Sept 73 came from seeing a guy play great songs to an empty bar. It was the end of the month, and I guessed everyone was out trying to meet their sales targets before pay day. Bad time to play, the end of the month.

This is an update. I found out how to delete the long silence at the beginning of the previous version without getting all the tracks out of sync.

I posted a video on Myspace of two Africans, Moussa Diabate
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=10279444
and his nephew in west Burkina Faso playing the biggest balafon I've ever seen. I counted 24 notes before losing count. The gourds are even sticking out round the sides there are so many. I have a Ghanain 10 note balafon which I've owned for 5 years or so. I can play one original riff, and lots of riffs from a tape. I had lots of trouble recording it, and it defies a click track. But here is my riff, Balafonic.

This song is pretty gloomy I guess. It's about that blue jean image. It's indestructible, right? There are some jazz ideas here. I never really wrote this, it just grew from a riff, than I croaked some words into a mike, then I added the strange jazz riffs. I took a leaf out of Christopher David's songwriting. Check out myspace.com/christopherdaviduk.

I wrote a song with only a refrain, Don't Spoil It, and sent it to the singer, songwriter, and gourd banjo player Plastic Dave, aka Squid Ink at myspace.com/evadcitsalp. He wrote and recorded some incredible verses, with additional drums, bass, and banjo. Here's the result.

At long last, my song Some Day Soon is now available here. I recorded it on Sony laptop, Shure mike, Line 6 tone port, Taylor acoustic, and Fender strat. Here's what people say:

"'some day soon' is just beautiful, the guitar playing is wonderful, the lyrics are pure poetry and the melody just blows me away with its dynamics...
...great one!

Download it now.

My song I'm Not Strong Enough remixed by MiNiMaL_aRT, at ccMixter.org.

The songwriting podcast by Ian Duncan Smith describes the steps hat went into recording the offbeat folky song Looking Back.

An acoustic folky sounding song from the pen of Ian Duncan Smith.

An acoustic folky song with words.

Bombero's great mix of my original song from ccMixter.org.

Doodling with D7 and Am produced this riff a few months ago. Recently, I started a resonant high vocal to sing along with, and I thought I'd record it.

Ian Duncan Smith reads his story There Has to Be a Better Balance on Plastic Dave's Podcast. Listen to Plastic Dave at http://www.myspace.com/evadcitsalp.

Dear All, Listen to Plastic Dave's Podcast Show. Plastic Dave is at http://www.myspace.com/evadcitsalp. This is my contribution. It's an exclusive debut of my new song, Some Day Soon. Don't forget to check out http://www.myspace.com/thehexylcircle. Bye for now.

 

Same song, Who I Am to Disagree, by MiNiMaL aRT, ft Magda Szuciks, and Stefsax, without real bass.

Remix of Who Am I to Disagree? by MiNiMaL_aRT ft Stefsax and Magda Szuciks - www.ccMixter.org editor's top pick, 26/11/06. - real bass version with bass by Stefsax.

This is kcentric's remix of my song Who Am I To Disagree? at www.ccmixter.org. Supporting Creative Commons.

Remix of my song Who Knows? by Vidian on ccmixter.org. Supporting Creative Commons.

Remix of my song, Who Knows? by Christian S on www.ccmixter.org. Supporting Creative Commons.

Freaks CC by Stefsax, featuring Angels Indeed by Monstersbaby, Who Knows? by Iandsmith, and Death Metal Vocals 80BPM by motoray. From CCmixter.org. Supporting Creative Commons.

In this one-off special Christmas recording that comes nowhere near parodying the Beatles Christmas specials for the BBC, The Hexyl Circle, aka Ian Duncan Smith, play four acoustic and unplugged folk-oriented songs from the Shedworks CD. On This Night, Setting Sail, Feel a Little Love, and Who Knows?  Listen out for the Hey Jude music box.

Sept 73 came from seeing a guy play great songs to an empty bar. It was the end of the month, and I guessed everyone was out trying to meet their sales targets before pay day. Bad time to play, the end of the month.

'Whatever' is about sensing that rock and pop are dying if not dead, the demise of Top of the Pops, seeing thousands of hopefuls on Myspace promoting their work. Next!