Food of love it may be, but when you let me loose with recording equipment it may be time to run for the hills. Here's some of the stuff I've been working on recently. Comments, questions, offers to collaborate and takedown notices can be emailed to me — see the "Contact" page.
I took up the ukulele a few months ago, and have been having a ridiculous amount of fun with it. My current project is to identify some well-known (and less well-known) songs that have languished in an un-ukuleled state for far too long. Here's what I've done so far.
Written by Leonard Cohen, but associated in most people's minds with Jeff Buckley, this is a fantastic song. And I aimed to see just how far that fact could be pushed. Remarkably, even when it's given the full "Hawaiian summer" treatment that the ukulele can't help but produce, I think it still works. Download the mp3 here.
This one's a Beatles cover. The original song is off the White Album, a work that still has me confused as to whether it has genius gleaming through the staggeringly poor production and overblown avant-gardeness, or whether it's just rubbish. Either way, I do like this song. It's simple and gentle, and apparently the bass part was just Paul McCartney humming "bom bom bom". No such vocal gymnastics on this version, unless you count the notes I couldn't quite hit! Download it here.
I've kept this quiet for ages, but now that I'm posting some of my music I may as well put the rest up. I've had this page up at DMusic for years. A lot of the stuff there is frankly terrible, but I think it's an interesting look at the kind of stuff I was creating while I was going through my teenage years and just discovering how to make music. Most new stuff will go up there too.