Monthly Archives: March 2024

On Recording and Related Matters

I have decided to become better acquainted with some of my older recording gear. I have a need for more than 16 tracks so a good old fashion sub mix and bounce was required. It worked like a treat though. The next step is vocals. You can edit but everything is done with the time code and you ears for cutting and pasting, rather than on screen (no pretty waveforms). It works a treat but just requires a little more forethought as I haven’t worked that way for a while. I had to do this because I was just 3 tracks short for the vocals which I had not planned for properly. I think I need to take a little more time over some of the material now perhaps?
Sometimes whilst keeping plowing on it is possible to lose sight of the goal because of being so immersed in the process . So when the muse kicks in again I will get back on the case with the track.

I have just managed to write some lyrics for the new number, that I hope will work. In a day or to it might be ready.

The last appearance of the full Delta Ladies’ line up at Walthamstow Folk Cub in 2019.

As I expect you know: “The feast day of Easter was first a pagan holiday of renewal and rebirth. Honored in the early spring, it praised the pagan goddess of fertility and spring known as ‘Ostara’, ‘Eastre’ or ‘Eostre’.”

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    Just a sleazy blues
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    Sometimes you have a revelation and you can’t keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. So I did. Go me. A very recent recording inspired by those moments of special sharing twined with enlightenment.
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    Tune in Gb
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    A few thoughts on lost opportunities' in a pop rock setting ballad.
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    Just cause you are a bad person by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A stream of consciousness song.
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    I am So Empty Now by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Safe For The Moment by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A moment of pure joy letting go
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    jazz fusion world style instrumental
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    Simple acoustic guitar instrumental tune.
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    Autumnal Piano Piece
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    Wish You Would Let Me by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    False Prophet by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    In To The Dark by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Third World Intervention by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Hard Walk Into Sunlight by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    Ennui 11 by Diana Stones Glasscage
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    A mellow song for a rainy day.
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    A sad violin instrumental about loss.

Lonely Mostly

Sometimes it just gets to you. Today it has. I feel cut off from everything that I don’t experience though the medium of a screen. Its difficult. I can see why people turn to drink I think.Its very quiet here. The usual tricks are not working at all. Its very quiet here. I should be Ok as I have stuff going on and new musical buddies and a few musical positives have happened. So I should be on an up at present, but I am not at all. The evenings are getting lighter but my mood is getting darker.

Here’s an instrumental from August 2023 for you.

Driving Home To See You Again

Almost Easter Again

Thats come around quickly. Today I was recording with Jon Bickley and the Invisible Folk Club Band in Whitwell near Luton. It’s a surprisingly scenic area, much to my surprise. You learn something new everyday. Anyway I am back at home thinking. Now that is a dangerous game.
I got home switched the synth on and found some weirdness so I was off and recording a tune. Some unpopular music I think. Violins to be added to taste later.
And here is my new tune



Ways to deal with I depression?

Local walking group? Going for a walk at 09.00 when you can barely stand up due to the spine problems knocks that on the head, though bizarrely 3 hours later I am usually fine. I was very well suited to my previous musical life in terms of body clock and so forth. I only managed to get by in the Civil Service as I could start the day at 10.00 am.

Volunteer?

The labour party is ideologically going to a place that is not for me (far too much tory lite stuff now) . I will vote for them but that is as far as it goes. The latest Labour leaflets are causing a stir as they are plastered in union jacks and people don’t want to distribute them in ethnic minority areas.

There are activities of all sorts going on. I just don’t want to do them alone. As you might well understand making new (platonic as I am emotionally vulnerable) friends as an ageing slightly sweary transgender person is not the easiest thing at times. I am not reclusive, but I do find large groups of people difficult as I am introverted to an extent other than when performing really. Time may of course make all this irrelevant.