Graham McArthur

This is a bit long for a blog post (30 minutes), but you may enjoy it. A bit of musical humour and quirkiness, but just a bit.

The painting shown below has never really had a titled. I have failed to come with a suitable description.

With apologies to William Shakespeare. The music is from my Idiosyncrastic Distractions CD. The art work is me abusing Will when he can’t defend himself.

Nothing what so ever to do with the music. Flight is from way back and from a series of paintings I did with a Tolkien theme. If you find it distraction then close your eyes, or your ears, which ever you prefer.

This piece is not what it once was. I had originally wrote and recorded it as a classical guitar solo some years ago before I discovered my passion for ambient music. My first album, Fall could only be described as dark ambient, even depressingly dark. I wanted to use Maharg’s Lament [Graham spelled backwards obviously] which wasn’t at all like the rest of Fall. As an experiment I took the 2 minute 40 second guitar recording and stretched it out like an electronic rubber band with and extended intro and an additional added ending. I gave the chorus the flick added some electric bass parts in the middle sections, with some percussion, and then mangled it on the synth and key board. Added repeated overlays and some extra sounds and effects to the mix. All good fun. In keeping with the album theme it is rather slow & dark; nothing like the original in anyway, shape or form.

The album artwork is seen below.

This is the 4th and shortest track [8 minutes] from my 3rd album of ambient music. The album was recorded and produced during May -June 2012. The album’s title is Idiosyncrastic Distractions – A Feign in Five Fits

I have begun work on a 5th album which I hope to have completed by August/September. With some luck it may be sooner. Fingers crossed.

I know ambient music and dark ambient in particular is not to everyones liking, However if you do have a listen please do so through a good sound system or with a good quality set of headphones. It will sound very ordinary from the computer without good headphones. I hope you like it.