inspired by both my Dsi Tetr4 (analogue synth) & Exode's patches, this is today's little marvel... the plucked thing, the bass, the organ... are from Exode's patches... the top lead thing is a version of simply mini that came with the Tetr4...

my voice on there too... just a 1st draft done in cubase for now... may well make it into logic with actual words in the future x

Rising Sketch Tetr4

thought i'd try out a few old effects that i found again... and i used a recording i made on the tube when the voice had  a very strange sound...

turned into this x

Speak Again

A song for my niece Charlotte who turned 2 yesterday (8-5-11),

written over the last 18 months or so, recorded over the last 3 weeks.

Keyboards, Vocals:		Robbie Knight
Guitar, Mixing:			Chris Greene
Drums, Backing Vocals:	Ben Haley
Bass, Recording:			Pawel Kucharski
Tenor Sax:				Pete Godin
Alto Sax:					Dan Spanner
Trombone:				George Simmonds

Charlotte

The wedding took place over two days, in St Michaels Church, Blewbury, Oxfordshire & The Montague On The Gardens Hotel, Russell Square, London.

St Michaels Waltz played while the bride walked in in both venues, supported by her father in the church.

All The Angels played in the hotel as the bride and groom walked out.

Signing was meant for the signing of the registry in the hotel but didn't get played.

Kat is my sister.

photography by Lisa Bretherick.

St Michaels Waltz

All The Angels

The wedding took place over two days, in St Michaels Church, Blewbury, Oxfordshire & The Montague On The Gardens Hotel, Russell Square, London.

St Michaels Waltz played while the bride walked in in both venues, supported by her father in the church.

All The Angels played in the hotel as the bride and groom walked out.

Signing was meant for the signing of the registry in the hotel but didn't get played.

Kat is my sister.

Signing

Recorded over the solstice moment, from darkening to lightening, with DSI Tempest & Xfer Records Serum.

Audio version of this video: http://youtu.be/5fZ7iBfZOEc

WinterSolsticeImprovisation

I got a message from Thomas after my Winter Solstice Improvisation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZ7iBfZOEc). He was offering for me to come and record an improvisation on his new 270 Butterfly Wurlitzer. It got me thinking about having a regular improvisation again, and as the Imbolc was coming up it suddenly made a lot of sense to have an improvisation on the quarter days (like the winter solstice) and the cross quarter days (like Imbolc). 

And thus this new twice quarterly improvisation got going, this being the 2nd and the winter solstice being the 1st. Not as busy as the old weekly improvisation, but busy enough for a man in his 40’s.

Thomas Phillips hosted it at his place - with his 2 wurli's. We recorded 4 improvisations that day, 2 duo's and 2 solo's. It was last Tuesday the 3rd, a few days after the standard Imbolc of the 1st of Feb.

I'll be putting them up once a week for the next 4 weeks. 

This one has me on the Butterfly 270 Wurlitzer and Thomas on the 140B Wurlitzer.

The next improvisation will take place on or near the Spring Equinox.

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Follow Tom: https://soundcloud.com/thomascornelius

This is an audio version of this video: http://youtu.be/_UaW5ZsWqgg

Imbolc Improvisation A

Forest Hill to Highbury & Islington on the Orange line. "Not for public use" plug socket powering the Makenoise 0-Coast, Korg SQ-1 CV sequencer running on batteries. Recorded directly into Zoom recorder. Patching, no keyboard, no edits.

I got the 0-coast in mid June and the SQ-1 arrived maybe a week later, i've done a few orange line oddysey's with the 0-coast now, may publish them all, i look forward to getting a battery pack for the 0coast so i don't have to plug in at all... could patch in the middle of a field...

ForestHill2Hi&I 0-Coast & SQ-1 Orange Line Patching

The piece of music i wrote for my father's funeral, played in the church the morning of the funeral.

DadsFuneralMorning

Pianist, Organist, Synthist, Rhodesist, Composer, Improviser,

Constantly musically engaged with something... glad to have this here space, i hope it will encourage more finished tracks out of me & the various marvellous people i work with x

was @ one time putting out an improvisation (video) on the web every week... not doing it now but they're all still out there, all 167 of them x google: "The Longcat Weekly Improvisation"

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