The internet winter that hit shortly after the turn of the century, destroyed mp3.com and the vast pool of international independant musicians. It put a damper on my internet collaborations. It was too much to keep up with anyway. After all, I had a day job. But I did develop my solo production skills in time, and enjoyed some new spacey explorations. These three tunes were composed and performed by myself playing guitar, flugelhorn and my synth. My intention in the tune "Bliss", was to create the feeling of building and maintaining in a tantric kind of way, which I thought related well to the joy of climbing a mountain.
I travelled to Cartagena, Columbia in the winter of 2006 and had a very exciting time in that very sexy city. I recorded an evening street party with my videocam and used two loops of the sounds of clapping and singing as a rhythmic base to my classical "spanish" guitar and trumpet.
Joelle Gilmour is a Calgary based singer/songwriter. I had the opportunity to arrange a collection of her songs, perform guitar, flugelhorn, and even sing on these arrangements and finally to produce these songs into a cd which she entitled: "Light of the Unknown". She included my tune "Siren's Song" on her cd:
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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