Peter
MEASROCH
Music
Left SA at 21 for the UK in the early 70's. Surrounded by rock icons in the wilds of the English countryside was soon hooked up with singer Leo Sayer for a Speakeasy debut and US expats Daddy Longlegs (below) for touring and recording.
LtoR in photo: Thom Mitz -bass, Cliff Carrison - drums, Norton Holderman - guitar and yrs truly, hat....
Song for Film
Another personal highlight stems from a collaboration with British filmmaker Nic Roeg during the making of the film "Puffball", a tale of witchcraft in rural Ireland.
A bawdy Irish bar-song was required in a hurry and, in the time-honored tradition of these things, Nic wrote the first draft of the lyrics on the back of a napkin on the mixing stage. The song was written and recorded in 3 days, and became part of the film.
Here is the song as it appeared in the movie, sung here by Montreal's Belfast Andi.
Verses were added later and I performed them for the first time in a live show in Montreal in 2023, elsewhere on this site.
a whale of a time...
What made this project special was a bank of whale songs from the Gaspé given me by a sound FX editor I was working with at the time, and which I tried to weave into the score wherever possible.
Perhaps I overdid it, but those whales sure can sing!
On the Road with La Mouette tells the story of a family of puppeteers touring Quebec's Gaspé region in a bus.
Directed by François Aubry, and produced by the NFB, I shared the soundtrack duties with composer Réjean Garneau.