7 posts tagged “classical guitar”

This one's a short and restrained nocturnal instrumental with classical guitar, piano and oboe.

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Here's a new track which grew out of tinkering with a repeated guitar figure - double-tracked, harmonised and looped to within an inch of its life...

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The re-acquiantance with an old amplifier came in good time to do this more traditional track recently for a production company. In some ways a step backwards but enjoyable all the same.

It was used in the BBC3 programme Amy: My Body for Bucks

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Meta (instrumental mix): Download the mp3

I've been working for a while now on a project / whim to record cover versions of four Spanish songs, combining the acoustic and the electronic, and needed a break to get away from it a bit and give them a rest.

So I decided to break out the brass samples and give Meta a revisit. I prefer this instrumental version to the original vocal version, but then that's often the case with something new and hot off the press.

The four Spanish songs, incidentally, are Spanish-language rather than from Spain. They're by Silvio Rodriguez (Cuba), Victor Jara (Chile), Ali Primera (Venezuela) and Congreso (Chile). Two might not make the cut, two definitely will, but either way I hope something'll see the light of day soon.

Meta: Download the mp3

A song originally about an old violin teacher called Meta [meeyta], weekly visits, old performance photos on the wall, and the woozy feeling from the always-raging gas fire

Revisited a couple of years later, slowed down, cut up, and orchestrated in reason

And lyrically turned into a more suggestive and sinister song of a honey trap, with the leaky old gas fire now central

(with apologies to Meta)

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Jara: Download the mp3

A guitar line taken from another song, and turned into the heart of an instrumental

The slightly muffled, haunting sound of the classical guitar bringing back memories of the first time hearing a recording of Victor Jara

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Benito: Download the mp3

The name carries associations with bendito (blessed), bandito (bandit), and a favourite Terry Allen album, via Mexican president Benito Juarez. It roughly translates to Little Benny too, which I stuck with for no other reason than it makes me smile

This was recorded on a classical guitar played into a 4 track, then unleashed in Reason with the zeal of the neophyte