- you think Country is serious (or seriously rubbish)
- you are a dyed-in-the-wool republican
- you have a problem with bad and non-PC language
The new song, which still needs a few corners sanded down, is a Country song pastiche about a guy who you really don't want to meet: "he doesn't have a neck but if he did it would be red" ... and worse.
As always all instruments played by FAM apart from the drums and a piano, both courtesy of Peter Gannon's excellent work.
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it's been some time since the last uploads but with a bit of luck and time there may be a steady stream of improved versions and new songs thanks to two kind and great friends: Ade Baumann has provided me with a recording computer that can do all the jumping through the hoop a madman like myself (who doesn't know all the clever tricks probably does much too complicatedly) needs his machine to do; the other friend is Freddy Schnyder, a superb musician, a tech whizkid and an endlessly patient man, who may just have pointed me in a few directions that may make said madman's life a bit easier...
Anyway, to begin with there is a much better version of "Benediction Song", with still more room for improvement, I know, but one that now I'm quite happy with. And of course there is the updated version of the "Love Theme" from "As You Like It", this time with the tin whistle playing the melody as I did on stage.
There are more songs in the pipeline: an updated version of the "Outro" with a harp and an acoustic/electric guitar part and --- a brand new song which is called ... but more about that when the time comes.
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Many of the songs with this info added in brackets are pretty raw versions of the music for a production of "As You Like It", over now, alas and even more sadly, done without the vocals of the people who sang them on stage.
The slightly more polished instrumentals represent the musical interludes during which I played one of the instruments live, cheaper and easier to set up than a live band that would have to have the same penchant for endless tinkling on a variety of string instuments from all over Europe.
In the case of the "Love Theme" the live instrument would have been a tin whistle, in the case of the "Forest Theme" a bouzouki. The only track that has a full complement of instruments is the Outro with the blues harp (as written into the script by the famous Elizabethan bluesman Big Bill Shakespeare), done in one hurried take at a time when I should have been asleep -- and probably was. It's also not really edited and mixed as the other two. In the stage version the Harp was only present for three choruses, after which a distorted Strat took over, also as written into the score by Big Bill S.
Anyway, I hope you like the stuff, despite the rawness. And I hope, one day to be able to post the versions that represent how it sounded with Maria and Steph on vocals (with the added silver tones of Marcel Roe). Who knows...
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This is just to welcome to a site that features some of the songs and I worked on in the past couple of weeks. Most of them are at an intermediate stage, where there are things that I would like to change and improve -- and will -- but time time time.
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Don't listen to "Crown of all Creation" if...
- you think Country is serious (or seriously rubbish) - you are a dyed-in-the-wool republican - you have a problem with bad and non-PC language
The new song, which still needs a few corners sanded down, is a Country song pastiche about a guy who you really don't want to meet: "he doesn't have a neck but if he did it would be red" ... and worse.
As always all instruments played by FAM apart from the drums and a piano, both courtesy of Peter Gannon's excellent work.
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Some new stuff
it's been some time since the last uploads but with a bit of luck and time there may be a steady stream of improved versions and new songs thanks to two kind and great friends: Ade Baumann has provided me with a recording computer that can do all the jumping through the hoop a madman like myself (who doesn't know all the clever tricks probably does much too complicatedly) needs his machine to do; the other friend is Freddy Schnyder, a superb musician, a tech whizkid and an endlessly patient man, who may just have pointed me in a few directions that may make said madman's life a bit easier...
Anyway, to begin with there is a much better version of "Benediction Song", with still more room for improvement, I know, but one that now I'm quite happy with. And of course there is the updated version of the "Love Theme" from "As You Like It", this time with the tin whistle playing the melody as I did on stage.
There are more songs in the pipeline: an updated version of the "Outro" with a harp and an acoustic/electric guitar part and --- a brand new song which is called ... but more about that when the time comes.
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As You Like It
Many of the songs with this info added in brackets are pretty raw versions of the music for a production of "As You Like It", over now, alas and even more sadly, done without the vocals of the people who sang them on stage.
The slightly more polished instrumentals represent the musical interludes during which I played one of the instruments live, cheaper and easier to set up than a live band that would have to have the same penchant for endless tinkling on a variety of string instuments from all over Europe.
In the case of the "Love Theme" the live instrument would have been a tin whistle, in the case of the "Forest Theme" a bouzouki. The only track that has a full complement of instruments is the Outro with the blues harp (as written into the script by the famous Elizabethan bluesman Big Bill Shakespeare), done in one hurried take at a time when I should have been asleep -- and probably was. It's also not really edited and mixed as the other two. In the stage version the Harp was only present for three choruses, after which a distorted Strat took over, also as written into the score by Big Bill S.
Anyway, I hope you like the stuff, despite the rawness. And I hope, one day to be able to post the versions that represent how it sounded with Maria and Steph on vocals (with the added silver tones of Marcel Roe). Who knows...
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Welcome to the Magpie Sound
This is just to welcome to a site that features some of the songs and I worked on in the past couple of weeks. Most of them are at an intermediate stage, where there are things that I would like to change and improve -- and will -- but time time time.
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