Sunday, September 25, 2011

Paul McClelland-Collage (fall, 2011)


This collection of songs is the 1st full series of music completed using my 24 track digital recorder, which allows me to record 24 bit WAV. files, giving the music more headroom, more air, or in other words, more room to breathe. The tracks feel fuller, wider, and the use of 24 tracks gives me more room in the sound to create more expanded arrangements, something I was somewhat limited in doing with the previous 8-track. As is usually the case, all songs are written, performed, mixed and post production mastered by the Hermit of Rogers Ave. I took the above photograph at the Museum of Art in Denver CO when Susan and I were there in the summer of 2011.

Individual selections can be listened to on your computer by simply clicking on the song you wish to hear on the jukebox. I understand that there may also be a desire to burn a hard copy of this music to CD. Simply go to the jukebox, click on 'share', then 'link to mp3'. A song list will appear below. Just highlight the song you want downloaded, and click 'download' to save each song individually to your desktop or designated folder. Once all the selections have been downloaded, you can burn a CD and enjoy the music on the playback unit of your choice.

01) Heavy Storm Today (P. McClelland)
02) Morning Stars (P. McClelland)
03) I Wanted You to Know (P. McClelland)
04) Misery and Joy (P. McClelland)
05) Bogue Chitto (P. McClelland)
06) Sometimes I Feel I've Lost My Way (P. McClelland)
07) Summer Cools into Autumn (P. McClelland)
08) Robin Meade (P. McClelland)
09) What That Noise Be (P. McClelland)
10) I'm Getting By (P. McClelland)


Saturday, September 24, 2011


Griffin-McClelland at the 2nd annual VNA Labor Day Wine & Music Festival at the Big House, Macon, GA. Sept, 2011.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

PAUL SEZ...


Individual selections can be listened to on your computer by simply clicking on the song you wish to hear on the jukebox. I understand that there may also be a desire to burn a hard copy of this music to CD. Simply go to the jukebox, click on 'share', then 'link to mp3'. A song list will appear below. Just highlight the song you want downloaded, and click 'download' to save each song individually to your desktop or designated folder. Once all the selections have been downloaded, you can burn a CD and enjoy the music on the playback unit of your choice.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Paul McClelland-On The Beach (Summer, 2011)


This is a collection celebrating the music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Not so much their hits, but some of the deeper album tracks that slowly worked their way into my brain and became some of my favorites. It's summer, which I think is the perfect time to compile a tribute to their fun, light, upbeat music, and I hope you will enjoy this set of tunes for many summers to come. All instruments, vocals, mixing and post-production mastering by Paul McClelland.

1) Meant For You (B. Wilson-M. Love)
2) Honkin Down the Highway (B. Wilson)
3) With Me Tonight (B. Wilson)
4) Roller Skating Child (B. Wilson)
5) I'm Broke (B. Wilson)
6) It's OK (B. Wilson-M. Love)
7) Shortenin Bread (trad)
8) That Same Song (B. Wilson)
9) God Please Let Us Go On This Way (B. Wilson-M. Love)
10) Back Home (B. Wilson)
11) Little Pad (B. Wilson)
12) Airplane (B. Wilson)
13) Wind Chimes (B. Wilson)
14) Well, You're Welcome (B. Wilson)


Sunday, May 29, 2011

Paul McClelland & Friends-The Dream Pop Project (Spring, 2011)

Dream Pop. The essence of the music is a focus on ethereal textures and moods, rather than on propulsive rock riffs. Breathy, high-register female vocals or almost whispered male vocals are usually the means of lyrical delivery; lyrics are generally introspective and existential in nature. Cover art tends to consist of blurry pastel imagery and/or stark minimalist designs.
With that description in mind, I began "The Dream Pop Project", one of the final collections recorded and mixed on the Tascam 8-track workstation in my home studio.
Many of the songs are written and performed entirely by me, from the drums and bass, to the layered guitars, keyboards and vocals. I am also the sole mixer, and was responsible for all post-production.
The three collaborations at the end of the collection were made possible via internet file transfers, with friends from as far away as Germany and the U.K. able to download a section of music I was working on, add to it, and send it back to me. So musical colleagues from around the globe helped "An Everlasting Dream" become a bit of a sonic nightmare during the middle section, and soundfile exchanges also allowed "The Seven Stars" to become a celestial space jam.
Individual selections can be listened to on your computer by simply clicking on the song you wish to hear on the jukebox. I understand that there may also be a desire to burn a hard copy of this music to CD. Simply go to the jukebox, click on 'share', then 'link to mp3'. A song list will appear below. Just highlight the song you want downloaded, and click 'download' to save each song individually to your desktop or designated folder. Once all the selections have been downloaded, you can burn a CD and enjoy the music on the playback unit of your choice.

1) Child of the Dawn (P. McClelland)
2) Part of me, Part of You (P. McClelland)
3) This or That (P. McClelland)
4) Days Like These (P. McClelland)
5) Dreams Continue On (P. McClelland)
6) Insanity (P. McClelland)
7) Everybody Wanted (P. McClelland)
8) Just One (P. McClelland)
9) Endless (P. McClelland-C. Geayer)
10) An Everlasting Dream (P. McClelland-S. Dick)
11) The Seven Stars (P. McClelland-P. Simmons)




Sunday, March 6, 2011

An Irish Souvenir-Griffin-McClelland (spring, 2011)



The image above is a large celtic design in stained glass, which covers the entire lower window of our dining room, created and given to Susan and me as a wedding gift by Lenora Griffin, my mother in law. The songs below are some of our favorite Irish tunes which we present as a soundtrack for your St. Patrick's Day celebration for 2011.

"May you be buried in a casket made from the wood of a 100 year old oak tree, which I intend to plant tomorrow."


1. Bogie's Bonnie Belle


2. The Croppy Boy


3. Song for Ireland


4. The Wild Rover


5. Muirshin Durkin


6. The Nobleman's Wedding


7. Love is Teasing


8. The Rambler from Clare


9. The Star of the County Down


10. Raglan Road


11. My Match it was made


12. Rose Connolly


13. The Wind and Rain


14. The Foggy Dew


15. Danny Boy


16. Carrickfergus


17. The Rose of Tralee


18. The Patriot Game


19. Kilkelly