Just a vocal mess about with one of the best bass phrases I can remember from this era; Malcolm McClaren getting into the NY HipHop Pirate Radio scene back in the eighties. Less punk: more funk!

Duck Rock

This was a fun track done a while ago using the Cyclick set of Filthy Hippy Samples. Just sequenced them into a reasonable verse structure with a few opportunities for breaks and instrumental. Wrote a set of cheesy lyrics and tubed them up a bit. Used some sample guitar solos from Magix and EZ Drummer over the top. Then compressed the hell out of the lot with TRacks. I know it could all be better but for a long-time and avid reader of CM right from issue 1, I thought it was about time I submitted something. Love the mag guys; very inspiring. Peace and light.

Wanna Be a Dirty Hippy (Original)

This has to be my favourite of all the Beatles' songs; the tune is simple and yet the lyrics are the sweetest imagery that ever came out of that decade. Short phrases like "Limitless undying love ..." and "Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox ...." will be remembered in 100 years time in the same way we recall "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.."

So I could never do it justice and probably haven't in this piece. All I wanted to do was to capture the same spirit of that song but in a different way than I had heared it recorded before. Phil Spector's version with sweeping strings on the original lets the song down; David Bowie's version on Young Americans (?) was good. The best I heared was Lennon's own version on the Anthology recordings; just guitars and finger cymbals.

This version gets the words wrong and I swallowed some spit halfway through the second verse and choked a rushed "Nothing's gonna change my world". However I just wanted guitars and simple voices. I recorded two guitars; one in D and the other capoed much higher and placed them on separate tracks. The acoustic bass is from the Proteus sampler as is the roboticised arpeggio. The voices are heavily phased to sound a little trippy and the drums are from ezDrummer's vintage kit using midi phrases direct from the grooves library.

I have discovered that my singing voice is deteriorating as I get older; there was a time when it sounded fairly smooth and rounded but now sounds like a flock of geese farting in the fog. Oh well... adds gritty realism to the piece, I guess.

Across the Universe

Messin with Sound samples from the Arabic Vibes sample set

Peshwari Naan

Just a piano riff with drums and bassline. Reminds me of the old Peanuts stuff...or it doesn't.

Bounce Along

Fire And Rain VL3X

Song for Mum that was started 14 years ago...and has just made it to the first mix. Miss you Edna!

Make You Smile Version 1

This was a quick first test using the TC Helicon Voicelive 3 Extreme module. The backing track of drums piano and bass were attached VL3X preset, customised for gospel choir; voice doubler; guitar effects etc. the whole thing was sung live with me doing my own responses live in between verse lines. It's an amazing piece of kit and one that I need to spend more time with.

Loves Me Like A Rock Take 1 Test

We had an hour to spare and a bottle of beer and we both watched the Fleetwood Mac Rumours stuff on TV last week so ... hey ... had to have a go.
Ableton Live with MusicLabs Real Guitar, MusicLabs Real Strat, Miroslav Steinway, NI B4 Hammond organ, ezDrummer Vintage Kit, NI Guitar Rig III, TRacks Mastering Plugin.

Unfinished ... again ... I know but we had fun

Ken and Liz "Go Their Own Way"

And just the voices which I think sound OK on their own.... me and our Lizzie.

Go your Own Way Acapella

Produced the backing track and the percussion sections. TBH the vocal has a bit of slight AT but hey .... everyone's doing it ... apparently!  :-)

Desree Cover You Gotta Be

OKBoomer

Funky MacBook Air

"Madonna" (Acoustic Live Lounge Version) by Lizzie Corish & Marcin Dubiel

Lizzies Lockdown Gig Mentioned On BBC Radio

Lizzie On BBC Radio Devon Interview with Sarah Gosling

Joseph's Dreams Explained

My name is Ken Corish and I am an erstwhile musician and lover of technology. I love the fact that over the last ten years any normal Joe can use technology to create a sound palette that would have been impossible a few years back. This has inspired me to do stuff that I have always wanted to do ... first tried it on Fostex cassette back in the Seventies but always a little bit pants! 

So most of this stuff is unfinished and just sonic ideas but if you think anything is worth developing then let me know... perhaps we could do something together?

 Love and light travellers! K

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