Emotional alternative folk
I’ve been slowly working on a new solo music repertoire and figuring out how to play it live with a minimum of gear. Yesterday I finally took the decision that I’d just use whatever gear I’ve worked on, since I’ll have that with me when I’m traveling anyway.
This video is a new song, called “I am gonna wait”, performed and recorded live in one take as if I would be on stage.
“There Will Be Violence” is a Chapman Stick instrumental that I’ve been working on for quite a while.
I wanted to finish rehearsing and recording it before the anniversary of my first year with this wonderful instrument, but missed that by a couple of weeks.
Hope you enjoy this composition and performance!
This is an original composition that I initially wrote on the Eigenharp Pico, and that I’ve now adapted for acoustic guitar. Hope you enjoy it!
Here’s a little instrumental that presented itself to me today when learning some of my old songs in open tunings that I hadn’t used in years! The Vo-96 provides much of the atmosphere.
The Oval is a new electronic musical instrument with the form factor of a hand pan. After backing their Kickstarter two years ago, I finally received the instrument yesterday.
Here’s a first demo video that shows some of its capabilities.
I’ve been practicing playing the Harpejji for a bit more than a month, and thought it was time to record one of the songs that I’ve been working on: Blood Of Eden by Peter Gabriel. Hope you enjoy my arrangement and interpretation.
I stumbled onto this little instrumental idea while practising the stick late at night today. Very much a work in progress that can definitely be played better, but I felt like sharing 🙂
When Leonard Cohen passed away at the end of 2016, I wanted to create a tribute to him. He’s the one who inspired me to be a singer-songwriter, and as a kid I played many of his songs to learn how to finger-pick on the acoustic guitar.
With the LinnStrument being the instrument I co-created with Roger Linn, it felt like a nice symmetry to try to cover some of Leonard Cohen’s songs on the LinnStrument 128 with just one synthesiser as the sound source, very similar to the simplicity of an acoustic guitar. I’m playing LinnStrument on my lap with the right split in strum mode, allowing me to finger-pick the chords on the left split with velocity, while having per-note pitch-bend and vibrato control over the left hand touches. This brings the playing technique quite close to the actually guitar finger-picking of the original song.
The sound comes entirely from the Futuresonus Parva synth, set up as an 8-part multi to match the 8 rows of the LinnStrument. I spent quite a long time fine-tuning the sound of each multi-timbral part to be suitable for that particular note range and playing intent, not unlike each string of a guitar having a different thickness.
This is one of those projects that I worked on for such a long time, that I have no idea if it’s actually any good or not, so I just throw it out there. I plan to record a few more Leonard Cover songs like this if people don’t consider it complete heresy.
I had the privilege to be invited to play LinnStrument at this year’s Stick Night at NAMM. Roger Linn recorded a video excerpt of it.
“Same Place Again” is an original song by G.Bevin, played here as an instrumental on LinnStrument 128.