My first Wikiloops collaboration for 2021, masterfully mixed by OliVBee:
As always, merci & danke & thanks to my friends at the ‘loops, and thank you for listening.
Last and first portraits, and a radio show
The last portrait I took in 2020 was this one:
last portrait of the year 2020
And while I’m writing this, I’m listening to our member-announced radio show. Have a listen:
Blows me away. That’s so cool, thanks to everyone who contributed here…
And my first portrait of the new year, taken with the Pixel 4a mobile phone:
first portrait of the year 2021
Thanks for reading, viewing, listening.
Happy new year to all of you 🙂 And the same of course to all of my friends over there at the ‘loops 🙂
Three “killer covers” videos
Today I linked three videos into the “killer covers” thread in Wikiloops. Just in case you don’t want to see them there, here they are as well:
and – last not least –
Enjoy. And thanks for watching and listening.
A great video featuring Wikiloops
Our relatively new but very talented member Stamim2000 made this one:
Thanks bro for this great video about our site, really appreciated 🙂
The music is also here:
Love it. Wikiloops at its best. Thanks again Salahuddin 🙂
Free (Always)
I don’t have words to describe this one. So I just played a little…
As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun (an unforgettable one this time). And thanks to you for listening.
Getdown in the lockdown
Cool & funky template from sami, and he asked for bass & drums. Well I’m no drummer, but I wanted to try another microphone position on my upright recording anyway, so I started with that – and ended up using both the double and the fretless bass. And drums are still missing, so that – like the last one – isn’t ready yet:
Thanks to sami for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening (or even more if you also join us and play or sing or both) 🙂
Edit: oh, and about that microphone position: here it’s pointing to the bridge, and until now I’ve had it pointing to the lower fingerboard instead. The instrument is/was also much closer to the mic here, about 5 inches (normally 10). But while that sounded better on someone’s instrument on Youtube, I think for my bass I’ll go back to the old position – it’s easier to setup and play *and* it sounds better on my instrument…
Don & Wolfgang have the Blues
Sweet track from Don_T which he wrote in January just for me (I feel honoured, really). So finally here’s my bass on it, ready to be filled with drums, vocals, guitar soli etc.:
Thank you Don for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening to it 🙂
Unanswered questions
Wonderful contemplative track from FrankieJ, couldn’t resist to add a little low end to it:
Second of two recording takes in Reaper, mixed and finalised in Ardour.
As always, thanks to FrankieJ for all the fun, to the Wikiloops supporters who make this all possible, and to you for listening.
▸Vapourised◂
What a nice ambient chill-out track from DanDiplo and from FrankieJ – couldn’t resist to add both my basses this time, and also with using two different DAWs (Reaper and Ardour):
Thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening as always 🙂
I’m not my depression
Wonderful track from sami and from mpointon, couldn’t resist to add some upright playing to it:
Thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening as always.
Update, from September 30th, 2020:
I remixed my own track since I wanted to clean up some things on my bass track using Reaper, and I had the voice way too low in the first version. So here’s the newer one:
Hope this is better now 🙂 And as always, thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thank to you for listening 🙂