Album Sampler : Roll the Death Ship

A snippet of the opening track for Salt in Wires - indian harmonium, violin & voice. Filmed in the creeks in Cornwall. I think maybe I've been watching too many horror movies lately. :0 :0 :0



These lines trailing across the ocean
Salty lines, beating with our voices
These miraculous storms come in every one hundred years
You would like the tropics, you were a hula hula dancer
These miraculous hands
These miraculous hands
Roll the death ship it is coming
Stall the death ship, it is coming
I've been on this shore too long
I've been on these shores too long
These miraculous minds
These miraculous minds

Electric Violin

Well I have been having fun this week :) Here's a 5 string electric violin. The extra string on the bottom is the one a viola would have (C3) which makes for beefier, bassier sounds :o Yum. It sounds just as good as it looks. Peter & the good folk at Beverley Music Centre let me try it out. They run a workshop on Wednesday nights, so you could learn to make your own. Fun as that sounds, I'm fear I wouldn't have the time to do that. I doubt I'd match the craftmanship on this instrument anyhow. I'd like to get one custom made up at some point. Yah, it is on the wish list! (It turns out the man who made this instrument, Collin, is the brother of the hurdy gurdy man of Hornsea who repaired my harmonium)

Lu x
ps. Do get in touch if you play the electric violin. I'd be curious to hear about your experiences.







http://www.beverleymusiccentre.co.uk/

Hurricane Lulu

2009 / 2010 Release date tba -
Under gestation, mwahaha. A secret love affair with the violin, pump harmonium, beeps, beats & bent circuits. It is currently sounding like a dark death ship in the night! ... a tropical storm ...electrical interference... a haunted lighthouse... ok, that will do for now...

I'll be blogging more on this. Please, you are most welcome to join me. It may help me to stop going mad!

Lu x