Saturday 21 May 2011

A Day Away (at the coast, sharing sandwiches and tea with loved-ones and acquaintances)

'Happening' tunes go places and make you want to move, groove, shake, or whatever you're all about. It's like the incidental music in a film or on TV. You can just imagine something 'happening', then there's the music sweeping you along.Here are two mixes of, roughly, the same demo. Each has its own great qualities.

The original demo was completed one Saturday/Sunday while chilling far away from the office in November 2011. I've never been able to recapture the drive of this mix ... which, of course, I did not document in any manner other than burning this recording:



This is a remix of the original demo from November 2011, with the addition of an additional track or two, including an acoustic guitar, and a thumb piano with a vibraphone morphed into a single sound. The sound is cleaner, but it has a different energy.



Recorded using GarageBand and....
  • '04 Epiphone Casino
  • '06 Rickenbacker 340/6
  • '04 Rickenbacker 370/12
  • '87 Guild GF-30 acoustic
  • '68 Gibson EB-0 Custom
  • Kawai keyboard with voicings facilitated by GB
  • Drums were looped, chopped up & re-voiced through GB