· Peter Pickering
A little while ago, Sessions on the Green® was a simple website you could scroll through in one sitting. It gave the music a home. Over the past month, we’ve turned that home into somewhere you can spend an evening. I think that calls for a small fanfare. We’ll blow our own flugelhorn, if you don’t mind.
Start with one song and see where it takes you
The music catalogue brings our recordings together in one place. You can search by artist or style, sort by artist or track name, and play a recording right there. If a song stays with you, follow the artist’s name into Our Artists to find more of their music and read their story. And if you’d like to own a recording, the purchase links take you to Bandcamp, where you can buy a high-quality download when it’s available.
Sometimes, of course, the last thing you want to do is choose another song. That’s what the playlists are for. Pick Quiet Romance, Soul After Dark, In Motion or Easy Listening & Chill, press Play All, and the music carries on from one recording to the next. Easy Listening & Chill has three listening lengths, so it can keep you company over coffee or well into the evening.
There’s a life behind the music
About tells you who we are. The Process takes you into the work of making the recordings, and Community is where we make room for what listeners bring back to us. Here in the Studio Journal, we keep gathering the stories that would otherwise stay in the studio. And the Shop brings together our downloads, physical releases and cover art.
If you remember a title, a name or a phrase and have no idea where you saw it, the magnifying glass searches across the site and groups what it finds under Music, Artists, and Stories & Pages. If you’d rather ask a question in your own words, there’s Ask Sessions in the bottom-right corner. Try asking about an artist or where to begin with a style you like.
I’m proud of what we’ve built. But the part I like most is still the simplest. You can come looking for one song, find another you didn’t know existed, and stay a little longer than you meant to. Or you can put on a playlist, close your eyes and let the music take over. I’d be just as happy either way.
See you in there.
Peter