The Carwardine Colony Carousel (music CD series)

The Carwardine Colony Carousel is a series of music CDs from 2003-present (formerly 2000-present) that showcase the music of the Carousel at Carwardine Colony. Nearly all of the music featured is performed by Ian Monteil.

The series is well received due to people saying that Ian achieves a better “Fairground Organ-esque” sound for the Carwardine Colony Carousel than Disney does for Prince Charming’s Regal Carrousel (aside from the subtle string-like pad).

Volumes
(Note: Certain songs might move from one CD to Another)


 * Volume 1 (2000)
 * Volume 2 (2001)
 * Volume 3 (2002)
 * Volume 4 (2003)
 * Volume 5: Christmas Edition (2003)
 * Volume 6: The Carousel Goes 80's (2004)
 * Volume 7: Carousel Classic Rock (2005)
 * Volume 8: Carousel Hip-Hop (2006)
 * Volume 9: Spooky Edition (2006)
 * Volume 10: Christmas Edition II (2007)
 * Volume 11: Rollercoaster Tycoon Edition (2007)
 * Volume 12: The Carousel Goes 90's (2008)
 * Volume 13: Spooky Edition II (2008)
 * Volume 14: The Carousel Goes 80's II (2009)
 * Volume 15: Spooky Edition III (2010)
 * Volume 16: One-Hit Wonders (2011)
 * Volume 17: Carousel Hip-Hop II (2011)
 * Volume 18: 2012's Biggest Hits! (2012)
 * Volume 19: Carousel Classic Rock II (2013)
 * Volume 20: The Best of the Carousel (2014)
 * Volume 21: 2013-14's Biggest Hits! (2014)
 * Volume 22: 2014-15's Biggest Hits! (2015)
 * Volume 23: Nostalgia Go Round (2016)
 * Volume 24: Carousel Hip-Hop III (2017)
 * Volume 25: One-Hit Wonders II (2017)
 * Volume 26: Christmas Edition III (2017)
 * Volume 27: Gamer’s Edition (2018)
 * Volume 28: The Carousel Goes 70’s (2018)
 * Volume 29: Merry Go Retro (2019)
 * Volume 30: 2010’s Pop Celebration! (2020)
 * Volume 31: Carousel Party! (2021)
 * Volume 32: All New Original Tunes! (2021)
 * Volume 33: Christmas Edition IV (2021)
 * Volume 34: The Carousel Goes Y2K (2022)
 * Volume 35: Carousel Hip-Hop IV (2022)
 * Volume 36: Carousel Classic Rock III (2022)
 * Volume 37: Carousel Party! II (2022)
 * Volume 38: The Carousel Goes 70’s II (2023)
 * Volume 39: Carwardine Fun Mix (with songs never heard on TCCC CDs before!) (2023)
 * Volume 40: Carousel Party! II - Full Stop Disco (upcoming; 2024)
 * Volume 41: Merry Go Retro II (upcoming; 2024)
 * Volume 42: The Carousel Goes 80’s III (upcoming; 2024)
 * Volume 43: Wrestling Entrance Themes (upcoming; 2024)
 * TBA

Trivia

 * They are only available for sale at Carwardine Colony, Carwardine Studios and the Carwardine Parks website.
 * All of the volumes are on Spotify since 2019.
 * They were originally distributed by EMI/Captiol Records, but are now distributed by UMG.
 * Ian mainly uses samples of fairground organs from Verbeeck (including the 73-Key Verbeeck organ that once accompanied the carousel at a park in Plattsburgh, New York (this was the carousel’s second organ, with the first being an early Wurlitzer 103 band organ, which is now part of a private collection) and at Rose Park before being sold to someone else (which was before the carousel moved to Carwardine Colony)), Wurlitzer, Gavioli, and other manufacturers (the organ owners helped him by having roll-cutters cut rolls with individual notes and runs for sampling; all organs sampled have had their music put onto CDs from Carrousel Music; over the years, they've been played with various different sampling keyboards). He has also used a mixture of settings from several synthesizers, modules, etc., such as E-mu Proteus, E-mu Emulator II, Kurzweil K2500X, Yamaha DX7 and Roland D-50 (with a Roland S-50 used as a controller for the Proteus), plus numerous samples from AKAI’s Universal Sound Bank Church Organs CD-ROM (with an AKAI S1000 sampler mainly used for such samples), as well as additional percussion and horns provided by local concert and marching bands from the Hampton Roads and Richmond areas (one of the patches he still to this day uses is a string-like pad accompaniment, sort of sounding like what the composer of the music for the Carousel at the Phoenix Zoo did). He also sampled his piano accordion and chord organ, as well as numerous of his own electric organs (Hammond, Vox Continental, Farfisa, etc.) and at least one church organ. (Ian’s own samples have been put into numerous VSTs since)
 * Volume 1 was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA in 2019.
 * The CDs are copyrighted by Dept. 2 Records, Inc., meaning they cannot be used outside of works licensed by Carwardine, to prevent them from being used on rival parks' carousels.