'A Rasher Each: Longmiles & Laneways' is out now on Bandcamp (link in bio)
There's a limited number of cassettes available to pre-order as well. Cassette purchases come with a digital copy of the album.
This is Volume 2 of a two-part project covering tracks by Pavement, Silver Jews/David Berman, and Gary Young, and features over 16 acts from across Ireland’s DIY and independent scenes.
Volume 2 features:
The Bonk
Soft On Crime
@americhord / @thatboytim_takeoverrecordings thatboytim / @tropics_of_scorpio@msclaratracey@diarmuid_macdiarmada
Mount Pelier
FionaR
@skindizzle
French Radio Constellation
White Sage
@Henparty@gavcowley@endofnavigation@vsevolod_plotkin Plotkin
Aoife Wolf
@achingfauns Fauns
Money raised from will go directly to Palestinian aid organisations.
#pavement #Silverjews #davidberman #musicfor gaza
Sleigh Tracks, a charity Pavement/David Berman covers EP is out on Bandcamp now. Featuring @sneakpastdemons covering 'Greenlander', @mount_pelier doing 'Snow is Falling in Manhattan' & a Sneak Past Demon's original, 'It was (Christmas) Morning'.
We, Classic Hiss (aka Clíona, Colin Oisín & Simon) decided it would be nice to say thanks to anyone who supported the project, and do a few bonus covers, & one original, and give them away for free on Bandcamp. We recorded them all in about a day, except for the guts of 'It was (Christmas) Morning', which were done in Ailfionn, we added new lyrics & vocals, the obligatory sleigh bells in the shed in Kimmage, with backing vocals, tin whistle & fiddle coming in via an iPad recording from Cork on Christmas eve, so it's a little rough around the edges, and it was an all nighter mixing them. The original, non-Christmasified version of 'It Was Morning' will be out later next year. But we reached the goal of having them out on Christmas morning. Please go get yourself a copy!
Also, volume 2 of the Pavement/Silver Jews covers will be out in January. We can't wait for it to be out, some absolute bangers & beautiful tunes in equal measure on it. Thanks to all who contributed (you know who you are!) Link in the bio.
Actually, finally, doing new songs & other bits to go with it. One's for volume 2 of the Pavement/Silver Jews covers album in aid of Gaza. The others my own take on a very old poem.
Learning lots on the School of Song course, like recording with no headphones, embracing audio spill & the importance of good lighting. Here's my 2nd homework assignment from this course. A bit rushed to get it done in time, but I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted a kind of lo-fi, up-lifting sound. My version of the 2 songs borrow heavily from the versions of both songs on the Swiss Army Man soundtrack. It's a life-affirming film about a flatulent corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe. You should watch it.
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#schoolofsong #singersongwriter #cottoneyejoe
This is my second homework assignment from Brian Eno's course with the School of Song. The instructions were to use a non-4/4 time signature, use a bunch of random sentences from a Spanish for beginners book chosen by Brian and to use only 2 chords and flip a coin to decide on what chord happens next. I mostly stuck to the brief, but ditched the coin-flip chords as it wasn't working for me. What I did do, though, was employ the bell peal system from church bells to randomise the syllables in of all the words in the lines given. I also made a bed of harmonies to make the chords with my voice in the backing vocals, but sort of half randomised them & reversed the vocals. Finally, I sang the nonsense words made-up of scrambled syllables over the top & stuck with 12 bar blues style chords on it...and here it is. 24 Bar Blues. The video is something I filmed in Riga with clips from The Rise & Fall of Western Civilisation Part 1stuck over the top for no particular reason.
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#brianeno #schoolofsong #experimentalmusic #songwriting
Following on from the reel before, here's the demo I made for my second homework assignment on the @school_of_song course taught by @brianeno
I chose the landscape of Mount Jerome Cemetery to write about, and this is what I made. Filmed the video walking around Mount Jerome a few weeks ago. But it was snowing the day I was there to work on my assignment which inspired the chorus lyrics - 'Bodies turn to smoke, Bind with snow, Above below'
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#demo #singersongwriter #irishmusic
I just did a four week course with the @school_of_song taught by @brianeno which was so, so good & inspiring and it got me focused & to challenge myself with getting music done while working in ways I haven't worked before. I wrote 3 pieces in total from 3 homework assignments. This is my 2nd homework - to write a piece inspired by a 'scape'. I chose Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross. It's my favourite place to walk near my house. It's quiet, filled with history & stories, & you can see so many parts of Dublin from different vantage points in the cemetary. As cemeteries go, it's really up there with the best. 10/10. Anyway, hopefully I will get around to refining this song a bit & making a proper recording. I'll post my homework demo in another reel.✌️
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. #schoolofsong #brianeno #songwriting #irishmusic
Captured the #auroraborealis over my garden in Dublin on my GoPro stuck on the garage roof.
Music is Really Only Eve by me, off my EP 'Felling Trees' by Mount Pelier. You should listen to it ✌
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#timelapse #goprotimelapse #gopro #aurora
Working out a new track in practice. It varies betweeb 4/4, 6/8, 5/8 & 7/8. It'll take a lot more practice for me to be able to sing AND play at the same time...and then manage to play in time with the band.
#irishmusicparty #newirishmusic #indiemusic #bandpractice
Video made on the train home to Dublin on New Year's Eve. I sent my good friend @saltingsmusic a little sketch of an idea I had on written on guitar & he graciously played it on piano for me & sent me the phone recording while I was on my way home, so I made a quick little audio montage & video using the sounds from the train, the piano recording & my original recording. The video is stuff I recorded in the RHA earlier in the year, all edited on my phone on the Cork to Dublin train.
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#mountpelier #audiosketch #piano #demo #irishmusicparty
New song, well, part of a song, messing around with unusual time signatures. It's surprisingly hard to play a harmonica in 5/8 time, or whatever this is. Also messing around with video ideas, this is a first test of animating images from a 1921 ice-skating instructional book called 'Skating with Bror Meyer'. The drawings in the book are really beautiful & presented as frames of movement, so I put some of them in sequence to make the pictures come alive.
