Improvisation for nohkan with some external noises (trains, bells, neighbours and others)
15.05.2021

s u n

I was wandering around Glasgow at 6am in a haze a few weeks ago and the idea for this song came to me.

"the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

You can buy a HQ version of "Sonder" @ https://tribalpulse.bandcamp.com/album/tribal-pulse-four

https://www.facebook.com/fragilexmusic

Sonder

تلاوة هادئة لسورة المزمل - المهندس أحمد مصطفى مسجد الرحمن الرحيم

I get ideas but can’t settle on a decision again
Who’s the romantic? The poet or the lover or the fool?
What’s in the face of this Welshman in Ireland?
Staring into forty foot, looking for the answers

I know it’s true, I know it’s true, there’s more to reach for
Walk with me, run the dream, is this religion?
I know you care, I know you care for what is yet to come
Look beyond the narrow lens to what can never fall

We are the ones they don’t want to see
We are the ones they don’t want to know
We are the ones, we are the ones

Burned with visions, but tired of the sound of my voice
Born to a city that’s buried the sound of itself
But there’s a future, hoisted on the fumes of a past
Meet me by the City Arms, we’ll talk and we’ll drink and we’ll crash

I know it’s true, I know it’s true, there’s more to reach for
Walk with me, run the dream, is this religion?
I know you care, I know you care for what is yet to come
Look beyond the narrow lens to what can never fall

We are the ones they don’t want to see
We are the ones they don’t want to know
We are the ones, we are the ones

Welshman in Ireland

A LIVE PERFORMANCE !!!

It is with great pleasure that I make a joint release of this performance of Monday's Song by the very talented Liz Dicker @liz-dicker.

Monday's Song is one of the songs in the "Days of the Week" song series that I have released over the last few years.  Sadly, all those releases are of virtual performances.  This is my first live performance release.  

I feel that I have come along way improving my virtual piano performances over the last many years.  I have even very occasionally lulled an unsuspecting listener into thinking it was me playing (if only).  However, there is nothing like a live performance as most clearly demonstrated by this wonderful rendition of the work by Liz.
 
Liz's playing brings the piece to life!  She delivers subtleties and nuances that I could not even imagine.  So I would like to thank Liz again, this time publicly, for this generous gift and for all the delightful compositions and performances of her own that she has posted on soundcloud.  Please go take a listen https://soundcloud.com/liz-dicker.

As always, thank you for listening and hope you enjoy.

Be safe and stay or get healthy!
Christopher

Monday's Song

Monday's Song Performed By Elisabeth Dicker

Flight

I enjoyed hearing this melody on soundcloud and thought to try it out on my accordion.  I had the great good fortune to interest my soundcloud friends Zach and Jore in the tune as well.   Jore added our tracks together to come up with this wonderful version.

Alan Ingall @newshoe   -  accordion
Zach Schneider @zach-schneider-1   -  tin whistle
Jorma Heikkilä  @jorma-heikkil  - arrange, mix, all other instruments

Some other versions
Two concertinas
https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/2mb-xotes-romanes-6-28-20
Two accordions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwu-YlZ9Rc

Photo: see: https://www.auques.cat/auca.php?auca=gitanes

Xotis Romani - collab Newshoe with Zach and Jore

Here's a demo of "Private, I" from the upcoming album "Honne and Tatemae". This is only a demo of the song. I hope to re-record it again soon. I just wanted to get some new music up on the page.

I understand that the words are probably quite indecipherable to people and i also have a bad habit of mumbling. So here are the lyrics:

PRIVATE, I

I asked if you were crying
And you said "It's just the rain."
But it's easy to tell the difference between water and your pain.
Plasters laced in salt are littered across the hall
And the barely open door through which you always fall.

You've left the heating on
To warm up your feet
I see you're playing your favourite song
It's always on repeat.
That one you love about running away.
But you care too much not to stay.

And you only look your best for love and death.
And you stay in rags for the rest.
Yeah, you always look your best for love and death.
But you stay in rags for the rest.

Private, I

First off:
I'm still happy I've managed to have recently finished my latest album Fuive, Pt.2. 

THis thing is streamable on spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PRPXmD0LXKl5V6tkYTcgF?si=5nMikolYReyXgoRU0vnuGA

Also the thing can be streamed or downloaded on Bandcamp 
https://saschamuhr.bandcamp.com/album/fuive-part-2

Anyway, back to the video at hand. I haven't been posting a lot lately which is due to the score to a small indie-video game I'm working on right now. It's an entry to the itch.io game-off and we had a month to start and finish a game. Besides work, the game and whatever else one has to do I've sadly neglected my social media outlets. While warming up to record some stuff for the game yesterday I made did this little improvisation that I thought would be fitting to the latest improvs.

I've been using the Vigier Shawn Lane Excalibur on this one, going into the 'When the sun explodes' by Beautiful Noise Effects into the BLuguitar Amp1 which goes into the Bluguitar Blubox which then goes straight to the mixer. 

I've got a Mooer A7 in the FX Loop, as well as a 'Shallow Water' by Fairfield Circuitry (prominently featured on the loop) and the Boss DD-20 for the loop

Let me know what you think!

Improvisation_17: Building lydian textures with the Vigier Excalibur on the Bluguitar Amp1

Disquiet Junto Project 0472: Jam Time (1 of 3)                                                                                               
The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio that others will complete.                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                             
Based on Patch and Idea by Omri Cohen                                                                                                                 
https://patchstorage.com/how-to-live-loop-in-vcv-rack/

This is stub of our collab piece for the Disquiet Junto Jam Time 2021. It is inspired by a patch by Omri Cohen and follows his idea of unsynced loops that I found relieving. For a long time my hesitation with electronic music creation was the idea of proper syncronisation...

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0472-jam-time/

Looper Unsynced (disquiet0472)

DECELERATION

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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