A rough demo from the early 2000s. Original title was also "Repeal the Corn Laws"!

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Repeal (demo)

Granny Takes a Trip track from 2001 with me on acoustic guitar and Pete Lambert on vocals and keyboards. Both of us take bongo duties...

Wood Painted Brown

Kasbah Teacup

Fannings

Another tea tune dedicated to the world's best loose leaf.

Ceylon

Another from the short series of songs dedicated to Tea.

Time for Tea

A track from my second Top Floor Sessions release featuring CFO Garner of Kyotopia on bass.

Top Floor Sessions II EP

Sum Diner Mathematics

Soundtrack taken from a 1902 wax cylinder recording of Robert Ingersoll, read by Len Spencer. Ingersoll was an American lawyer, writer, and orator. 

Ingersoll's essay, After Visiting the Tomb of Napoleon, was very popular at the time it was written in 1882. It was recorded onto wax cylinder, an invention by Thomas Edison, himself a big Ingersoll admirer.

Music by Carnoe's Mummingbirds.

Wax Cylinder

Ingersoll at the Tomb of Napoleon

Track taken from new EP "Baritones" on Bandcamp.

https://carnoesmummingbirds.bandcamp.com/album/baritones

Baritones

Celia II

A funky track I've recorded about a character who is made up of samples from a 1912 wax cylinder recording of an English language course.

More about the recording of the track can be found on this blog post: https://mummingbirds.wordpress.com/2024/06/13/the-undoubted-unimpeachable-mr-jocelyn/

The Undoubted, Unimpeachable Mr Jocelyn V4

Another one from my forthcoming "Wax Cylinder" work. A vocal sample which bares a passing resemblance to a certain Beatles track, some wistful guitar, and a 3/4 time 100-year old wax cylinder glitch beat.

Wax Revolution 9 (No Madam, We Do Not)

Some guitar music set to Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress from the late 19th/early 20th century from a recording on wax cylinder c.1910.

For more about this track see the blog post -  https://mummingbirds.wordpress.com/2024/06/20/dedication-to-sarah-bernhardt/

Dedication to Sarah Bernhardt

Man who occasionally makes some sort of sound with a guitar. Sometimes composes under the pseudonym "Carnoe's Mummingbirds". Guitarist for - and founder member of - Granny Takes a Trip.

Carnoe's Mummingbirds

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