Your Takes // Lyke Wake Dirge

Another Old Tunes Fresh Takes attempt. This one started off as my attempt to make it sounds like an old Americana style song with harmonica, then realised I am rubbish at Harmonica. I think it now sounds a bit like, Where the Wild Roses Grow/ Nick Cavesque.
Used the lyrics written by Jeff Duntemann. My Yorkshire accent is not that good to recreate the original, especially as I am from Blackpool originally. 
Kept it simple again; vocals and minor guitar, changed the chords, as I usually do. Have a couple more attempts at it up my sleeve too, then need to decide which I want to submit

Lyke Wake Dirge 1st attempt

Lyke Wake Dirge

A savage take on LYKE WAKE DIRGE.
Assembled for Old Tunes Fresh Takes.

Lie Awake With The Corpse

A version of Lyke Wake Dirge recorded for Old Tunes Fresh Takes podcast

Lyke wakes

Written for Old Tunes Fresh Takes Podcast

Version of the Lyke Wake Dirge for the Old Tunes Fresh Takes podcast.

Lyke Wake Dub

My take on Lyke Wake Dirge for @oldtunesfreshtakes

Last track of the series!!

Do right before you die or have a baaaaad trip. Gongs and bells and synth drones - electronic arrangement of traditional song A Lyke Wake Dirge.

This is my take on the old Yorkshire funeral song "Lyke Wake Dirge." Apologies to Philip Glass, whom I shamelessly ripped off. All instruments played by Roderick Cumming. Vocals by Jill Paxton. Cover art by Seth Lachs.

lyke-wake

A short sound collage made for Old Tunes, Fresh Takes podcast inspired by a piece I saw performed live by John Cage in Huddersfield, I think in 1989, it was Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake. I was captivated by the location recordings from places in the book that he used, this was mixed with musical excerpts played by Irish musicians and dancers.

I tried to weave my own little music excerpts into the sound recordings I made in and around Newport, plus a little bit of Dylan Thomas at the start. I was also reading a novel called ‘The Hopkins Manuscript’ by RC Sherriff about a countdown to the end of the world (due to a collision with the moon) where the main character is frustrated by the way people take this devastating news in their stride, without panic etc and my wife noticed that there are modern day parallels with Global Warming etc. I used recordings of a couple of old chaps in Newport talking about rugby, and people generally just getting on with life, shopping etc without particularly thinking about their own destiny.

A monthly digital folk club and podcast where we learn and record a traditional folk song and encourage you to do the same. Open to musicians of all styles and abilities.