Name: Jamuary2024-11 - the chipperest of keys by Pally
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: Not much time, but I like the optimistic little piece that came out. I thought I was starting in D minor, but this won't cause any instant weeping. Inversions made 6s of 7s and chippered it up. I expect to return to this.

Gear: Deluge

I know this chord progression has a specific name and I can't remember what it is. Ah well, here's to another Jamuary!

Jamuary 01 24 - Tumble

Day 1 of the Jamuary Challenge 2024!

Inspired by Jonas Bendiksen's photo of white butterflies surrounding a crashed spacecraft in Russia.

Jamuary 1st 2024 White Butterflies and Satellites

Gear: Deluge

Made the beat and it seemed like it really wanted some spoken word on top of it. A partial reading from a short piece by Robert Monson: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com/p/this-is-not-the-end

Jamuary 02 24 - This Is Not The End

Jamuary Day 4. A mix of recordings, from a train in France, a computer whirr, a microwave, some wooden wind chimes, and a voice on the radio that I almost didn't use but became the recurring theme of this one.

Jamuary 4th 2024 This Is

Day 9.

Photo by christian-lue: https://unsplash.com/@christianlue

Jamuary 9th 2024 Voices

Not much time, but I like the optimistic little piece that came out. I thought I was starting in D minor, but this won't cause any instant weeping. Inversions made 6s of 7s and chippered it up. I expect to return to this.

Jamuary2024

Jamuary2024-11 - the chipperest of keys

Jamuary 18th 2024 Distance

Day 26. All the percussion is just me tapping on my desk and then some erosion, pedals, and amps. The bass is some guitar transposed down an octave.

Image by Marjan Blan: https://unsplash.com/@marjan_blan

Jamuary 26th 2024 A Kind of Destination

Day 29. This one was inspired by memories of reading Calvin and Hobbes in the morning while eating breakfast. The photo is of the kitchen window in my old home.

Today I used only acoustic guitar with no effects except some volume related ones and some EQ. Also played in 5/4 time.

Jamuary 29th 2024 A Memory

Day 30. Wanted something with a little more energy for this one. I sang do re mi and put the whole thing into a simpler and sliced it. Played around a bit and transposed a few bits and this came together eventually. Had to trust my gut a bit, but I'm glad I did.

Jamuary 30th 2024 Becoming

Kepala Duit (Commissioned by LabourNet TV)

Originally from various sides of various mountain ranges near and far from the sea, Pally's got the waves and the crags and the peaks and the plains, the evergreens and the waves of grain, the salty breeze and the fireflies deep in those bonny veins. A forever tanline from the Bible belt and bad winter skin ensure that every song's a lie, and every lie's the damndest truth, and any truth a pretentiousest overstatement.

Jamuary2024-11 - the chipperest of keys

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