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I'm apparently my own top artist of the month, according to mog-o-matic. That makes me feel icky.No worries. That'll change once MoM records all the Rabbi Shergill plays.
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Posts by celtichris
I feel icky
My current musical crush
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Track:Bulla Ki Jana
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New music at last
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Track:Freed
It's bizarre ... I take a vacation (from posting, as well as literally), and the whole time, my mog-o-meter is pegged at 'blazing'. I come back, and I slip back to 'smoking'. Mog must like me better when I go away. It'd be enough to give me a complex if I didn't, evidently, already have one.So it's been awhile since I posted new music for y'all to enjoy. To that end, I offer this new SAW contri...
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celtichris says relax ...
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Track:Summer's Chill
I'm delighted to share with you all my latest contribution to the Song a Week Podcast. Despite my insistence that I would be going back to my acoustic roots, this one's anything but.It's an instrumental chillout number called, plainly enough, 'Summer's Chill' in honor of the impending change of seasons.Another kicker with this one is that there's not one note, not one noise, in this composition th
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And one more ...
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Track:Tall Tales and Nightingales
Here's another song from my band's CD, one of the ones we've considered as test cases for the experiment using backing tracks on stage (see previous MOG entry).This one is potentially more problematic because it's the most drum-heavy song on the album. I'm certain we'd have to replace the over-the-top 'In the Air Tonight' drums with something a little more sedate, but there's more other stuff g...
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What do YOU think my band should do?
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Now is the time on MOG when I seek your advice, dear reader, about a possible change in musical direction, or rather our approach to live performance, that we're contemplating.You've probably never heard our music, but we're an acoustically-based trio usually comprised of two guitars and a bass, with 3 strong vocalists resulting in some occasionally very dense harmonies of which I've always bee...
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I should try being cranky more often!
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Track:Falling Apart
After last week's crankiness actually seemed to get a response from people, I feel like I should be grumpy again, but I just don't have it in me.Alas, another thing I don't have in me is the time or capacity to do a song-a-week every week. For SAW, we rotate, mostly among the three members of Haiku Rd., which means that I'm up about once every three weeks. But just as an experiment in contrasts, I
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Another song you'll all hate
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Track:Selah
How many times do I give my alter-ego free rein before it becomes dominant and my folky persona becomes the alter-ego instead?Anyway, here's my latest Song-a-Week, chock full of beepy keyboards and loud drums. If I knew more about electronica I'd be able to sub-categorize this thing, but I don't so I won't.More acoustic music will follow relatively soon. I swear. Not that you're listening anyway.
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Brushes with obscure greatness
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So I was doing some miscellaneous googling the other day ... OK, I was doing a vanity search because it bugs me that there's another Chris Devine out there who's a musician, and who always comes in higher in the google search than I do. True, he used to play violin in Blackmore's Night, so I suppose he's justified. But still ...Anyway, I stumbled across this old calendar listing from the Honolu...
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Maybe it's because I just got back from Hawaii ...
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But Keali`i Reichel's voice digs right through my to soul every time I hear it, even when he's singing extra-cheesy covers of breezy '70s soft rock. But his soft Hawaiian-language ballads, move me the most.
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