When the lights go out (remix)

Today after work I remixed one of my all-time favourite tracks on Wikiloops, from hurzel and Shi:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-184333.php

This one still gets me after all these years. A masterpiece from two of the finest musicians I’ve heard.

As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun – and thanks to you for listening.

Elena – have you seen her?

This is the second track I remixed and played upon today. It’s called “Elena”:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-183900.php
https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-183902.php

Thanks as always to my friends for all the fun, and to you for listening.

Keep walking

Today I made two remixes of tracks, and then played a bit myself on each of them. This first one is called “Keep walking”:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-183897.php
https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-183898.php

Thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening.

Unspoken by Erwan

Today, the album of the day in Wikiloops is Erwan’s ‘Unspoken’ which he published yesterday, and which even contain collaborations with me on two of his tracks. But even so, it’s a really nice one, so if you like bowed classical string instruments, have a listen:

Downloaded it already, and also wrote a review on it. I love it. Even the cover picture is awesome in my opinion.

As always, thanks for reading.

More is More!

A remix from ‘eGiL’ from Norway, who also mixed in ‘kimbo’ from Cornwall, and me as Dalek:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-181902.php

As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for reading and for listening.

Vitamin, remixed

A remix job I just did for friends of mine from Wikiloops:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-182443.php

Lovely track, hm? I didn’t play a single note here myself since this one had a bass in its “blue part” already, I guess that was Trilian (a sampled double bass).

As always, thanks for listening.

Dalek, still in training

Today I tried something new. Played around with a ring modulator on my voice a bit to join ‘bluvation’ (Gerry) on his awesome ‘Dancing with Daleks’ track:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-181478.php

Musicians, until now: just him (all music) and me (words/vocals):

As always, thanks for reading, and for listening. And thanks to Gerry for all the fun 🙂

Update, Monday during my office hours:

Got a first remix from & with Brian on bass, very cool:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-181518.php

That makes three of us by now:

As always, thanks for listening. And now come and join the fun 🙂 If not, and in a Dalek voice: “EXPLAIN!” 😀

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:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wjlonien/49438557881/
Wolfgang with bass, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2020
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:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-180627.php
https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-180766.php

Thank, or rather merci to our friends, these are so nice 🙂 And thanks to you for your interest, and for reading and listening.

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:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-180444.php

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.