From Berklee:  Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman to Write, Record Eight Songs in Eight Hours.

Ben Folds, Damian Kulash (OK Go), Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls, solo), and author Neil Gaiman will write and record eight songs in eight hours (4:00 p.m. to midnight) at Berklee College of Music, Monday, April 25, and release them 10 ( Read more... )

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"And all it takes to fall
If you don't walk, might as well crawl."

La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) by Beirut.  Video animated/directed by Owen Cook.  There's talk of Orkestar Slivovica learning this song.  I vote yes - it's a beautiful melody, plus the lilting, off-meter rhythm in the accompaniment adds another layer to it - but we shall see.

 

• Rehearsal tonight was excellent, a very solid affair where we worked on a few key songs, polished them up until they were shiny with awesome, and practiced with a couple of members of Lucitera Tribal Belly Dance who will be joining us on stage this Saturday at the Work Less Party's 6th Annual Masquerade Ball, which I understand will be a night of ( Read more... )

I just found out that the Song Slam will be happening at Café Deux Soleils on Monday, November 8.

I have songs.  New songs, possibly even good songs.  That is not the issue here.  The first problem is getting them finished, the musical equivalent of a spit polish, crossing i's and dotting t's, saying "that's enough" and then letting them go.  The ( Read more... )

It took about three days to write, but the song that I started writing over the weekend is finished.  This is indeed an accomplishment, plain and true.  It will will require some fine tuning and polishing, a phrase mark here, a dynamic indication there, and of course, suitable words, but the main structure is complete - 92 bars, approximately 3-4 ( Read more... )