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It’s About That Time Of Night Volume Twenty Six

Many moons ago I posted online the odd tune suitable for late night listening but the varying embedding restrictions and ephemeral nature of the web meant the individual posts became hard to maintain. So having collected them into compilations I thought I might as well stick ’em on Mixcloud.

  1. The Flaming Lips – Waiting For Superman
  2. Tom Waits – On The Nickel
  3. Joe Harnell – The Lonely Man Theme
  4. Kashiwa Daisuke – Blue Beryl
  5. Jacques Brel – Le Plat Pays
  6. Sakamoto Junnosuke – Mellow
  7. Shogo Matsui – Kyoto Town Is Missing You
  8. Outatbero – Reduction
  9. okamotonoriaki – At The Window
  10. Little Village – Don’t Think About Her When You’re Trying To Drive
  11. Sione – Wealth Of Flowers
  12. Michel Legrand – Summer Of ’42
  13. Bob Dylan – I Want You
  14. Edward Elgar – Nimrod
  15. Chuck Berry – In The Wee Wee Hours

And that concludes the current series.

A Little Light Music No. 6

Playing with the modules on the Poly Effects Beebo / Digit I came up with this ditty and it’s the effects that do the heavy lifting as I’m a bit restricted in what I can play by the return of an old shoulder injury. An Empress Zoia helps out with a tremoloed reverb and a ping-pong delay which is a bit lost as I’m just recording the sound of my computer speakers – hence a certain amount of ‘acoustic’ guitar.

As this series grows it becomes increasingly obvious that I have too many guitars, in the is case a Fret-King JDD, the Jerry Donahue signature model to which I’ve added a kill switch, moved the various controls and replaced the tone potentiometer with a TBX one with Premier Guitar modifications.

It’s About That Time Of Night Volume Twenty Five

Many moons ago I posted online the odd tune suitable for late night listening but the varying embedding restrictions and ephemeral nature of the web meant the individual posts became hard to maintain. So having collected them into compilations I thought I might as well stick ’em on Mixcloud.

  1. Michael Stearns – As The Earth Kissed The Moon
  2. Harry Partch – The Bewitched Part IV
  3. Kasey Chambers – The Captain
  4. saisa – I’ve Been Waiting Forever To Hear Your Voice
  5. Pierre Dutour – Deer Forest
  6. Kris Kristofferson – A Moment Of Forever
  7. Mizu Amane – Mikoto Uta
  8. The Skyliners – My Lonely Way
  9. Michael Nyman Band – memorial
  10. Paranel – 温度

A Little Light Music No. 5

A bit of a cock-up on the recording front as I deleted the lead guitar and had to use the camera microphone which means a certain amount of room noise and backing track spill but it’s near enough for light opera.

The guitar I’m using is a Revelation RLR based on the Les Paul ‘Recording’ model and has pickups that can switch between humbucker and two single coil modes. There’s a phase switch and a variable impedance control to change from modern to vintage tones and I’ve added a bass cut which adds a couple of options to thin out the sound which is particularly useful with a lot of effects.

In this instance I’m using the humbuckers which are out of phase when I move to both on. The strings are a little unusual these days being Thomastik-Infield flatwounds, 12 and up.

For the backing track the Poly Effects Beebo / Digit is running the Leon Todd preset where eight delays are arrayed like one configuration of the Yamaha UD Stomp. I’ve just changed the routing a little to follow it with an Empress Zoia in the second set of ins and outs. The Zoia is running an old standby from the industrious Christopher H. M. Jacques, ‘Fading Dream’ – in diffuse mode. As seen on Patchstorage.

The melodic part is the Chordelayverb on Beebo, again by Leon Todd.

And the ‘amp’ is the Neunaber Neuron which I like because it doesn’t set out to be a copy of any other guitar amplifier.

It’s About That Time Of Night Volume Twenty Four

Many moons ago I posted online the odd tune suitable for late night listening but the varying embedding restrictions and ephemeral nature of the web meant the individual posts became hard to maintain. So having collected them into compilations I thought I might as well stick ’em on Mixcloud.

  1. Al Bowlly – My Melancholy Baby
  2. Eric Clapton – Never Make You Cry
  3. Gert Thrue – I Play The Body Electric
  4. Clifford T Ward – Home Thoughts From Abroad
  5. Christian Bruhn – Timm Thaler
  6. The Barok & Roll Ensemble – Eine Kleine Beatle Music
  7. Takahiro Kido – Improvisation For Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectual Museum
  8. Ennio Morricone & Edda Dell’Orso – Veruschka
  9. Karl Heinz Schäfer & Leonie – Couleurs
  10. Eliza Carthy – Ten Thousand Miles
  11. Chris Isaak – Wiked Game
  12. Butterbeer – Listening To Another Sunny Day Makes me Forget You
  13. Joop Stokkermans – The Chapel In The Moonlight
  14. Four Star Mary – Fate