views from the sauna
One of the new projects I reference below is a duo with Ronny Ferella.
Ronny plays drums, ngoni, farfisa, vox & processing.
Sam plays drums, dsi tetra, vox & supercollider.
This group is so bangin’ and it has gigs starting in August. Will post more soon.
Here’s a track from rehearsal today (quick’n'dirty recording on the trusty H2):
PS. ‘cos the link is to my bandcamp site, it won’t let me put Ronny in the credits for the embed, annoying! He’s on the track title in bandcamp though..
(0)Apologies for break in transmission.. Normal service has been resumed.
Okay, this is where the new album’s at:
I have a bunch of stuff already done I like well enough but, without coming over all Sting (!), I had an odd dream at the weekend and woke up knowing what had to happen.
Working on the premise that I do my best stuff under pressure, I have instilled a deadline.
I have 20 weeks to produce 10 new solo tracks.
Given that I have a couple of other projects on the go and the usual stuff of life, this is going to hurt.
I shall update from the sauna regularly on this one – am thinking webcam could be the go.
Forza!
I submitted this for an Exquisite Cadaver collection being released later on this year by Bleemo Music. The piece is focused on extraneous detail, so probably best go fully-immersive with headphones and cranked volume..
I’m dying to hear what follows this on the compilation, will post here when release details are available.
Sweet Child O’ Mine (Swing Version) by plamere
I always found this lot a tad ludicrous. ‘Swinger’ takes the original and crosses it with a Suzi Quattro style dredge-shuffle (yikes!) and produces something of worth. Has Slash ever sounded this good?
Swinger was written by Tristan Jehan for the Echo Nest Remix API.
You can checkout a copy of the source here (including Swinger),
with instructions to compile here.
(One caveat: on my Ubuntu Lucid installation, the source installs into /usr/local, not /usr, as the instructions say).
(0)This takes me back to ’85.. Allen’s Army, Groove Records and breaking outside of Bentalls in Bracknell etc. Sentimentality aside, this still rocks.
(0)Welcome to my new place.
Renouncing the vapidity of my former MySpace site was ever so cathartic but it left me with no means of airing my wares to those not on my email list.
In the same vein, sharing cool stuff I’d encountered with my peeps on Facebook was a boon, wading through people’s Farmville updates, not so much.
So, this replaces those. At least for me.
Right now, my domain is but a nascent affair but hang tough dear reader. I have plans.
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