a little less of this
a little less of that
a little bit missed
a little wit
a little
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REVERIES 25 #37 “lessening”
Tag: mandolin
REVERIES 24 #95 “forest path”
a way through
not to you
to me
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REVERIES 22 #39 “a letting go”
a getting slow
a settling snow
the endlessness of endless emotion gets full
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REVERIES 19 #18 “chambers”
one idea
leads to another
then
wash it all away
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REVERIES 18 #61 “cahuenga”
all too
shall pass
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REVERIES 18 #43 “blending into the sky”
oh
to go
to a place
where i can
could
sit on a hill
playing mandolin forever
never out of tune
maybe a delay pedal too
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REVERIES 18 #29 “stand up please”
what can i say all
or none?
what can i say tho
me or thee
free or
want to
disappear
into shared space
with noone
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reveries #91 “meandering”
wandering around
my mandolin
life puts us in paths we don’t even know them right? invisible lines
can’t choose no matter how tracked
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reveries #73 “let her”
let her
go
her way
go your way
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reveries #28 “gut”
oh
so much
too much
to take
in
how much
can you take
take in
take
it sits
there
it hits you
there
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reveries #22 “ttrails”
trail
up the mountain
inside
and
memory
who
you
and
me
trail up the
hill
inside
and
totally
free
who
you
me
let’s
let
go
and get
up this
trail
hill
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#musiceveryday 83 – Sarabande On An Old Mandolin
I need to get a good mandolin or fix this ancient one or maybe put strings on it for the first time ever (probably maybe has not had new strings in 40 years) because it’s tuned the same way as a cello (fifths) so I can read sheet music and play along without hating everything. I like this Bach movement the best. From the suites, number 3.
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I Like Winter Solstice: 9:47am PST Today!
And obviously. This one, hard to believe, was very close to making it onto REDWOOD SUMMER. I like it. I was playing around polyrhythms, where you have different rhythmic times all stacked up on top of eachother. A lot of African music gets crazy with polyrhythms.
I used weird instruments on this one, one in particular called a ukelin. It’s this very odd looking beast, which mysteriously was given to me by my physics teacher in high school. I can’t even really explain why h would just give me such a gem, and why it was given to me by my physics teacher and not my music teacher, but I’m not complaining. It has like 300 strings. Ok, it has like 60 strings. I haven’t ever figured out how one is supposed to tune it, let alone play it.
The other instrument you hear is a mandolin. And frame drums. And weird lyrics (per usual).
It didn’t make it to REDWOOD SUMMER because it didn’t fit. The album is kind of all over the map emotionally as it is, I didn’t feel like “super whimsical” was what was needed to be added.
So yes, enjoy. Thank you for stopping by. And happy holidays. Oh yes, I forgot, that is the reason I went ahead and published this now. It could, in some parallel universe, or exotic country, or in your stereo perhaps be some type of holiday song somehow. It has the timber, I suppose.
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