Snailfriends 1

Snailfriends1 Snailfriends 1 Ail Fionn audio opensource_audio Miscellaneous <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saz">saz</a> and mandolin recordings made with various collaborators in Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, England and Belgium, 1995-2003 - a mix of folktunes, originals and jamming. 2006-12-01 2006 mandolin;saz;baglama;drone;droning;acoustic;atmospheric;folk;free psych-folk;free psychfolk;free psych folk;freeform;improv;improvisation;improvisational;improvisatory;improvised;improvising;jam;jamming;lofi;lo-fi;organic;other;psychedelia;psychedelic;psychfolk;psych-folk;space;spacey;spontaneous;modal;elf;elven;fairy;faery;pixie;Ireland;Cornwall;Wales;Belgium;Flanders;Vlaanderen;Sint-Niklaas;Celtic;Irish;Irish trad;Irish traditional;traditional Irish;Welsh;Welsh traditional;traditional Welsh;Spacegoats;Hothouse Flowers;Dublin;Burren;Clare;Offaly;Big Green Gathering;Green Gathering;BGG;Wiltshire;Donga:Dongas;Donga Tribe;Dongas Tribe;Crystal Palace;Andy Ra;Treewalk;trees;treeplanting;environmental;Galanjah http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ 2006-12-01 09:00:23 2006-12-01 08:58:18 mwatkins@maths.ex.ac.uk Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins Matthew Watkins 2006-12-01 09:24:23 2006-12-01 09:41:04 2006-12-01 10:24:12 2006-12-01 10:30:25 2006-12-01 10:46:48 2006-12-01 13:54:09 2006-12-01 13:58:44 2006-12-01 14:11:33 2006-12-02 10:48:36 2006-12-02 11:11:12 2006-12-02 11:13:49 2006-12-02 11:44:03 2006-12-02 13:09:11 2006-12-04 08:51:22 2006-12-04 08:57:28 2006-12-04 09:27:34 2006-12-04 09:41:41 2006-12-16 02:03:13 2006-12-18 20:36:27 2006-12-18 21:21:25 various hard-drive recorder, cassette, TASCAM 4-track, MiniDisc, DAT 62:04 <center><table width="550" border="0"><tr><td> <center><img alt="Inge and Matthew" title="Inge and Matthew, in Dave Goodman's garden, Crystal Palace, summer 1996" src="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/whiteley.jpg"> Inge (away with the faeries), Matthew (struggling to read this caption, upside down and backwards) and Andy Man (plus part of Maya from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dragonsfly.org/">Dragonsfly</a>) - Dave Goodman's garden, Crystal Palace, summer 1996</center> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/ailfionn/inge.htm">Inge</a> - mandolin, xylophone, fiddle, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe">djembe</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennywhistle">pennywhistle</a> <a target="_blank" href=" http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/ailfionn/matthew.htm">Matthew</a> - <a target="_blank" href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saz">saz</a> with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/imagery/andyman.jpg">Andy Man</a> - djembe, percussion, vocal noises [3, 4, 5, 7,10,13] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/peter.jpg">Peter</a> - Andalucian cactus drum [3, 5, 7,10] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/greet.jpg">Greet</a> - acoustic guitar, voice [2, 8] <a target="_blank" href="http://secamlocal.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/imagery/andyra.jpg">Andy Ra</a> - acoustic twelve-string guitar [6,11] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/galanjah">Alan</a> - djembe [13] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.andyletcher.co.uk">Andy Bard</a> - pennywhistle [1] <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%27Maonlai">Liam Ó Maonlaí</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/johncrossan.jpg">John Crossan</a> and Roisin from <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Clare">County Clare</a> - reading [4] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/475">"King o' the Faeries"</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2989">"The Anvil"</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4735">"She Moved Through the Fayre"</a> are approximations of traditional Irish tunes. <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosban_Fach">"Sôspan Fach"</a> is traditional Welsh. "Nature-Identical Mystic" is based on <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley">Bob Marley</a>'s "Natural Mystic". Matthew made up "Ayurvedic Toothpaste" and "Cartoon Welsh Girl", Inge made up "Breakfast in Kildare", we made up "Ambulance" and "The Unfinished Rockery" together and the rest are just jams. 1 was recorded by <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Goodman">Dave Goodman</a> at his studio in Whiteley Road, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace%2C_London">Crystal Palace</a>, summer 1996 and later mixed by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pondlifestudios.co.uk/recording_studios/">Matt</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pondlifestudios.co.uk/artist_information.asp?id=1">Spacegoat</a>. We were hanging about waiting for the Spacegoats to assemble for a recording session, so Dave suggested we lay something down. This was the only time we ever multitracked anything (the saz and mandolin were recorded simultaneously, though). 