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Phil moves onto Tenor sax and Sandy Wright adds accordion, while i add some sound design imitating Whales and Dolphins with a slide and guitar.

Salmon can double their weight and size in a year feeding in the Atlantic Ocean. Phil may have put on a couple of pounds for this recording getting into character.

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The sea-bed fell away from them eventually, leaving only the great black depths below .
Stanley never felt the inclination to investigate the darkness beneath him.
At night, south of Greenland, he heard the whales singing for the first time.
Haunting the endless ocean with their old songs and calls to each other.
The Atlantic Drift carried their voices for miles.
Stanley and the shoal turned for the singing whales, further North towards the Arctic waters.
Away from the great factory ships and deep-sea trawlers that plumbed the ocean's depths.
North, where man was less in evidence.
Here Stanley found the waters clear and cold.
He found his new world rich and diverse in its many lifeforms.
He swam amongst the whales and basking sharks.
Gentle giants who seemed to revel in the company of other ocean-going
The size and majesty of the great ocean, eventually overwhelmed him, stretched his perception of life, humbled him.
Most of his family left the rich feeding grounds in favour of their river, after their first year in the ocean.Stanley continued to feed and frolic in the Ocean.
He resisted the call home for 3 years.
Gradually a larger shoal grew around him, a new family.
But the call did come from far off, he dreamt one night he could hear the song of the Rock Pool, echoing faintly through the vast ocean. lapping at his conscious soul.
under the flickering shafts of light, from an Arctic moon, Stanley and a thousand grilse began the journey south east , in pursuit of their life's challenge,
another generation. perpetuate the worlds diminishing supply of wild and natural salmon.

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from The Salmon​’​s Tail - Story and Music - J, released June 21, 2018
Phil Bancroft Tenor Sax
Kevin Murray Mandolin
John Rae Drums
Julio Pacheco Percussion
Sandy Wright Accordion

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Kevin Murray Dundee, UK

Composer, Musician, Songwriter - Tunesmith is shorter!
lives with a cat in a Glen in Scotland where the local wildlife tolerates and encourages students of Music.
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