Worscht

Today I provided a quick after-work jam to greet a new member in Wikiloops. His username is ‘BrotherSinArm’, and he uploaded his first template as a singer-songwriter in a (dying, as he wrote) East-German dialect which I found quite charming. Here’s how it sounds with my simple bass line on it:

So for the moment, that makes just two of us in the list of musicians:

As always, thanks for listening.

A nice remix of Silver Moon

FrankieJ remixed his nice guitar on our song which he recorded back in mid November already. Sounds much better now; here it is:

Thanks again, FrankieJ for your wonderful add to this 🙂

Thanks for listening.

All About That [Upright] Bass

Haven’t heard this one since a while, but yesterday I used it in a comment on the ‘loops (on a track of ‘jussef63’ who is one of the best bass players we have there). This is a cover, but featuring Kate Davis who is an awesome player and singer. Listen if you don’t know it yet:

All About That [Upright] Bass – Meghan Trainor Cover PMJ ft. Kate Davis

If I could play an upright like her I’d be happy 🙂

Thanks for viewing.

Nà lagadh Dia do lámh

After writing something in German again in my last post I thought I’d switch to Gaelic for a moment 😉 Fun aside, this is a famous Irish Saying, and number #32 on this page. And this is, according to the the explanation to be translated as:

May God never weaken your hand (when someone has done you a kindness or a favour)

Why do I write about it here? Because it’s also the title of a very very beautiful song (a film score to be more precise) of Wikiloops user ‘fanne’. Listen:

(clicking onto the track ID will lead you to Wikiloops where you can see the comments onto it)

I love this one, and it has some very remarkable remixes already. It’s in my ‘watchlist’ as well, so maybe I’ll sit down with it myself. Oh, and Zuleikha liked and commented onto it as well…

Thanks for sharing this with us, John!

And as always, thanks for listening.

Put my albums into my ‘Showcase’

Over at the ‘loops, I’ve put my albums into/onto my ‘Showcase’ tab of my user profile – which is the first any visitor would see of me (in case there’s anyone interested, but of the members I do indeed have some visitors from time to time). Looks like this:

The ‘Showcase’ tab of my user profile at Wikiloops

Don’t know if that is any useful, and until yesterday evening I’ve never thought about it, but it’s another nice way to scroll, or to ‘swipe’ through my album collection, even if you could see it all before in my ‘Playlists’ tab as well (where there are also albums of others who were kind enough to include tracks with me in them).

Anyway, and as always, thanks for your interest, and for reading. And now, I’ll have to start working.

You don’t know me

Picked the oldest track from my watchlist again, and played a little bass line onto it:

You don’t know me, on Wikiloops

The current list of musicians on it:

Merci, thanks, and danke to my friends there at the loops, and thanks to you for listening.

My album of the month July, 2019: Straight up by OliVBee

Shortly before we went on our vacation in London, my Wikiloops friend from Paris, Mr. OliVBee published another album, again featuring Shi as the singer on all tracks. And now that we’re back I could finally download and listen to it – and again I’m floored by everything I hear on it. So here are the cover and a link to the album:

Straight up, by OliVBee, on Wikiloops

I love all of its 14 tracks, but outstanding for me personally this time were the “Irlenn Tribute” (track #5), a wonderful Bossa Nova track which made me want to grab Mitchie and just dance (couldn’t because she was sleeping already), then “Like a river” (track 11) because of that wonderful Irish whistle played by TomasFoe, and “Footprints” (track 12) because of the trumpet by ‘jaz100’.

Edit: like Oliv just told me, credits for the album cover (artwork & photography) go to Shi again – and I don’t have to mention her amazing lyrics and singing of course, still, a big ‘merci’ goes to her as well.

So I gave some thumbs-ups on the tracks I hadn’t heard before, but the others (including one which I played on myself in another version) were also great, and Oliv’s mixes are some of the best in the Wikiloops archives.

So go and have a listen. Or even better, get a download ticket to get the album, and to support Wikiloops – and as such, all of us – a bit.

As always, thanks for reading.

Stolen moments – Rita y Alba

This is sooo good:

2018 Stolen moments JOAN CHAMORRO PRESENTA ALBA ARMENGOU FEATURING RITA PAYÉS

Gracias a todos – and thanks to you for watching / listening 🙂