Reeves Motal Piano and Synthesizer Music for Year of the Cat by Al Stewart

In the style originally performed by Al Stewart

Year of the Cat lyrics available from Google Lyrics and AZ Lyrics

Original song version from 1976

This short excerpt is in MP3 format running at 128 Kb per second.
The version on the CD album runs at 1,411 Kb per second.
The full CD audio file format size is 66,301 KB and runs for 6 minutes and 25 seconds.

The bridge on this is amazing - truly a classic. It was difficult to get together, but in all, I think it came out pretty well. I had to tweak and tweak the pitch bends over and over. The Chinese Calendar that we usually think of in regard to "the year of" doesn't have a year of the cat. The Vietnamese Calendar does and replaces the rabbit.

Reeves

Year of the Cat was created using 5 Acoustic Grand Pianos, 1 Bright Acoustic Piano, 1 Nylon Strung Acoustic Guitar, 1 Steel Strung Acoustic Guitar, 1 Jazz Electric Guitar, 1 Fretless Bass, 1 String Ensemble 1 (Consisting of 2 Violins, 1 Viola, and 1 Cello), 1 Clarinet, 1 Piccolo, 1 Synthesized Atmosphere Preset, 1 Acoustic Bass Drum, 1 Electric Snare Drum, 1 High Floor Tom, 1 Low Tom, 1 Closed Hi‑Hat Cymbals, 1 Open Hi‑Hat Cymbals, 1 Crash Cymbal 1, 1 Crash Cymbal 2, 1 Splash Cymbal, and 1 Ride Bell.