OCTOBER 2011
A recording with Rob Sowden in his lounge.
Guitar - Lorraine
piano - Lorraine
vocals - Lorraine
cellos - Rob's digi-cleverings
squeakings - Lorraine's guitar ...


Honesty

JANUARY 2012
Recorded at South Park Arts Centre, Bracknell on a £90,000 Steinway (!) in the Recital Room

Piano - Lorraine

Steinway Improvisation

Recorded in the Chancel of St Laurence Church
Singing/improvisations over Ant Newman's loops
(and then - to avoid being in my eyeline, which I found offputting - he started crawling round the floor ... hence the strange wordistry!)

Strange Man Crawling Round the Floor

Spent a tiny amount of time today recording. 
No production on this at all, very much a 'sketch' of the song... there are 2 versions

Please understand

Spent a tiny amount of time today recording. 
No production on this at all, very much a 'sketch' of the song... 
Am POIGNANTLY aware that there are out of tune buts in this :o( but I've never had this song 'heard' so it's about time ...

Hold me

Spent a tiny amount of time today recording. 
No production on this at all, very much a 'sketch' of the song... there are 2 versions.  
I wrote this song when I was 18 ... did a very brief recording of it with my Dad's friend (?) in my kitchen (??!) and not sure what happened to those versions.  Hadn't played the song (til today!) for over 6 years ...

Down in the Dirt

Another one from Saturday (the grand total of 70 mins 'recording' with a glandy-esque throat and an increasingly detuning guitar (the church I was playing in was verrrrrrrrrry collllllld!)
But still. Here's one take of that song ...

Look at me

The second version of the same song ... and unfortunately the guitar gets progressively more (cold!) out of tune as the song goes on :o(

Detested listening back to this - it always sounds so much better live!  Stuck some reverb on (about all I can figure out how to do on Audacity) after much fiddling.  That'll have to do for a 'sketch' of the song...

Look at me (second take)

Recorded this a while ago. Loved writing it (6/8 to 4/4 to 6/8 ... tried playing it with someone on cahone ... he hated me!) and love singing it with someone to harmonise.

Not v keen on this version (not how I hear it in my head) but it's a start!

My 'If Only' Life

Recorded quite some time ago.  Would love one day to layer the other piano bits I've written for it (as well as the BVs)

At least most of the singing is 90% in tune, though!

Didn't Mean To

Recorded at about 9am one morning courtesy of Andy who helped set up various techniflibberies that befuddled me.
Safe to say I think it would have sounded better if I'd not had so much coffee... but I was young and only 27, what did I know?!

Time and Again

2008
Also recorded after too much (voice crippling) coffee early in the morning. 

Sounds better on a real piano ... :o)

I had prepared

I have played live gigs for over 10 years ... never made a huge amount of space for it in my life, even though I LOVE IT ... I've deflected encouragements & turned down gigs if work was busy.  
2012 may be the Olympics, but it's also the year that Lorraine Gets Her Arse in Gear and plays more, writes more music and ACTUALLY RECORDS STUFF!  Going to take some time off work this year to record, so that next time I get asked, I can SELL A CD!

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