2 and 8 were recorded by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jahfunkey.net/">Funkey</a> at <a target="_blank" href="http://titan.glo.be/~funkey/highergrow.html">his studio</a> in <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-niklaas">Sint-Niklaas</a>, spring 1996, during a lunar eclipse. 3, 5 and 7 were recorded in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/lizziesfield.jpg">Lizzie's field</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/llandecwyn2.jpg">Llandecwyn</a>, N. Wales, summer 1997. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/imagery/zymbii.jpg">Zymbii</a> had lost a shoe on the way there, so we were stuck for almost two weeks waiting for a <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrier">farrier</a>. We ended up putting on a little gig for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.touchllandudno.com/business/list/bid/1302457">Lizzie</a> and her friends, through the tiny little P.A. we were carrying around with us. It was quite a surreal time, as we were sharing the field with a <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama">llama</a> and a <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_%28sheep%29">Jacob sheep</a>. 4 was recorded at a studio in <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Bar%2C_Dublin">Temple Bar, Dublin</a>, May 1997, after the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/Treewalk_1997">Treewalk</a> and was used as a "hidden" track on a benefit CD called Trees are Life. The tune itself came together during the walk - intially Matthew working out a saz part in a field near <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_city">Limerick</a>, the whole thing crystallising atop the magickal faery mountain on <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burren">the Burren</a> called <a target="_blank" href="http://www.iol.ie/~burrenag/">Mullaghmore</a>. 6, 9 and 11 were recorded at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2595">Maughanasilly</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Cork">West Cork</a>, autumn 2003. Alan was about to leave for <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa">Aotearoa</a>/New Zealand, and there was a bit of a gathering for the preceding full moon. 10 recorded at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~mwatkins/imagery/rigneyfam.jpg">Rigneys</a>' farm, Cadamstown, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Offaly">Co. Offaly</a>, May 1997, during a <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_gathering">Rainbow Gathering</a> which coincided with the end of the Treewalk. 12 and 14 recorded by Funkey at his studio in Sint-Niklaas, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain">Samhain</a> 1995. We'd just spent some time in the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/Sint-Niklaas_Samhain_1995">this session</a> came together quite spontaneously on our return to Belgium. 13 was recorded on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.baka.co.uk/rinky/">Rinky-Dink</a> stage, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Green_Gathering">Big Green Gathering</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>, summer 1997. We were walking across Wales at the time, but took some time off to go to the festival. Alan was able to join us and add some percussion. 15 was recorded on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/196560">Breney Common</a>, near <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lostwithiel">Lostwithiel, Cornwall</a>, autumn 1999. We were travelling with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22The%20Dongas%20Tribe%20(and%20friends)%22">the Dongas</a>, camped nearby, en route from <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penwith">West Penwith</a> to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.keveral.org/">Keveral Farm</a> (near <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe">Looe</a>) where we spent the winter. A few splices have been introduced (by Matthew) in some pieces to make this all a bit more listenable. The name of the collection originates with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/images/stella.jpg">Stella</a> from the Spacegoats - she used to call us her "snailfriends" because of our tendency to always turn up together wearing huge rucksacks, on the way from somewhere to somewhere else. <center><a target="_blank" href="http://www.archive.org/details/Snailfriends2">Snailfriends 2</a></center> <center><a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/ailfionn/ailfionn.htm">Ail Fionn</a>                 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.childrenofthedrone.net/network/ATW/index.htm">A Tiny Window</a></center> <center><a target="_blank" href="http://soundsfromthespring.blogspot.com">The Spring</a> - Matthew's 'audio blog'                  contact: <a href="mailto:mwatkins@maths.ex.ac.uk">mwatkins@maths.ex.ac.uk</a></center> </td></tr></table></center> 2006-12-18 21:29:54 Matthew Watkins