dog days

Hammered dulcimer mixed on logic with frame drum and a little synth.

Wind On The Moor

Recorded for a short film project, many thanks to Russell Harris for tabla and Tom Gloynes guitar.

48hours

One of the comps from my solo 'mainly-acoustic' cd; guitar (electro-acoustic Tanglewood) and my hammered Dulcimer

Smoke

An early Logic creation; midi drums, guitars and hammered dulcimer.

February

Recorded on hammered and appalachian dulcimer. It's mixed on logic - but I play this live with the trusty Boss RC2 loop pedal.

Houndtor

Thanks to Ishan Dal Din for the guitar loop recorded on the RC2 pedaL I over dubbed the dulcimer, and a little synth in Logic.


Threads

I composed this tune as a busker in 1990 in St. Just in Cornwall, where I lived for three years. It's always been one of my constant solo tunes, ever evolving, and backed here with steel string guitar (Tanglewood).

St. Just

Welcome to my soundcloud!

I've been playing music and building instruments for over thirty years, mainly playing instrumental hammered dulcimer and guitar. My roots are in the British folk scene, and I've built bowed psaltries and Appalachian dulcimers as well. But my musical taste is eclectic - drawing on blues, jazz, rock - in the nineties I was part of Catfood - a South West eco-rock band who toured and played festivals including Glastonbury and The Big Green Gathering.

I've been lucky enough to play with many excellent musicians over the years,  Ishan Dal Din, Tom Gloynes and Russell Harris to name a few, and pre-Covid was performing with my brother, the poet Marc Woodward.
 Hoping to gig soon with new material, otherwise I'm solo with my own compositions, a few covers, and a loop pedal. I play restaurants, bars, weddings etc.

I also teach and restore dulcimers. I started with a broken antique East Anglian instrument when I was seventeen. I designed and built my current damped, 3/16/13 bridged instrument in 2007.
For the dulcimer enthusiasts, it has a quarter-sawn 6mm spruce top, arched back, light internal steel frame  and carbon fibre damping bars. I prefer the individual bridges because you can tweak them to fine tune.  I calculated it was under a tonne and a half of stress ...but who isn't?!

I studied film making and painting at art college, and am increasingly getting into short films, and making film music.

Check out my mechanical sculptures/art: www.andrew-woodward.co.uk

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