No Surprises

Oh, what a nice surprise! Thank you very much! I honestly had no idea whether I should upload it or not, and was just about ready to slink off into the night, so it's made me very happy to find out that some people enjoyed it.

I did learn a couple of things - one is that setting a vocal against a completely sequenced thing like this would be easier, I suspect, if I had a vocal to begin with, or certainly much earlier on; the other is that, since I don't really cover... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 3:22 AM on July 31, 2012

Heart of the Sunrise

Excellent! I trust you'll be doing Close to the Edge next.
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 11:25 AM on September 1, 2010

Pure

Oh, and I've not lived any of this, it's all vicarious misery. It just seemed to be the way the song should go.
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 12:48 PM on March 6, 2009

Crazy Baby, Lazy Charlie

"Between the Spring Bank Holiday and and the August Bank Holiday". D'oh.
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 2:36 PM on September 4, 2007

Thanks for the nice comments. To clarify - the "fifteen years" thing was more to do with me feeling self-conscious listening to stuff I've recorded (particularly vocals), and the distance between me now and the recording (two complete changes of body!) means that I can hear the recording as it is rather than filtered through neuroses. I was surprised by how not-fifteen-years-old it sounded too.

I'll definitely upload the rest of the album - not to here, but to... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 3:15 PM on September 11, 2007

I'll ... upload the rest of the album ... to my website

johnpeacock.com, that is. The Grangousier site is just a list of day-to-day trivia.
posted to MeFi Music by Grangousier at 3:24 PM on September 11, 2007