AmpliTube For iPhone
My old friend Adrian4 paid us a long overdue visit this weekend bringing small boys, iPhone 4 and his iPad with him. We plugged my Strat into his iPad via the iRig connector and output it through my...
View ArticleThe Sixth Field
Forgive my self-indulgence please. After 14-days consecutive, ridiculously hard days work I sat down at my computer this morning to scan some new work documents for future use and stumbled across these...
View ArticleFender Mustang, Blue Yeti and USB
Yesterday I went out looking for a small domestic guitar amplifier with amp modeling technology and crucially, USB connectivity. My youngest nephew had a Line 6, Spider IV, amp which had impressed me...
View ArticleCut & Paste Guitar
Download: cut_and_paste_guitar.mp3 Click above for streaming audio file Cut & Paste Guitar. 3.30 minutes. 3.2 MB mp3 file. 128 kbps. As promised, here is my first attempt at home recording using...
View ArticleSunday Noodling
Download: sunday-noodling.mp3 Click above for streaming audio file Sunday Noodling. 5.34 minutes. 5.2MB mp3 file. 128 kbps. This is my second recording using Ableton Live 8 Lite which came free with...
View ArticleSearching For Madge
Then Play On from which Searching For Madge is taken was the third studio album by blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac first released in September 1969. It was the first of their original albums to feature...
View ArticleFrom Sea To Sierra
Click the Arrow/Speaker icon below to listen Download: from_sea_to_sierra.mp3 This is a critical break-through for me; a tipping point. I have listened to many artists on A Strangely Isolated Place,...
View ArticleOne Moon Appears Everywhere
I published my third EP yesterday. The title is gleaned from Thomas Cleary’s The Pocket Zen Reader. Feel free to stream or buy via the Bandcamp widget above. The sleeve notes which accompany the album...
View ArticleNature/Nurture
Nature/Nurture is my fifth EP, (not counting Compendium which was a, “Best of…”, collection). There are a number of techniques both old and new at play here ranging from dubby guitar treatments and...
View ArticleSea Song
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream to the ocean. The cover photograph was taken in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast in 2008. The sound of the sea was also recorded in Scarborough...
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