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I’ve just uploaded a new song to my bandcamp page. “Keep Trying” is a recording I have been working on for the last two months. It’s a song I wrote after spending a lot of time listening to John Prine and Townes Van Zandt. I hope you enjoy it.

Here’s my first attempt at doing a video. The footage from the public domain title “Way Station in Space” available at the Internet Archive. Enjoy!

From time to time, I will dig through my music vault and post some older recordings.

The first edition of Marwood’s Music Vault features 2 versions of my song Electric Guitar Interlude. There’s about a 15 year gap between the 2 versions.

This recording dates back to 2004/2005. The production of this song started at the original Seattle location of “Tangled Wire Studios” and ended up being the 1st song I completed in my current digs (the basement of Marwood Manor.) This version features Jeff (I am sorry I don’t know his last name) on Drums and “crunch” rhythm guitar.

Now for a real blast from the past – here’s the original idea – Circa 1989.

This version is from the late 1980’s, was recorded in Kingston, PA and was the first “Completed” song done on my old Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette recorder. The quality isn’t the greatest – The tape stock has degraded over the years – and the playing has some rough spots. At the time, however, I was was very happy to put something together. I owe a lot of thanks to my old friend Terry, who lent me an Yamaha Reverb box. (I am not sure of the model – but it might be a Yamaha Rex 50.)

I am still working on mixing my newest release. I hope to have it for you soon. I will also be releasing some older songs from the “vaults “of “Tangled Wire Studios.” More details to follow.

In the meantime, if your looking for a song to download, my friend Drew Dundon just released a new song for free download.

Due to a New Year’s Computer virus, I am a little behind schedule in mixing a new song for the site. I hope to do that shortly. In the meantime, I spent my weekend building some new bass traps/sound panels.

Bass Trap and Wall Panel

Ceiling Cloud and Wall Panel

For building the bass traps and panels. I used these simple PDF plans I found on the web.

In the next week or so, I plan on doing some more recording and mixing, which means I should have some new material up shortly.

Here’s some excellent informatiuon frrom Ronan’s Recording Show:

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season.

It was a Merry Christmas at Marwood Manor. Some new and interesting equipment has been added to Tangled Wire Studios. Later this week, I will be continuing my studio sound treatment project with the construction of more bass traps and sound panels. (More details later.)

I am also planning on adding more music to the site in the coming weeks.

Please check back!

In the meantime, Happy New Year!

I just re-did my studio space:

Out with the old….

2005

In with the new!

Dec 2009

I was able to set up my bandcamp page:

All 5 of my songs can be downloaded for individually or as a collection. Of course, all downloads are free.

Here is my Music on Jamendo:

I am having trouble uploading my files to my bandcamp page, which for the time being puts a hold on my downloads and such.

In the meantime, here are 4 more mp3 streams:

The songs include:

2nd Song: I’m So Glad You’re My Friend

3rd Song:  Stuck in a Rut

4th song: Look at Us Now

Last Song:  Boris Blues

All of the songs I am streaming – the 4 in this post and the 1 song in the previous post – represent what I have been working on.  I  still have a couple more songs I need to finish and mix, which I hope to be adding to this site in the coming days.

Next up on my agenda is re-tooling my studio with my new mixer.