'Recordings' Category
BOLUS – debut release
What happens when Penny Goring and I collaborate on a words and music project? BOLUS, that’s what. Penny is, as any of you who know her work from her blog and the Year Zero Writers website, a pretty extraordinary writer – and her spoken word delivery marvellously detached and deadpan. I’ve wanted to do more [...]
A quick piano post
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on Feldman’s Palais de Mari at the moment. As my phone was to hand while I was looking at the beginning of the piece this evening, I recorded a bit. All the usual disclaimers about sound quality apply! I also posted this on Audioboo last night – an ad [...]
Black Christmas
A Christmas carol, in the middle of May? The recording of “Velocity Girl” last night put me in mind of this catchy little seasonal offering that I recorded towards the end of 2006, as a private release for distribution to friends and colleagues in place of Christmas cards. Given that I was in the final [...]
Cover – Velocity Girl
If there’s one song that sums up the C86 jangly guitar sound for me it’s Primal Scream’s “Velocity Girl”. It’s sad, then, that the Scream disavow their pre-Screamadelica discography now as though they’re embarrassing teenage diary entries. They are, of course, perfect pop. Armed with an array of distortion pedals of different shapes and sizes, [...]
A Place In Space – compilation
A Place in Space, featuring the track Will Beckett’s March (reprise) from Mother’s Thinking Bath is now available on InvisibleGirl records. The album’s press release reads: A compilation of original artists from around the planet. This global release has been made available on the winter solstice (21 December 2008) Music, culture, sounds and experiences express [...]
The Elf Princess
This song’s a couple of years old now, and was played frequently by my former group. When I wrote it, it was arranged for acoustic guitar, fiddle and mandolin, but I thought it was high time for it to rise phoenix-like from the ashes and change shape somewhat. So, gone are the nice lilting rhythms [...]
Sam Hall
Finally, I’ve got round to starting to record again. Out came the electric guitars, the trusty Roland synth (for drum duties only) and the terrifying Danelectro “French Toast” distortion pedal, which is an engineering marvel. It seems particularly good for producing a really rough fuzz bass sound. So, here’s a very rough electric version of [...]
Will Beckett’s March (reprise) on forthcoming compilation
A Place In Space, the new compilation from Invisiblegirl Records features Will Beckett’s March (reprise) from the album Mother’s Thinking Bath. The album will be an iTunes release; here’s a trailer featuring all the artists.
Something I Can’t Have
I was reminded of this song while learning the traditional song Pretty Saro the other night, and it just goes to show that whether you’re a feedback-laden guitar group from Scotland or a singer in the Appalachian mountains, you still share the same concerns. “Something I Can’t Have” is possibly my favourite Jesus And Mary [...]
I Can’t Find Brummagem
As heard previously on Brumcast! As this recording is now out and about “in the wild” I thought it time I put it up on here too. As I mentioned before in the previous plug for Brumcast, there’s some blurb about the song in this post. I’ve edited out the mildly incomprehensible verse I wrote [...]