Another tune from my childhood sojourn with the Martian side of the family.
Category: Music
Tune of the day #168
See Dave Barry for the historical background.
Tune of the day #167
Godowsky’s music probably isn’t excessively difficult for pianists with three or four hands. For those with only two, it’s more of a challenge.
Tune of the day #166
Bill Nelson from his BBD days.
Fourteen
Against my better judgement I participated in this year’s February Album Writing Month (FAWM), in which one attempts to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Despite a late start, I succeeded, uploading the fourteenth tune today.
They aren’t great tunes. Most of them were written and recorded in just a few hours, and they sound like it. However, quality was secondary; my main goal was to become more comfortable with Studio One Studio Pro, and at that I made good progress. I still miss Logic, but not as much.
While most of my tunes were essentially rough first drafts, there were a few that I’m not entirely unhappy with, and I may rework and expand them later. Here are a few for the morbidly curious.
A dance in 6/8:
Tune of the day #165
So you think you’ve heard everything?
Tune of the day #164
“Hot Smoke and Sasafrass” (sic) was their big hit, but I liked the flip side, too.
Tune of the day #163
Another barcarolle by Gabriel Fauré. He wrote thirteen of them, all worth hearing. Fauré’s music is not easy to play; Franz Liszt said of his first attempt at one of Fauré’s pieces, “I’ve run out of fingers.”
Tune of the day #162
One of the curious facts about the composers of game music is that Nobuo Uematsu, perhaps the best-known and most popular (except maybe for Koji Kondo) had the least formal training.
Tune of the day #161
A laid-back tune from Gatton’s second and last Major Label Recording.
Tune of the day #160
The first music you hear in Haibane Renmei.
Tune of the day #159
Enoch Soames may or may not have made an appearance in the reading room of the British Museum on June 3, 1997, but the guy with the Shure 55SH mic did indeed keep an appointment made 22 years earlier.
Tune of the day #158
Harry Nilsson had some big hits, but none of them were as good as this early number.
Tune of the day #157
It’s snowing as I type this1, and the temperatures will soon be subzero. I’m impatient to hear the voices of spring.
Tune of the day #156
Presenting “Django Johnny.”
Tune of the day #155
The Sadistic Mika Band were the first Japanese band to tour Great Britain, and were influenced the likes of Marc Bolan and David Bowie. Every website discussing them has a different explanation of their name, none of them convincing.
Tune of the day #154
Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum in their early days.
Tune of the day #153
Enrique Granados‘s 1911 Goyescas is one of the two great suites of Spanish piano music. (Albeniz’ Iberia is the other one.) Granados was killed in 1916 when the boat he was crossing the English Channel on was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
Tune of the day #152
A spooky tune from 1962. Pentangle covered it several years later.
Tune of the day #151
An example of Japanese “group sounds” from 1968. The bass player, Masayoshi “Louis” Kabe, would later turn up as “Glue” in Speed, Glue & Shinki.