Sifting

This project has been completed for about half a year now, and it's time I retake control of my SoundCloud accounts, because I can't deny what that platform has to offer. To this end, I will be deleting various recordings from the early part of the project -- if a SoundCloud link doesn't work, that's why.

In other news, Your Neck of the Woods, the ensemble closest to my heart, is having our farewell show tonight. Following that, I will be flying to Calgary with Lowlands and performing and assisting in workshops in the Calgary Folk Festival. After that, we fly back and play a Hillside after party show thing. It's going to be quite the weekend.

365 Day 365: Lotus Flower (acoustic cover)

Here is my final recording, a condensed cover of Radiohead's Lotus Flower, featuring my generous and talented friend Chris Wattam on the vocals. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Lotus Flower was originally written by Radiohead and they own all the rights and if one of their reps wants it down I'll gladly take it down deargodpleasedon'tsuemeIdon'thaveanymoney.

And with that the project is completed. I'll probably post a big old  debriefing thing tomorrow sometime, but for now I'm going to go breathe a sigh of relief at the watering hole.

365 Day 364: tease

So because of that whole numbering fiasco, I'm not sure if my last day is today or tomorrow, but there's more work to be done on this one that I can't finish today anyways, so I'll do what I do best and finish it tomorrow.

here's a little tease in the meantime.

365 Day 363ish: Penultimate

or, fun with quickly rotating unrelated triadic tonal centres. kind of a drill I guess. progression is E G Db F Ab C E. guitar melody is phrased in 4 beat groups, bass and second guitar are in 3.

neat, eh?

365 Day 362ish: Am I Wry? No

by the wonderful band Mew. Happy Mew Year!

takes me back

365 Day 361: ami demo

the rest of this cover to be finished tomorrow morning (vocals, mastering, touch up tracks, etc). points if you can guess which tune by what band it is before then.

I have discovered a numbering disparity. A while ago I switched from counting the days I had done to the days I had yet to do, but I foolishly dated back from the day the project started, not the day it should finish. so this SHOULD be day 362, or something. whatever, it's almost done.

posts from yesterday and the day before to come, they're still on my phone and I am le tired.

[edit] yesterday (360) and the day before (359).

[editt] oh no, this numbering stuff is off. I must've missed something more drastic somewhere.

365 Day 358: Too Many

recordings

story: I was going to do this one much nicer with electric guitar and drums as well, but I discovered I didn't actually have a pick. I used the corner of a cardboard battery package for the acoustic here, and it was destroyed after this first take.