Virtual Band
Focal Chords is a virtual band, an international musical collaboration. We make our music available for free listening, downloading and sharing under a Creative Commons licence.
Who’s involved?
See the credits for individual tracks to find out who did what. The band leader is David Hamill.
Free music!
We offer our recordings to you free because we want more people to enjoy our music. (Why do other bands make you pay?)
Permissions
Here’s what you’re allowed to do with our music. You can listen to it, copy it for your own purposes, and share it with anyone you like, provided you attribute it to Focal Chords. You’re not allowed to sample it or make derivative works of any kind. See the Creative Commons licence for full details. If you want to use our music in any other way (including sampling it, making your own version, using it for a soundtrack, or exploiting it commercially in any way), please contact us for permission.
Listen here
Play streaming audio or download MP3s:
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City of Gold The perils of life in the big city. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill.
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Tryte An instrumental piece. A trite little tune? Try it. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. Developed from an original musical idea by Robby Garner.
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Rundown After Sundown The title says it all. Well, all the lyrics anyway. This piece is mostly instrumental. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. Inspired by a four-bar sample from a piece by Robby Garner.
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The End She didn’t know she was going so fast. Reworking of an original tune by Robby Garner. Adapted, performed and produced by David Hamill; synth solo by Robby Garner.
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Wicked Things What a wicked thing are you. What a wicked thing am I. Melody and lyrics by Robby Garner. The rest by David Hamill.
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More coming soon!
Can I help?
Focal Chords seeks talented musicians (instrumentalists, vocalists, lyricists, composers etc) for collaboration on a one-off or continuing basis. If you like our music and you’re happy to work under the Creative Commons licence, please contact us.
Contact us
To contact us, email spam@focalchords.com, but change “spam” to “music”. :-)
We hate spam too, so we’ll never misuse your email address or pass it on to other organisations.
Licence
All
Focal Chords’ music is protected by copyright.
We grant you certain rights under a Creative Commons licence. This work is licenced under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works
3.0 Unported License.
Creative Commons licences are non-exclusive. The means that we may also license our work under a separate commercial licence where appropriate. If you want to use our music in ways not permitted by the Creative Commons licence, please contact us to discuss alternatives.
Willy Wonka quote?
“We are the music makers / And we are the dreamers of dreams” is indeed a quotation from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but Mr Wonka was himself quoting the poem Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy. For more, see this Wikipedia page.