Xenochrony
One of Zappa’s favourite tricks around the “Joe’s Garage” era and beyond was the practice he called “xenochrony” or “strange synchronisation”. This involved him taking a piece of music (often a studio backing track) and overdubbing it with a totally…
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Lunacy Launch
Happy New Year! The Lunacy Board have now officially launched, with our first track “The Unofficial National Anthem” being available for download from our website at www.lunacyboard.com. The song is an unusually upbeat number featuring a fairly standard rock base…
December Will Be Magic Again
We’ve managed to squeeze in a last Lunacy Board session before the end of the year, and I’m pleased to say that it was a bit of a blinder. Having had a few sessions now to settle into what we’re…
All Stand, Please
We had a good Lunacy Board session last weekend – first time using the new studio set-up, which worked out pretty well, though we didn’t exactly put it all through its paces. Sean brought a few ideas for lyrics and…
Playing in the Air
I’ve been giving some more thought to the whole idea of a public performance on theremin, should I ever be in the position to do so. As I mentioned previously, I don’t think a guest spot with the band will…
Lunar Sea
A good week for music… Engineering The local band I’m doing sound engineer for are gearing up for a couple of gigs in the next month – they’ve build up a decent setlist now, and feel ready to perform in…
Why Doesn’t Somebody Buy Him A Guitar?
Track of the Week Soundtrack of a B-Movie Week 16 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. In one of the periods between Deserters activity in the late 80’s, Jennifer Leigh & I recorded a limited run album called ‘Mux-Ip’, which…
The Drevulon Adventure
Track of the Week Drevulon Poseiden Week 12 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. Another track featuring the Newe/Bordet – lyrics/music writing combination, this track deals with urban alienation and the suppression of the man in the street. Guest stars…
Yet Again
Track of the Week Yet Another Granfalloon (3rd movement) Week 10 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. The final part of the Granfalloon piece exists in two versions. This one is a computer generated version used to write the score;…
E-Bow Heaven
Track of the Week Mask of Deceit (excerpt) Week 8 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. Here’s last week’s missing track… It is an EBow solo from my song ‘Mask of Deceit’ which deals with and was inspired by similar…
