215 posts tagged with acoustic and guitar.
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Lamprophyre
Razor Edged Shadows
Vaguely sinister ambient. Twelve string plus keys
Komatiite
Electronics with some guitars that really need to be re-recorded but this had already taken too much time. [more inside]
hesitations
Spanish guitar plus electronics
The Very Small Starship Rises into the Clear Sky
If you listen closely the five tones from Close Encounters of the Third Kind are almost in there.
rainsleep
Very pleased with how the key change at 1:30ish, just before the synthflute comes in, worked out
Slow Cascade
Slower, shorter and synthed up version of Cascade
Terrible Realization Music for an Imaginary, Low-Budge
The usual. Perhaps slightly more menacing.
Engine of Flowers
Solo Spanish guitar
You Already Knew This
Clunky bluesy picking on a Spanish guitar for the first minute and then it opens up a lot.
One Day Those Tiny Wheels Will Start to Spin Again
Fast guitar, keys.
Charybdis
Dark sibling to my global smash hit Goldenhill
Alien Flowers
Guitar, keys.
Tremadoc-Arenig-Llandeilo-Llanvirn
It's a graptolites thing.
Lots of guitars. Lots of effects. Some keys. All the rules broken.
Goldenhill
More ambient guitar noodlings.
Electricity Variations
With apologies to OMD.
A Small Kind of Triumph
Played on a plank with some taut wires
Rain
Twelve string acoustic miniature again!
A Conversation
12 String etc
Empty Light
12 string recorded on a phone as usual
Hell
A bad omens country song with my lowest drawly early morning vocals ever and a cool slippery guitar riff in the chorus. [more inside]
The Thing that Beats like a Cracked Bell
12 string acoustic etc
Consolation
Guitar, phone, still a bit clumsy.
The Let Go
Another request from my three-year-old grandson, this is Elle King's "The Let Go." Video.
Mercy Now
This moving song by Mary Gauthier is one of my favorites. Everyone needs mercy. Video.
Manhattan Skyline
Some recent discussion on MeFi about the band a-ha reminded me that I'd recorded this acoustic cover of one of their songs a long time ago. This is actually based on an arrangement by Kings of Convenience, who made some interesting changes to the original song structure. Me on vocals and guitars (nylon-string and steel-string). [more inside]
Both Hands - cover (Ani DiFranco)
Acoustic guitar and voice. Pretty straight as far as my memory of the proper song goes. [more inside]
Little black bird
Just a little song from my weird little indie folk heart. Actually reworking something old and the first thing I've recorded in a while, since I was pretty tired from the whole process of putting out my first EP in January. Also...stuff?...has been happening to my voice because I am trans and recently started testosterone therapy, I really notice the change in how my voice feels and I certainly hope others can hear it too!
Georgia
Another weird, haunting indie folk song from yours truly! There is also a weird, haunting music video located here.
This is all part of my first official release, which I am super excited about, under my stage name MK Ellison.
Smoke
Pretty proud of the vocals. This is a weird one, but my most haunting song yet. I had an image of a supernatural, quiet kind of nightmare where the narrator has a horrible premonition that something is coming for her, tries to run away, but cannot get far enough.
Big red sky
It's been a while since I posted any of my new songs here. What do you think of my kind of new direction (and quality of the recording)?
Alternative folk-ish, acoustic song with clean vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonies. Sounds happy but the lyrics are not. [more inside]
To be alone with you (Sufjan Stevens cover)
Not sure if I can do it justice, but I have loved this song every since I first heard Seven Swans in my college days. Light, soulful cover of a modern classic.
I've messed with the harmonies a little, so some of the chords are more dissonant (but in a watery, calm way, not a harsh way, if that makes any sense).
Deeper Well (Emmylou Harris cover)
I love this song. Cover with guitar, piano. From her 1995 album Wrecking Ball, which Wikipedia calls "career redefining."
Many Chords
My wife had a pessimistic guitar instructor when she was younger, one of those "there's nothing new in music, there's only 12 notes" kind of musicians. So, as a rebuttal to that mindset, here's an in-progress 50+ chord progression that I think is turning out swimmingly so far.
Let's try that again
This is a complete reworking of a song I posted before (17) which is now...prettier? Mellower? Flows more? What do you think of my new direction?
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The Home Ruler Set
Another set from some recent recording - two Irish hornpipes on guitar and octave mandolin. [more inside]
The Marc and Caitlin Wedding Set
Another rough mix from a recent bout of recording. These are two tunes I played during the summertime wedding of two good friends. [more inside]
Every second of the time
As long as I am posting moody, folksy songs with voice and guitar...here's another one!
Esme
A song written for my 4 month old daughter. [more inside]
Starving (Cover)
"Something inside me's changed—I was so much younger yesterday." I learned and recorded this cover of Hailee Steinfeld's "Starving" in a half hour one afternoon last month. [more inside]
Death Would Be Unkind
Instrumental country death song
Kicking up the Dust (original)
Acoustic folk heartbreak. [more inside]
76t Doomsday
Zombie Hymn. Tune arranged from Abraham Wood, 1789; words by Joseph Hart, 1762. [more inside]
ShH 5t: Angel's Hymn
Arrangement of Angel's Hymn, No. 5t in the Shenandoah Harmony. First verse by Isaac Watts 1706, Second verse by Thomas Kelly, 1802. Original composition by Orlando Gibbons, 1623. [more inside]
Liza Jane 2
A second version of the traditional tune Liza Jane, on clawhammer guitar . . . [more inside]
Go Away
Acoustic guitars, a little slide, singing, breathing room. [more inside]
Tiny Tangled Trainwreck
I play mandolin and haven't written anything new in entirely too long. Today I remedied that while also facing my fear of writing/playing in the key of F.
Falling
working title, not sure about that just yet, I've been playing a lot in this modal C tuning (CGCGCD) and this tune came out over the past few days. [more inside]
Sandy Boys
Old-time traditional tune, done clawhammer style on guitar. [more inside]
Heavy
Literally just finished this so I'm sorry it's so sloppy [more inside]