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"Down from the rain-swept moors of the Derbyshire High Peak, comes Chordwainer. A bizarre musical chimera fusing influences as diverse as Steve Earle and Neil Finn, Paul Weller and Show of Hands, Neil Young and the Imagined Village".
Anyhow, I do hope you like the tunes! These are essentially guitar based songs with some keyboard and percussion additions - I've a preference for more natural or traditional sounds. There are more than 40 Chordwainer songs now, in a variety of styles. More recently, I've tended to move away from the electric stuff and more towards the acoustic. Since I got myself a really nice Mandolin, the direction has been definitely towards contemporary folk/singer/songwriter.
Initially Chordwainer was meant to be simply a name for the project, a vehicle for the songs as recorded. Perhaps inevitably, I've become determined to drag myself out into the world and perform the songs in front of an audience. So that's what I'm working on right now - picking the most effective tunes to play just by myself, and looking for venues receptive to some old bloke on guitar and a bunch of songs they never heard before.
If you're curious, Chordwainer was chosen as a name for this project after long deliberation and numerous hopeless non-starters. There's two strands to it - if you're really into SF then you might know of a classic SF novel "Norstrilia" by Cordwainer Smith. I thought that was a cool name, and I stuck an "H" in there, because I usually start with a couple of chords on the old guitar.
And one more thing - now I've got me finger out and made a "proper" website (www.chordwainer.me.uk), please consider yourself invited to visit. There's a bit more for the curious/sad/bored/deluded to look at and I'll try to maintain a different selection of tunes to listen to.
Chordwainer.
For the more nerdy, these are all done in Logic Express 8/9, on a 21" Intel Imac via MAudio preUSB audio interphase, and through MAudio BX5a powered monitors. Guitars are a Ricky 360, Ricky 650A and Lowden F32Ce Single cutaway acoustic. Oh and of course a Moon Standard Mandolin - a little piece of hand-made joy it is too. Keys via MAudio keystation 49e.
As well as myspace (http://www.myspace.com/asundog) there's also a "proper" website now at http://web.me.com/neilfisher/Chordwainer/Welcome.html
Anyhow, I do hope you like the tunes! These are essentially guitar based songs with some keyboard and percussion additions - I've a preference for more natural or traditional sounds. There are more than 40 Chordwainer songs now, in a variety of styles. More recently, I've tended to move away from the electric stuff and more towards the acoustic. Since I got myself a really nice Mandolin, the direction has been definitely towards contemporary folk/singer/songwriter.
Initially Chordwainer was meant to be simply a name for the project, a vehicle for the songs as recorded. Perhaps inevitably, I've become determined to drag myself out into the world and perform the songs in front of an audience. So that's what I'm working on right now - picking the most effective tunes to play just by myself, and looking for venues receptive to some old bloke on guitar and a bunch of songs they never heard before.
If you're curious, Chordwainer was chosen as a name for this project after long deliberation and numerous hopeless non-starters. There's two strands to it - if you're really into SF then you might know of a classic SF novel "Norstrilia" by Cordwainer Smith. I thought that was a cool name, and I stuck an "H" in there, because I usually start with a couple of chords on the old guitar.
And one more thing - now I've got me finger out and made a "proper" website (www.chordwainer.me.uk), please consider yourself invited to visit. There's a bit more for the curious/sad/bored/deluded to look at and I'll try to maintain a different selection of tunes to listen to.
Chordwainer.
For the more nerdy, these are all done in Logic Express 8/9, on a 21" Intel Imac via MAudio preUSB audio interphase, and through MAudio BX5a powered monitors. Guitars are a Ricky 360, Ricky 650A and Lowden F32Ce Single cutaway acoustic. Oh and of course a Moon Standard Mandolin - a little piece of hand-made joy it is too. Keys via MAudio keystation 49e.
As well as myspace (http://www.myspace.com/asundog) there's also a "proper" website now at http://web.me.com/neilfisher/Chordwainer/Welcome.html
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| Blue Cat Bewiderment | June 27, 2010 |
Chordwainer does proper gig - it goes OK, sort of....
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| Torres injured in Chordwainer gig fiasco | April 3, 2010 |
Some degree of exaggeration employed here. Indeed some aspects may be factually incorrect!
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| Chordwainer under the knife | July 9, 2009 |
Always had a somewhat sceptical view of the medical profession - not always justified.
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| Post-gig Quality Meeting | April 17, 2009 |
really losing it now..........
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| Chordwainer - a live act? Discuss.... | April 17, 2009 |
the lure of self-inflicted public humiliation proves too strong!
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