner [silk or strings weaver in English] and is an old friend of
Heinz Pöhlmann. He recorded this version of the Richard Marx hit, spontaneously arranged by himself
and myself on the night as a birthday present for his lady. Karl sang and played bass guitar, while I added
nylon string acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboards voices & strings.
A quick but nicely different result.
Waiting For You
www.saitenspinner.com
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