Posts Tagged ‘iain macleod’

r.i.p. sparklehorse’s mark linkous

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Mark Linkous today – some of the music he recorded as ‘Sparklehorse’ provided much inspiration for me.

Below is a cover of one of his songs ‘Happy Man’ I recorded a few years ago with Iain Macleod on banjo. Aplogise for the slight american twang in my delivery, it was a few years back when I was still finding my voice!

http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/

band on the beach etc

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Barbara has just posted a lovely little photo story board of our Devon trip on her blog… have a peek at it here –

http://basiabartz.blogspot.com/2010/01/lest-weekend.html

photos from devon show

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

photo by Lisa Robins

photo by John Gower

photo by Lisa Robins

photo by Lisa Robins

New album launched

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

parkSM21

Well perhaps more ‘uploaded’ than ‘launched’ but what the hey… you can now hear and download it. I have just had an almond slice to celebrate.

The cd will be available in the new year, in the meantime you can order it from bandcamp and get an immediate download of the album included in the price.

It features the talents of Barbara Bartz, Iain Macleod, Joe Allen, Lawrence Williams, Ben Oliver, Beth Dariti, Madelaine Hart, Victoria Couper, Tom Pie and me. Full credits on bandcamp.

1. Younger Looking Skin 05:31
2. Till Dawn 04:21
3. I Love Leonard Cohen 04:00
4. The Suitors Ballyhoo 04:56
5. Montreal 04:38
6. Shakes & Shudders 04:59
7. Ninety Days 03:36
8. Roses From Africa 05:15

rehearsing

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

A few more photos of rehearsing action from the blue door – this time a rehearsal inside.

Amy is doing her playing three instruments at once thang… who’d have thought you could play a glockenspiele with one foot whilst on bass and tambourine too!

barbara rehearsal photo

barbara rehearsal2

Photos from Barbara’s blog – http://basiabartz.blogspot.com/2009/09/music-music-music.html

up on the roof

Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Rehearsing on the roof

As well as being quite the violin player, Barbara is also big into her photography. Here are some shots she took a while back of a rehearsal we had on the roof of my studio.

golden brown

Monday, January 12th, 2009

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Last month I spent another day recording with the wonderful Dean Firth but this time I brought some friends along.

My favourite take of the day was this cover of ‘Golden Brown’ by The Stranglers which I have uploaded for your listening pleasure here – http://www.robingrey.com/mp3/goldenbrown.mp3

iain macleod and christian lewcock

I am hoping to do much more live recording work like this. Capturing a live performance with an ensemble is such a different experience to over dubbing instruments in my little studio!

Christian Lewcock – Percussion and Backing Vocals

Iain Macleod – Banjo and Backing Vocals

Barbara Bartz – Violin

Dean Firth – Electric Bass

photo from annabel

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Annabel took a few shots of me and Iain when we were down in Herne Hill a few weeks back. This is my favourite. More of her work can be seen here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/annabelvere