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Reading Time: 2 minutes This is my Father’s old Classical Guitar – he has had this as long as I can remember and I have taken care of it as we are clearing and managing some of his goods. The label inside contains the following: Manuel SeguraFabb. GuitarreRoma E …
Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s one good thing to come out of all this, it’s been quite a surge in and reduced software. Native instruments, IK Multimeda to name a couple of have given away some good stuff and Ableton have chopped a massive 40% off the price. …
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, for a change I decided not to buy a guitar, much to the amazement of my partner and my son. For many many years, any spare cash I had was religiously spent on synthesisers, and this Christmas I decided to revive that great tradition. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes So. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes So it’s not often you get a new track ready in the space of a few hours. Actually that’s not fully true, but for the purposes of now, and today, and slinging together an album at some point it is. I made this getting on …
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have wanted a 12 string electric for a while – a lot of what I do with guitars is drones and textures, so having messed about a bit with a 12 string acoustic for a while I though this might be a fun new …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sometimes, just sometimes, things turn out just how you want them to… This has been knocking about in different guises for about 14 years now(!) – the original was a quick and simple experiment that I did using some loops I made on a very …
