Just back from a short trip to Mönchbruch where I took a few photos. Here are two of them:
As always, thanks for reading and viewing.
Deer and nutria
And today, Zuleikha took my picture
We haven’t done this in a while, so today I asked our talented daughter to take my photo together with my bass. I set up one of the studio strobes and a grey background for this, then borrowed Zuleikha’s piano bench, and we had a bit of fun with my camera. I liked this one, especially after converting it to black & white:
photographer: Zuleikha
A bit of a fake double bass posture, but that was part of the fun 🙂
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing. And thanks again to our small one for being so kind to take her old dad’s picture again.
Tales of Yore, 2 adds
I played on that awesome track from Rick aka ‘acousticeg’ and also included it into my latest album (see the blog post before/below this one). And since then I received two more adds already, since the piece was still left wide open by us. So here they are, in case you’re interested:
Thank, or rather merci to our friends, these are so nice 🙂 And thanks to you for your interest, and for reading and listening.
Wolf & Gang – VIII
Just published my eighth album with collaborations on Wikiloops:
A click on the cover here will lead you to Flickr, but a click on the text link or on the small cover in the right Widget area will lead you to Wikiloops where you can hear and/or download the album.
Looking forward to the next one already – and I asked Mélanie if she would take my photo for it again.
As always, thanks to my friends world-wide with whom I had the pleasure and the honour to make music. And thanks to you for reading and/or listening and/or downloading the album.
Rise and Shine
A really wonderful & jazzy funky theme from Marc, jhonrobert, and Alex – so I added a few low notes and tried to support that groove:
Still some space for soli in there, and the list of musicians until now is:
Thanks to my friends for the fun I had, and thanks to you for listening.
Remembering Ian…
… and I’m really sad that I’ve never even met him …
Thanks for listening. And RIP brother.
He’s Left The Clan
Short but irresistibly sweet piece by YuuLi, a relatively new member in Wikiloops whose first upload was a 9/8, and whose singing reminded me of other great artists like Joni Mitchell – so I wanted to play with that incredibly talented young woman since she joined us. And today I could finally try a few low notes on one of her tracks (originally an a capella of hers, no less!):
And that nice nylon guitar is also played by a relatively new member, also from France, who calls himself ‘Al-Fadista’. So here’s the list of musicians so far:
Thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for reading, and for listening.
Tales of Yore
So after 3 internet outages during the last week, and one first rehearsal of the orchestra where I’m helping out for an injured bass player we now seem to have a stable connection again (knock on wood!), and I could log in to Wikiloops again, and download some songs to play on.
Haven’t done much with Rick aka ‘acousticeg’ since quite some time – if I remember correctly since my first album in the beginning of 2018¹. So I was glad to find an awesome new template of his, and couldn’t resist to adding some low end to it:
List of musicians so far – just him and melike here:
I’ve tried to keep his nice triplet feel in this one, and to also support his flagiolet tones with some from my fretless bass. Hope you like it as much as I did while playing on it.
As always, thanks for reading, and for listening. And thanks also to Rick for the fun I had.
¹Wrong – I did “Beneath the Waves” as another collaboration with him in November, even as a video collab. So this is our third one together after the intial “The way that she moves” with Shi from March 2018 🙂
Second internet outage since this year…
Wow. This time our line including telephone and some HDTV (3play) was cut off for almost 24 hours – seems that UnityMedia is up to some restructuring since they have been bought by Vodafone? Let’s hope that it’s stable from now on…
I took a photo of our cat again yesterday, this time with proper light (one of my studio strobes bounced over a wall). Then I cropped it into a 16:10 format to use it as a screen background, turned it into black & white using a Kodak Tri-X film simulation, and vignetted the corners a bit so that my Conky system monitor output (in white) can still be seen layed over it, as here:
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
kimbo’s countdown timer
Our fellow Wikiloops musician kimbo has set up a countdown timer for the next Wikiloops members’ meeting in August – seems that everyone who has attended one of these just can’t wait until the next one. And at least for me, that’s entirely true. So click the image below to go to kimbo’s realtime countdown page:
