Music – Psychedelic Zen Guitar: Recent Episodes
Music – Psychedelic Zen Guitar
[audio:niemand.mp3] This is the first solo guitar feature of the album; a Les Paul, a Cry Baby Classic Wah, and the Vox AC 50 – that’s what the solo sound is made of. My Tobias four string bass provides the basis of a Hendrixian groove. Ark The measure is 8/4 with an accent on the … Continue reading "Nobody is responsible/Niemand ist verantwortlich"
[audio:Interferenzen.mp3] This little tune of just a few seconds goes to show: a) Children can also play music (my son is on electronic organ and analog delay) with great wit and understanding b) Having passed the dark tune “Verfallenes Licht”, we find ourselves in العناية بالبشرة a spacecraft in the middle of nowhere. None of … Continue reading "Damn Interference/Verdammte Interferenzen"
[audio:verfallen.mp3] red faces devoured by the night shattered laughs in the vine and glowing melancholy spirit torture! a stone falls silent blue voice of an angel in the sleeper’s ear declining light declining light This an abridged translation of a poem without title from Georg Trakl, an Austrian poet of the Expressionism Era. At a … Continue reading "Declining Light/Verfallenes Licht"
[audio:folkloren.mp3] Somehow this sounds like a fiddle tune minus a fiddle. It’s my Les Paul Special. Added jaw harp, triangle and some more guitars contribute to a funny feeling of exuberance, growing towards the end. A sudden break lets you fall into a repetition loop, and then fade out. Although less than perfect, I like … Continue reading "Forlorn In Folklore/Vollkommen Folkloren"
[audio:nachtundwind.mp3] “Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?” That’s from Goethe’s famous poem, which came to my mind when listening to this. Now that we’ve reached the mountain top, it has become dark and windy, and there’s no way to climb down now. So what shall we do? This is one … Continue reading "Erlkönig/Durch Nacht Und Wind"
[audio:Immerzu Bergauf.mp3] The opening instrumental of the album, featuring my Fender Jaguar as well as an Italian flea market organ from the Seventies. I bought a vibra slap specifically for this song! The title (as all the other titles) came by intuition, capturing the track’s feeling of incessant straining movement, leading to exhaustion in the … Continue reading "Uphill All The Way/Immerzu Bergauf"
[audio:Intro.mp3] Dear listener, at some point last year I decided I had to make an album. Too many musical ideas, sheets with sketches and outlines for songs had gathered. That’s when I disappeared from here. Albums need my undivided attention – well, besides family, lessons and housework. This is the third album I’ve done, and … Continue reading "Intro"
[audio:FastTrack.mp3] Fast Track (original version) [audio:InterludeForVeronica.mp3] An Interlude for Veronica Stephen from England for sure had a hard time completing this tune. Unfortunately the first version that I had recorded on my own, containing my first ever drum playing on a recording, had already been quite complete, to avoid the term busy… And unfortunately, we … Continue reading "An Interlude For Veronica"
[audio:darker.mp3] Steve from England has sent me yet another keyboard track with cymbals, named “dark”. This was one I felt challenged by. In order to surprise him (or maybe myself or you), I added things with no apparent connection to the original track. I wanted it to sound even darker than it was before. This … Continue reading "darker"
[audio:latin.mp3] Finally I’m back, finally my health is better, and here is the next co-production with Steve: Steve from England had sent me a keyboard track that constantly changes between major and minor of the same root, with some percussion added. He told me he had been playing around with the keyboard lately – and … Continue reading "sparkle"