Category: Music
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Relative keys
The husband often tries to teach me more about music theory. The wonder of modes! Which mostly just makes my brain hurt. He wrote me an email this week that contained the sentence “I think modes are actually much easier to understand than modern western harmony system based music as all 7 modes are based…
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Wicked Girls
I bought Seanan McGuire’s album Wicked Girls recently, without having listened to much of it. But I really like her books (she writes urban fantasy as Seanan McGuire, and zombie political thrillers as Mira Grant), and she’s a fantastic lyricist, so I figured I’d enjoy the album. And I do – it’s great modern folk…
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Christmas time
The plane bounced sharply a few times on our descent into Cairns, causing high pitched shrieks from the passengers. It was that sort of jolting that makes you gaze out the window (while clutching onto the seat in front of you) and contemplate the interesting fact that you’re hurtling through the air in a pointy…
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Reverb 10 – 5 & 6
December 5 – Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why? I think I’ll just quote a Leunig cartoon, and a song we sing at choir, in response to this. “Let it go, let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free, and it can be a path on…
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Tunes
I spent part of this weekend making a website for the husband’s “band”. I use the term loosely, because said band really consists of himself and a mate drinking beer and recording mostly improvised instrumental tunes. Perhaps “duo” would be better, and that’s what I’ve used on the website. But really, as I think it’s…
o frabjous day! 