This is an improvised jam session using my new TC helicon voicelive 3. It is just me and the loop pedal.

Pheonix

This is the first demo from our new Project, A G U L H A S. It is Andrew Jamieson & The Steady Tiger but this time with more emphasis on cyclic, trance state grooves using live instruments and loops. We want to make music people can move, journey and dance to. This is the first offering.

Surface

This is a rough demo track titled 'The Unseen. The tuning is GADGCF, lending to a Malian inspired tuning and riff.  The lyrics came in a dream, no, really! I had this refrain going round and round my head, this was the result.

The Unseen

This piece was recorded at Kalk Bay Harbour, Cape Town. It was a literally recorded on the rocks next to the ocean, you can hear the sea gulls in the background and the wave lapping. It was part of the Sailing Conductors album AAA. The amazing humans that travelled the world on a yacht recording artists.

Low Tide

Swansong

Under The Umbrella

Harder Than My Bones

Red in Tooth and Claw

Port Grosvenor

This is a sketch. It is am improvised song. In fact it is complete stream of consciousness. I sat down started fiddling with the guitar which was tuned to DADDAD and then I started hearing the vocal melody so I whipped out my iPhone and started recording. This entire performance just came out in one shot, the lyrics everything. What amazes me about this process is what comes out lyrically. It is stuff I could never write If I sat down with a pen and paper. It comes from the realm of 'no mind'.

Usually I am terrified to share this kind of thing. I would want to polish some of the mumbled lines and refine it into a crafted song (which I will still do) before sharing it publicly. However, there is something so fascinating about the unpolished diamond, I thought it worth sharing. There is a nuance in that first recording that can never really be recaptured an it's something so hard to do live. So here it is. Go easy on me, remember it's a sketch on an iPhone.

The Machine

Conversation with a Cobbler (Radio)

This is a cover of Kids by MGMT. I always loved the melody hook and thought I could do something with an alternate thumb picking rhythm on guitar. This is a pretty rough version by for what it's worth.

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