YouTubeDAVE GRIFFITHS & TIM RENWICK // DAWN RETURNING
I first came across Tim’s guitar playing by watching Pink Floyd’s Pulse live video over and over again as a teenager. Being the geek that I am, I found out what I could about the session musicians involved and discovered that Tim had played all over a favourite Elton John album of mine, ‘A Single Man’, and also supplied sublime parts to Richard Wright’s 1996 solo album, ‘Broken China’, which I loved.
Fast forward 20 plus years and I met Tim through guitar-making genius, Tom Gray. After we connected on Facebook, I summoned the courage to ask Tim whether he’d consider playing on something of mine. This was just as I was developing my new emphasis on ambient and instrumental music using real sound recorded with a new piece of equipment I had bought.
I had tracked the dawn chorus whilst on a weekend break in north Dorset and put some basic programming around it which I sent to Tim. Tim recorded his guitar parts at home in Cornwall and sent them back to me. Grant Howard provided additional keys from Canada and then David Evans mixed it, with Pete Maher mastering.
What results is a 7 minute ode to dawn and the beauty of our indigenous British birdsong. I hope you enjoy it.