This is one of those "well, I got something done" tracks--some of the melodic and harmonic elements work well, though I don't know if it works in aggregate. Three tracks of hollowbody Univox in Bb F C tuning, no external effects, but in-Ableton convolution reverb and compression/eq on the stereo mix.

Initially I was going for something sparser, but my reflex in playing was to do something more dense. Some sparse sections did emerge, though, so the next one may focus more on those.

The title comes from Cold Fell in the northern Pennines, a mountain with an elevation of 621 m.

This past week brought the usual Monday night livestream performance, two releases (one from the previous week, and the Monday performance), a deep clean of the office/studio (for the better!), and a number of other busy-life things. Still, I got late night Friday and late night Saturday recording sessions in, along with editing on Sunday. This one is slow, in something of a contrast to all that other activity.

$60 Univox hollowbody in modified Fahey tuning, three tracks, two sends to convolution reverbs, and the stereo mix multiband compression/eq.

The result...is kind of calm, with a sense of determination.

The title comes from the 620 m elevation of Sentinel Rock in Sentinel Rock State Park.

My initial thought was to leave more space and experiment with more effects in this one, but the motives that emerged this week were strong enough that I didn't want to get in the way.

Recorded in one Saturday and one Sunday session with the $60 Univox in dropped Fahey tuning (Bb F Bb F Bb C). Direct to UA Volt, and then two convolution reverbs: one a church-sized space, and one using the Harpole Cistern. There's also the usual compression/eq on the stereo.

The title comes from a stream crossed by PA-611.

Shaking off some of the restrictions I've had on myself, this one's more spacious, and makes use of long-reverb sustains into the quiet sections. I'd structured this one much more intuitively than other recent tracks, recording parts with long rests, not always syncing up the same way when they came around again. There's a kind of dream-logic to this, or maybe the feeling of allowing a warm summer day to pass by slowly, without obligations.

This is mostly three (and in a couple places four) parts for $60 Univox Coily hollowbody in Bb F C tuning. No inline effects, but two reverb sends on each channel: one theater-sized, and one with the Dan Harpole cistern.

The title comes from the Dún na Séad Castle at the western end the R595 road.

Quite a lot of activity this week, so this track is what felt achievable with the energy available. This one uses $60 Univox hollowbody in Bb F tuning, so it lends itself to fingerpicking and barred strumming. As I've been doing lately, I've tended toward phrasing with a rest or natural fade at the end. It's a bit sparse in places, and in two of them...it was a bit too sparse, so I added a some duplication of notes in the editing, copying one snippet and delaying it by a sixteenth note or two.

The world's a mess, particularly my country, and writing this doesn't directly fix any of those problems, but I hear a kind of hopefulness in this music, despite our surroundings. Let's find hope where we can, enough to keep ourselves going, so we can make things better.

No inline effects, but there's the usual convolution reverb and a bit of compression/eq on the stereo mix.

The title comes from the river in Ireland that in some places runs alongside the R579.