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About diana Stone

Diana is a performing composer and muscian playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with the Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mix roots acoustic music and electronica. She composes in a variety of styles from pop to rock to Jazz and and classical music.Diana is also expert in multi-media recording and music production.

Frustrations And Questions

Musings

A few minor hiccups at present. My car is still not well and I am trying some bodging and amateur fettling to try and fix it. Success is not by any means guaranteed though. But one feels one should at least try or one would be letting the side down. It is the English way to carry on keep calm and struggle in an abjectly futile manner though of course. So another test run. All well until a minute or so from home and it cut out. Turned off waiting 30 secs ,instant restart and OK again. WTF? Is it haunted. Argh!!! First world problems I guess. So I have ordered a code reader which should tell me what’s up. Only £21 and it should give a reasonable clue as to if I should mend or scrap it.

I just looked at the computer and it logged itself in. I suspect it’s not psychokinesis just a vibration jogging the mouse but for a moment there I was wondering. Today I have been working on some music but the timing is a bit wayward in parts. I discovered I had put in an extra 4 bars of part of the sequence in the middle but I kept it . Maybe might work. Plus I have got a bit anxious. So it’s an all stop till the morrow I think.

Tomorrow has come and I ache like the blaises. Why? Well I sat on the sofa last night and normally I don’t. Could just be that. Arthritis works in mysterious ways.

November 2024

Musings

Here it comes. But not yet winter. The trees are turning and locally the roads are empty mostly. The real countryside is just moments away from home. To absent friends a small toast.
Its comfy for some. Of course people don’t want to see through it. See the man behind the curtains pulling the levers to create the illusion like the Wizard Of Oz. Their off down the yellow brick road looking for somewhere over the rainbow land…as you know you climb the mountain, then the all the wise man in the cave at the top has to say is “Fancy a cup of tea, it’s a nice view from here” It’s a universal trope, with some validity. Terry Pratchett was actually an earthly manifestation of the divine I am sure.

Ace in My Hand Yesterday

A recent jazz world fusion excursion from me.

A stream of kids are going next door for Trick or Treats. Also its Diwali so there are fireworks banging which I could really do without.
My new Album will be released in 2 weeks time. I refuse to say dropped because I am so very old school. “Ace In My Hand” the track above is on is on it.

Just a reminder for you.

Musings

Everybody sells out eventually. A song from 6 years ago (2018). When we moved out of London after living there since I was born. An old song remastered. I don’t remember too much about recording it to be honest.


Its that time of year again. A time for remembering… Or perhaps just not forgetting.

Halloween, or Hallowe’en (less commonly known as All Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve), is a celebration observed in many countries on October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed. In popular culture, the day has become a celebration of horror, being associated with the macabre and supernatural.

One theory holds that many Halloween traditions were influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, which are believed to have pagan roots. Some go further and suggest that Samhain may have been Christianized as All Hallow’s Day, along with its eve, by the early Church. Other academics believe Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, being the vigil of All Hallow’s Day. Celebrated in Ireland and Scotland for centuries, Irish and Scottish immigrants took many Halloween customs to North America d then through American influence various Halloween customs spread to other countries.

Popular Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins or turnips into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror or Halloween-themed films. Some people practice the Christian observances of All Hallows’ Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, although it is a secular celebration for others. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows’ Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.

Read more on the link below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween