January 2011
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July 2010
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How Fire-lives is coming along
Hello Good-peeps. Just wanted to let you all know that the main tracking for my new album is complete and we are about to begin overdubs, mixing and the like. The house worked a treat as a studio - in fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever been more pleased with it’s serving-of-purpose. The weather was fine and we happily ate every Jez-cooked-meal outside around the glass table. The boys...
All the main tracking for my new album is complete! Spent last week and yesterday recording it in the house with producer Matt Hay, drummer Tom Hooper, guitarist/pianist Adam Carpenter, and bassist Jez Carr. Duvets abounded, drum screens, guitars galore, illustrious amounts of good humor, intense takes and re-takes, home-cooked lunches and dinners in the sunny back garden around the glass table....
April 2010
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March 2010
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“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. “
Norman Rockwell
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February 2010
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January 2010
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The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale...
– Brian Eno (via New Music Strategies) (via ihatemornings)
Not sure how I feel about thinking of my music as whale blubber, but otherwise, that’s pretty right on, I reckon.
Abreviated MJ News:
Gig on Feb 9th at Cobden Club in Westbourne Park, U.S house concert tour in March/April, new album in the works, final Solitary Song on its way!
My interview with @DarrylGregory, producer in...
http://www.bluecavestudios.com/wordpress/2010/01/13/episode-27-miriam-jones/
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
– Sören Kierkegaard
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Microgigs →
Playing my first ever microgig - actually, THE first ever microgig - on Saturday, February 27th in London. Championed by @solobasssteve, microgigs are a live music, community experience like no other. Check ‘em out - maybe you can host one?
success integrating my tumblr at mj.com- now sits within wordpress: http://miriamjones.com/wordpress/tumblr/
thinking about how to integrate my tumblr site into mj.com, other than linking it from ‘Blog’ heading…any thoughts?
another inspiring rehearsal with Oxford make-you-sick-with-his-multi-instrumentalism singer songwriter and buddy Adam Carpenter
You’re a star :) RT @garrettc: Music spending spree ahoy. @thehuxcapacitor and @miriamjones. Yay for money going directly to artists.
a clip of the song I was working on this week: http://miriamjones.tumblr.com/
Love, not answers.
– Walking on Water, Madeleine L’engle
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songwriting thoughts a) acoustics, sentiments &...
Spent today mostly writing a song with the word ‘surreptitious’ in it. The ‘surreptitious’ part wasn’t on purpose of course, just one of those delightful word-surprises that occasionally flies off the tongue - something to do with the combination of sentiment and syllables. I do love it. After a nice long walk this morning and a slow couple of hours with my guitar, I...
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and...
– Walden by Henry David Thoreau