Prog Rock Britannia - An Observation in Three Movements (part one of three)
Pretty self-explanatory, really
Friday 6 February 2009
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Helm's Deep y'all
16 year olds write songs, 16 year olds forget about songs, 26 year old man digs up songs he wrote when 16, finally records album, thinks wistfully about how things have changed, chorus til fade... by Rob Matthews and His Mate Hamish.
Saturday 20 December 2008
Monday 17 November 2008
The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs
Here's a mostly pointless cover of Wilco's Handshake Drugs the veers into Television's Marquee Moon for a few minutes in the middle. Contains viola. And doubletracked tambourine.
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Coltrane in slow motion
"Hey what's up with Don the bassist, he's looking like shit"
"Don started doing heroin"
"Jeez, how could he be so stupid"
"All the really good jazz musicians did three things. They read the Bible. They did heroin. And they practised a lot. Don wants to get better, so he's started reading the Bible and doing heroin."
- I Love Music thread
I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane lately. It's not just that his playing is fast - it's more like he's playing amazing melodic lines and he just happens to want to play them extremely quickly. They'd be just as interesting slowed down. By way of example, here's India at half speed:
John Coltrane - India (The Ecuador Three treacle remix)Thursday 28 August 2008
Carpenters Challenge: Rainbows
The Carpenters Challenge: record a Carpenters classic, if possible making it even more airy fairy than the original. First up is our man Manketta (or Brian to his mam), seen here on the right, with a glitchy update of a middle of the road classic. Stay tuned for versions of Superstar, We've Only Just Begun and more...
Friday 15 August 2008
Jenny Is A Fox
This is one of those tunes where I tried to put too much stuff in and it never quite came together as I planned, so I uploaded it so I can leave it and finish something else. Oh well. I'm one track closer to finishing the Peace And Love EP (provisional cover above).
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