timelapse

i shot this from the office window. 5 hours in under 2 minutes. music by Rachels from their fab album Systems/Layers.

Fourth Page

so the quartet with charlie, carolyn. paul and me has now got a name. a website, a blog and an album in the can. this features stuff taken from two sessions recorded in carolyn's garden studio. we mastered it last week and it was probably the most painless session i've ever experienced; no attempting to remix it with multiband compression or anything like that. it all sounded pucker from the off, which is entirely down to charlie's engineering skills.

here's the website

and here's a blog with a full track to listen to.

in the coffee.

i love slim and slam. plus, scatman crothers on drums!

Elvers are entering the building...

Elvers is now the name for the trio formerly known as Watson, Marsh and May. After months of neglect, we've finally sorted out the results of the recording we did last year. This should be out as a digital release on Forwind 'ere long. Meanwhile, we'll be playing at Scaledown next Friday...

oops, did that in proper capitalisation.

oh. brilliant.

from 6 Music News -

Airlines will not be forced to allow musicians to carry large instruments on to planes, the government has said...

read more...

you'd think this confederacy of dunces could manage at least one policy that didn't piss me off.

meanwhile, on the landscape channel

i shot this on the way back from dublin a month or two back. the music is from a couple of years back - lap steel and fairydust.

neptune is mars