Sam Russell came over the other day to do some work on some music for a video project he’s got going. We holed up in the basement while it was sunny and 70 outside. We got a lot done in a short amount of time, mostly me overdubbing some tracks he recorded previously to tape. Was a ton of fun – if not a little confusing at times – both engineering and recording on a variety of instruments.

As for this article’s headline, Sam is almost done with his 8 album, 8 songs per album, threaded story-character EPIC The Blue Moon Bible. However, now that the end is nigh, the projects have started to blur. There’s some solo stuff in the works, older albums planned for release later this summer, and other surprises left in store. In conclusion, completion of the Blue Moon project does not spell an end, but just a cap on one of the many things to come.

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The idea for the progression came from High Time by The Grateful Dead. Everything else is an attempt to get into a David Lynch soundtrack.

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Looking through some old files I found this song that I don’t even remember recording. Would be awesome to get an MC to lay something on top.

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Creeping Time has a standing-yearly St Patrick’s Day gig at TS McHughes in Queen Anne. We’ve played this gig long enough that we’ve gotten back to the start of the ‘day-of-the-week’ cycle for when the holiday falls. This year, St Patrick’s day is Saturday night. This means we play Friday night before the long Saturday set. TS McHughes has a great group of local denizens as well as random visitors. I don’t want to jinx it, but it’s always a great time.

Anyway, we always learn some new Irish tunes for the night. I haven’t listened to Irish music for a while, or have recently been inspired by anything in that genre. So I wrote an Irish-ish ditty. Here it is:

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Two of my favorite things are time-lapse photography and playing/recording music.

The other night, after putting the kids to sleep, I set up my new phone with a time lapse app (Lapse It), wrote the basic framework for a song, recorded it, and mixed it.

Here’s the result:

Yes, its not the best song, nor the best movie. But it was a lot of fun and even got Ghia excited – check out el perro at the end.

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