Earbrass

Soma are certainly one of the more interesting manufacturers out there. I recently sold a Lyra-8 after I'd owned it a little over a year. Built like a tank. I used it to record weird space noises and textures for use in the space-rock band I play keys for, and it's great for that, but not really for much else. I have many hours of recordings from it that I can sample from to use live, and plenty of weird plug-ins so I can make many different versions of any given bit of the recordings, so it seemed like time to move it on.

I have a Digitakt, and the XLN XO vst (mainly for the great sample library and sample search facilities). I can't imagine wanting or needing anything else. For a while I was intrigued by the Soma Pulsar 23, but I watched a ton of YouTube videos on it and never saw one where anything I would describe as listenable music was produced using it, and so the fascination faded.

Gemma bought a set of strings from me. No issues, great comms, a pleasure to deal with. Recommended.

Heads up I have just posted a set of unused, unopened short-scale LaBella flatwounds in the marketplace

Live looping vocals and kantele from Pelkka Poutanen

Driving home from band rehearsal yesterday evening (Rememberance Sunday) this came on Radio 3. I'd not heard it before, and being on the motorway I couldn't hear all the lyrics, so this morning I checked the programme's playlist and looked it up on YouTube. Beautiful and moving. It was written and is also performed by Eric Bogle.

In this one, it's guitar and bass in unison - does that count?

Ozzie sings Marvin Gaye: Wherever I Lay My Bat (That's My Home)

Prescient 1969 review of a hybrid delivery vehicle: 21st Century Schizoid Van

Well, it didn't used to, before almost every gig was filmed on someone's phone and then posted to YouTube or Facebook to stand forever as a testament to one's imperfections.

Did they ever find out who let the dogs out?