Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Musical Nostalgia!

When I saw the theme that Kathi Jo had chosen for Lucky Snapping this week, I immediately thought about these digiscrapping layouts which I made in 2008 for a challenge at, a now defunct, digi-scrapping forum.  Matthew and Son by Cat Stevens was the first record I ever bought in 1966, I still love it and at least it isn't something embarassing! Speaking of embarassing...that's me with our cat 'Jasper' round about the time I bought the record.

The second layout features Joni Mitchell's Miles of Aisles.  I think I bought this in 1976, just before I left home to go to university.  When I played it at home as my Dad always called her 'that wailing woman'!  It was a double album and I played it again and again.  I still listen to it to this day, it's a live album and contains a lot of her best work.  I highlighted the lyrics to Carey as that is probably my favourite track, it's one of the more upbeat tracks and always makes me smile.  I continued to buy Joni Mitchell's work, she hasn't done any new work recently, just re-worked old stuff, and I managed to see her in concert just the once.

It took some digging about in my folders to find these layouts, as my digital filing system leaves a lot to be desired, but I'm glad I did.

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Music - 365+1

Template: Stripes by L.Bozeman, Kits: by Sugarplumpaperie
My husband plays saxophone and his teacher, Marcus Blunt,  is a composer for clarinet as well as a teacher.  This is his latest Sonata.  This one isn't available on Youtube but there are a couple of pieces, played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by the London Schubert Players, that you can listen to HERE and HERE