Given that I’ve actually got some ongoing stuff that people might be interested in keeping up to date with now, the bowtie has ended up on Twitter.
You can ‘follow’ by the handy ‘follow’ link above.
Handy.
So what started out as a tidy up of a few song tags has resulted in me staying up all night, bleary eyed, to finally get everything together and release an album properly.
I remember thinking out loud on here once about the difficulty of knowing where and when to draw the dividing line in a collection of tracks and separate them off as an individual package or collection. It turns out that that sometimes that realisation of when is appropriate creeps up on you and presents itself magician-like out of the blue, seemingly stating the obvious.
As a result, you can now download the resplendent debut ‘26 hour days‘ in its entirety, along with lyrics, printable artwork and all that by clicking through to the relevant page via the bowtie-man crested image above. If you’d rather just stream or download the tracks individually, you can do that too.
and with that, I leave it in your hands.
Flying in the fact of what I said yesterday about not writing much, here’s a new track.
Instead of writing much at the moment, I’ve had other things take over the musical side of life.
One of these is to get (much) better at the old accordion playing.
This is what I’m listening to for inspiration.
One day I hope to reach the dizzying heights of this man and his moustache.
zeit·geber (tsīt′gā′bər, zīt′-) – noun
(from German for “time giver,” or “synchroniser”)
a stimulus, esp. light or heat, that affects an organism’s biological clock.
also a chilled out collaboration with recoveryUnit.
check out zeitgeber (cogs).
At what point do you take a collection of songs that are independent of each other, written over months and changes in preference, and meld them into some sort of coherent ‘album’ form?
Or do you have to bother?
Regardless, it’s now a new year, and here’s a song that was technically all recorded in 2010, but for argument’s sake, since it was finished today, it counts as the first of 2011.
loneliness is a disease.
There’s something about getting up to someone else’s schedule that I just can’t handle
Douglas Coupland
Spent the last couple of hours updating the old Closet Organ site to make it presentable for its permanent memorial page on the web.
As part of that, I spruced up the diary page and stuck a whole pile of old recordings on that we never got round to putting up for download; worth a listen for the curious.
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