My new song, When Ocarina's Attack is a tribute to video game sound tracks everywhere.  It features an Ocarina on lead (of course), glockinspiel for the bell effects, dulcimer (for Gurdonark), harpsichord, a brass section, an electric fingered bass, and percussion.

I enjoy the purity of sound of the simple tones. To me this track has a very ( Read more... )

I left the webjay playlist on the myspace page.  This actually works well for being able to add songs online at webjay, change song order, etc without having to use the messy (lack of) interface on myspace. I moved the newer song "I WAS over there" to the top of the playlist.  The only issue I have now is I have set the playlist player to NOT ( Read more... )

We make it to see Sara Hickman, with Kristy Kruger opening...

We attended a wonderful show Sat night, with Kristy Kruger opening for Sara Hickman and her band (Sole Purpose?) at Poor David's Pub in Dallas.

We road the light rail train down to Dallas, and had dinner at Amuse, across from Poor David's.  Dinner was great; highly recommended.  After ( Read more... )

Settled down a bit on myspace and put up the webjay playlist, then went back to working on new music instead.

Posted a new song for LeftOver Brass on soundclick and the myspace playlist, I WAS Over There .  I think of it as a study in how sometimes you remember the same period of your life in different ways, one time glossing over the down parts ( Read more... )

Our chihuahua mix came in to check on me while I was getting ready for work. I suggested he go get in his kennel. He instead apparently found the front door had not closed completely when Wife1/Son2 left. Sensing danger, he went outside for a little walk about to make sure the neighborhood was safe. Being the most important dog in the ( Read more... )

Spent another evening studying myspace. Looked through jazz band pages, singer pages, etc to try to see what works well. Need to gloss up the leftoverbrass profile page but not sure what direction to take it yet.  Something Sgt.Peppery in appearance, but attempting to be more serious while coming across as comical seems ideal.  Emailed E to see if ( Read more... )

Okay, apparently the first song got hung up in processing, so I deleted it then reloaded it and two others here:
http://www.myspace.com/leftoverbrass

they appear to be working now. Have to spruce up the page some, but at least it is started.

Spent time trying to understand "My Space" as a web portal. Lots of glitches in registration, occasional bad page returns, but I attribute that/those to huge traffic vs server planning. Setup a LeftOver Brass page with the intention of putting 4 songs up and a pointer to the Soundclick page.  The first song is still "processing", which is an ( Read more... )

Son2 is performing "Green Sleeves" on piano tonight at the bi-annual lessons recital, then back home again to get ready for the week. Wife1 sufficiently recovered from her night out with the girls with no ill effects ( Read more... )

LeftOver Brass new tune "I always did what my Mother told me" is up.  It is a fun song, featuring a performance on the blown bottles.

The house keepers were unimpressed with our house preparations, but were able to do bathrooms and floors while they were here.  They are sending someone back to declutter so they can clean.  /shrug.

The new song begs ( Read more... )