Here is a live recording from the fifth of December, 2005, at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida. The band was a trio – OL, Jon Gagan + Davo Bryant – plus the string quartet. Stephen Duros was the lighting designer for that tour.
This is the Pavanne by Gabriel Faure, with a string arrangement by Jon Gagan. The recording quality is not great, but I think the quality of the performance makes up for that. The performance showcases the best side of live-music, in-the-moment invention, improvisation and so on. Check out the guitar solo and you might notice that I start swinging the notes and that Davo follows that lead and starts swinging the percussion.
It’s been really cold in Santa Fe this week. This Morning it was 4ºF. I met with Michael Motley who put together PDFs to accompany lossless album offerings on HDTracks.
Here are a couple of iphone pics from his studio:
I have been working a lot on the new Tibet-slideshow for my performance in Manhattan next week. After next week I will a slideshow of my favorite Tibet photos to this page.
I was looking for a pair of warm Winter biking gloves and had not found anything I liked. Then I came across this post:
Open Bicycle » We Light Our Hands On Fire So You Don’t Have To. After looking into the various gloves marketed by cycling apparel manufacturers, we decided that every offering had some flaws- not weather-proof enough, too much padding, or simply too expensive. We started looking elsewhere- surely there was someone making gloves that would keep your hands dry and toasty throughout the climate-change ravaged Northeast winters? The solution, we found, was in workwear. A few of us had been very happy with our Ironclad mechanics gloves, and we decided to investigate their other models.
Water and windproof for a price that seems right – under $40. Here are the other gloves Open Bicycle mentioned – $26.
In the evening I worked on my Tibet photos from 2006, because a slideshow of Tibet photos was requested for my solo performance in Manhattan next week. I took me about 12 hours to go through all 1,800 photos. Next I’ll have to find out how I can arrange the photos into a slideshow. Above is lichen, below paint. I don’t know whether this was a mix-up in the Chinese factory or whether a broken spoon and a broken fork were repaired like this…
Oh, and now we have two albums available in the 24/96k HD format. HDTracks carries them online: One Guitar and Up Close.
