SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY is Swann Sands first album and can be heard on all main streaming platforms. Released in 2023, it consists of a number of instrumentals followed by a number of songs. Most of the instrumentals are folk inspired and some drift into a more progressive rock sound. The songs are mainly acoustic based with some branching out into a more progressive rock sound. Please click on the following link and select which platform you want to hear it from.
1. Spirit of Discovery (Instrumental) (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Voice : Jules Jones
2. Teign Valley Jig (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar
Martyn Hillstead : Bodhran
3. May Day (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums
Martyn Hillstead : Percussion
4. Eastern Sunrise (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Acoustic guitar, Keyboards
Martyn Hillstead : Percussion
5. Greek Passage (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Keyboards, Bass Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums
6. Irish Bash (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Mandolin, Irish bouzouki, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Bass Guitar
Martyn Hillstead : bodhran, Percussion
7. Calm in the Chaos (Phil Swann)
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Bass Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums
8. Changing World (Phil Swann )
Jules Jones : Main Vocals
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Backing Vocals
Martyn Hillstead : Percussion, Backing vocals
Colin Shorthouse : Backing Vocals
Sam Swann : Bass Guitar​
Ian Churchward : Acoustic Lead Guitar
9. The Returned Lover (Phil Swann / Martyn Hillstead)
Colin Shorthouse : Main vocals
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums, Bass Guitar
10. Small Beginnings (Phil Swann)
Main Vocals : Jules Jones
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar
Martyn Hillstead : Percussion : Backing vocals
Colin Shorthouse : Backing Vocals
11. Teign Valley Song (Phil Swann / Ian Churchward)
Jules Jones : Main vocals
Phil Swann : Irish Bouzouki, Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
Sam Swann : Bass Guitar
Martyn Hillstead : Percussion, Backing vocals
12. Get a Life (Phil Swann)
Main Vocals : Jules Jones
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums, Bass Guitar
13. Spirit of Discovery (Phil Swann / Colin Shorthouse)
Main Vocals : Colin Shorthouse
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Sam Swann : Drums, Bass Guitar
EXISTENCE (ACOUSTIC SONGS) is Swann Sands second album and can be heard on all major streaming platforms. Released in 2024, it consists of acoustic songs which explores our existence from our daily lives and local surroundings to our challenges we face as the human race. Please click on the following link and select which platform you want to hear it from. Thank you for listening!
Jules Jones : Main Vocals except Track 9, Backing vocals
Phil Swann : Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Percussion, Main vocals on track 9, Backing Vocals
All songs composed by Phil Swann.
1. Summer Days And Winter Nights
2. Green Hills I Know
3. Fragile Path
4. How Our Garden;'s Grown
5. Changing World
6. Get A Life
7. Media Blues
8. Sail Away To Freedom
9. Taken To The Skies
10. Small Beginnings​​
EXISTENCE (INSTRUMENTALS WITH NARRATION is Swann Sands third album and can be heard on all major streaming platforms. It is an ambitious instrumental album with thought provoking narration which explores mankind's unfinished journey. It has been described as a cross between Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds!
Please click on the following link and select which platform you want to hear it from. Thank you for listening!
https://ditto.fm/existence-instrumentals-with-narration
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All music composed by Phil Swann and narration by Steve Oh (Oram)
Phil Swann : Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion
Steve Oh (Oram) : Narration
Sam Swann : Drums, Bass Guitar on track 4
1. Existence
2. Progress
3. Past and Future
4. This Fragile Earth
5. Summer in old England
6. Requiem
7. Journey's end?
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