Past Event
Album Launch: Major Chord's Transition
31st Aug 2013
Presenter: Dan Flynn
Website: http://www.majorchord.net/
Event Duration: 150 minutes
Major Chord, aka songwriter/producer Dan Flynn, is no longer a musical hermit. He has invited a whole bunch of people into his weird little world to create Transition.
After releasing his superbly underrated debut album in 2007, Dan got married, became a father and started a job as a social worker. Some might have thought his musical output would wane…it didn’t. Instead he transformed his garage into a home studio and recorded, produced, sampled and performed almost every single note on Major Chord’s next two albums - The Rabbit Hole (2009) and the highly praised Psychic Civil War (2011).
The ‘transition’ began with the sudden death of Dan’s father and the fortuitous meeting of new musical companions; multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Meabh Friel, drummer Aaron Pepper (International Karate) and bass player Phil Collings (Sophie Koh, The Guild League). Dan wrote new songs and the band brought new energy, new meanings and a powerful new sound. After receiving a grant from Arts Victoria they blazed into Newmarket Studios with engineer Callum John Barter (Dan Sultan, You am I) to create, what is undoubtedly, Major Chord’s most important piece of work to date.