As of today i’ll be posting recordings from my archives. New songs or plain old songs, or just simple fragments that I recorded over time, are posted here. Some guitar, some Tascam Portastudio, some acoustic piano. Mostly solo efforts, but also with my musical brother Luuk de Weert and various guests and friends and even a band. Instant collage, electric chamber-music, improvisation, songs , instrumentals, r&b, gospel, chanson-electronique From Fi to Lo-Fi to No-Fi ….
all music and lyrics by Andre Hogeslag except where noted otherwise
Today’s release contains 2 songs
“DOWN THAT ROAD BEFORE”
Recorded by the Bopshop. Ferry van der Werff: Wurlitzer e.piano and Hammond organ; Luuk de Weert: drums; Mischa Boeren: double bass; Andre Hogeslag: el. guitar and vocals.
Arranged by the Bopshop and recorded by Harold Jalving.
‘ÇA IRA’ [IT’LL BE FINE] Instrumental from my car radio, sending a signal to the stars!
USE HEADPHONES FOR THE BEST DETAILED LISTENING EXPERIENCE! A lot of the music is soft, in terms of loudness. This is an essential part of the music.
2Track of treated voice [FG] and organ [BG] ‘le Petit Soldat’ [Jean-Luc Godard] & Bach Choral
[use headphone for detailed listening] electricsouvenir-recording
Silence Sequence: ‘i’m trying to hold onto my own thoughts. What about words? Where do our words come from? Maybe men talk incessantly, as if searching for gold.. in their quest for the truth.But instead of digging in riverbeds, they dig deep in their thoughts. They cast aside all the worthless words. And they end up with just one. One single golden word…silence.’ [Jean-Luc Godard ‘le Petit Soldat’]
Most people specialise in one thing, and sometimes become a genius specialist. Designing cars, writing books, making money, making films, making war, philosophise, designing chairs, making peace, composing, the list is as long as there are people specialising in one thing.
Some people specialise in 2 or 3 things, sometimes completely different things, sometimes combinations.
JLG concentrates on different design tools that will fit his meditations at hand. This is the JLG that came into my life while being a teenager. And all along he’s been giving me tools to improve myself.
What has this to do with FILM? Is JLG a filmmaker? I say, he is a designer of MEDITATIONS. But JLG has something to offer for all of us. He is a homo universalis!
sound meditation on ‘Alphaville’ [ Jean Luc Godard ] electric guitar & Max/PPOOLL electricsouvenir-recording
This meditation-maker will take you on an endless tour, showing you editing, graphic design, the art of color, sound-art, collage, politics, history, the art of motion design, films for the ear, trailers, …. His meditations are confronting, puzzling, provoking improvisations, sometimes in the form of a movie or a documentary or a mix of both, but mostly they are essays using son+image.
Through the years I’m making my conversations with JLG, there’s always a moment in time where I feel inspired to give him some credit. Like a title! So when I was composing some music for electric guitar and the EHX FREEZE, I knew that one of them would be a ‘salut’ and indeed ‘ à Godard ‘ turned out to be the one.
simple testrecording with an old iPhone electric guitar & EHX Freeze electricsouvenir-recording
‘ à Godard ‘ = Part of a collection of Solo Pieces for Electric Guitar and EHX Freeze
