Old soldier

I had downloaded Ardour 6.6 recently, and installed it onto both my Windows as well as my Linux partitions of my machine. Here’s a first mix job together with a bit of a bowed bass on a lovely template from Don, and with an awesome story from Shi:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-216509.php

As always, thanks to my friends from Wikiloops for all the fun – and thanks to you for listening 🙂

The full measure

A fun track with Dorothy and Frankie, but even with me it’s far from ready, just a framework for other things to come, hopefully:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-216313.php

As always, thanks to my friends at Wikiloops for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening 🙂

Anywhere you go

I had played on another branch of Niklas’ and Oliv’s track already, so I took my bass from there to see if it would also fit on Anne’s wonderful song… here you go…

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-215676.php

As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun, and for their wonderful music. And thanks to you for listening.

Love forever feat. Mark Z.

I added fishi’s sweet sax and also my upright to a wonderful Canadian/German/Welsh and with the sax also American love song:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-215351.php

As always, merci, danke and thanks to my friends from Wikiloops, and thanks to you for listening.

Happy tenth anniversary Wikiloops :)

Thanks for everything, and my best wishes for the next ten years…

Wikiloops start page on April 1st, 2021 – after 10 years of great service…

It’s been a pleasure and an honour playing with some of the nicest people from all over the world, wouldn’t have been possible without this…

Danke Richard! And thanks et merci to all the moderators as well 🙂 And to those who support and contribute daily… 🙂

Rest in peace, Tuna

Oh man – it’s so hard to write this…

On Saturday, March 13th, 2021 at 10:30am, our little furry friend of 11 years passed away.

Tuna (which was the name Zuleikha gave her) chose us as her family, not vice versa. She must have “belonged” to someone else before since she had a flea collar when in July of 2010 I took the first photo of her sitting on our fence like this:

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A cat with no name (yet), Mörfelden-Walldorf 2010

About three months later she came in, ate, slept, and stayed pretty much forever. Until that Saturday 2 weeks ago.

I have countless photos and also some videos of her, some of which are in an album on Flickr, so go there if you want to see them. For here, and for now, I’ll only show you our “Easter Greeting” photo from last year:

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Easter greetings to all cats and humans, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2020

And the one which is still my background wallpaper on this Debian Linux machine on which I’m currently typing this, and also the company’s work notebook which runs Red Hat Linux. It’s Tuna on a hot day on our veranda, taken with my 25mm lens wide open:

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Tuna enjoying 28 degrees, Moerfelden-Walldorf 2019

We buried her last Wednesday at an animal cemetery in Frankfurt Rödelheim, which is the closest to us with a distance of about 20km.

I’ll add a photo of the grave when it has a surrounding like the others.

Don’t know what else to say except that I’m deeply grateful for the 11 wonderful years that she’s spent with us. Thank you my little friend, and rest in peace…

Farewell

Today I decided to make an album for my colleagues:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wjlonien/51020109727/
The cover image of an album from March 9th, 2021

Thanks to all of my world wide Wikiloops friends for all the fun. Hear the album

Farewell

What a nice track from Martin, couldn’t resist to play around with it a bit…

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-211889.php

As always, thanks for listening.

Chaman Dream

My first Wikiloops collaboration for 2021, masterfully mixed by OliVBee:

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-207429.php

As always, merci & danke & thanks to my friends at the ‘loops, and thank you for listening.