10 Cents above a beggar - Mark Gresty's Pappadom Songs
Release Date: 2012
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10 Cents above a beggar – Mark Gresty’s Pappadom Songs
First album from an experienced musician/song-writer is sophisticated pop for discerning listeners with a musical mixture of jazz, blues, Latin, folk and pop music and lyrics of an ironic, allusive nature on themes of maturity and worldly experience.
Genre: Rock: Adult Contemporary
Release Date: 2011
Credits
| Recorded | : Shakthi Studios, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Engineer | : Mahima Sooriyaarachchi |
| Mixed | : Mahima Sooriyaarachchi & Isuru Kumarasinghe |
| Musicians | : Mark Gresty : Guitars, bass, all vox (except where stated) Harshan Gallage : Drums Priyan Sandakelum :Guitar solos etc (tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10) Sarani Perera : Guitar solos etc (tracks 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12) Eshanta Joseph Pieris : Keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) Vishva Parahayapa : Alto sax (track 1) Isuru Kumarasinghe & Indrachapa Liyange : Backing vox (track 9) Mr Worst-Case Scenario (Chamath Mendis) & The Sex God (Senadhi Guruge) : Backing vox (track 12) |
| Saxes arranged | : Vishva and me |
| Guitar techery | : Billy Fernando |
| Thanks | : For help along the way, the guitar kings of Muscat: Damian D’Souza Robert D’Souza (no relation) Santhosh Chandran |
| For history | : Charlie McLenehan, Rick Durant, John Ellis, Dave Cook |
| For services to humanity | : Mahima Sooriyaarachchi (for making me sound almost like a singer) |
| For making this possible | : (The great Colombo musicians:) Harshan, Priyan, Sarani, Eshanta, Vishva without all of whom etc etc Isuru Kumarasinghe for unspecified but invaluable advice/help during recording. |
| Guitars | : Ibanez Artcore AF 105 (me and Priyan) Musicman Stingray (me) Fender Stratocaster (Sarani) K.Shankar |
| Photography | : Mazin Al Maimani– portraits of me.
Pot – Rashad Al Jamoudi |
| Sleeve design | : Me and Aarif Al Belushi |
| This CD is dedicated to Chamath for your love, support, belief in my lunacy and being the grit that irritated me into producing this. Without you this would never have happened.
Dedicated also to Tony and Brian Herriott and family. My life would have been very different without your help all those years ago. |
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