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True Love’s on Its Way. David k.A. Spencer (Feat: Coco & Haze)

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  Indie. Dream pop. Shoegaze. Vocals. Cyna Slater. Music composition & artwork. D. k. A. Spencer. From the original music,  on.soundcloud.com/MsTESiuipe3vNzMT9  CRUEL LOVE, (Harry & Cyna Slater. Lyrics: Russell L Slater, Janice Slater True Love’s on Its Way. (Feat: Coco & Haze https://on.soundcloud.com/b8ii1p6Ek9ZSBSGR6

Part 2: Developing Craft: An interview with Australian/NZ Jazz pianist Judy Bailey ( 1979)

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  Jan:  What about development of craft? Judy:  Do you mean that whole business of combining awareness of technique, awareness of phrasing, awareness of...the musical ways to move throughout a progression, rather than the clever ways, the overall architecture of the piece.  To me that's a very important ingredient. I think it's vital to be aware of and have your students become aware of the importance of looking at the overall structure rather than going along beat by beat, bar by bar, till you get to the end. To try and develop a way of looking at a piece in its entirety, so that when you're improvising for instance, you can retain what you've already played, it's as 'though you've recorded it.  You've got you've got your little tape recorder in the back of your head and you can retain a memory of what you've played, what you're playing now and where you're going to so that you're building from what you've started with and you br...

LYRICAL SMIRK: A Diamond Tiara lasts 4ever - feat Janice Slater & Kirk Kadish

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      A few years back an enigma from the Nederland's of the name of LYRICAL SMIRK did a retake on my collaboration with Kirk Kadish: STRANGE DAY... Whenever I return to it ...it makes me smile and so I have to keep on sharing it. Cheers Lyrical Smirk.  https://on.soundcloud.com/iud8ZkeDqccGnZHc8 From LS's original post via Soundcloud The lovely Lady Janice was so kind to send me loads of samples to mess around with. Here's my first take, just messing about! Hope you like ... This is also a lil Tribute to the wonderful Norma Jeane Mortenson aka Marilyn Monroe! Vocals ( Remixed ) Janice Carter Slater @ arterial-flow Also a special thanks to Kirk Kadish for making such wonderful music @ kirkkadish Used bits and pieces from these tracks: April Boucher - Strange Day Arterial Flow - Strange Day Bobbi Marchini - Critical Day Janice Carter Slater - Full of Thrills Also used bits from the movie Gentlemen prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_obqibKLo ...

An interview with Gwen Byng on the (late) Australian Record Producer/guitarist: Mark Moffatt. (22nd Nov, 1949 - 6th September 2024)

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  Janice:  Gwen, although we've yet to meet in person we've built a solid friendship over the last number of years.  One of the galvanizing aspects was a connection with the late, Mark Moffatt. Yours being a far more  engaged music industry and personal connection; going back to the 1970's I believe?  Whilst mine was briefly working with Mark in Festival studios in Glebe recording the vocals of Jo Kennedy who was starring in Gillian Armstrong's film Starstruck.   If you could share with us your first recollections of meeting Mark?  Gwen:  My first meeting with Mark was in 1967 at a venue called The Open Door.   It was a disco/youth hangout/drug clinic run by 4BC Talk Back host Hayden Sargent who had for many years been a Minister of Religion.    Mark and his band IRON WEB came to a Saturday morning session where we allowed all the up and coming bands to grab stage time and play to an audience. His band was a blues band and...

An Interview with NZ Jazz great; pianist/composer: Judy Bailey (late 1979)

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 Introduction:  I interviewed Judy; in perhaps late 1979.  There is a Part One of this interview but I've yet to locate it.  I was studying Jazz theory with visiting USA Jazz musicians; via the courtesy of Jeanette & Greg Quigley who had organized Jamie Aebersold to teach in Australia. I've the feeling that it was around this time that I managed to sit down and have a chat with Judy with my trusted tape recorder.  As this interview will show; Judy displays a brilliant; quirky, humorous and insightful take on her idiom along with the generalities of life in the Antipodes.  I've decided to try to stick to the original transcription with as few edits as possible. Along with that as it's a very long interview which I'm having to retype I'm going to break it up into segments. I know for those who are familiar with Judy's work you'll enjoy hearing her responses to my questions and for those new to her that you'll check out her gorgeous music.   Chee...

NEW ARTWORK ON REDBUBBLE ....

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  I hope you like my new artwork on Redbubble.  Meanwhile he is a nice peaceful image taken in the  Megalong Valley some years a back.  Wishing all beings to be free from harm.  https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/167740224?asc=u

SOUNDSCAPES ON BANDCAMP

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  I finally managed to put a few of my errant soundscapes on Bandcamp! I'm now waiting to see if I can share them. The site is still under construction, as am I! https://janiceslater.bandcamp.com/