“Sometimes… you just gotta reboot”.
In the 5th installment for Life with Hungry Lucy, Christa and War-N tell us about starting the song “Erase Her” from scratch when it just wasn’t working.
This week, the duo explain their most recent “Life with Hungry Lucy” episode about the new song called “Erase Her”. You may view said video at this link. In their travels of the week, vinyl is rediscovered in a glorious way and new OPM’s are found! CB’s new (but old) finding was Demis Roussos. A lovely large fella with a sweet voice, who (we are happy to learn) is still going strong. War-N’s OPM’s this week are Coldplay and their new free release “Violet Hill” and Clara Rockmore. Clara was THE theremin player of all theremin players! See for yourself down below.
Many other fine tidbits are mentioned. You’ll just have to listen for yourself! You can also go see what Christa Belle is thinking and how War-N is twittering.
Until next week, not everyone is Lily Allen!!
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Clara Rockmore - “The Swan” (Saint-Saëns) - Theremin performance
Demis Roussos - “Forever and Ever”
Tea with Hungry Lucy, Episode 113 ends with a performance of "Shine" (originally from the album, "To Kill a King"). This version is just electric piano, hammered dulcimer and Christa's delicious vocals. Rather un-electronic for Hungry Lucy. Before the performance, though Christa goes on a rant about a newly opened local "restaurant" that the pair visited on their Sunday of attempted creativity boosting. War-N and Christa take a personal trip down memory lane and tell us about the apartment from hell in which they used to live. in the "other people's music" segment, War-N talks about trip-hop pioneer's Portishead and their very challenging, but rather clever new album "Third". CB & War-N also talk about MP3 vs. CD vs. vinyl.
Do you still buy vinyl, or is it ancient history?
Any Twitter-folk out there? Why not follow War-N's ramblings? It's fun. You can point and laugh.
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Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)
In this week's Tea with Hungry Lucy War-N & Christa share a preview of a new song (working title: Pajamas), likely title "The Best Day of Her Life". We get to hear the original noisy piano recording, and the newly arranged music.
This week's Tea with Hungry Lucy is high on the insanity meter! A mix of emotions this week as Christa and War-N talk about the therapeutic benefits of making music as well as the confidence struggles it can sometimes bring to the surface.
Queen of new media and talented vocalist of Lovespirals, Anji Bee, has featured Hungry Lucy (and our video for Harvest) on her latest Chillcast video.
This week’s podcast includes a super-fab-and-groovy live performance of “To Kill a King“. Before that, though, War-N and Christa chat about organic and locally produced food, a new video podcast episode, War-N’s blogging madness, wonderful audio players all over hungrylucy.com and Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. Does it get any better? … probably.
So, what’s on YOUR mind? Thoughts, concerns, ramblings??
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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
Time to return to my ongoing musings (or endless rant, depending on your viewpoint) on what I'll call "music freedom".
I came across a wonderful article by Andrew Dubber (via Derek Sivers) entitled "Should I Be Worried About Piracy?". Andrew thoughtfully and eloquently explained the point I've been trying to make for some while.
Instead of battling hard against this new consumer power to copy and share music...why not embrace it?
Hungry Lucy has been doing so now for about 1 year. Aside from my peace of mind (in which I place great value) we have seen greater interest in our music and, yes, a gradual but steady increase in paid (yes paid) downloads. Granted, I have no evidence as to what has caused this. I quite firmly believe, though, that our "please copy & share" attitude is at least partially to blame. Only time will tell. In the meantime, I don't worry about all those lost sales anymore, and that...is priceless. ;)
Remember the days of sharing mixtapes ... well, it's back and on the interweb. A new service called Muxtape allows you to upload MP3s (up to 12 per "tape") and then share the URL. Anyone viewing your muxtape can listen to your "tape" online (streaming only).
Check out a Hungry Lucy muxtape I just made:
http://hungrylucy.muxtape.com/ (feel free to share the URL)
After some live video stream experiments and slight techie issues, take two of TWHL #108 is ready for your ear holes. This week, Christa & War-N talk about their future plans for live video streams, performances and all. W & CB also talk about the making of the Softly video in the basement with a baby pool ... fer reals (video here in the show notes)! War-N asks for comments on his latest blog post on the value of music. Christa's OPM pick for this week is Diamanda Galas in all her delicious vocal glory. Sadly, all the pimping of Halou was lost in take 1, so we'll just pimp Halou here in the show notes and wish them mucho congrats on their just completed US tour!
So, what's on YOUR mind? Thoughts, concerns, ramblings??
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Diamanda Galas - "Gloomy Sunday"
Hungry Lucy (yeah, us) - "Softly"
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