your life and my life they don't touch at all

Tenacious bugger that he is, Simon has persevered with the plethora of plug-ins bestowed upon his unwitting PC and apparently concocted some tasty beats. The electronic element is back on! x-kettlecore-x I'll report back after I've heard them.

As for me, I'm trying a new tuning, missing my amp, and using Liebezeit for chord sequences rather than clickyness. Also, getting a bit disheartened by the lack of paths away from obvious chord sequences.

Went to see a Senegalese band at the weekend; i'm usually pretty unreceptive to "World Music" but for one thing the main guy was captivating, and secondly he was packing one of these:



A Senegalese lute/harp called a Kora. The strings are stupidly close together and you play with your thumbs and forefingers - it winds up sounding a little like a Sitar but without the overtones and less cliched.

But back to the band though - it was refreshing to see a band like that just doing a proper gig, where people were really into it, rather than as a distant spectacle or something to fill a gap on Jools Holland. It was earthy and loud and rhythmic and carried the kind of charisma that the generic dreary indie dad-pleasers can only dream of.

Heaven knows where this leaves me.