And that's a wrap for Jamuary 2025! Just another slowcore jam, chorus with some fun chord choices. Vocal melody in there for sure.

Jamuary 2025 - Day 31 - Dogfood

Day 31 It's Completed

Day 31! Another year of Jamuaries! Thank you to everyone who has listened or commented, and thank you to all my fellow Jamuarians for all the inspiration. This is one of my favourite times of the year, and the main aspect which I love is the community that we foster. 

This song is about endings, but the message is a positive one: our journey will end, but tomorrow is always another day, and in the grand scheme, it is just as meaningful as any other day. 

I wander home,
I will wonder where you go, 
I want for home,

There's so much to be done,
But you can, you can
Remember when we watched the sun,
And it glows, oh it still glows,

So much I'd like to show you,
All our time has passed,
And I feel like I owe you,
I don't know what you'd ask,
And all the things left behind, it's okay,
And so the lights fade on another day,
There's no place we can stay forever,
We can learn that things don't stay the same.

Jamuary 31st 2025 The Sun Sets to Rise on Another Day

This was meant to be a bouncy little celebratory thing--you can hear hints of that in the cheesy melody--and I'd thought I'd end the JAMuary challenge with a complete song. It had other ideas, I guess.
In any case, I made it--31 days of showing up to crack the surface, trust the process, run with whims (if not scissors), and make something. Thanks to all the remarkably supportive Jamuarians (how do you find time to listen and comment so much while making your own incredible stuff?--superhumans!) and to Brian Funk's inspiring podcast that first introduced me to this challenge several years ago. It's a life changing deal, and new every year. I hope we won't wait until next year to share more music, maybe even the more polished sort. 
I look forward to catching up on my Jamuary listening over the coming week. 
JAMuary 2025 is in the bag. *high five*

Jamuary2025 Day 31 - 31 days

Gimmicks

Another B-side track from an over-productive Saturday along the way. Lots of cool bits and pieces here, but again, ran out of gas on the arrangement.

And with that, depending on if/when my Jan 31 track makes it out of impound, Jamuary 2025 is a wrap! Been a hell of a year, can't believe how much music we've all made in 31 days.

Now that the madness is over, I'll be re-listening to a lot of people's music over the next few days, so hopefully more commentary will be forthcoming!

As for the rest of the year, I've already started laying out a couple of EPs based on jamuary stuff, and you never know when the muse might strike on other projects.

If you want to stay a bit more closely connected, you can find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@paul_griffin

Cheers!

Jamuary 2025

Jamuary 25 B-Sides - Bowbow

Rokokoko

I listened back to what I posted and regretted the last-minute drum loop addition. The drums on the cheesy part just up the cheese factor too much--if I'm gonna make music for supermarkets, it should at least be on purpose. The chords stand better on their own, I think, and I am quite proud of that aspect for about half of this thing. Anyway, here's the pre-drum-loop version. 

Jamuary2025 Day 31 - 31 days (OG no drums version)

Arrivederci

Prompt: One – Make a jam using just one instrument
Key: A major
Tempo: 136 bpm

For this jam, I finally used my OP-1!!!
So you could say, it is the 1st real jam I made.

I was planning to use it the whole time, but it was the 1st time since many years I powered it up and I had to watch tutorials again to make sense of it 😅. Plus it is the 1st time I finished a track with it, and the 1st time I imported something from the OP-1 into Ableton. All the Ones I could wish for. 😛

All the sounds were made on the OP-1. I used Ableton mainly for arranging, adding some reverb, panning etc. Plus a litte bit of EQ to tame the oriental circular saw a bit. 😹

Jam2530 - One

Endless Blue, a trip-hop and downtempo fusion duo, was formed in 2003 by Minneapolis-based musicians Nick Mitchell and Laura Hillman Mitchell. Endless Blue's music blends sultry and soulful melodies with vintage synths, jazz-filled bass lines, bluesy guitar riffs, and lo-fi beats.

Over the last 20 years Endless Blue has collaborated with numerous musicians and has recorded 13 albums and EPs with a combination of original tracks and covers in Endless Blue's signature style. Listeners can expect song themes tackling everything from relationships, identity, loss, and mental health.

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.

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