Post Topics
Here is a list of my – now searchable – posts – newest to oldest. Some have audio and a few have video
Folktronica – something a little different . . .
I had been working on some instrumentals based on Scottish folk tunes – just love pentatonic stuff! Then singer/ Songwriter Helen McCookerybook, with whom I had worked on The Cutty Wren heard these and volunteered to add vocals . . .but opted to sing these in Gaelic! So the genre ‘Synthecosse’ was born! The two […]
Lublin Pingable VCA
Really liking the Xaoc Devices Lublin pingable VCA. Here we have two passes of switched sequences, with the AJH/Tone Science Chance Delay and of coursed the wonderful Wellspring!
Patience And Shuffle The Cards – album reviews
Wonderful review from Neil Mason in Moonbuilding Weekly – Issue 74 (Substack): And also nice review in this month’s Electronic Sound: And here is a taster – the opening track:
Stone Soup
Often tracks begin with a simple sequence which only gradually takes form with the addition of other elements – the title refers to the folk tale where a traveller arrives in a village with no food but just a cooking pot and a stone. Villages intrigued as to what dish he would produce simply boiling […]
Patience And Shuffle The Cards – New Album
Release date: July 25th – CD in digipack + Bandcamp downloads and streaming services I first came across the phrase Patience And Shuffle The Cards in the diaries of Sir Walter Scott, although I later learned that it originates in Don Quixote. It is a sort of resigned ‘well, let’s see what happens’ where the […]
The Fairlight and me . . . a little history from 1981
I first heard about the Fairlight CMI at MIDEM – this magic machine that could sample sounds – but very little additional information was available. . . . . . I then spotted an ad in Studio Sound with a picture of the Fairlight and the strap line: ‘Fairlight C.M.I – Need We Say More?‘ […]
Creeping Thanatos
Just one week to go to the release of my new album – available for pre-order here: Patience And Shuffle The Cards I don’t like this ‘getting old’ business . . . when mortality comes into sharper focus and you realise that things that you remember clearly, actually happened decades ago . . . and […]
Just two weeks to go . . .
. . . until the release date of my album Patience And Shuffle The Cards – on CD, download and streaming – and available to pre-order. So, here is track seven: Sometimes it feels a little strange to be tucked away in my room surrounded by synths indulging myself in music production when there is […]
CD’s Arrived!
That feeling when the waiting is over and the physical product arrives! In this case patience is definitely rewarded! Great service from Alpha Duplication. Release date is just three weeks away – Friday July 25th but pre-orders can be made on the Willie Gibson Bandcamp page. In the meantime enjoy this teaser track . . […]