Iain Morland | Music + Sound

Hello Megaman

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:27:53 +0000

Nintendo's Megaman. Alabama's Lionel Richie. Two classics of light entertainment, now melded for your listening enjoyment.

You'll need the free Flash player to hear the track, or you can click here to download it as an mp3 file (4.31mb).

Credits: Me - voice, mixing, production; Laura Gregory - backing vocals, production.

Incidentally, Lionel Richie's Hello was the first song I learned how to play on the keyboard.

Panther Track

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:50:43 +0000

Do you ever have a recurrence of things that happened years and years ago? Olga does.

"I remember seeing the panther's eyes on the bank..."

Click here to trap the panther in a 256kbps mp3 file.

Credits: I chopped up an interview with Olga about growing up in India, and I added music and sound design. The interview audio is used under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License from acclivity.

Ashes to Ashes (Pina Colada mix)

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:20:58 +0000

If Goblin King David Bowie had sipped a pina colada while recording his 1980 song Ashes to Ashes, it would perhaps have sounded like this.

Click here to download the track as a 256kbps mp3 file.

Credits: Laura Gregory - vocals; Sim Eckstein - guitar; Me - synths, spoken word, and mixing. The music is adapted from Garôta de Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

All That She Wants

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:12:11 +0000

Swedish popsters Ace of Base are the subjects of the next cover by Laura Gregory, Sim Eckstein and I.

All That She Wants is notable for its chilling line, "she's the hunter - you're the fox". Be afraid.

Click here to download the song as a 256kbps mp3 file.

Laura is on vocals, while Sim composed and performed several layers of guitar melodies; I programmed the drums and mixed the song. My thanks go to Ohm Force for the inspirational Ohmicide and Predatohm audio distortion effects, which helped us turn Europop into something far more dirty...

Sylvia Plath

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:32:39 +0000

Laura Gregory, Sim Eckstein and I have covered a ballad by Ryan Adams titled Sylvia Plath. We've made it strange.

Click here to download the song as a 192kbps mp3 file.

I played all the instruments, and Laura is on vocals; Sim co-wrote the arrangement, and was fantastically tolerant while Laura and I turned one of his favourite songs into something quite disturbing.

Lucky Lips

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:55:37 +0000

Together with Laura Gregory and Sim Eckstein, I've recorded a sinister cover version of Cliff Richard's song Lucky Lips.

Click here to download the song as a 192kbps mp3 file.

Laura is on vocals, and Sim plays acoustic and electric guitars. I played the bassline and mixed the recording.

Sim also plays in the band Contemporary Hampshire, whose MySpace page can be found here.

To get a flavour of Cliff's original performance of the song, you can listen to an excerpt here via Amazon.co.uk (RealPlayer format).

25% off Heliography

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:46:18 +0000

Salyris Studios is offering a 25% discount on Heliography mp3s - both the full album (now US$9.74) and individual tracks (now US$1.12).

Click here to visit the music store.

Search for the Springs of Kehlbet

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:47:36 +0000

My composition Skyward is the soundtrack to a trailer video for the community-made computer game Search for the Springs of Kehlbet.

Click here to download the video (4.8mb, wmv format).

You can also visit this page to read more about the game at the community forum.

All about Heliography

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:11:16 +0000

Over at Salyris Studios I've published an account of some of the many audio production tricks, techniques and equipment that I used while making my album Heliography.

Click here to read all about it.

Lunar Birds

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:13:03 +0000

I've created a new ambient track titled Lunar Birds, a companion to my earlier composition Ocean of the Sun.

Click here to listen (under 'free music samples') or here to download as a zipped mp3.

I'm grateful to Kong Audio for generously providing the ChineeNanxiao lead instrument.

'On the fifth day, we found ourselves in a forest of lunar birds...'