Umami, meaning ‘savory’ in Japanese, is also the title of Murat Ses’s seventh solo album (Clou Records clou-008) available at www.clourecords.com and www.muratses.com. I was asked to record some vocals for Murat at the beginning of 2007 and I admit I had to look him up. Wikipedia lists amongst Murat’s successes the Grand Prix du [...]
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This is for those of you who didn’t make it through (or even into) WOMAD 2007 at Charlton Park. This is a chance to listen for free on Myspace to some of the top world music acts you might have missed. I know it’s not like being there, but at least it’s free. Shalimar Mariza [...]
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Lots of poems with wordplay in them in this 40th edition of the music and poetry podcast show. I spent half the day recording it and the other half packing to get away for a few weeks. The music is great. I found Bombero’s song Andinfinity sitting doing nothing on ccmixter, and then I enlisted [...]
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I spent all morning getting the house ready for propective buyers and estate agents, and headed to the gym at 10am. Since then, I’ve been trying to improve the recording of Looking Back. The way of recording the acoustic through the mike and the Toneport just didn’t work, so I recorded a new guitar track [...]
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I just recorded another songwriting podcast, The Riff, with the latest ccMixter.org remix of my song Don’t Know What I’m Doing by Slumberlords. Also, I updated the lyrics and recording of I’m Not Strong Enough. The fourth podcast also has the seedlings of a new song.
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Today I published the Friction Fiction Podcast Show 38 I recorded on Friday at Libsyn. Here it is on iandsmith.com for downloading or just plain listening. This week I play music from Slumberlords, Ditto, Stanton Delaplane, a great new song from Tommy Mac, and Ashwan. I read two poems from a booklet published by SCAN [...]
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My long satirical piece Margaret Thatcher Speaks at the Gdansk Shipyard, 1988 is now up on Hold It Up For Ridicule. I wanted to do something a lot more thoughtful than usual, and I was inspired by the Gracenesta blog which I don’t even think comes out of the UK. They certainly don’t know what [...]
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Here is the latest Friction Fiction podcast featuring music from Ghost K, Steveless, Meg, Sammy Ault, Valentine, A Singer Must Die and The Hexyl Circle, and poems from my collection What You Will See at Gattopublishing.com.
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It’s the warmest Easter in the UK I can remember, which is great for being outdoors, but not so great for sitting at the PC blogging. Here’s my second guitar. It’s a Hohner Fender 65 strat copy from 1981, almost certainly made in Fender’s Japan factory, but I’d have to dismantle it to find the [...]
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