Yesterday on TV some host mentioned a singer holding a note for 20 seconds, making it the longest ever. Well I don’t know if this one is, but it’s 27 seconds already:
Youn Sun Nah, listen from 7:08 to 7:35 (but the rest is brilliant as well)
I’ve embedded that 7:08 minute mark, but you should really listen to the whole – Ulf Wakenius (the guitar player) composed that song just for Youn, and what she does after his solo (at around 6 minutes or so) is simply magic. 30 Seconds later she almost killed me when I first heard this. And the other musicians and “Empty Dream” are worth listening to as well.
Here’s a more recent one, from a bit over a year ago:
Waking World – Youn Sun Nah [Official Video]
Still one of my favourite singers… thanks for listening.
Looking at the statistics of this website, I see the following for the past year:
awstats for lonien.de
Yes, that’s about 40,000 different visitors coming in about 200,000 times in the past year – never thought we’d get that many visitors; cool. Thank you for your interest.
News, category good: LineageOS 20 which is equivalent to Android 13 is out. When I looked yesterday, the download images weren’t online yet, but they seem to appear right now – I saw the one for my Pixel 4a, so I can prolong its life when Google will drop the support for it in August. Maybe until then there’s even the version with microG available so that I won’t have to install the original Google services. Please do this if you own older phones, instead of throwing them away.
Yesterday the second album from the Herring King Band was released:
I had the great honour and pleasure to play my bass on some of the tracks, but all others are so great – if you like to hear Herbie’s story, please head over to the album page on Wikiloops to hear and/or download it 🙂
Thanks to my friends for inviting me, I’m humbled by all of *your* performances!
And thanks to you for reading, and for listening, or even downloading.
P.S.: the band also asked to send out their Christmas greetings – so here you go:
Merry Christmas, on behalf of the Mermaid, all Herrings, and their King 🙂
That’s one of the best I’ve heard… I was trying to help a fellow bass player on Wikiloops, and when looking at the Noble site I found this video of Sean Hurley (one of the best current session players IMO) explaining his motives on how and why and for whom to play the bass. It’s killer, both his playing and his explanations:
Sean Hurley deals some sweet grooves with the Noble preamp DI.
So cool and so much more than just advertisement. The part I’ve meant is the one starting at about 4:40 and lasting to around 6:05 – but the rest and the sound are indeed a nice ad for Noble.
Like always, thanks for reading and for watching/listening. Oh, and btw, and about advertising: I don’t do that here, and I don’t (yet) play a Noble – these are also kind of expensive. Instead I’m using this one at the moment, and I’m happy with it… 🙂 You can hear it in my thread on Wikiloops to which I’ve linked above.
What a great duo they make – just listened to three songs they’d played together, and here’s the one with the least amount of thumbs ups of them:
Recorda Me – Lars Bernsmann (Guitar) & Hervé Jeanne (Bass)
Hervé Jeanne is a fabulous bass player from Luxemburg, best known here in Germany probably because of his work with Roger Cicero, but also well-known about bass players because of his Stringmatrix Youtube channel, where he tests and compares strings, microphones etc., so we don’t have to 🙂
The bass he’s playing here is his 1960 Rubner with Aquila Gold and 22 strings, picked up by his Audio Technica ATM35 microphone mounted on a mic stand instead of the bass itself.
And as you can probably see, Lars plays his Höfner guitar directly into the amp and cabinet, no pedal boards or anything – that’s how a good guitar should sound 😉
Thanks Hervé and Lars for your wonderful session, and thanks to you for reading and watching, like always.
P.S.: if you want to read more about Hervé, here’s an interview with him from Bass Professor, and in case you want to hear him with the late Roger Cicero (RIP), here’s Roger’s “Zieh die Schuh aus”, with English subtitles:
Roger Cicero – Zieh die Schuh aus (Offizielles Video)
Ardour 7.2 on Linux with a song I’ve had in 7.1 previouslyArdour 7.2 and its mixer view. My Sonarworks plugin is on the monitor bus.Ardour 7.2 playing back the loaded song. Notice the threads on my CPU while playing back two tracks…
Very nice. I’ll start using it, keeping the 6.9 version because of older tracks, and the 6.5 one because it came with the OS. I also have the Windows version just in case Zuleikha would like to use my XLN Audio grand piano which came as a Windows VST plugin only (and yes, I know how to load these into Linux, but won’t do it).
Oh, and in case you want to hear the song I have in my DAW here (minus my tweaks to it), it’s this one. Please give Shi and Tom a thumbs up in case you like it.
In case that maybe you have no idea what Ardour is, it’s one of the best free and open source digital audio workstations available. Please have a look at its homepage in case that sounds interesting for you.
