Also from the Malaysian drama “Sweet Dreams” – this one starts as a calm 3/4 and develops into something like Malay (-sian waltz?) with Celtic influences… really cool, even if you have to use Google Translate for the lyrics:
Enjoy…
iamNEETA (Band)
In my last post I wrote about the recently produced and released Malaysian drama “Sweet Dreams” – which gets so many things just right. And one of the important things in movies, films, and videos is always music, and that’s right as well. Amongst others, there’s a singer called Neeta Manishaa and her band iamNEETA who produced several songs for the mini series, and instead of showing you parts of that series again, here are three original videos (by nartvnetwork which I think is owned by Warner Malaysia, so these young people do have record contracts already). Neeta is following Jasmine Thompson, and her voice at times also reminds me a bit of Ana Torroja of Mecano – a band which featured an unknown young actress called Penélope Cruz in one of their videos (which made her famous later on).
So here are iamNEETA:
Awesome, aren’t they? And yes, they were on the “Big Stage” already, featured by Siti Nurhaliza. So it’s good to know that the Malaysian music business is alive and well…
Hope you enjoyed it – and as always, thanks for watching / reading / listening.
Smiles for Miles
Just received a terrific remix on a track on which I also played:
The sax is by ‘Fishinmissio’, so the list of musicians – one has left the loops under this account – is like follows:
Thanks Mark for your great Sax! And thanks to everyone else for listening.
A rhythm group setup for Ardour
Just made this template:
It shows a nicely integrated Black Pearl drumkit from Glen McArthur in its multichannel version, a track for my bass and another one for effects in case I need them, and another one for Alexander Holm’s nicely sampled “Salamander Grand” which is his Yamaha C-5 grand piano miked with two AKG microphones, sampled in thirds with 16 different velocity levels (needs almost 2GB of RAM when extracted). One last channel is for Reverb, so I can route all channels to the same ambient if needed.
So yeah, this could be used for a one-man rhythm section. Or of course for a real band if you have one. Needs soloists and/or vocalists etc. on top to make it complete (in case you want more than a Jazz trio or something like it, think Dave Brubeck for example 🙂 ). Or you could throw in some electronica and make music for computer games; whatever…
As always, thanks for reading.
The Gentle Rain (featuring Ali Campbell)
Here’s Don, Ali, and me:
Ali isn’t on Wikiloops as far as I know, so it doesn’t make much sense to show the list of musicians with just Don and me.
Oh, and this is of course not my normal fretless bass, it’s the Karoryfer “Meatbass” which is a great free sample library of a 1958 Otto Rubner double (or contra) bass:
So thanks to Karoryfer and to Ludwik for the nicely sampled instrument as well. You guys rock!
As always, thanks for reading, and for listening.
A new mini keyboard for me, and my first contact with it
Got this one on Monday:
And I used it together with a free synthesizer in Ardour to record this:
This has several remixes already (three alone this morning), and for one of these remixes I used another free virtual instrument, and I also borrowed this from Zuleikha:
This is Zuleikha’s Ortega “ruocean-ce” ukulele which was one of her birthday presents for her 14th last year. As you can probably see in the photo (or read in its product description), it has an in-built tuner, so it also has a piezo pickup and a preamp built in – and so you can plug it in directly into an interface like I do it with my bass guitar as well. For the recording I used this, and I also used my Røde NT-1A microphone to get my fingering noises on its strings (and the foot-patting, couldn’t really filter all of it out).
Not that easy to change from a bass to that g’-c’-e’-a’ tuning of the little thing… 🙂 But for the few chords (and a simple Reggae rhythm) which I used here I think I figured it out…
The three remixes from this morning were all on top of that recorded piano/ukulele one, see the ‘loops if you want to hear these.
And as always, thanks for reading, and also for listening.
In Time – an album by Zuleikha, Wolfgang & friends from Wikiloops
With Zuleikha’s latest upload from last Thursday, we completed an album featuring her as well as other ‘loopers and myself. So here’s the cover, the sleeve, and a link to it:
So please listen to it and/or download the album on its page on Wikiloops. See my other albums in the widget area on the right of this page (also with links to their respective pages).
And as always, thanks for reading and/or listening.
Zuleikha recorded and uploaded a new version of “You stood by”
And she did it all by herself, after I made her a template in Ardour so that she can load and play Alexander’s “Salamander Grand”, a very nicely sampled Yamaha C-5 Grand Piano. Sounds like this:
I’m very proud. Now she doesn’t need me any more and can do it all by herself.
Thanks for listening.
Two versions of the same photo
I don’t know if it was Dick (Richard) or his wife Diana who took this one of me end of August last year, but I do like it (tho the nice Jazz Bass isn’t mine):
I also made a b&w conversion of it, with a bit of a white border:
As always, thanks for viewing.
Sur Les Trottoirs De Montréal
This is Ray (g, voc), Jean-Paul (violin), and me (b):
Enjoy – and thank for listening 🙂
Edit, from August 21st: ‘Jypeka’ (Jean-Paul) has remixed the track to adjust the loudness to his taste – and now I can take this version for the next album, so I have him and his avatar on the list of musicians as well; cool! So here is his version:
The list of musicians (“mixer” = also “violinist”):
Thanks again for listening 🙂 And merci a JP for making this remix 🙂