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Phoenix Hand: Carrying The Message: featuring Charlie Swartwood on Trumpet and Grace Swartwood on Piano

from Flavours of Inspiration: Best of 2014​-​2015 Mixtape by Nathan McKay

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Carrying The Message was written after seeing a drawing by Adam Boshart with a firey Phoenix bursting out of a hand. Adam would make art beside me at Revel while I worked on my music. My best friend Kevin who currently lives in the UK and plays in the band Bright City asked me to record his dad playing four notes on trumpet and email him the results for a song he was writing. I went over to his parents house and did just that, but I thought if I am bringing all my gear over to their house to record, I am doing more than four notes. I turned this into an opportunity to work on a song for Kevin's birthday that was quickly nearing. I wanted to surprise him and do a song with his parents that pushed their musical boundaries. Charlie is the Pastor at Bethel Pentecostal and the current Police Chaplain in Stratford. Charlie and Grace are accustomed to playing Hymns at church on trumpet and organ. I wanted to push them towards Jazz Fusion, Jungle, and Bossa Nova sounds. It was a stretch, but they met the challenge making some of the most unlikely music coming from them along side my mad musical vision.

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from Flavours of Inspiration: Best of 2014​-​2015 Mixtape, released November 27, 2015
Recorded at Revel Caffe and The Rev Studio

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Nathan McKay Stratford, Ontario

Nathan McKay is from Stratford ON Canada. He is an eclectic artist musician that considers himself more of a Sound Painter and Improviser. He loves beauty in dissonance. He loves playing out of time signatures and keys as it can be limiting. He takes you on a journey around the world through various genres he fancies and loves to play. When he's not recording, he is usually promoting other artists ... more

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