A wonderful album review HERE by Lawrence Russell at Culture Court.
Thanks Lawrence!
culturecourt.com
Nov 29, 2008
MIRANDA
For those of you who have questions about how to get a "CD" copy of the re-release of the Miranda album, I have good news. In the near future, Amazon.com will be offering to burn a "CD" copy of download albums incase you don't know how or have trouble downloading. Miranda will be available at Amazon soon and this may be a good option for you.
Nov 25, 2008
Recording
Took this photo last week. Maybe the caption should say "that middle section is not working out" Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if she tried to take over. In a way she already does by stepping on the buttons as she walks over the recording console. I don't approve of that but sometimes it just happens when I least expect it. I can't tell you how many times a track gets muted or the solo button is on. I came up with a brilliant idea though! You know the changing guitar string stories right? Well, now I have a nylon string set aside for Cosmo. When I'm working, I toss it on the ground and she runs after it and play with the string for hours. The best cat toy ever! Why didn't I think of this sooner?
Nov 23, 2008
Saturday - Meeting Lester DeVoe
I drove down from the Bay Area to visit Lester DeVoe's shop. It was great to meet him. He's so nice and it was great to see his shop first hand where he makes his beautiful guitars. I was so impressed with his attention to detail and impeccable craftsmanship, not to mention how clean the shop was. I really enjoyed learning about the different woods and information about the guitars. I played 4 different guitars, all of them fantastic. I can understand why there is over a 3 year waiting list for his guitars.
We talked about what kind of guitar would be good for my needs. Little things here and there that I've been interested in having on a guitar. He also brought out an unfinished guitar and strung it up and let me play it. It was an experiment guitar that he had been working on and wanted to see what I thought of it. It was really interesting playing an unfinished guitar, I've never done that before. I was trying to be super careful not to breathe on it, I'd feel terrible if it made a nick or anything. I played it very carefully and it was beautiful. Wow, what an experiment, awesome guitar. By the end of my visit, I made my decision on the guitar that would be best for me and put my order in.
I've been playing the same guitar for the past 11 years and it's done a wonderful service for me. It is the first real flamenco guitar I ever had. I've recorded 2 albums and toured with it, not to mention countless hours of practicing. It's been a great work horse for me. For a while now I've been looking for something new and different that will suit all my needs of touring and recording. After visiting Lester and playing his guitars, I know I've chosen wisely.
We talked about what kind of guitar would be good for my needs. Little things here and there that I've been interested in having on a guitar. He also brought out an unfinished guitar and strung it up and let me play it. It was an experiment guitar that he had been working on and wanted to see what I thought of it. It was really interesting playing an unfinished guitar, I've never done that before. I was trying to be super careful not to breathe on it, I'd feel terrible if it made a nick or anything. I played it very carefully and it was beautiful. Wow, what an experiment, awesome guitar. By the end of my visit, I made my decision on the guitar that would be best for me and put my order in.
I've been playing the same guitar for the past 11 years and it's done a wonderful service for me. It is the first real flamenco guitar I ever had. I've recorded 2 albums and toured with it, not to mention countless hours of practicing. It's been a great work horse for me. For a while now I've been looking for something new and different that will suit all my needs of touring and recording. After visiting Lester and playing his guitars, I know I've chosen wisely.
I've received a few emails asking if I respond to twitter messages. I didn't even realize anyone was twitting at me. I'll do my best to respond when I can. Otherwise, please feel free to comment here on this blog if you like, I do check that often.
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Recording album III
Started recording the 3rd album on Wednesday. As always, Cosmo is very involved, lots of lap time ahead as I'll be doing a ton of sitting at the computer. And what to expect with the next album? Jumping clowns, a dragon, perhaps a free set of steak knives and that's not all! Actually, I don't know at the moment, I'll just have to find out as I go. Ah! "Bullfighter's Dream" just came up on my iTunes at random. Brings back good memories of playing that tune with Ottmar last summer.
Nov 13, 2008
MIRANDA re-mastered
My first album "Miranda" has been re-mastered by Jon Gagan and is now available to download at the Listening Lounge. Jon has done a wonderful job and it sounds fantastic!
The re-mastered version includes the music from my first album, 2 previously unreleased tracks along with the original version of "Cirrus" recorded from that time. The songs are also in a new sequence. I feel the music flows very well in this new order. A new PDF file is available to download along with the album which includes the new album cover, a few pictures, album information and some links.
01 Miranda
02 West Coast Sun
03 November
04 Sleepwalk
05 Tonight
06 Embrace
07 Cirrus
08 Avalon
09 Candelaria
10 Goodbye-Will I See You Again
11 A Moment Alone
12 Kallistos
"Miranda" is available now at the LISTENING LOUNGE and will be available at other digital download retailers in the near future. There are no plans to manufacture CD's.
I hope you enjoy it!
My little toublesome best friend
Well, it never fails. I'm having internet problems tonight and I need to find the cable that goes to my Airport express. So I get under the desk and of all places Cosmo is sitting on the internet cable!
So I try to get to the cable and she starts hissing and clawing at my hands! What have I done to deserve this? Of ALL the places for Cosmo to be right now and I need to write an important post about the Miranda Album. Anyway, I was finally able to get to the cable and get things working again although, now as I look down shes doing something with it so I need to get going... I'll report back later...
So I try to get to the cable and she starts hissing and clawing at my hands! What have I done to deserve this? Of ALL the places for Cosmo to be right now and I need to write an important post about the Miranda Album. Anyway, I was finally able to get to the cable and get things working again although, now as I look down shes doing something with it so I need to get going... I'll report back later...
Nov 12, 2008
OL's website
So, as I'm sitting her having my coffee, I loaded up Ottmar's new website because I wanted to check a few things out on there. I clicked the link to his site and went on with checking mail and a few other things. After I finished, I was closing the tabs and thought, oh I forgot to go to OL's site. So I cliked on the open tab and started to laugh because it had clearly been sitting there for awhile. All the over grown weeds and vines took over the page. I had to laugh because I totally forgot it did that and it sent a clear message to me that it had been sitting there for a while. Very cool!
Nov 7, 2008
This morning
Having coffee and working on my website - Great weather today.
Oh, and don't panic about the changing of the title section up above. I know it's boring compared to what it used to be but I'm changing things around a bit to fit this blog into my website for your viewing pleasure.
Have a nice day
Oh, and don't panic about the changing of the title section up above. I know it's boring compared to what it used to be but I'm changing things around a bit to fit this blog into my website for your viewing pleasure.
Have a nice day
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