Here's a series of tracks recorded, ultra-simply, on my iPhone voice memo app. Low fat tunes, plain and simple! Comments, likes and share would be entirely appreciated. Thank you, kindly.

The Buffalo Calamari Sessions

Fonky

El Dembow De La Opera

Omega El Fuerte - Dale Pa Tra

Roots rock, stripped down, one voice, one take recorded on an iPhone Voice memo. It doesn't get any more naked than this. Not an auto-tune within 50 miles of this track. That was the guide track recorded in March 2016. Then Late May 2016 came around and a remix was undertaken (slide guitar, blues harp, stand-up bass and drums added) along with mastering work at emastered.com. And there’s your Uncle Bob and Aunt Fanny. Lock, Stock and Barrel. Booyah!
The writing of this song is credited to Gene Vincent and his manager, Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis. Evidently the song originated in 1955, when Vincent was recuperating from a motorcycle accident at the US Navy hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. There, he met Donald Graves, who supposedly wrote the words to the song while Vincent wrote the tune. (Cf. "Money Honey" by the Drifters, 1953). The song came to the attention of Davis, who allegedly bought out Graves' rights to the song for some $50 (sources vary as to the exact amount), and had himself credited as the lyric writer. Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song "Don't Bring Lulu". Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by the comic strip, "Little Lulu": "I come in dead drunk and stumble over the bed. And me and Don Graves were looking at this bloody book; it was called Little Lulu. And I said, "Hell, man, it's 'Be-Bop-a-Lulu.' And he said, 'Yeah, man, swinging.' And we wrote this song."
The phrase "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is similar to "Be-Baba-Leba", the title of a # 3 R&B chart hit for Helen Humes in 1945, which became a bigger hit when recorded by Lionel Hampton as "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop." This phrase, or something very similar, was widely used in jazz circles in the 1940s, giving its name to the bebop style, and possibly being ultimately derived from the shout of "Arriba! Arriba!" used by Latin American bandleaders to encourage band members.
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Be Bop-a-Lula - ReMix2 - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

The gone-all-too-soon prolific artist known as Prince has laid down countless tracks to much deserved success. In fact, it's rumored his vault holds enough recorded music for another lifetime of releases. Prince's creative powerhouse was boundless in the studio and it is only surpassed when he took to the stage to amaze every audience he went before. While Prince was still alive, Eric Clapton was once asked "How does it feel to be the greatest living guitarist? He pensively replied: I don't really know. You'll have to ask Prince."
Here's a chestnut re-envisioned for the coffeehouse genre. Devoid of a sensibility that comes from mullets, padded shoulders and a androgynous 90's pop-funk, this version of the When Doves Cry takes on a new sense of film noir energy and a sense of urgency, hopefully better suited for 2016 -- the year of the composer's untimely passing. This one's for you, sweet purple one. A million thanks for taking us along for your exciting, enthralling ride. It was in a word...awesome.
Post Script: The original April 2016 solo voice and guitar demo track was ReMixed with added instrumentation in June 2016 and Mastered vie eMastered.com


Buffalo Calamari Sessions

When Doves Cry - ReMix - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

The work of the Beatles is, seemingly, never done. It will be reinvented time and again…for a long time to come. Based in the Blues, this little ditty began in a dank basement somewhere in 1920's rural America (Robert Johnson are you listening?) and, ended up in London, ca. 1960's getting bent, folded and manipulated into something totally new, fresh, and OH!-so-heart-wrenching. Leave it to John Lennon to find solace in gut-wrenching, painful relationships. Here's our own darn, lightly oaked version. Giving it a spin, you’ll be well done in around 3 minutes. Comments, likes and shares would be Oh!...so sweet. Oh! Darling. There ya' have it...

This recording lives on our Buffalo Calamari Sessions Album, for good reason. It was recorded on a late 1990's 12-string Ovation guitar; captured in the garage for that extra-dull, cavernous-void flava. Savor it like a rare Single Malt Scotch, Kimosabes. We hope it'll grow on you: Perhaps it will, if you've experienced one ounce of angst in ya' life.

While the guide track for this chestnut was recorded in the summer of 2015, it was ReMixed in June of 2016 and Mastered courtesy of the Grammy-Award Winning folks at eMastered.com. Taylor Swift, my dear lady, feel free to go ahead and eat your heart out darling. That’s what The Blues is all about!


