My new studio project needs a title. If you can think of one, please send me an e-mail and if I will use your idea, you will be rewarded with a copy of all music in this project. Copyright of all music and scores on this page belongs to Peter Batink.
I'm still familiarizing myself with the sound of this complex instrument and making multiple mixes to learn what works best for the instrument and the song.
Originally being a guitarist, I started to compose and play different songs with different chord progressions, more characteristic to keyboard. Based on a combo of piano, double bass and drums, accompanied by a tenor lead sax, it's almost easy to create melodies following these chord progressions. My late father Dries Batink played the piano, in his very unique self-taught way and in his honour I bought a new Yamaha P-105B digital piano. That decision triggered this new studio project. I wrote all songs in august-september 2015.
The opening song of the project is a ballad named "Walk of Life", a song like a TV show. We zap through the path of life and look at it in many different and sometimes unexpected angles.
The song "Traffic" moves like a riverboat to an unknown place just to find out you have to be in the next place for the real adventure.
"The Circus" is a nightclub style shuffle that describes the magic between a live performer and his audience. I´m particularly proud of the song´s intro and wayward sax tune.
Next I tried to capture the daily routine at "The Office" in a song. A typewriter (listen to the intro hi-hat) might not be an up-to-date office device, still it triggers the right emotion.
The next song is "Dance". No complications, it simply expresses the energy of being happy.
The final song of the project is "Never too late". It's a statement that it's never too late to change, even if you already failed to do so a thousand times before.