Yearbook, by Adam Young

Yearbook

by Adam Young

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365 days; 365 new compositions.
For Adam Young, what started out as a writing exercise turned into a multi-faceted project, including a tunebook and a new double album featuring nearly 90 minutes of original music and over 50 musicians!

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Comes in a hardbound case. Features 16 pages of notes and stories, as well as full production credits

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Sheet Music
160 pages

Yearbook is a collection of original tunes composed by Cape Breton pianist Adam Young during a tune-a-day writing project. They were written on the piano but are suitable for fiddle and other instruments.

All of the tunes featured on the Yearbook double album are featured within this book, along with many compositions that have not previously been made available.

Each tune features chord suggestions for accompanists, and many tunes feature descriptions explaining the inspiration for the titles and melodies.

Features:
6 airs and waltzes
82 jigs and slip jigs
15 marches andstrathspeys
4 clogs and hornpipes
82 reels
10 tunes inalternate keys ... more

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1.	Forever Young 03:27	info	buy track
2.	Watch the Weather (feat. Andrew Tyne) 01:37	info	buy track
3.	Fuller's Bridge (feat. Crowdis Bridge) 03:43	info	buy track
4.	Eleanor's 03:55	info	buy track
5.	Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock 02:27	info	buy track
6.	Twirly (feat. Omar Tag, Rankin MacInnis and Kerdani) 03:39	info	buy track
7.	Midair 03:51	info	buy track
8.	Old Fashioned 03:50	info	buy track
9.	Corned Beef and Garbage 02:57	info	buy track
10.	Winter Sets In 03:02	info	buy track
11.	Peighinn nan Aoireann (feat. Belkolora) 04:20	info	buy track
12.	Forever Young (trad version) 03:26	info	buy track
13.	Watch the Weather (trad version) 03:34	info	buy track
14.	Fuller's Bridge (trad version) 06:05	info	buy track
15.	Eleanor's (trad version) 03:14	info	buy track
16.	Rev. Lloyd A. Murdock (trad version) 04:12	info	buy track
17.	Twirly (trad version) 04:28	info	buy track
18.	Midair (trad version) 06:30	info	buy track
19.	Old Fashioned (trad version) 04:16	info	buy track
20.	Corned Beef and Garbage (trad version) 07:44	info	buy track
21.	Winter Sets In (trad version) 04:38	info	buy track
22.	Peighinn nan Aoireann (trad version) 04:11	info	buy track

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Distilled from a tunewriting project which saw the composition of one new piece of music every day for a year, Yearbook is a unique double album featuring 37 original tunes played by 58 musicians. Features airs, jigs, marches, strathspeys, and reels, all rooted in the traditional style of music found on Cape Breton Island, with arrangements influenced by disco, doowop, New Orleans jazz, bluegrass, electronic, Scots traditional and more!

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released June 4, 2021

All tunes written and arranged by Adam Young except:
"Watch the Weather" arranged by Andrew Tyne; "Fuller's Bridge" arranged by Adam Young & Crowdis Bridge; "Twirly" arranged by Omar Tag; and "Corned Beef and Garbage" horns arranged by Brad Reid

Album design and layout: Adam Young
Yearbook title design and scroll: Fern Donovan (based on an upright Stanley piano, ca. 1920)

All compositions registered with SOCAN

Recorded by Mike Shepherd at Lakewind Sound in Point Aconi, Nova Scotia except:
Crowdis Bridge recorded by Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios in Sydney, Nova Scotia; the Musiversal Prague Orchestra recorded at Ceská televise in Prague, Czechia; Brent Chaisson's guitar recorded by Brent Chaisson at Studio Dimanche in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island; Jason Murdock's guitar recorded by Brent Rose at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyoming; Brad Reid's horns recorded by Scott Ferguson at Studio FMP in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; and at the home studios of Jason MacDonald (guitar - Sydney, Nova Scotia), Zach MacLean (guitars - Halifax, Nova Scotia), Alexey Chepyzhenko (cornet - Kharkiv, Ukraine), Omar Tag (electronic production and guitars - Sydney, Nova Scotia), and Mostafa El Kerdani (drums - Cairo, Egypt - Kerdani is endorsed by VicFirth)

This project is supported by funding from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency through the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative

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Adam Young Sydney, Nova Scotia

For the past two decades, Adam Young has been bringing his particular style of Cape Breton piano accompaniment to audiences around the world. Deeply rooted within the fiddle and bagpipe music tradition, the Cape Breton piano style has evolved over the past century, incorporating subtle elements of jazz and popular music, while still maintaining that unique “Cape Breton” sound. ... more

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discography

Yearbook

Jun 2021
Island

Jun 2019
The Lake Sessions

Jun 2017

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