Marimba - can you taste it?

Start by turning up your volume.

Then press play:

This was Pete and I playing Marimba whilst it poured outside. I'm on the bass beat-keeping.

There is a crew of Crystal Waters people who practice Marimba every Thursday.

Pete warmed me up by teaching me a few tunes on his Marimba at home.

It's made from piping, rope and plastic bags.

You could probably take your Marimba camping and turn it into a tent using the various elements.

Pete gets his over to the neighbours in a wheelbarrow.

This is Pete expressing love and laughter with a fellow Marimba player. Note the deep bass Marimba in made of serious plumbing pipe.

I loved this angle of Sara. She had a bag of curious percussion.

And if I had a marimba, this is what it would look like.

And it would sound something like:

Blue blue blue, yellow yellow
Green Green, Green Green, purple.

[current mood] Paw Paw Salad & Aussie Pub Singalong Classics

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[New Tools For Monkeys]

Make more music (and film) and enrich our lives with your light.

I woke up this morning about 4am, made a cup of tea, and started composing sound/lyrics/vocals on the computer...the result, Afterbirth. It’s now 1:14pm...sometimes I really do think I should get a life.

Free download, before iTunes release ( http://dirtsettlers.com/Music/Afterbirth.mp3 ).


Music: New Tools For Monkeys vs Faarsheed.
Vocals/Lyrics: George Taylor-Tomic.
Single: Afterbirth.
Genre: Electronic/Progressive House

Afterbirth

Advertising avarice
Dissension through utterance
In a secular society

My thoughts are not my own
They’re all convoluted
From gestation to demise

Typography and icons
Dictate my style
Directions of design
Create a living lie

Mothers of the afterbirth
Disowning generations
Devoured by the anger
Of their own lost youth

Your thoughts are not your own
They’re all manipulated
From gestation to demise

Typography and icons
Dictate your style
Directions of design
Create a living lie