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The must-have accessory of the summer

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Folks, I want to sit you down and have a talk. I am selling a CD. This does not mean that I have abandoned you, oh no! I will still be providing plenty of free music for you all. This CD is not album #3 – it is an EP. You can see a button to buy it over there on the left, or, if you want more information on the disc, you can go to its page.

On this disc, you will find uncompressed versions of four songs you know (including a slight remix/remaster of Rid Of You) and three new songs you don’t, including that nine-minute thing I was referring to in the last post, not featuring The Rumored End.

Papa needs a new pair of shoes.

Also coming up, a set at the Musician in Leicester where I will be giving Rid Of You and Charlotte their live acoustic debuts. I will let you all know how it goes.

Also also, I have set up a YouTube channel. This means a few acoustic videos from me as well as music videos put together by anyone who wishes to. Want to have a shot? Make a video and give me the YouTube link! Available so far: Rid Of You, Acoustic.

I also want to thank everyone out there who listens to me for your support. It really means a lot to me.

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Spam knows me + suspense

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

So I received a spam comment today for “lawyer Phoenix”.

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Yeah, you all know what I’m thinking.

A piece of music that I’ve impressed myself with coming up, folks. It won’t be on the album for a couple of reasons (One being it’s almost ten minutes long), so as soon as I get the extra guitar part from The Rumored End it’ll be on the blog.

Exciting!

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Tools of the trade

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I just thought I’d let you guys know a couple of things that I use to make my music, and the places that I get them from.

(Spiritual Awakening, FAWM 2007)

All of the orchestral sounds on this are part of the Squidfont Orchestral soundfont, available here. Also available on that site are some soundfonts from the nigh-legendary Nando Florestan.

Catherine, TBA 2007

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On this track I use the free Mellotron VST called TapeWorm from the frankly wonderful TweakBench. He has a wide range of VST instruments and effects all for free, and a kicking Nintendo naming scheme for some of them.

While this may not seem like a very exhaustive list, these are two very powerful tools and two very useful websites with far more to offer than I’m sure I use them for. Check them out!

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More Collaboration

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Man, have I ever managed a coup in the artists I’ve got collaborating with me. This new album’s going to be something special, guys.

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Collaborative

Friday, April 20th, 2007

First off, shout-out to Brian. Hi, Brian!

As you may have noticed, I’ve managed to uncover awful things about the music business with startling frequency recently. Well, there’s more. Steve Albini, legendary studiohand behind such acts as Pixies, has this to say about your friends who have just joined a label: This is how fucked they are.

Work is continuing apace on album #3, probably my most together and professional sounding yet. My aim is to have some kind of collaboration on every track. Anyone up for that? It’ll be a freebie, as per, and hopefully it’ll be appearing here in the next couple of months.

It’s Friday night, folks, which means tonight is my show on BKWR. Don’t miss it! See the page for details.

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SongFight and the like.

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Ahoy there, listeners.

Work on the concept album I mentioned has slowed due to a variety of factors – a lot of it needs to be re-recorded, and some of it I’m just plain not happy with – and so work has begun on my third album proper. A likely addition to this album will be my first SongFight entry. SongFight is a musician’s challenge where you are given a title and you have to write a song to fit that title. This week’s title – Ten Lies – just grabbed me so much I had to jump in.

Also on the internet of note this week is this interview with Dick Dale, who you may not know by name, but he’s the guitarist who played the version of Misirlou on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack and can play like you can breathe. He has some interesting views on the music industry that he imparts for free in the video.

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FAWM and new stuff!

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Hallo. It’s been a while.

February Album Writing Month was a challenge that, last year, gave me two songs to use for WERX. This year it’s given me the bones of an entire concept album which, fingers crossed, will be ready by the end of April. Go check out the site and listen to the incredible amount of talent over there.

Secondly, there’s new stuff on the site! Namely, the addition of a Flash player to the album pages so you can listen to tracks without having to download those hefty zip files.

To show off the new player, and also to air a track that’ll probably never be heard otherwise, take a listen to the first track of an album I gave up work on because My Chemical Romance came out with The Black Parade and the idea was too similar. This is called The Theme Of Dr. T, and it can also be found on the new “Randoms” page for musical orphans on the right hand side there.

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How To Fall: Your Take

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

The big news around here lately is that my second album, How To Fall, has just been released for free download from this very site. It can be obtained right over here as a zip file.

I have been enlightened to the benefits of placing all of my music available for free under a Creative Commons “some rights reserved” license, and to celebrate this I would like to encourage remixes and covers or alternate takes of any song from WERX (found here) or How To Fall. The one condition is that they must too be available for free! Record them, upload them somewhere and leave the link as a comment.

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