As always, my blog is at http://www.elkvoice.com/flute_blog
I have finally been doing some recording in the lab (my trusty barn). I put a couple of the things I’ve been working on up on the website – music downloads page. It was fun to get ‘She Talks to Me’ into a recorded format because I kept changing the song around. So now it’s locked in as they say. So far, I think my wife likes it – which is good since I wrote it for/about her.
http://www.elkvoice.com/othermusic/SheTalksToMe.mp3
The EagleNationSong is a flute song. I adapted this from a song we used to sing in Whitecalf singers. In fact, I remember Bruce Whitecalf teaching me this song a long time ago. I’ve also heard the Brotherhood community singers (Porcupine Singers) sing this at PowWows. It’s a Lakota song as far as I know, and I think it’s beautiful whether sung at the drum, or rendered on the flute. The song gets it’s name from the lyrics which say, “Wanble gleshka kiye waupelo, Wangble Oyate ke, waupelo”…or the Eagle Nation people are coming… Enjoy this very rough cut recording.
http://www.elkvoice.com/othermusic/EagleNationSong.mp3
Lastly, I put a video version of “Believe It” out there too. We needed to use this song in church and I wanted to be sure folks could understand the lyrics. So I put this slideshow together with super-imposed lyrics. It turned out OK for our purposes. Hope you like it.
http://www.elkvoice.com/othermusic/Believe_It_web.wmv
fluteplayer Just me
I was able to do some fishing this holiday weekend. I took Zuri out fishing on the local lake: Stoney Lake. It’s not a large place, but there are serveral types of fish here. Fishing from the canoe, we’ve mostly landed Bluegill and Sunfish with worms…and a few dough balls.
So, I’ve been throwing different lures into the water just to see what might interest the fish on any random day. I’ve been able to pick up a small mouth bass on a yellow tail fly/jig. Actually, Zuri was smoking me with the fish count. But more importantly, I think he had a really good time getting out in the canoe with me and stalking fish. He’s actually able to bait his own hook, cast, set the hook and bring the fish in all by himself. I think he enjoys the thrill of the catch as much as I do.
I did figure out a way to troll from the canoe and put a small floating rattle trap crank bait in the water with a drop down sinker rig. I picked up a large mouth bass and a perch within 5 minutes out. That little lake has quite a diverse bit of cover and topology, so I’m figuring there are other approaches as well.
Maybe one more time out this fall. Maybe some fishing from the bank as well.
fluteplayer Wistful Fisherman
As always, my blog is http://www.elkvoice.com/flute_blog
Finally, summer opened up and gave us some clear and sunny weather at the beach. However, the water was a bit brisk…holding at 54 degrees. Actually, in my book that is terminal. So I contented myself with snoozing in the sun, on the beach, and taking a couple of strolls with Shilo down along the shore. The rest of the time was just watching clouds come across the lake and climbing the dunes with Zuri.
I’ve been doing some recording in the barn these days. It’s been kind of refreshing just putting a stereo mic source out and recording some songs straight acoustic. No drums or bass or keyboard on these tunes. I have some other material that I’ll be putting together that has more complicated arrangements, and that will be coming soon. But, in the mean time, I’m just working through a bunch of simpler material.
I even have some drafts of some flute music recorded now. Not that I’m ready to put that out for public hearing. Geez my fluteplaying has picked up many many many rough edges. So, I’ll need to do some refining of the raw material I guess.
fluteplayer Just me
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