Story: Picture wounded citizens in any number of countries being assisted by strangers mostly. Insurgents holding weapons in the background, people with their only possessions moving slowly up the streets and along the road from Pakistan to Afganistan, barely being missed by fast moving black SUV’s from America, but driven by who knows? The picture is sad, bleak, but the song brings out something universally hopeful and renewing, so that the little kids who are part of the scene will one day have some of the comforts we in Europe and the US, and artists in particular take for granted.
from
Trans Atlántica,
released May 16, 2012
Composed and arranged by Don Grusin (Publishing Don Grusin Music, BMI)
Recorded at The Lodge at Theydon Mount, Epping, Essex, & Bad Dog Studio, Boulder Colorado & Starlight Studio, Brentwood, California
Engineered by Don Grusin, Bill Sharpe, additional engineering Gary Lee
Instruments - Yamaha Motif, Korg Triton, Spectrasonics Stylus Loops and private library samples, Logic sounds and samples, Ivory Acoustic Piano, Scarbee Vintage Keys solo Bill Sharpe
Keyboard Instruments played and programmed by Don Grusin and Bill Sharpe, Violins - Charlie Bisharat, Flute - Elvis du Chez