Music. Photography. Thoughts.
Last week I took pictures of some colleagues, on white, black, and grey backgrounds. I haven’t asked the colleagues if I could show their photos here (or in Flickr where these are hosted) – except Arno, who agreed. So here are two of the photos I took of him:
As always, thanks for viewing.
I’m included in this collage of photos (taken out of videos which we’ve made ourselves):
You can hear all the songs and watch all those videos in this playlist on the Wikiloops Youtube channel.
Thanks to Richard, founder of Wikiloops who has cut all these together, and thanks also to all participants. It was great to be a part of all of this fun jamming, and I hope to see some of you soon in real life.
I’m included in Navota’s album “When the wind touches the wood in Vlissingen” on Wikiloops, with her remix “Fun and sun”:
You can listen to her album with the link above, or you can listen to just that one track here:
List of musicians on this track was:
Thanks go out to Navota for including me on her fine album. And thanks to you for reading, and for listening.
I just uploaded my remix of this onto Wikiloops:
List of musicians:
Music is © by Ray, Shi, and me, lyrics are © by Shi 2018. All made possible through Wikiloops. Merci and thank you my friends.
Thanks for listening.
And here’s the 5th in a series of 2018 Wikiloops videos to celebrate its 7th anniversary. So watch and listen to this:
Have fun! And thanks, merci, and graçias to all involved musicians.
I’m included in OliVBee’s album “Greater Heights” on Wikiloops, with his remix of my debut track from March 10th of this year:
And I feel honoured to be included into that collection of very fine music, and musicians – wow merci, Olivier!
It’s also amazing to see a video you’re in, plus your own newest album featured on the same page, like here:
Greater heights indeed. What a feeling if one of your tracks makes it onto another one’s album. Wow.
Still have to listen to Oliv’s album, never heard some of the tracks before, but I’m very much looking forward to hearing these. He’s a very fine musician, so go and listen for yourself if you like.
Thanks for reading.
Look ma, I’m on TV… here we are, with the 4th video celebrating free jam collabs on Wikiloops since 7 years:
And a “B-Side” mix and video edit from kimbo:
Enjoy… and thanks for watching, and for listening.
Oh, and in case you haven’t noticed it in the page’s widgets on the right yet: this morning I also published my next album with collaborations with the real good musicians on Wikiloops. Looks like this, a bit bigger than on the right:
Click here or on the small album in the widgets to go and have a listen.
And thanks for listening.
Devin’s take onto Arno’s original “Under the wind of the cold night” template, on which Thierry and me had played before as “Ton parfum“:
I decided that my bass from “Ton parfum” still fitted nicely into this one, so I simply added it again. That makes the list of musicians for this one as:
And since some people had commented onto “Ton parfum” because of my bass tone, here’s some short technical info in case you want to get a nice, mellow, and full tone like that. The technique I used for this is called “serial compression”, and what it means is that you simply add two compressors in a row, and play around with their settings. In my case, with the Calf compressor, it looked like this:
You see that both have a ratio of about 1:4 which is good for bass (tho normally I use less, like 1:3 or so). And while the first one does the heavy lifting with that additional +6dB boost, the second one still smoothes out things a bit. It’s not a technique you could use on every track (normally I use just one compressor with a 1:3 ratio or thereabouts), but here it fitted quite nicely.
On the Ardour channel strip on the left, you see that both instances of the Calf compressor are used pre fader. There’s also the GxSVT amp/cabinet simulation plugin from the Guitarix project, but that one is turned off here. Plus there’s a Calf limiter post fader, set to cut everything at -0.5dB just in case.
And that’s pretty much all there is to say about the tone. My Squier VM Precision Fretless Bass with its stock roundwound Fender strings was directly plugged into the Focusrite 6i6 2nd gen interface, and everything else was free software (Debian GNU/Linux with additional KXStudio repositories, Ardour, Calf Plugins). A cheap but effective setup as you can hear.
Thanks for listening, and for reading.
Update, from next morning (at least, morning here in Europe):
Perfect add from Mark – I suggested using some brushes, and he delivered like a pro:
That makes the new list of musicians:
Thanks everyone for making this so wonderful!
Update from Sunday evening (CEST):
On top of Mark’s brushed drumkit, Tof from France added his beautiful guitar. Listen:
List of musicians:
Thanks for listening.
This one caught me right in my tracks, and the topic reminded me of old Sir Charles Chaplin and his “Smile”. Perfect and somewhat difficult chromatic template from Ray (Canada), lovely lyrics and vocals from Devin, a Soprano from Fish, and those White Drums (all USA) – I was hooked. So here’s my take on it, hope you like it:
Musicians:
Thanks for listening.