A Quiet Gathering is a new five-track EP from Stuart McCallum - British guitarist and co-founder of The Breath - conceived and produced with immersive listening at its core.
Stuart McCallum - acoustic and electric guitars, synths, programming
Ben Nicholls - double bass
Martin O’Neill - bodhrán
Graeme Blevins - alto flute
Neil Yates - trumpet
Michael McGoldrick - whistle
Owen Spafford - violin
All arrangements by Stuart McCallum
Music composed by:
1- Alice In Wonderland - Sammy Fain
2- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Richard Rodgers
3- My Ideal - Richard A. Whiting, Newell Chase, and Leo Robin
4- Wouldn’t It Be Loverly - Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
5- When I Fall In Love - Victor Young and Edward Heyman
Produced by Stuart McCallum
Recorded by Stuart McCallum
Mixed by Stuart McCallum and Hans-Martin Buff at msm-studios Berlin, CSR and RNCM Manchester
Mastered by Hans-Martin Buff
Album artwork by Oli Bentley, Split
Photography by Dave Stapleton
A Quiet Gathering is a new five-track EP from Stuart McCallum – British guitarist and co-founder of The Breath – conceived and produced with immersive listening at its core. The music was written and recorded to live first in Atmos, focusing on beloved jazz standards touched by folk colour, including Alice In Wonderland and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. McCallum regards these songs as melodic anchors that have shaped his musical voice.
Rather than foreground dense jazz harmony, he pares each piece back to its melodic essence and rebuilds from there. Guitar sits at the centre, surrounded by bodhrán, flutes, trumpet, whistle and double bass – subtle folk textures woven into familiar repertoire. The harmonic language nods to jazz while the atmosphere leans towards folk directness. Recorded at home and across collaborators’ studios, the arrangements are shaped to move in space, allowing textures to circulate and breathe. The immersive mix, developed with Grammy-winning engineer Hans Martin, places the listener inside the ensemble.
A Quiet Gathering is distilled and deliberate. Working from a home-built 7.1.4 system, McCallum examines how writing shifts when space informs decisions from the outset. The EP stands as a focused statement and signals a continuing direction – music authored intentionally for immersive listening, where intimacy and spatial depth sit side by side.
For the full immersive listening experience, A Quiet Gathering is available to download in Dolby Atmos (spatial audio) via the Immersive Audio Album store, or to stream on Dolby Atmos enabled streaming services.
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