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A short promo for the Summer 2022 release of '10 Campfire Songs'. The new album from Big Blue Car and DIY Music Projects. Recorded at the 'Upstairs' during the extremely positive, multiple UK lockdowns.

10 Campfire Songs is a much calmer, 'woody', more Folk driven album this time around. More thinking and doing - less talking and broadcasting.

A small journey of a nobody, which includes: hiking, solitude, death, re-balancing expectations.

On top of the world or under canvas, nobody searches for an unfettered and more dangerous 'Nature of Things', against which to test himself.

This is a small nod to the Scottish band Big Country - one of my favourites from the eighties.

I always enjoy watching videos of multiple instruments looped through video software so thought I'd have a go with one of my own short pieces. I've had this 'Celtic' number (Jig-a-Jig) kicking around for many years now, but have never really done much with it.

I re-recorded a simplified version (minus e-bows this time) and filmed each part from my mobile as I'm recording each part into Logic, then stitched it back together in sequence using the video software.

Video for the track Clever Hans, taken from the album 'Happy Yet?'.

Click here for more information and a listen to the whole album:
https://bigbluecar.net/album-happy-yet

The Psychology of Horse-play...
Hans was an Orlov Trotter (a horse) in the early 1900's. It was said that his owner (a part time maths teacher) had taught Hans arithmetic and that Hans could tap out numeric answers with his hooves.

Future studies showed there was such a thing as an 'unconscious cueing' effect which skewed evaluative information set by questioners to their participants. In this case though it was said to be the owner of Hans who was unconsciously prompting. This helped Hans deliver the correct answers; a phenomenon often called the 'Clever Hans Effect'.

But in reality Hans was playing the lot of them - even the Psychologists. Hans liked the attention, he loved the celebrity - and of course the extra hay. He also had a photographic memory and extremely keen eyesight, easily picking out minute details of his (largely) human audience. A hidden skill he used and kept for himself alone.

A slight deviation while writing the next two Big Blue Car albums (currently titled '10 campfire Songs', and 'Eloi' respectively). A new Chilled, slightly jazzed, possibly 90's accessible synthetic music only material.

Mesh'd projects are where all the little bits of music goes when they don't seem appropriate or right to use within Big Blue Car projects.

More undefined thoughtful babble on;
- recording a new album
- of less than perfect photography and filter use
- introducing chaos and order to the creative process

With some questions:
- are mistakes and content errors sometimes worth leaving in?
- is this way of thinking also an excuse for laziness?
- are you a chaotic creator, or an ordered one?
- are; feel, think and do - the same as; experience, design and develop?

And all of this without the support of 4K or 1080P.

A lazy, acoustic sliver of the track 'Oilflow'. (camera mic only)
From the 2002 album 'The Masking of Everyday Things'.

Two new DIY music projects (4 and 5) for 2019-2020.

A track from the 2019 album 'Happy Yet?'

What's it about chief?

Thanks for asking - it's about the puppetry of organisations who seduce the young into doing their dirty work for them.

If you wish to control society what better way than to turn its children against their parents.

A track from the Big Blue Car’s 2019 release ‘Happy Yet?’ album. Mortal Orbits It's about the magnetism of family and friends and the finite orbits we keep - More information on my DIY Music Projects can be found at bigbluecar.net

All BBC material is produced by one man in one room using one computer… and a variety of instruments.

A track from Big Blue Car’s 2019 album release ‘Happy Yet?’.
All BBC material is produced by one man in one room using one computer… and a variety of instruments.

More information on my DIY Music Projects can be found at bigbluecar.net

A bucketful of bits and pieces which will probably form part of the next two Big Blue Car albums / future releases.

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Created 4 years, 9 months ago.

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Category Music

DIY music projects from Big Blue Car.
The goal; one person to create all material from within one, small room.
All art/graphics, video, music and songs by KP Williams (Big Blue Car).