Low Red Moon
ギター弾いてる時だけは、なんか無敵になった気分でさ！！
Music Weeklies / Monthly have something of a monopoly on the Because It Was There series currently and continuing that trend is this ditty in answer to their prompt to write something your teenage self would like. As luck would have it at that age I liked simple tracks that were little more than a riff and some noodlin’.
Continuing the relentless pace of releases here’s one for the Cosmic Bos Monthly Music Challenge on the theme of Winning – though I have of course reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.
I dragged some chords down from the ideas mountain for the main part of the track whilst the initial ‘Winning is Everything’ section came about by chance from coming across the brass sound whilst mucking around on guitar synth.
The melody for this largely made up playing guitar with a violin bow but it would have taken practising ’til a week next Tuesday to get it to sound how I wanted so I went with the inductive string driver feedback circuit instead, aka. Ebow..
Video made using the ProjectM visualizer by combining a few presets.
The only complete track by short lived 1990 band as committed to four track cassette. Also known as Everything for their one gig supporting <a Starfish at the Apple Tree pub in Crawley.
We only did one gig, at the Apple Tree pub Crawley, supporting Starfish. Under the name ‘Everything’ if I remember correctly.
There was a cover of Lou Reed’s ‘There Is No Time’ in the set – largely because I liked the line, ‘This is no time for circumlocution’.
Down to the wire in the nick of time by the skin of my teeth here’s my go at this week’s Music Weeklies Challenge ‘Body Work’.
It had to be based on sounds produced or emanating from the human body. I blew. And then used the resulting recordings as samples to replace waveforms in presets from the Arturia synth Pigments.
All the melodic parts were played on a guitar fitted with a Fishman TriplePlay to convert the signals from each string to MIDI.
And the working out of old numbers and recording for posterity keeps right on coming. From the Pokeweed Wormfence cassette album which saw the regrouping of VTOR after four years this demonstrates the ease with which backwards effects could be done on a four track cassette recorder by just flipping over the tape.
I have a number of other tapes that also demonstrate how easy it is to record on the wrong tracks having flipped the cassette and getting confused about which track is which.
Just 32 years old at the time of posting.
Piano is not my forte but nevertheless I’ve tickled the nickel plated steel to have a bash at the Music Weeklies Piano Solo theme.
Solo in this instance meaning alone.
So terribly alone.
A reupload from the improved Bandcamp version of 1998’s A Field Further with added words and chords.
Still pottering away at these as the mood takes. A change being as good as a wink to a blind bat here’s some strumming. As found on Call Me Ishmael.
Further to my video of 18th November…
Another of the videos I’ve made after working out how I played some tunes from back in the day.
I’ve been working out how I played a few tunes of yesteryear from less than exhaustive notes and videoing them for posterity.
