Fourth Post - Because God Told Me To Do It

A great new 4 cd set is available for free download from TheeBradMiller's excellent blog Because God Told Me To Do It

Yours truly has a track called "Yes I Did" on vol 4, but I urge you to download all 4 volumes. Here are links to each individual album.

Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4

Third Post

1. il y a des jours comme ca.mp3

2. descent into madness.mp3

Some manipulations of wave files by Cool Edit.

3. I Warrened You.mp3

Wrote this after seeing the great Canadian vibraphone

player Warren Chiasson playing in New York.

All sounds are from Pianito.

4. jake shields iron lung.mp3 Wave files and Pianito. 5. jake shields salaat.mp3 Setting of the Salaat - call to prayer - wave file and Pianito. 6. jake shields tom weir component 1.mp3 Component of a larger piece - manipulated wave file.

Second Post

More Pianito stuff.

1. Shellegy

Trying to sound like Shostakovitch and ending up sounding like an old commercial for Castrol GTX. All the music is Pianito.

2. Braxtonhollandbowie

Could also have been titled Anthonydavelester. Another imaginary meeting - I don't think these three have ever played together - and the bass sounds nothing like Dave Holland anyway. All Pianito again.

3. Kopfklangheit

I don't even know if this is a real German word - if it is, it means 'headbanging'. The track is followed by the unaccompanied drum track for your karaoke pleasure. All Pianito.

4. Eniacoc Kcarc

A bunch of samples - voice playing backwards a couple of times and at different speeds, same power chord used in the E R Murrow track in first post, and some of the drums are from an African field recording - all the rest is Pianito.

First Post

These next few mp3s were realised using 'Aldo's Pianito and Microstudio' - a very easy-to-use piece of music making and recording freeware. My thanks to Aldo, and there is a link at the bottom of the page if you want to download Pianito yourself.

1. All E R Murrow's Parties

A shoe-gazer theme using only 2 samples - Mr Murrow's voice and the power guitar chord - the rest is all Pianito.

2. Traffic Stopper
How I imagine a jam session involving the members of Traffic with Thelonious Monk might sound. Music - all Pianito.

3. Of the Six
Trying something using 3/4 time for a change. Music -all Pianito.

4. Dumbass President
A couple of samples of interviews with then Governor Bush. Music - all Pianito - the sheep are a sample of Mr Bush's voice played at various speeds. The 'heads should roll' quote is none other than Trent Lott - whose head apparently didn't.

5. Rudolf Sosna 2
A second tribute to Rudolf Sosna the late founding member of Faust - my favourite band - the 1st is the video found elsewhere on this blog. I thought of him for two reasons - the wispy organ sound - actually a distorted wave - reminds me of his work with Tony Conrad on the Outside the Dream Syndicate album - also the drums were a failed attempt to approximate the style of the legendary Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier - the very much still with us drummer of Faust. As usual with these experiments - it didn't quite turn out like I planned - but as the late, great Jake Thackray used to say "see what you think - I quite like it". Music - all Pianito - organ sound is a distorted wave file.

More soon.
Jake