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Part 1 of The Floating Boy (suite for big band and voices). Text: 'The Floating Boy', by Max Thomas. Recorded live in concert at Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, June 2019.

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('The Floating Boy', Max Thomas)

Astronauts and firemen,
He picks at dreams and plays.
Ageing steals his oxygen,
Until his dreams turn grey.

Smooth skin with a bubbling grin,
He sleeps to father’s voice.
Shaving scabs and drunk kebabs,
A booming, looming choice.

A woodland path that moves so fast,
The trees grow as he floats.
Floating on, trees bar the past,
A bubble blocks his throat.

Tumbling through the leaves he grasps
and desperately clings.
The lack of air it makes him gasp,
If only he had wings.

The branches slowly drag him down,
Until his feet are stuck on ground.
A poem of a boy began,
Blink for too long, the boy’s a man.

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from The Floating Boy, released February 4, 2021
Composer: Harry Baker
Performers: Oxford University Jazz Orchestra, The Oxford Gargoyles
Sound Engineer: Will Biggs
Album Artwork: Nick Budd

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Harry Baker London, UK

Harry Baker is an award-winning improvising pianist and composer active in jazz, classical and new-music settings.

His music has been featured on Jazz FM and BBC Radio 3 with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and his compositions recorded by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain on NMC Recordings.

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