April 2020 Archives (all archives)
April 30
cover of Freedom '90 by George Michael
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
posted by nayantara at 11:16 AM PST - 3 comments
April 29
Salaman
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
posted by umbú at 9:08 PM PST - 5 comments
Red Haired Boy
A standard fiddle tune on mandolin with backing guitar.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:36 PM PST - 2 comments
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:36 PM PST - 2 comments
April 25
What are you trying to learn right now?
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
April 24
Dislocated
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
posted by srednivashtar at 6:18 AM PST - 2 comments
April 23
Elkins - Dorrigo
Fiddle debut! Sorry for the cat scratches [more inside]
posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:41 PM PST - 2 comments
posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:41 PM PST - 2 comments
April 20
The Last Baseball Game - Part III
April 19
maskmaker, maskmaker
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
posted by 20 year lurk at 8:34 PM PST - 1 comments
07 - nothing on the wind - vampire deer
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
posted by pyramid termite at 5:49 PM PST - 0 comments
April 18
My Way (Roboticized)
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
posted by q*ben at 10:13 PM PST - 1 comments
April 17
06 - turn away - vampire deer
the thing is that all that is offered is futility ... [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 2:34 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 2:34 PM PST - 0 comments
StreamJam01
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
posted by dagosto at 12:27 PM PST - 0 comments
April 15
Bach Prelude in C, but shifted by a sixteenth-note
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
posted by mpark at 10:07 AM PST - 3 comments
April 14
05 - cadillac ride - vampire deer
this guy - well, he always gets his way, eventually [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite at 4:17 PM PST - 0 comments
posted by pyramid termite at 4:17 PM PST - 0 comments
April 12
04 - keeping warm - vampire deer
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
posted by pyramid termite at 6:19 AM PST - 0 comments
April 11
299
Haunted Weather
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
posted by mykescipark at 11:08 AM PST - 1 comments
April 9
03 - crows happen - vampire deer
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
posted by pyramid termite at 5:32 PM PST - 0 comments
April 8
The Great Compromise (John Prine)
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
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:09 PM PST - 2 comments
02 - solskifte - vampire deer
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
posted by pyramid termite at 5:12 PM PST - 0 comments
April 7
01 - cruelest month - vampire deer
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
posted by pyramid termite at 3:45 PM PST - 2 comments
April 6
cover of Galileo by the Indigo Girls
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
posted by nayantara at 9:15 AM PST - 1 comments
April 5
Viral
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
posted by guzzalina at 5:02 PM PST - 2 comments
April 4
You Can Make Me Feel Bad (Arthur Russell cover)
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
posted by tmcw at 11:33 AM PST - 3 comments
April 2
Golden Age Of The Cinema
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
posted by AppleSeed at 3:47 PM PST - 1 comments
April 1
Make Right the Time
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
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 1:01 AM PST - 9 comments