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Reggae road trip, innit? 😁

Turkish reggae? Of course Turkish reggae!

Bravo @NickD 👏 great tune up against some other belters 🙂

RIP Dickie.

The three I'd usually pump out were Don't Give Me No Lip Child by Sex Pistols, She Bangs the Drums by Stone Roses and Bug Powder Dust by Bomb the Bass.

In the spirit of getting it done early like some others have, here's mine with a week to spare 🙂 A late night cruise by two artificial Ferraris through the mean streets of Artificial City to an artificial electro-synthpop soundtrack. No strings were plucked in the making of this melodic, mood music. Recorded with Wavepad and Ableton, I used the MT Power Drum Kit and Ableton's extensive library of sounds for the bleeps, bloops and banging donks.

I'd offer my services but I guess you want to win again instead 😁

Bravo, @Wolfram, in with a bullet! Good stuff 👏

That's an Irish bouzouki. Flat back rather the round back of a Greek, and the Greek is tuned CFAD (one step below the high four of a guitar). The Irish has versatility with the option of a few tunings. GDAE for those with mandolin knowledge in mind but for accompaniment and drone notes GDAD and ADAD are more common. Then, there's the octave string argument, too. Some like the top two courses to be in octaves, others all the courses in unison. There are so many of these little variations (including scale length) that make these instruments so fascinating.

650mm is the usual scale but they can be longer. Both my Greek and Irish 'zouks are 670mm. Gives you more resonance, according to those in the know. Any chance of a picture of it?

You say crude, but that looks alright. You say you want to try something with double courses of strings, how about a stab at a mandocello? Just like a tenor guitar, tuning of CGDA and an octave below a mandola. Beautiful deep, rich sound.

Not sure if it counts as a pun, but after David Bowie released Low, Nick Lowe released an album called Bowi.

Congratulations to @SH73 for beating me in the 'Upload Challenge' Decided on a laid back, gentle reggae feel for this one, despite Indonesia not being in the Caribbean. The lyrics focus on the wish to get away to sunnier climes and the attractions of a South East Asian holiday. What's it like in Indonesia? You're asking the wrong bloke. I've never been further east than Antwerp 😄 Many thanks to Tom Waits for the pronunciation of 'Indonesia'. Instruments used were a 4 string cigar box guitar, Westfield violin bass, an electro-acoustic Irish bouzouki, Yamaha keyboard, a couple of shakes from an angklung and drum samples from Looperman and Ableton. All recorded with Wavepad and Audacity. Vocals are a female vocal from Sample Focus and a dodgy vocal from yours truly, both in the performance and recording of the thing.

I'll race you...I want mine done by half 9 😁

Let's play nicely. In the spirit of draudzību, here's some Latvian musicians playing something quite lovely.

Aston Martin? Dillard 'Farting' Martin's eldest? Last I heard he was doing well for himself and had recently been appointed as secretary to the British ambassador in Riga.

Man, I haven't seen this since it went out live. What a belting performance.

I find this with 6. Always take a break and then come back to it. I do have a problem with Mary Anne Hobbs in the mid-morning slot. She don't half play a lot of guff and then insists it was "amazing, breathtaking, exquisite".

I am shocked! Thought this would give you a few pointers for this month's Composition Challenge

Good job they had their manager Don Fleming on keyboards to fill out the sound 😁

Love this but it's over too damn quick!