This is exactly what I needed to hear this morning. Soothing.

Work in progress

Carry him home

Des oiseaux

I have no idea what this song is. An experiment, I suppose. For reasons too complicated to go into here, I found myself stuck at Shortlands station in South East London very early last Sunday morning. It was only for 40 minutes or so, but enough time to jot down some lyrics (including a list of stations on the line). They were pretty unstructured and loose, so I didn't want to impose too much structure on the song itself. Difficult for a verse-chorus-bridge merchant like me!

I used the drum machine on my mini Vox practice amp to write to, and that made me want to make the whole thing a little bit... well, I believe it's what the kids call 'lofi'. So I got out my SM57, which had been gathering dust on a shelf, and mic-ed up the practice amp to record the drum track. And then I thought 'why stop there'? So I recorded an acoustic guitar and all the vocals with the same '57. Not sure I'll be doing it again any time soon, but it was all fun and exciting.

(Tiny point, but I realise that 'blackcaps' sounds a bit like 'black cabs', which may be a tiny bit confusing. I was referencing the Eurasian Blackcap, which my bird call identification app confidently told me were the birds making a racket in the sycamore trees opposite where I was sitting).

LYRICS

Sunday morning
Missed connections
Waiting rooms
And disaffection
Blackcaps calling, calling
In the sycamore trees

Yellow lines
And platform signs
Litter, brambles
Side-by-side
Suburban idyll half-glimpsed
Through the sycamore trees

St Mary Cray, Swanley, Bat and Ball, Otford, Sevenoaks, Shortlands

In Shortlands
Stranded in Shortlands
In Shortlands
Stranded all our lives

Shortlands

Les Dunes

un effet de glissando sur 1/2 ton dans le grave du HP métallique des ondes Martenot déclenche un feu d'artifice spectral harmonique et inharmonique plein de promesses inspirantes…

Métal Sombre, Éclats

The Dancing Snowflakes

Autumn Reflection (no beats)

This time I tried to use bow on my mandolin, balalaika, added radio noise, violin and microkorg synth, enjoy!

OLD PHOTOS V

An experiment found in the archive, recorded in mid-May 2022.
I would be curious to rework it or at least explore its sonic possibilities, but I can't find the session. 
there are some of that could be potential candidates but they are "corrupt".. every time I try to reopen them in Ableton the program crashes..

0003 8 - Audio

Gear: Deluge, Wavestate, Zoia

Started out in a totally different direction, wound up here. I was just noodling a bit to figure out what sounds and textures I wanted to put together, and as I played I realized I had a nice ambient piece on my hands, so I recorded that instead.

May have gone overboard with the clicky, blippy percussion, but I'm not sure such a thing is possible

Jamuary 24 24 - Processing

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