Posts Tagged ‘this is awesome’
Thom Gill!
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Tomorrow (well, today by now) – Monday the 24th, whatever it is, Thom Gill plays with Christine and I. This has been a long time coming and we’re both really excited to have him sit in.
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Lead Sheet: Rat
Monday, January 24th, 2011
I wrote this one for Andrée. It’s a good kind of Rat.
pdf: Rat
Listen to Christine and I play it here.
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Lead Sheet: Tell Old Uncle Jimmy
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
In honour of the fact that James Robertson is joining Christine and me on Monday, I’ve written out Tell Old Uncle Jimmy, which is our shortest song, and also the closest we get to bedroom soul. You can listen Christine and I play it here.
Here’s the pdf: Tell Old Uncle Jimmy.
Monday we’re probably going to play some Elvis!
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Shuffle
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Christine just wrote about a project we’d conceived earlier this year called Shuffle. She’d set out plans to get three projects done this year, and this is the last one, so the pressure’s now on. You can read bits of our grant applications (which were rejected) in her post, but the general idea is more or less as follows:
Christine and I both have a bit of trouble fleshing out ideas – I’ve got a lot of little snippets of song kicking around that are lovely but unlikely to grow into full pieces. So instead of recording a regular 8-10 song album, we’re going to record 40 or 50 little snippets of music – just single ideas. The catch is that each track has to be able to somehow connect to any other one. You put them in your iPod and hit Shuffle, and you get a different piece of music every time.
I’m really looking forward to working on this. It’s both really creative and really geeky. Just my thing.
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Lead sheet: They don’t have to be pretty
Friday, June 18th, 2010
I wrote They don’t have to be pretty after hearing Dean’s Dragon one night. It’s not a comment on their appearance. They look great. They also sound amazing. They’re clearly mostly crazy.
On Monday I got to play this tune twice – once with Christine at the Tranzac and once with The Worst Pop Band Ever at the Rex. Needless to say, they were pretty different performances, and both tons of fun. One of my favourite things about writing music is what happens when other people get their hands on it and I have to relinquish some control.
Lead sheet: They don’t have to be pretty (pdf)
Listen to Christine and I play it here.
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Hall & Oates night, documented
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Christine has some great audio and photos (by Ali Eisner) of our Hall & Oates show at the Tranzac. Man, we really looked the part! This is Bryden conducting the singalong. What an amazing picture. Bravo Ali!
More awesome photos, plus audio, on Christine’s site.
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