Oh! Darling

Oh! Darling - ReMix - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

Here's another track from the Buffalo Calamari Sessions. Per usual, this was a garage recording, captured on a iPhone voice memo in one take, with one voice, on one track. It's that simple. And, that guide track was uncomplicated; wrestled to sound bite in three minutes: No more, no less. While recording, we realized this chestnut is a bit of a tribute to our fathers and grandfathers alike who were immigrants from Italy. We hope the emotion speaks to those who came before us. As much as we like to think we are vastly different from our parents, we really can't escape the similarities of a life lived as an apple that dropped not far from the tree. 

Enjoy, if you care to listen. A like, comment and share would be very nice and much appreciated. It seems we are all so busy to take a breath, observe and engage with the storytelling arts and those that spin those stories; those who persist to operate on the furthest reaches of indie frontier.
While this was first released in May of 2015 as a solo acoustic demo it was remixed with parts added in June of 2016. The folks over at emastered.com handled the mastering process with their Grammy Award winning engineers behind the technology.


Old Man

Old Man - ReMix - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

With the loss of his first child, a son named Conor, Eric Clapton wrote this tribute to try to deal with unspeakable loss of his child. The song resonates with anyone who has suffered a loss and has to deal with reconciliation and the realization that you must go on -- while honoring life lost. Here's our own darn version. 
Originally recorded as a very simple recording: one voice, one track, one guitar. No varnish. Just the truth, in an attempt to re-tell it in a plain jane fashion. That was the tracks first incarnation. Covered in October 2015. 
Post Script: In June of 2016, the track was brought into GarageBand to ReMix with additional instrumentation. The Mastering was then parceled out in the Grammy-Award Winning hands of emastered.com. Thanks again Collin, fine job, as usual.

Hope you like it. Comments, Shares and Likes are appreciated. Every day is precious. Enjoy yours like there's no tomorrow!


Tears In Heaven

Tears In Heaven - ReMix - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

Guitar players look to their instruments for inspiration. In this instance, it was a acquisition, a Ovation 12-String guitar dating from the early 1990's. We used it to record this song, a favorite, hopeful song about redemption and relationships ...from the always impressive Sting. We relate to the song's story for several reasons personally and professionally...and, equally wanted to hear a pared down version of this ballad on the newly acquired Ovation. This is a simple message, a prayer and a promise to a lover that things will be better...even if they don't appear to be so in the current situation. Hope is a good thing, don't you think? Thanks for having a listen to this humble offering. Just a lone voice with few embellishments (a Latin infused bass line and an exotic trap percussion beat)and, a newly acquired guitar that needed an airing is a reserved tropical setting. Comments, likes and shares are most appreciated especially in light of Sting's recent drop of his 57th & 7th Album in early September 2016. A thoughtful man, he is, that Gordon Sumner fellow. A busy mind, indeed.

Fields of Gold

Fields Of Gold--ReMix- Michael Delgorio -- eMastered

Vamo a dale pa'tra .... y Pa' Lante.....y Pa' Traaaaaa

Looooojan Con la escuela viejaaaaaa !!!!!

Happy 4th of July !!!

#KABOOOOM !!!!!

Voy Asel

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Loojan - Voy Asel (Original Bass)

Do you remember singing along to this song every time it came on the TV?

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Everyone loves a good story. We've enjoyed telling them in words, pictures and music. 

Please follow MichaeldelAard here and on twitter @MichaeldelAard. We've long been moved by the rough cuts, bootlegs and demos by storied artists both past and present because they show pure emotion, high creativity unfettered by auto-tune and over-production. The elimination of anything that could remotely resemble anything but a perfect track is not part of this stream. This project is more about spontaneity. You'll find perfectly human imperfections and, spare (lean and mean)demo productions throughout. On occasion, though all tracks were recorded ultra-simply on an iPhone's voice memo app, we would pull a track into GarageBand to add a track or sound effects (as in several of the originals, herein)...but all in all these are low-fat productions that reflect our most basic love for music and storytelling. Nothing more than that. Should a track tickle your ear, we'd be most grateful to here about it. Thanks for the opportunity to share with you. Follows, comments and shares are welcome.