Music for a Found Harmonium (Unplugged Past Fest Revisited)

[alfstone]

Well, the highly hypnotic (and popular) Music for a Found harmonium...one of my musical obsessions...  

The funny thing is that, probably for its rhythm structure, this tune has been adopted by countless *Celtic* musicians, who play it as a reel.

This one has been on my "to do" list for a very long time, and since I've got a new baby...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alfstone/35024365891/in/dateposted-public/

...I couldn't resist...

For the 3 backing rhythm guitars I've used my Martin DCPA4.

Intro & melody: Gibson SJ-200 going directly into the Kemper (Acoustic Dream rig.)

Acoustic Bass & bodhran: BIAB

Enjoy!  

Alfredo

[Oldrottenhead]

guitar is a beauty and sounds lovely in your masterful hands, must say i was hoping you had actually found a harmonium in a skip or somesuch and rescued it. lol.

[Groundy]

Beautiful sounding guitar, and as always beautifully played,

Really well done my friend...


Alex

[Jean Pierre]

the guitars sounds  are very beautiful
The construction and the progress of the piece is very sophisticated

congratulation Alfredo

[alfstone]

guitar is a beauty and sounds lovely in your masterful hands, must say i was hoping you had actually found a harmonium in a skip or somesuch and rescued it. lol.

Dear James, it seems that the story behind the song goes exactly this way. From Wikipedia:

"Another famous tune featured in Malcolm (among other films) is "Music for a Found Harmonium", which Jeffes wrote on a harmonium that he had found dumped in a back street in Kyoto, where he was staying in the summer of 1982 after the ensemble's first tour of Japan. He wrote that after installing the found harmonium "in a friend's house in one of the most beautiful parts at the edge of the city," he "frequently visited this instrument during the next few months, and I remember the time fondly as one during which I was under a form of enchantment with the place and the time."

Alfredo

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

I was once offered a harmonium from a church where I once sought to find the truth. I took neither, but I wish I could have taken the keyboard. Just loving this, it builds wonderfully.   Willie

[Redler]

Just stunning playing and producing, Alf!

Enjoyable listening!

[Hook]

Marvelous, really makes my morning.
Rock on!

[ODH]

Fabulous. I found the way the guitar (?) in the first section pendulums between left and right relaxing and hypnotic.

Great job.
 

[alfstone]

Hey, thanks everybody! 

Alfredo