ok, everyone is allowed to play with synthesizers every once in a while. i don’t know how i feel about this but it is today’s thingy, so there.
wow, i got lost this weekend and it was great! this sunday eve i recorded some ukelele just to check in with you
This one turned out a bit hippy, if that’s your thing, you’re welcome, if not, you’re welcome.
also, Music Everyday was / is like, not the creativist title ever and so these are now a part of a thingy called “REVERIES” and yes, that added notch of pretentious *does* make me breathe a little easier.
the end.
part 2 in the cello tried to be new age and turned kind of cool and meditative series.
the ol’ angsty guitar routine.
been around lately, a good weekend out in what LA is, a museum, some galleries and hundreds having fun, electric evenings. I suppose summer is here.
Also I played guitar tonight.
this guitar went that way
this one is ukelay lady lay
this one is celloed out
made three songs this weekend
all continuing from the previous, and kind exploring what hides in one chord, even though that sounds more thought out than it was
oh and three different instruments: guitar, then cello, then ukelele
my bet’s on c#minor
if you like imperfectly improvised solo cello pizzicato, this jam is for you!
make the cello go
melodica. that is all.
turning to my good friend mr. ukelele for today’s moody jam.
played some more bach action and then improvised afterwards, imperfect and all.
i like my toy xylophone
I am not a drummer. Drummers are insanely talented people. There is an unspoken precision mixed with non-thought that is beyond me. Nonetheless. Going to drums is a way to get to a start place of non music think-too-much for me.
and on. improvised fingers on guitar.
live from the corral
I am a music intern
no fanfare! why? i got busy to post. like a tardy homework here is my assignment. 100 days. a few behind. F-
just after
where floating.
#musiceveryday 60 – Just a moment playing. Honestly I kind of wish I could just play like this non stop, indefinitely.
Day 4: Just a simple idea in one ear, sounds of the city in the other
I just felt like putting this up tonight.
It’s a fine Summer night. Is it the end of Summer? That’s what I hear. Me and Cinco are tending to the empty home while the rest of the pack is off at FYF Fest. Slowdive is playing. Hmm. I wish I was there. It was sold out.
I’ve mostly finished up on a big buffet of music I’m going to serve up in the near future. I’m happy with the work done and mostly the feeling of the songs.
Los Angeles for me: still and ever just past my fingertips somehow. It’s there, I push at it, brush it aside like curtains. But I have yet to pass through.
It’s a good city after all, and there are just so many surfaces you could attach your mirrors to here. Everyone is beautiful and larger than life, even if just in their own minds.
There aren’t country lanes, nature revery is rare, and the general balance leans one way and then the next, undecided. It’s menacing and inviting at once.
Blah blah poetic yada yada. Meaning: I’m here, making music in my dear studio with my dear cellos and my dear thoughts and I’m not on that damn stage at this damn point in this damn city.
That’s my check in.
Hope this version of this song fits with your time and place.
A while ago I made my girlfriend Katy an album. She has a certain playlist she’s created for painting and has talked about the perfect music for that kinda thing… meditative and non-disruptive, but interesting enough maybe to be listenable over and over. So obviously I created a polka/deep-house mashup. And that didn’t fit the bill. So I tried this.
Just a live cello performance using some looping, and a very brutish beat to pull it all along.
It’s long, and it’s a pretty good quality mp3 if you are into that sort of thing.
This is the first of three parts to that album.
Nevada City is to be lively tonight, with film fest participants milling about.
And more fun is the show we are putting on downtown, at a new art place called Dragonfly.
Its below Sushi In The Raw and down the street from the Miner’s Foundry and tonight features:
Luke Janela – Instrumentals: Cello, Beats
The Mechanical Kid – Turntables
VJ Bendji – Live Video Production
Dice/Rapaparatus – Beats, Lyrics, Hip Hop
Mariko Amekodommo – Mixed Media
Katherine Unger – Paintings
Twill be a wild and crazy night.
