The Carwardine Colony Carousel (music CD series)

The Carwardine Colony Carousel is a series of music CDs from 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)

(Note 2: I’m considering redoing the volumes of this series, with more control over what the volumes and songs on each volume are (the first 5-7 or so are just about fine for the most part); new entries will be on separate pages, and pages that are no longer about an “official” volume of TCCC will be put below all the “official” volumes)


 * 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 (2006)
 * Volume 11: Rollercoaster Tycoon Edition (2007)
 * Volume 12: The Carousel Goes 90's (2007)
 * 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 (upcoming; 2022)
 * Volume 36: Carousel Classic Rock III (upcoming; 2022)
 * Volume 37: Carousel Party! II (upcoming; 2022)
 * Volume 38: The Carousel Goes 70’s II (upcoming; 2023)
 * Volume 39: Carwardine Fun Mix (with songs never heard on TCCC CDs before!) (upcoming; 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)

Trivia

 * They are only available for sale at Carwardine Colony, Carwardine Studios and the Carwardine Parks website.
 * The first three volumes were re-released in 2020. The fourth was re-released in 2021.
 * All of the volumes are on Spotify since 2019.
 * They were originally distributed by EMI/Captiol Records, but are now distributed by UMG.
 * Volume 1 was released on vinyl on December 21, 2021, Volume 2 will release on vinyl Q3 2022.
 * Ian mainly uses samples of fairground organs from Verbeeck, Wurlitzer, Gavioli, and other manufacturers (the organ owners helped him by having roll-cutters cut rolls with individual notes and runs for sampling) (over the years, they've been played with various different sampling keyboards). He has also used a mixture of E-mu Proteus, E-mu Emulator II, Kurzweil K2500X, and Roland D-50 settings (with a Roland S-50 used as a controller for the Proteus), 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 in a high register, sort of sounding like what the composer of the music for the Carousel at the Phoenix Zoo did) He also sampled his piano accordion.
 * Volume 1 was certified 3x platinum by the RIAA in 2019.
 * The CDs are copyrighted by Carwardine 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.