I have been doing lots of singing recently, which makes me a seriously happy person! I've been doing some varied stuff. I have joined a choir that is tackling some really tricky acapella free jazz(!) at the moment. It's music by Bruno Lecossois. I don't think it's to everyone's taste probably, but I think it's gorgeous stuff and I'm loving doing it, even if it is driving me demented practising some of the more hypnotic bits!
(The link is to Bruno Lecossois' acapella group's website, who are called "Les Grandes Gueles", ("the Big Mouths"). It's well worth checking them out, there's some audio and video clips.)
I've been doing some vocal jamming as well, which is like swimming naked in the sea compared to the racing lanes of the acapella stuff. It's challenging in it's own way, when you have a microphone in your face and you know that any utterance is liable to be subject to scrutiny and mixing; if you dwell on that too much it can make you feel a bit self conscious, so you just have to get into it and let go. Like most things that are worth doing, you have to commit yourself fully to the moment or you tend to crash (oh my God I just used a mountain biking reference to illustrate everyday life! This is not good!) Here's some - mixed by Speccy T....
http://www.myspace.com/lunatrixcollective
I've also booked me and Tone D into a songwriter's night in Mach, so we can have a second scary stab at our dynamic duo stuff!
*gulp*
xx
I've been doing some vocal jamming as well, which is like swimming naked in the sea compared to the racing lanes of the acapella stuff. It's challenging in it's own way, when you have a microphone in your face and you know that any utterance is liable to be subject to scrutiny and mixing; if you dwell on that too much it can make you feel a bit self conscious, so you just have to get into it and let go. Like most things that are worth doing, you have to commit yourself fully to the moment or you tend to crash (oh my God I just used a mountain biking reference to illustrate everyday life! This is not good!) Here's some - mixed by Speccy T....
http://www.myspace.com/lunatrixcollective
I've also booked me and Tone D into a songwriter's night in Mach, so we can have a second scary stab at our dynamic duo stuff!
*gulp*
xx
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