My first folk+ambient experiment (keyboards only)

Hi there,


I just wanted to share one little track I recorded some time ago around 2011. It's an ambient-style improvisation on the Icelandic folk tune "Tobaksvisur" published by þursaflokkurinn in 1979. The melody is exposed in the beginning and returns from time to time as a kind of improvised counterpoint. 

I must have been about 17 when I recorded it, but this year I found that I still like the tones of the keyboards, prompting me to upload it to Youtube with some wobbly film material I recorded in Kent, UK.

I've used the following instruments exclusively:


- 2004 Kawai ES-3 electric piano >  vintage 1968  Leslie 900
- 2006 Hammond XK-1 organ >   vintage 1968  Leslie 900
- RedTron VST Mellotron plug-in (the best available free Mellotron sound IMO)
- 2009 Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer

- Samson condensers > Edirol UA-25 > Samplitude free version on Windows XP


(Please excuse the hallucinating video footage in the middle -  it's a film of Morris dancers with way too much visual 'tremolo' FX. )


There's a bit of trebly mess in the middle part which I'm going to clear up at some time. If I do I'll also think of shortening the whole thing and maybe put it on the EP/album which I'm intending to record at the moment (which is also going to include vocal tracks and tunes which are more rhythmic than this kind of ambient rambling ).


I'd be utterly glad about any feedback - be it positive or negative.

(For those who might enjoy it in some way:  I've also covered Caravan's "Where But For Caravan Would I?" as an instrumental version on my channel - it gets more and more chaotic til the end, but I enjoyed my guitar tone in the first half enough to put in on Youtube.)


Regards,

Max



Edited by Einsetumadur - September 06 2013 at 11:02