Track Listing
1. Theme 3
2. Thumper
3. Airs and Graces
4. Nothing to Do
5. The Road
6. A Day in the Wood MP3
7. First Tango in Catford
8. Over the Edge
9. You Got My Horn
10. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking…by Numbers
11. Angel’s Tears
12. Bad Mojo
13. Smallhand Blues
14. Good Mojo
15. The Final Bar
16. Tales from the Crib
17. Mousetrap
18. V2
19. Pisces Rising
20. The Eye of Orion
As you can imagine, if you’ve been recording for a number of years, you tend to amass quite a bit of material, some of which is hidden away in dusty cupboards. While doing some cleaning, I found such a stack of old tapes and had the idea to preserve this stuff onto CD for posterity. And so, “The B Team” was born, all the ideas that didn’t make it would have their day on this CD.
I think it covers the period 1994-1998, so there’s quite a lot of ground to cover. It even includes tunes that were created during my first synthesiser period in 1994. One thing I found was that tapes degrade and some of the mixes needed to be cleaned up. Again, the trusty PC came to my rescue and I found a number of software tools online that could help me restore the tracks.
What else is there to say? It’s a pretty dire CD but again you have to have some editorial control over your material. Stand out tracks for me include “A Day in the Wood” which sounds like it was recorded using real instruments but it wasn’t, “Angel’s Tears” which is a really nice ambient track and “Smallhand Blues”.

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