Here’s one of my favourite song songs by one of my favourite artists, my version. I hope I did it at least a little bit of justice. With time, I hope to finish more acoustic covers from his amazing album; These Hopeful Machines.
Happy Valentine’s Day! ;-)
Are you stuck in an Infinite Loop?
Remembering the funny quizzes on Facebook about songs, I thought of creating my own, enjoy!
The singer in this song is Susannah Jaques. A musician I met when first discovering my interest in music by learning the Flute. As well as singing & performing with the flute, she plays piano and took an opportunity at learning violin & tenor sax earlier in her life.
The song is an old one that I never got to record and finish. The majority of the musical content was based on my first music composition in Sibelius (for my very first school assignment for music) and written in 2007. The following year at my high school show camp, I wrote the majority of the lyrical content. I was very close to nature and had a burst of inspiration to write a poem. Prior to that incident, I had never written lyrics for a song before. So in a way, this is a refined first song. Lyrics are below:
Chris Martin closed off the Apple Event with a new Coldplay which is a work in progress called “Wedding Bells”. His overall performance was very entertaining (including some jokes about Apple and such). Even if his voice and piano performance wasn’t at his best in some bits, his authenticity could still be felt.
To open, he began by performing Yellow and Viva La Vida. If you want to watch just Chris Martin perform, skip to 1:12:30. Here’s the link to watch the entire presentation & performance: Apple Keynote September 2011 - New iPod Generation
It was fitting because iPod is the leader in mp3 players. It is the most popular versatile sort of medium in which people engage and listen to music. And Chris Martin performed at the release of the all new line up of new generation iPod. I’m very impressed with the iPod Nano especially.
Additionally, Apple has released their own social network for music. A ‘Twitter’ / ‘Facebook’ but aimed at sharing what you’re listening to with yours friends. Ping is the name and it is integrated with iTunes 10. With time, I know I’ll certainly begin using it.
Though this isn’t exactly the way I want the design of my blog to be, for now, I will settle. Since I’m a musician and not a website designer, it’s best I spent more time writing music than designing webpages (especially if there’s barely any content on the webpage itself).
The Godfather of Acid Jazz (Brian Auger), gave a spectacular performance tonight at the Backbeat Bar. Performing with his daughter (Savannah Augar - Vocals), his son (Karma Auger - Drums) and Derek Frank (Bass).
It does not come as a surprise that he’s performed with artists like Rod Stewart, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin! What does come as a surprise is that it was a free show!
And although there were some pretty amazing solo’s from each performer, Derek’s one was certainly the best solo, compared to all Guitar and Bass improvisations I have ever heard!
http://rockshop.co.nz/04/clinics/brianauger/brian_auger.htm
A rock pop songwriter who sometimes dabbles in electronic & classical music.
