Just consider this as a placeholder of some simple music experiments I have done. I play around with my 12-string EKO guitar, 6 string acoustic Taylor, Fender Strat and mouth harps and my Roland FA 08 workstation.
Many thanks to Audacity for allowing me to mix sounds.
As always, the music and mistakes (all of them!) are all mine..
Many thanks to Audacity for allowing me to mix sounds.
As always, the music and mistakes (all of them!) are all mine..
THE FIRE AND THE ROSE
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I imagined myself sitting in the dark, staring at a fire, with red flames throwing colors all around. Then there was T.S. Elliot...
The trumpet sound comes from my Roland FX, don't ask me how I did that, totally forgot. |
Someone asked me for a version of the song without the 'sex' in it. I laughed till I cried... and then recorded this version.
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AL ZHEIMER
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One day I found myself staring at my image in the mirror. The reflection of my watch-hand that ticks the seconds seemed to go back in time... I wondered... what if one day I would loose my memory, being not able anymore to go back to that treasure trove that so much defines who I am...
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There is a clock ticking at 60 beats per minute in the song, it has a very simple set of chords on my Taylor (Capo at 2nd fret, Am, Bm, C, Ddim) and a few tones on the piano. I tried to keep it clean and dark.
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MIKE'S NIGHT TERROR
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We were in India studying the spreading of diseases and the dynamics of crowds during the Kumbh Mela festival that drew about 70 Million people to Ujaijn. An amazing experience.
A few weeks later we needed to be in St. Petersburg. It was there that Mike Lees (a colleague of mine) had this nightmare... seems he had some on resolved issues in his head... |
This is not really a blues, but is has the infamous A/Em/E7 kind of sound to it. There is a C and a D somewhere. The blues harp in A is supposed to reflect a bit of the horror feeling. The piano is just to bring some color. The line 'there is a big fat Indian sniffing at my door' was brought to the breakfast table by Mike...
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GONE
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Someone told me that this was a too sad song, with a whining mouth harp to make things worse...
It is about saying goodbye, one time too often... |
The chords are in the video, there is a kind of funny 'Escher waterfall' music line in it. The recording is pretty lousy and the volume needs to be turned up quite a bit. Unfortunately I lost the raw recordings... hope to redo it once.
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TEENAGER BLUES
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Alfons Hoekstra turned 50. Unfortunately I could not be there to join the party. I would have loved to. As a kind of compensation I thought I presented him with this little gift
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The song follows a more or less classical blues pattern, though I screwed up the number of bars. Somewhere you might hear my Fender crying. Guess I hurt him (or is it a 'she' ?).
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Peter and Paul, but where the @#$^& is Mary ?
A silly revisit of the ancient Hotel California... A song with Paul Duijn who plays the rhythm guitar and speaks the magic words...
I wrote the next melody in Singapore on the 7th of the 7th month with a lot of 7th chords. Paul Duijn plays the Trumpet!