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21 Jul 2021 1 minute read 1 comment (S)llew la Wulf
On one hand, this is just a nice snapshot of me and my fine self taking a dip, to cool myself off in the summer heat (I hope everyone out there has found a way to stay chilled in these high temperatures). The song (slowed down edit of Sunset Lover by...
17 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Broken Bird. Conceived as a spoken-word album (thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word"), it had other ideas for itself, and morphed into an album about being a broken bird. During recording...
16 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I spent most of yesterday dancing round to Bjork and Radiohead... After my last post about qualifying, yes, I am in celebration mode, but am also having to isolate due to track and trace. I'm not ill, so been twiddling my thumbs a bit... Here is a li...
7 Jul 2021 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
One of the nice things about having so many historical keyboards around the house is the ability to just walk up to something and just start playing on it... we have a double-manual French harpsichord, a 5-octave fortepiano, a clavichord and the...
4 Jul 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I never actually went to a rave. It wasn't my scene. I wasn't into candy bracelets, rainbow colors, or designer drugs. I never went down a K-hole, or was ever even in the room with GHB to my knowledge. I did take Molly a handful of times, but...
3 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Recorded almost entirely on a broken 4-track on cassette tapes purchased exclusively at the dollar store, All The Diamonds You Can Eat is a bumpy ride through the lo-fi part of town. From the soaring, cracked-out "A Beautiful Place," through the or...
29 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment newb0Xsir
Do you ever have the sudden urge to just write a song? Or even just jam for a bit, possibly making a song in the process? My Monday wasn’t all that bad, but it’s been a hot minute since the last instrumental bit I made in Garageband. So, I’ve decided...
28 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
New merch designs, available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/nathanpayne/shop "Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores," available as a poster, print, etc... "Rock & Roll High School, available as a poster, print, etc... "Hecho En Los Estados Un...
25 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
..it works! So, for the concert tomorrow that I wrote about yesterday (wow, that was a bit of a confusing sentence!)... I'm playing this piece that is not written for the viola d'amore and so it already sits pretty awkwardly under the hands... l...
24 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
This weekend, I will be playing in a "Top 10" of pieces that have been voted somewhere at sometime by a poll of Bach's greatest hits. It's a sort of outdoor, cross genre concert that festivals sometimes like to put on... in order to be edgy or t...
