This is what happens when you work with amateurs and banjo players - or in my case both! Thanks to Jodie and the Lost Boys, you may never work again, but I loved it!
I've been thinking about new stuff for the blog this year and one of the irregular posts I think I'll be doing is 'Banjo Highlights of Audio Boo'!
Audio Boo is the sound equivalent of YouTube and its got loads of banjo related material, so maybe once in a while I'll feature some. The first of these is, Meqnine, an Algerian who posts banjo solos which I'm quite taken with. I don't really have any idea of the cultural context for this music but that whats great about music is that it's a universal language and you don't need to know - it helps, but you don't need to know. So if anyone can fill me in on Algerian banjo music I'd love to hear from you.
There is a element of the banjo which is quite primitive and the 'drum on a stick' links instruments like the cumbus, akonting and shamisen, although the music they produce is far from primitive. It's the great thing about the internet its out there you just have to find it.
Here is the sound of a male of the Northern type sleeping off a hard day's night.
Nose Flute-Carl Dalton
Sound Recordist- Andy Dalton
Remix and Improvised Keyboards etc.-Sampleman
Using Amplitube and recording on the I phone I've been working on a tune that's been in my head for a while. Think I've turned a corner with it, it's called 'White Horse Turnaround' inspired by Clayton Walter's 'Brushy Mountain Run'.
I picked up an i Rig while out shopping for a drum stool for Tom and I like this little gadget. It plugs into you pick up and i-phone and it makes a compact effects and 4 track recording unit.
I haven't had chance to do a lot with it yet but here's a sample. I added a bit of reverb and it has a good quality recorder.
