Released February 26th by Infrequent Seams and Clandestine Label Services, McGolrick is a genre defying album and animated film. Find below: press, music videos and the album’s full credits and liner notes.
Press
Cannon’s free-associative chamber-pop/prog rock daydream, anything is likely to bob to the surface”
— Let’s Call This
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A true master piece...never heard an album like this before”
— Backseat Mafia
“A universal soundtrack of the mind. Picasso on parade.”
“A true master piece...never heard an album like this before” ”
““Cannon proves that he’s well versed in just about any category of music””
““an ingenious blend of styles, formats and creative ways of interpreting Jazz.””
““In Cannon’s free-associative chamber-pop/prog rock daydream, anything is likely to bob to the surface””
music videos
“exciting, dramatically complex ”
“Ing Right I” Music Video
“Breathless, exciting, brilliant music.”
It’s hard to say much about this music without getting into all the technical detail involved in writing it. But the truth is no one would care about that shit, nor should they. I often think of something a friend said about composing, “the science is only a means to the soul.” So, with that in mind, I’ll just say this:
I’ve noticed a couple of trends in the arts recently: a romanticizing of the past or an obsession with the future. I avoided both. This was inspired by a day to day reality of writing, thinking and listening to the sounds of a small neighborhood in Brooklyn. It takes place not far from Long Island City, around a loud but lovely little area called McGolrick Park. My sister, Devin, lives at the south end of the park and I live at the southeast corner - next to the preschool - with my new wife, Kayo. My friend Derek lives here too, probably in the actual park itself. I'm not sure. It begins after the 2016 election and it comes to an end now, during the pandemic in New York, but it’s got little to do with all that. It's more like this...
Before the virus, the preschool kids would scream relentlessly... endlessly... all day. It was like spiders on my brain. They made me so sleep deprived that I began finding myself drunk on a bench in the park, surrounded by joggers. I’d focus on traffic noise, play voicemails on repeat, scramble sentences in my mind, blare radio static. I’d do anything to get their shrieks out of my head. They drove me fucking nuts.
And then came this storm that washed them all away.
As I write this, the kids are all gone. Derek is hiding out there in the park somewhere. Kayo went back to Japan to tend to her family. We were married the day before she left. Devin was our only witness. She left shortly after. There’s this stillness in the neighborhood. I have this recurring dream of Kayo waking me up each morning, but I sleep well now. The only noise left is the faint sound of the Long Island Railroad in the distance. It still runs every day. It’s a beautiful reverberation, and it’s heard best from the west side of McGolrick.
-Colin 4/18/2020
Album Credits:
Compositions: All music composed and arranged by Colin Cannon -with the exception of references to "You Are My Sunshine," popularized by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell in the 1940s and said to be written by Paul Rice or Oliver Hood in the 1930s.
Instrumentation: *There are no “fake instruments” of any kind used. Everything that sounds human, is indeed human.
Hideaki Aomori (clarinets and flute)
CJ Camerieri (trumpet. Track 1, 3, 6, 12)
Rob Moose (violin and viola)
Gabriel Cabezas (cello)
Colin Cannon (guitars, electronics, vocals, mandolin, glockenspiel and hand percussion. electric bass: track 8, 11)
Devin Collins (drums)
Derek Van Wormer (electric bass: tracks 2, 5, 6, 7. upright bass: tracks 1, 3, 9. vocals: track 11)
Marcos Varela (electric bass: tracks 3 & 12)
Madison Stratton (vocals)
Devin Dunne Cannon (vocals)
Jesse Fischer (piano)
Dave Carkner (flugelhorn. trumpet: tracks 10, 11, 12. vocals: tracks 3, 11)
Engineering: Recorded at Samurai Hotel Recording Studio in Queens, NY - RIRO Muzik in Brooklyn, NY - and by members of yMusic and Colin Cannon @ Colin Cannon’s studio in Brooklyn, NY. First mixes by Jesse Fischer with Colin Cannon @ Electrik Indigo Sound in Brooklyn, NY. Final levels by Colin Cannon. Mastered by Nate Wood in Queens, NY.
Sound Design: *There are no keyboard synths or any other standard electronic instruments used. All electronic sounds were either performed by Colin Cannon with the use of effect pedals, or digitally designed through sound synthesis of personal voicemails and other home phone recordings. All samples are direct off an old AM radio or from the above mentioned voicemails with the exception of You Are My Sunshine, recorded by Jimmie Davis in 1940.
Artwork: Collage and general designs by Colin Cannon. All illustrations by Kayo Cannon. All graphic Design by Bart Mol.
Animation/Videos: All animation and video editing by Colin Cannon.
Produced by Colin Cannon
© Colin Cannon 2021 (BMI)
Special Thanks to Glen Abbott and Mat Craig
Additional thanks to Derek Van Wormer and Devin Collins; to all the amazing musicians involved; to the Cannon family and the Yamada family; to Steve Greene, Bob Sneider, Shafer Mahoney and Suzanne Farrin; to Kayo Cannon and Bart Mol; to all my friends and students; and a big thanks for the generous contributions from: Francis Farinacci, Manami and Zak (the Croxalls), Tom Aten, Denise and John McLaughlin, Lior Chetboun, Tim and Carolyn Hoffman, Ray O’Connor, Kevin Walter, Caitlin Navor, Corey Cannon, Adam Cumiskey, Mark and Katie Jeffries, Kim Cherry, Eli Harrigan, Ancelmo James, Jason Mead and Jon Cohen.
