“Oh Laid Back Town Of Bethlehem”
After having a run out in the car with Susan to see a few houses with Christmas lights, I played the organ when we got back at 10-45pm and recorded this for you.
Less than two hours later, we had an earthquake
WAS MY PLAYING THAT BAD? ha ha ha.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Robin.
A fantastic hour-long demo of the KN7000 by Kris Nicholson.
Kris is one of my all-time favourites on YouTube, do follow his channel and support him.
Happy listening!
Mike
Valentines is here and gone. Now it is back to the grind of the new year. It is a great time to play the KN7000. What better way then to play “Alone Again (Naturally)”. Have heard it many times but have been able to relate to it in my later years. Hope you like it!
This one goes out with love from me to you (does that sound like a song?)!
Beatlemania is our new Songs and Styles Series. It will expand weekly and gradually (depending on your feedback as well).
The five Songs thus far represent around 30 hours of work in experimentation, recording, sequencing, revoicing, midi editing & controller conversions and processing. The holidays were the ideal time for this project which I have planned for a very long time indeed.
I know from extensive research that these Korg conversions are not available elsewhere and now uniquely available for Technics and Yamaha models exclusively on our site. In the process, I also have Korg versions as a byproduct and will consider making these available at a later date.
I appreciate you not sharing these conversions as they take considerable time and investment to make. Send your friends here!
Have fun and Happy Playing!
(And thank you to Roger for the inspiration!)
One of my favourite Nat King Cole records, this is my own arrangement of “Mona Lisa” played on the GA3.
Let me know what you think.
Robin.
Hi everyone.
“Dance On” was a hit by The Shadows in the 1960’s
This is my own version recorded 5 years ago on my Technics GA.
To get the full guitar soundsI have guitars on upper and lower keyboards, AND the Bass pedals.
This is a single track recording, “What You See Is What You Get.”
Let me know if you like it.
Robin.
It’s been a day full of memories. It always is at this time of year with the crisp air of winter around us, Halloween, my birthday arriving out of nowhere yet again, Christmas fast-approaching, and Bonfire Night!
Actually, in the Northern hemisphere, winter starts on Sunday 22nd December this year (the equinox), but let’s not allow some minor, distorted fact to come between friends on a ramble together!
Halloween has become a much bigger thing in the UK as the years have gone on, but Bonfire Night is Fireworks Night! In my mind at least it’s the event of the month, based around the UK’s cultural story of Guy Fawkes’s sinister plot to blow up Parliament. Not that I knew much about that at the age of four or five. The ‘Guy’ was a stuffed scarecrow that gave me the heebie-jeebies and had a scary poem to go along with him, haha!
But the fireworks! Oh, how I loved them. Scared as I was at the bangs and flashes! I vividly remember watching my father lighting the fascinating, now-banned Jackie Jumpers and Catherine Wheels, while my mother ‘kept me safe’… watching the whizzing fireworks through the window (you have to laugh in retrospect. Honestly! I was such a scaredy-cat.). Dad coming back in-between each beautifully-sparkling display, to check that I was okay, me smelling the smokey outdoors on his cardigan.
My music of the time was anything and everything by Cliff Richard, thanks to my older cousin who would visit and play his Cliff-collection of 7-inch vinyl with me.
This recording is on PC playing the Timbres of Heaven Soundfont, featuring a track from Halloween Jukebox.
The Night. Culminating in the fabulous bonfire! With all the families from the street gathered around, watching and waiting (me about ten paces back, of course, next to Mam and Dad).
I’m looking out of my window here now, the skies are filled with fireworks, and I can smell the cordite in the air (totally in my imagination, cordite doesn’t smell, so I’m told), and waiting, waiting, waiting for those imaginary embers to burn down. Revealing that most wonderful of things… a potato wrapped in foil, cooked under the orange-glowing timbers of the bonfire.
Well, being 2019, in this instance straight from the microwave!
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