Helping a Family in Croatia

One of the great things about the Creative Commons license that we use on music2work2, is that it enables other media creators to easily use our music in their projects. Last week we got a request from a Croatian channel asking if they could use the music from Irene to highlight the problems that a local family are facing after their house burned down last year.

If like us you don't speak or read Croatian, the family in the video lost everything in a terrible fire more than a year ago. They were put into an absolute ruin of a house without flowing water and just one room that is safe from collapse and that can be heated. Apparently they have been forgotten by social services in Croatia so a number of independent artists have got together to raise awareness of their plight. Video's like this are used to get people interested in helping them out.

If you would like to use music2work2 in a project - give us a shout

2007 - People 2

Continuing the development around individual personalities - it's ironic that this album starts with a track called Identification.

Identification is a very chilled out string heavy piece, Lally and Emma's Numbers are both solo piano developments and Irene and Marsha both have additional voicings.

Click on the track title for liner notes, longer streams and 5 minute sample mp3s.

Identification (14:13)[audio:id2.5.mp3 | titles=Identification|artists=music2work2]
Lally (15:21)[audio:lallydev2.5.mp3 | titles=Lally |artists=music2work2]
Emma's Numbers (14:30)[audio:emmasnumbers2.5.mp3 | titles=Emma's Numbers |artists=music2work2]
Irene (13:49)[audio:irene2.5.mp3 | titles=Irene |artists=music2work2]
Marsha (18:56)[audio:marsha2.5.mp3 | titles=Marsha |artists=music2work2]

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Irene - 13 minutes 49 seconds

Piano and dramatic strings, written for Irene

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I love writing music about people; I find it to be one of the most stimulating approaches to composition. People touch me in so many different ways, they create emotions and memories, they are complex and my perception of them unique. Tapping into that part of my brain when I’m playing has always been a rich creative vein.

This track was written as a thank you to my Aunt Irene for looking after us when we were in Paris. My Uncle Dominic had passed away the previous year and it was the first time we had seen her since the funeral. The piece starts off incredibly sadly and yet by the midway has become dramatic and full of life – just like my wonderful Parisian Aunt.

The melody that comes in around 9 ½ minutes is possibly one of my favorite string passes in the entire music2work2 catalog to date.

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