Special Music.

Songs from Nature's Valley

I've been meaning to put these up for a while (since 2009). I think they're fun.

I had just been given a tape-recorder and used it to record my first attempts at singing. These are they. All the songs are improvised and I had only been playing guitar for two months at the time, so it might be a bit different to the music you're used to hearing.

(The text above the picture is a link that if you click will allow you to download the songs!)

Beatboxing.

I spent a month in Berlin in 2009, which is when the two comics that I've posted were drawn. Some people that I met there ran a weekly open mic night at a club called Madame Claude in Kreuzberg. On my last night night in Berlin I revealed to them my secret ability to beatbox. It was an "Open Mike Tyson" on that particular Sunday, which meant that there were three judges who critiqued your stuff. It was all quite friendly except for one musician from New Zealand to whom Tory, one of the organizers, seemed to have a lot to say.

On my trip I had with me a Talkgirl (the female version of the talkboy from Home Alone) that a friend of mine, Michaela, lent to me so that I would capture what exactly it is that is going on over there. I used it to record my 'set'. The recording clips at times when my sounds become too intense. Also, I think I sound helluva smug when I talked, but it's just that I was quite nervous.

Beatboxing.mp3