yr3wk33 john martyn gone my week

yr3wk33 moog opus 3 improvisation from longcat on Vimeo.

once again no words all week, just videos... sorry,

this one recorded on friday morning before work, i'd got up earlier than normal to allow enough time to get the tube in with the moog (the harmonic series demonstrated with the moog filter) but then i decided i could do that next week and use the extra time to do my improvisation, being as i didn't know how long i would need in the evening doing my tax return...

so i did it, i like it, turned off the computer and the camera's and cycled into work,

found a Roland Juno 6 in the cupboard @ work and it turns out it belongs to MM, he who helped me fix my rhodes back then, and who promises he's going to help me fix the moog too... we've been making music together over the internet a bit recently and he said i could borrow the Juno... which is great, it's a similar era synth to my moog, a little later, not a moog, but still a great sound...

i'm going to use it next week to demonstrate the harmonic series like i was going to bring my moog in for and then i'm taking it home...

i had a lovely hour or so with it on friday after teaching, just wandering about in it's sound...

in other news i popped down to brighton on monday night to record josiah on the lullabye, also i took grace to school on tuesday morning... lovely to see them, josiah going through it a bit just now...

i've been so busy since then that i haven't unpacked the audio i recorded down there, the lullabye probably near to being done now, just have to get my editing head on and give it a few hours...

directly after brighton i went over to the studio in kennington to meet T and sweep up the place, it's amazing how different it looked after a day of organising things...

i also bought a book on tuesday - a new one by michael ondaatje called devisadeo...

i really love his writing and i'm very glad to be inamongst his words again...

on thursday i went out after teaching to celebrate one of my students 16th birthday, hanging out with the teenagers for a couple of pints...

then friday... oh, we've talked about friday already, except for the tax return which i did that afternoon, surprisingly easy for once...

when i was applying for housing benefit recently i came across the relevant payslips i knew i would need for the tax return so it was kind of all laid out for me already, but it's still a beautiful thing to be done one of those things,

i helped felinity through it a few weeks back and that made it easier when i came to do it for myself...

floopy came round friday night (last night) and he told me john martyn had died on thursday, very sad, i'm going to load up the shuffle with him and nothing but him for a little while...

we had a great night, dinah, floopy and me, at one point i put solid air on the shaky turntable and we offered john martyn our laughter as the record player occasionally skipped up to 45 RPM for a moment, it was magical and poignant and a good way to mark his passing...

very, very sad though, such a wonderful song writer & singer...

anyway... i hope you enjoy the improvisation..

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