“From the build up of the strings, blending staccato attacks with sweeping parts, the two percussionists competing, the layered parts of the bass and drums, it’s just astonishing. Great work, great song, just brilliant!”
– Michael Lind of The Blindfold Experience
It’s a new departure for A Band Called Paul as we boss the bossanova – in an indie way – on our brand new release “SLOW TRAIN”.
It’s somewhat of an indie homage to Henry Mancini.
“Indie Lounge”, if you will.
With a texture of sweeping strings, fluttering woodwind and soulful saxophone sitting atop a swinging upright bass and loose bossanova drum groove, the retro feel of the track’s hook is blended with a distinctly indie layer of chunky hand percussion and some ripping guitar.
While browsing through the archives here, we came across this original demo version of our album track “Pass It On”.
This version has a completely different feel and arrangement to the final album version, being more jazzy swing in vibe and with lighter instrumentation. But we though there was something special about it and we decided to polish it up a little and release it.
Hope you like it as much as we do.