So, I was in my local Health Food Store buying some Fish Oil and Multivitamin supplements the other day and I started scanning through one of the bodybuilding magazine's in the book section. Now just being your average Joe that goes to the gym two or three time's a week, the whole culture of bodybuilding isn't something I know a lot about. But having said that it seemed to me that some of the magazine's articles and product adverts were a bit odd? So much so that I bought the magazine just to scan some of the page's and put them up here.... So what's all this about then?
The following video presentation was commissioned by the National Tourism Board of Australia and subsequently rejected on the grounds that.... 'both culturally and geographically it fails miserably in portraying the people, landscape and wildlife of Australia in an accurate and realistic manner. As an organisation we have no intention whatsoever of using this video to attract tourism to our country.' Here it is anyway....
Video editing and jpeg animation made with 'Windows Movie Maker 6.0.6002' and 'Photoshop CS2'.
Here's a new Funky, Jazzy, Trip-Hopping Piano Instrumental inspired by the Outback and the Down Under. The accompanying video to which I'm editing at the moment.
In case your wondering and/or interested the sounds in the intro, outro and in the background throughout the track are a combination of separately recorded Didgeridoo's, in various keys, cut and arranged together to make a sort of collage of noise on which the songs arrangement is then built.
Well, it's Christmas Eve and with rather fortunate timing I've just finished my first track in a quiet a while. 'Flashbacks to Somebody Else's Childhood' is a Jazz tinged Trip-Hop track inspired partly by a recent trip to New York City. It's also my first attempt at editing footage to create some visuals to accompany my music. Give it a gawk if yea like and if yea want please to do feel free to give it a share... Happy Christmas, Mark :)
MP3 download of 'Flashbacks To Somebody Else's Childhood'......
This New Years Eve get yourself and the family down to Ballybodhran, the only place to ring in the New Year with Ceoltas sensation 'Michael Mc Romance and his Ceili Band'. Great Artist!! Not to be missed!!!.... My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance (support act, the near future)
The five track 'A Little Understanding E.P.' is available as a free download at this link www.bandcamp.com While below the E.P. is laid out track by track in chronological order for your aural inspection and pleasure, in all it's glorious low budget youtube video form....
Track 1. Acid Jazz-afied Pop with a healthy amount of lyrical naivety....
Track 2. Upbeat Reggae for a solitary summers day....
Track 3. A Funky Upbeat Ballad about loss....
Track 4. Trip-Hop meets Rock, with a healthy dose of resentment....
Track 5. Pop music with a smidgen of syncopation....
Unfortunately I've lost my copy of the now out of print Christmas issue of 'Rolling Stone Magazine 2011', which featured a full page spread on the 'A Little Understanding E.P.' And therefore cannot document it here for posterity, fuckin' gutted.... Here however is a number of absolutely stellar on-line reviews AND a newspaper cutting.... 2uibestow.blogspot.ie www.goldenplec.com swearimnotpaul.com
