Harp And Pipa - details of the album

These are the details so far. My original tracks and Diaguo's compositions do not have names yet. They will be added later.

1) Diaguo on Chinese wind instrument and Pipa

2) Harp - original composition

3) Harp and Pipa with drum

4) Harp and Pipa with bass guitar

5) Harp original composition

6) Harp Shee Big Shee Mor

7) Harp Greensleeves

8) Harp Scarborough Fair

9) second take of tract 2


Now I will talk in more depth about each tract.

1)

Harp And Pipa - more about the recording

very soon I will write more details about harp and pipa and it's recording, Please check back.

HARP AND PIPA - First CD recorded

Last Saturday night I recorded my first CD. Diaguo was the sound man. It was a home recording but they had a very good machine and the sound quality is fantastic. I will write in more detail about the recordings, but for today I will just give an outline.

I recorded 5 songs solo harp. Three are Irish, and two are originals. Diaguo and I did two tracts together. One with added bass, and one withe added drum, both played by his friend ..
I would like to add one or two more solo tracts if I can,

Anyone For Chinese?

Last night D( I must get his name right) was on Ben Yehuda. I met him on Friday in the shuk. He was playing on a Chinese Instrument together with the man who plays every week on a Middle-eastern instrument. I have spoken with him before but I forget his name or the name of his instrument. I think I will try to get that and write about him here.

Anyway, back to my new friend. I wil call him D for now until I get his name right. I met him last Friday in the shuk. They had just finished playing, and I heard the last minute of it. Well, when I saw the Instrument D was playing, I had to find out about it. It was a stringed instrument like the guitar, but pear shaped and very exotic looking. The name of it, I found out, is pipa. I told him about my playing on Ben Yehuda and invited him to come. He was there last night when I went out. He didn't have the pipa with him but had a bowed instrument and a reed instrument like the oboe, but very different. I will write about these later.

We played together and it was awesome. He played sometimes on one instrument and sometimes on the other. He also sang and had a very deep voice. He could sound like a digerydoo. I also let him play my harp. Within minutes he was producing very beautiful music.

D actually grew up in America, but lives in China now. He has studied the violin. I think it was his first instrument. He will be here for 6 weeks and will be playing with me more. We agreed to do a disc together before he leaves. He also has a double disc of his own.