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[midwayfair]

This is my band's new single. I made a yarn-handwriting lyric video for it.

My co-producer picked the song for the record (it's not the type of song I normally would have included on a band album) and played the drums on it. I really liked how he mixed it. This song was like our benchmark the low end on the rest of the tracks.

Anyway, I don't sing like this often. It was an interesting experiment.

 

[boji]

Random Julian Lage single. Dig the noir, unexpected chord changes. His channel is pretty cool too.

 

[roofRob]

That's my latest project's latest single (already three quarters of a year in, the next single should come 'Around' in two more months from now. We just re-recorded drums with some of my DIY 500 series gear)...

 

[midwayfair]

Full album is out today. Honestly one of the best parts of having it out finally is that my favorite songs to perform on it weren't released as singles, and I can play whatever I want from it now ...

We got at least one review so far (there's a couple others pending) from a site called Americana-UK:

"This is an album that continues to deliver on repeated listening, both with its lyrical themes and musical arrangements revealing numerous layers and hidden depths, displaying a breadth of influences […] and yet at the same time feeling very current and of its time. [...] It’s a thoroughly enjoyable album up there with the best of this years which deserves to reach a wider audience."

And we even got a little bit of radio play. Feels good.

On bandcamp:


Or the evil empire if you prefer (it's everywhere):

 

[pucho812]

You can really here every bit of emotion pouring out in this recording…

 

[Tubetec]

I hadnt heard of Julian Lage before , it does make nice easy listening of a Sunday afternoon .

Congrats Rob , I look forward to hearing the finished album .

Well done Midway , I'll give it a listen later on the monitors .

Was a mini music fesitval down the town last night ,more than 20 bands and artists on two stages ,
best day/night out I had in ages . Each band/artist played around 30 minutes and no one was acting the diva about sharing backline or drumset etc . Finally gigs are getting back to normal post Covid , lots of happy people . I had to leg it away for a finish as a group of pretty young things were all over me like a rash , made me wish I was 20 years younger again .

 

[midwayfair]

Is he tap dancing while playing?

Same song family as Hot Tamales

 

[pucho812]

Forgot about this one. Then realized who produced it and was like oh yeah, that’s good.

 

[midwayfair]

Picked this up for bandcamp Friday, found kind of randomly while tag surfing:



It's a jazz combo doing music heavily influenced by Scottish folk music. It's lovely and well played.

 

[pucho812]

 

[Tubetec]

I got to see a guitar player called Will Killeen last night ,

The gig took place at a shop that sells leather belts ,wallets and bags , was like stepping back in time ,
and as is the custom the drink flowed until the wee small hours of the morning , a nice mix of about 30 people from all backrounds , the craic was mighty as we'd say here . Paying back for it today with the hangover , only just getting the cure into me now .

 

[desol]

Here's a song I recently wrote called 'Beating Drum'. I wrote it and recorded it in a single day. I like it. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

 

[pucho812]

One of many cool pieces from Brazil during the 60-70’s known stylistically as samba soul.

 

[Tubetec]

Powerful stuff

 

[pucho812]

Was listening to some new monitors a friend picked up. He said they were great. I put this track one and right away found a flaw. The upright here is real lying help drive the song. It’s a great recording. But on the new monitors we were listening to, some upright notes were buried, they didn’t ring out or were heard as they should have been.

 

[pucho812]

Seems you can’t escape the cramps “goo goo muck” as it’s been plastered all over due to the Netflix show Wednesday.
that’s all cool and all, but it is a cover. The original seems more funky.

 

[Tubetec]

She's a dark horse this one ,
She has the old fashioned gipsy charm ,
new album coming out soon ,

 

[pucho812]

These days, I use this song in part of a long birthday playlist…

 

[midwayfair]

I've been doing guitar arrangements of fiddle tunes recently.

I found this charming, somewhat baroque-sounding tune in one of the fiddle tune books I've been devouring for the last couple months.

I learned it purely by reading (taking my best guess on the tempo) and then went to find a recording and didn't find one anywhere! I eventually found one on Bandcamp, on an album of English tunes from Dutch sources. However, Robin Williamson came across the tune in the wild and thought it was notable enough to stick in his book, "English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Fiddle Tunes."

He writes in chord names, and while I agreed with most of his choices I made a couple changes to the harmony here and there.

This is not a very difficult arrangement, though it does go up the neck a bit and some of the similar long eighth note runs took me some time to commit to memory. It's a dance tune, but it takes rubato well, so you can go in a more trad or artsy direction with the feel.

Anyway, enough yakkin'.



Here's the score (one page) or the tab (two pages) if you like it enough to play it yourself (there are some links for the original muse score files if you want, in the description of the video.

 

[pucho812]

With the current weather out here..,