spam

After a hard day at microsoft office I sat at the piano substitute and went a trifle bananas. I call the result
  
banana trifle

These are the first two minutes - it goes on for another seven and a half.

Another exerpt - the whole thing lasts about six minutes and then suddenly stops because I’d made the backing too short.
  
nor nor west

To understand the title you need to have half-remembered the same bits of Hamlet that I have (“. . . mad but nnw . . .”). The Julie Andrews quote (“the hills are alive . . . ”) at the end was an accident.

 
fainting in coils

A demo for the band. I played all the instruments into the computer. Didn’t try to make it sound live. It’s a nice tune though, I think.

 
mahal taj

Another demo. I was in a record shop where I saw a section devoted to Davis Miles (?) and another to Coltrane John (Elton’s brother?).
And then I turned to the blues section . . .

 
hip bop

Technically perfect because I doctored it in the computer so that when I printed the notes I could read them. I play dirtier.
It’s in straight 4/4 time, in case you were wondering - the theme is first on one, then one and a half, then two.

 
thingy

No tune yet - just a chord sequence and some blowing. I tried sucking but it sounded funny. 3/4 time.

. . . and a couple of standards. The flute in Lady is a Tramp sounds odd because it isn’t a flute, it’s a sample, and the vibrato effect was a nauseating wobble so I didn’t use it.

  
a foggy day

 
lady is a tramp, the

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