Sean Wolcott – Love is a Funny Game (DIGITAL)

Fresh on the heels of “il Mietitore cavalca verso ovest,” “Love is a Funny Game” is a new library record from composer, producer, and engineer Sean Wolcott. Acting as an imaginary soundtrack to an early 70s Italian-French romantic melodrama, we sonically follow a relationship from its blossoming to its untimely demise.

Lush compositions and soaring melodies take us on this journey with flutes, vocal quintets, brass, drums, harpsichords, guitars, and organs guided ahead by deep grooves of erotic Bossa Nova, hard-edged Easy Listening, and cinematic Soul. With 14 songs evoking a calm-yet-intense melancholy, we hear something singularly unique under its dreamlike trance, while recalling the sounds of Burt Bacharach, David Axelrod, Phil Spector, Charles Stepney, Alessandro Alessandroni, Sven Libek, Sergio Mendes, and more.

All songs were written, produced, arranged, orchestrated, and recorded by Sean Wolcott at Soundview Analog Recorders.

CLW-012

Format
12" vinyl LP (180g)

Tracklist:
A
1. Love is a Funny Game (3:11)
2. Under a Summer Sun (2:08)
3. Face Across a Crowded Room (3:53)
4. When Things Were Different (2:48)
5. Falling Petals (3:33)
6. In a Blue World (3:00)
7. Why Didn’t You Tell Me (3:06)

B
8. Make Way for Tomorrow (4:10)
9. Where a Flower Will Grow (3:20)
10. Falling for You (3:21)
11. Something No One Could Take (2:39)
12. Of Depths Not Known (2:56)
13. Prologue (1:00)
14. And So This Time Must End (3:32)

Written, produced, arranged, and orchestrated by Sean Wolcott

Recorded: Sean Wolcott at Soundview Analog Recorders
Mixed: Sean Wolcott at Soundview Analog Recorders
Cover design: Sean Wolcott / Rationale

Strings

Sean Wolcott: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass

Jimmy James: Electric Guitar

Victoria Parker: Violin, Viola

Brian Eichelberg: Violin, Viola

Bradley Hawkins: Cello

Winds

Susan Telford Boyd: Flute

Bhavani Kotha: English Horn, Oboe

Selina Greso: English Horn

Brass

Jake Bergevin: Flugelhorn

Jacob Hoffman: French Horn

Greg Schroeder: Bass Trombone

Vocals

Lauren Santi

Aura Payne

Anika Padwekar

Jacob Hoffman

Jake Bergevin

Keyboards

Dan Walker: Organ

Aura Ruddell: Piano

Alex Johnston: Organ

Jason Woll: Electric Piano

Sean Wolcott: Organ, Synthesizer

Percussion

Sean Wolcott: Piano, Harpsichord, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone

Trevor Church: Drums

Curt Cheever: Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Finger Cymbal, Marimba, Shaker, Tambourine, Cabasa