Friday, March 18, 2022

"Nothing Left to Lose"


I recently got a Hammond SKX.  It has more accordion sounds than I could probably ever use, and/so I felt that the first thing I record with it should use an accordion sound.

Here's the accordion solo in "Nothing Left to Lose."  I used the A-120 accordion sound, with the |:| symbol.  To give it some context, I played the bass part on the lower manual (using the SKX's Fender Piano Bass sound).  I'm fairly confident in the accuracy of the part itself and my notation, but I may have something wrong.

To-day's also Eric Woolfson's birthday.

Friday, March 11, 2022

"Light of the World"

I recently ran across a reference to "You are the light of the world" from Matthew 5:14.  Later, it occurred to me that the phrase "light of the world" is also in an Alan Parsons Project song (the title phrase, even).

When I lookt at the lyrics, I noticed the line "I am just a stranger in a promised land," and I realized that this bears some resemblance to part of Exodus 2:22:  "I have been a stranger in a strange land."  "Strange land" from Exodus has just been replaced with "promised land," which also has Biblical connotations.