Ever since I first heard Robert DeLong's moody "Long Way Down", it sounded like a Bond theme to me.  Tonight after seeing Spectre, I had to give this mashup a try.  Original Bond theme by Monty Norman.

The Bond Way Down (Robert DeLong / Bond Theme Mashup)

DJ Ed Essey and I (aka Cats Cradle Robbers) recently had the opportunity to record a session with the legendary Artis (aka Artis the Spoonman, celebrity busker, spoons player, and spoken word artist) at his Washington home. The 6/8 beat of the track was created by aligning our tracks to the rhythm of our car passing over the Hood Canal floating bridge.  I carefully transcribed the pitch variations he created in his playing and doubled his spoons with English Horn and string samples to build out an orchestral section, and doubled my guitar harmonics with cello.  The result is a remarkably Penguin Cafe Orchestra-esque composition.  Enjoy!

Artis plays wooden and metal spoons, gong, and tone bowl. The synthesizer ostinato was created by converting his spoon playing to MIDI impulses.

Steady Enough (feat. Artis)

A quick seed using samples we recorded with Michael Townsend in Port Townsend this past March.

Couple Things off the Buddha

I've been working on creating sample packs from some of the unique instruments I use as part of Cats Cradle Robbers. Included in this track are the 4xtar and a wine glass harmonica.  If you're interested in getting ahold of our sample pack when it's complete, let me know!

CCR Pack Demo 1

Peg and I played as a duo in the early 1990s.  This gorgeous song by Scottish singer Dougie MacLean is the reason we met and started playing together.

Recorded April 17 1993 at a house concert at the Lincoln Inn in Port Townsend, Washington

Peg Loughran and Nick Dallett - Caledonia

Originally built on Alaska Air enroute to and from Los Angeles from Seattle.

Hammered this out a bit more with DJSE - really enjoying this track at this point - comments and feedback appreciated :-)

re:LAX

I was working to create a motif based on the number pi for one of DJSE's Mango project tracks, and so I created an Ableton project to lay it out.  The melody uses the chord tones 3 (.) 1 4 1 5 9 6 2 5 3 5 9 in A minor.  The rest of the track grew out of that melody and the chords I added to harmonize it.

The title is literally "Pi in Am" (Pi in A minor), but I pronounce it "pee-nam"

Piinam

Recorded May 29, 1980 in Santa Monica, California

Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin cover by Free Toe Beach

Demo Master Tape Group - Communication

Car Horns for Ellie V2

Multiinstrumentalist composer Nick Dallett is one half of the electronica group Cats Cradle Robbers.  This is a side account where Nick executes and shares musical experiments and remixes that may or may not wind up on a CCR album.

Nick "Snake" Dallett

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