let it begin - that's what I do: plug in my 12 string, set up my mic and throw it all over my pedalboard/ interface. So enjoy while I surf the soundwaves.

This is yet another step for me and hopefully for you as well. We're getting closer ... 
I'm looking forward to comments & thoughts!

blu12 are blu - musician, artist, poet & oceanlover - and his 12-string guitar. Together they celebrate pure,  essential songwriting, genre-crossing rhythms and improvisational meditation along the coasts of this world. Between the waves, seconds before sunset they create atmospheric worlds of sound, which unfold a magical space for small lyrical fireworks.

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let it begin - ambient chillout improvisation one take | blu jam 1

Recorded, mixed & mastered 09 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes
This is my Danelectro 12-string electric guitar in four similar variations in Live 12 Suite.

Each variation is through Live's 2x12 Near On-Axis amp preset and my own channel strip, including compression, sometimes high. I quantized these pretty close to whatever grid I was using at 76 bpm, if that matters to anyone. Use them as you would like!

Variation 01 - three notes, stretched out a bit in the Texture warp mode, with one note stretched a bit more. Live's overdrive is on here at mid-high frequencies.

Variation 02 - five notes, I think I left the speed alone here. Just put it through Beat Repeat in mix mode, my second-gen deconstruction of their Deconstruct preset with some fading decay, a 12 tone octave  and almost 100% chance of glitching.

Variation 03 - sped this up, slowed it back down and re-quantized this a few times. Then I used the newer Live distortion device, Roar, and edited/adjusted their Alien Symphony preset.

Variation 04 - I left the speed alone but applied reverse and fades to this one. This one is through the Redux at 4 bits and 11.7 kHz at a modest 20% wet.

Further variations will probably work their way into a future Heatsink track when I am ready to compile my next album under that name. 

Artwork: From the LIRR or somewhere in NYC or the Upper East Side, 09 Mar 2015 

©2015,2024 Jim Lemanowicz - music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

This original version of "Four Variations for Left" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3). The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio

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Four Variations for Left (disquiet0636)

Field Commander Woody

This was quite the hits back in 2015-2016
Made the cover back then, hoarded the file until today. 

My thoughts were.... could I acoustify a DJ song? :lightbulb:
...maybe if

DJ Snake - Middle (acoustic guitar and vocal)

Song 4 for the July 2024 5-in-5 Challenge. The prompt was to use at least five of the following words: Miami - Breeze - Verbena - Compassion - Unwind - Sweat - Rattan - Floral - Walking - Twirl. I deployed six; as the words for these prompts seem to have been chosen at random (?), I often feel like I go into "free-association" mode!

I recorded this demo on my TASCAM DP-006 "pocketstudio", with two 12-string guitars, mandolin and vocal. Maybe I'll expand on this song one day...

August breeze, and waves the grass
To the verbena’s song
That signs the path your feet unwind
In shapes we pass along
Between the skylarks, you and I
And you smile

Maybe down to compassion’s pull
Was that floral dress you wear
Your skirts they flow with every twirl
And catch your shining hair
The glance you blew to me
Unwinds my heart

Fieldfare (demo)

Goodman Grand Concert 12-String

She Is My Friend (Doing Fine)

Drive

Vox Joe

Scratch

Zep 8

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Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, with "prog" and English folk inclinations. Influences include Paul McCartney, Peter Hammill, Anthony Phillips, Phil Keaggy, Mike Oldfield, David Kitt, Daniel Lanois, Bill Frisell, etc., and plenty of others.

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