Irish composer, musician and retro-vintage aficionado Ger Eaton has released the video for his new song Phoenix (Reborn). Watch it here.
Ger was the keyboardist/guitarist for Dublin alt-rock band The Pale and has also played with Premonition, Las Vegas Basement, Les Marionettes, Pugwash, The Carnival Brothers and many solo and collaborative recordings.
Throughout this time, he also recorded and toured extensively with, among others, Mundy, Duke Special, Jack L and Fionn Regan, playing everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to Later . . . With Jools Holland.
Phoenix (Reborn) continues to explore Ger's fascination with retro 60s influenced chamber pop styles, first illustrated on his debut EP Three By Ger Eaton last November.
Speaking about the new track, Ger says, "So . . . although I never liked the sound of the Descant Recorder being played by thirty 10-year-old boys in my Dublin classroom back in the 1980's, I always had a liking for the recorder ensembles used in certain pop hits of the '60's.
"So, Phoenix (Reborn) began to form, I knew it was my time to bring the Recorder back once more! Working again with my great friends Duncan Maitland and Sean Coleman, we drew on our combined love of all things 'Acid Folk’.
Using 4-Track Tape machines in Sean's workshop, we combined a rhythm played on my newly acquired Tabla drums, with a blend of our own Mellotron Flutes and my brother Kieran's 'real' Flute and Recorder skills.
"Adding in our usual musical 'weapons of choice', and the trumpet riff I wrote for Ronan Dooney, and we felt we had created something special...a sort of 'Renaissance Pop' if you will...My music . . . the Phoenix (Reborn)."
