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Feedback makes it worth it.
I started a post doing a “2011 in review” sort of post, but quickly realised that my entire focus for all of last year was in getting the album recorded and released. So, in lieu of a rather repetitive reflection on the past year, instead I’m going to look at the effect that all that [...]
Music from 2011 that I really liked.
(in no particular order except the first one:) PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Drawing on English folk traditions, and folk traditions from around the world, to tell stories of the horrors of war inspired by actual accounts from WWI amongst other sources. The stark contrast of the descriptions in the lyrics with the jaunty [...]
Talking about fundit some more
Damien Mulley is blogging about :fund:it at the moment by way of three interviews with people who used the site to fund their different creative projects. I was one of those three who was interviewed by him – he emailed over a few questions about my fundit campaign back in August shortly after the campaign [...]
A little piano track, mastering and some gigs.
fund:it, the crowdfunding service I used to raise cash for my album recording has been going now for over 6 months, and they’ve released a video about what was achieved over their first 6 months. They asked me if I had any music that they might be able to use for the video, and as [...]
Back to bread
I learned how to bake soda bread from my mother when I was still in school, but never really got into making bread until I was in university and had a kitchen I could use myself. One of my friends in my final year of university was a baker, and taught me how to make [...]