I’ve been working on a musical collaboration with a fellow musician friend of mine during these crazy coronavirus times, in hopes of generating something fun and creative while we have all this spare time not working or gigging. Here's the second song from that collaboration.

posted by nayantara at 11:16 AM PST - 3 comments

This is an West African kora tune recorded by Toumani Diabate, but this arrangement for guitar by Derek Gripper makes it feel like a tango. I recorded it on my porch in New Orleans. I didn't mean to record the covid ambulance sirens in the background, but I imagine that I'll listen to this later and remember what now was like.

posted by umbú at 9:08 PM PST - 5 comments

A standard fiddle tune on mandolin with backing guitar.

posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:36 PM PST - 2 comments

Are you learning to play a new instrument? Learning a new technique? Discovering a new style of music? Let's talk about it here! posted by FishBike at 8:47 AM PST - 9 comments

Upbeat and jangly with an orchestral edge. Trying to keep up with posting a song every month or so, this was recorded at the tail end of last summer.

posted by srednivashtar at 6:18 AM PST - 2 comments

Fiddle debut! Sorry for the cat scratches [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:41 PM PST - 2 comments

Special "came to pass in real life" edition!

posted by CarrotAdventure at 10:35 PM PST - 1 comments

lofi relyricization of harnick/bock song from fiddler on the roof for the sars-cov-2 era. another quarantune! [more inside]

posted by 20 year lurk at 8:34 PM PST - 1 comments

hoping that some of the things we like, which seem to be shallow comforts until we're deprived of them, will manage to come back sometime soon [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:49 PM PST - 0 comments

I've always hated this song. But digging through my old sheet music I found a midcentury piano treatment that made it much more melancholy and interesting, so I decided to give the tune a synthesizer treatment and marry it up to the vocals to see if I couldn't do some damage. [more inside]

posted by q*ben at 10:13 PM PST - 1 comments

the thing is that all that is offered is futility ... [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 2:34 PM PST - 0 comments

A bit of a collab that happened via an ill-formed idea for a twitch stream. User Carrot Adventure is in the mix. Can you guess where.

posted by dagosto at 12:27 PM PST - 0 comments

A very silly rendition of this well-known piece with the beat on the wrong note. It kinda works!? Also available on youtube if you want to see the score.

posted by mpark at 10:07 AM PST - 3 comments

this guy - well, he always gets his way, eventually [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:17 PM PST - 0 comments

this is about just sitting at home, waiting to see if i got better or not - spoiler - i did get better [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 6:19 AM PST - 0 comments

Rock song about a pizza buffet [more inside]

posted by erikgrande at 4:37 PM PST - 1 comments

I've spent an agonizing 11 days dialing this one to perfection. Another bumper that hearkens back to my high school days, when a song couldn't possibly have enough rhythm tracks. Suitable for all your living-room silent discos.

posted by mykescipark at 11:08 AM PST - 1 comments

my daughter has a treefull of crows outside her window and she's convinced they're as interested in her as she is in them [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:32 PM PST - 0 comments

When I heard the news of John Prine's hospitalization on March 30, I was, of course, saddened. His music has meant so much to me over the decades. On that day, I recorded this cover of one of my favorites from Prine's early output, a political song cleverly disguised as a broken-hearted love ballad. There's a video I posted to YouTube of this very same performance, which also includes some spoken introduction, about how I was feeling upon getting the news of John's contracting the coronavirus, and so forth. So, if you'd like to hear that, and see the song performed, it's here. I did a little bit of work on the audio for this MeFiMu upload, though, so I think it might sound a little better here than on the video. Anyway, rest in peace, John Prine, rest in peace.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:09 PM PST - 2 comments

in the northern part of the world, the sun takes a while to be given a bigger share of our sky - which also can stand for a metaphor for a lot of things these days [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:12 PM PST - 0 comments

i guess you would call this my quarantine album - i call it solskifte, which means sun division - and in a lot of ways, not just seasonal, that's what seems to be going on - much more inside [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 3:45 PM PST - 2 comments

I’ve been working on a musical collaboration with a fellow musician friend of mine during these crazy coronavirus times, in hopes of generating something fun and creative while we have all this spare time not working or gigging. Here's the first song from that collaboration. [more inside]

posted by nayantara at 9:15 AM PST - 1 comments

An entry in the April/May MeFiMusicChallenge, inspired by the pandemic. Instrumental, chill track. [more inside]

posted by guzzalina at 5:02 PM PST - 2 comments

I've been listening to this song a lot recently, and admire Russell's sort of ambiguity. Featuring authentic San Francisco rain and street noise.

posted by tmcw at 11:33 AM PST - 3 comments

Written before the pandemic, inspired by a story about a town that rescued an old art deco theater. But the words seem suddenly relevant... [more inside]

posted by AppleSeed at 3:47 PM PST - 1 comments

This is my synth-based anthem cover of the song by singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt. This version is an earlier draft from 2018, mostly from a whirlwind month when I was trying to get as much done before my trial of Ableton Live ended. Me on vocals, synth/loops. Many thanks to not_on_display for the arrangement idea and feedback through multiple iterations. Basically I made this to help myself feel better, and I figure it's something I could share especially now. [more inside]

posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 1:01 AM PST - 9 comments