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Mahatma Candy Project2010/06/04

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Mahatma Candy Project is an amateur Canadian jazz/contemporary music trio that creates music remotely. Its members write, play, and record from Vancouver, Toronto, and Thunder Bay. Our aim: play and make music together even though we’re separated by vast distances.

This post is sticky. Regardless of date it will always be at the top. Below this, posts are in date order. The latest post is in full, followed by excerpts of latest posts. Click the READ link below each excerpt to read the entire post. READ


Mountain Dulcimer Videos2012/01/21

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For several months now, I’ve been learning to play mountain dulcimer. I did have weekly posts here at mahatmamusic.com, but moved everything to a blog called mountaindulcimerblog.com, where I post weekly about my learning the instrument. Not only will you find videos I’ve posted of things I’m learning to play on dulcimer, but there is also a pretty neat mountain dulcimer videos section where you can view videos of mountain dulcimer players. The player lets you sort by song, too. Have a look and listen to traditional mountain dulcimer players and avante-garde mountain dulcimer players.


Mountain Dulcimer2011/12/25

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Over the past several months I’ve been learning to play mountain dulcimer and blogging about it. All of those posts have beeen moved to mountaindulcimerblog.com.

Those posts don’t really belong on this website. If I ever use the dulcimer in a Mahatma Candy Project recording, then the dulcimer may find it’s way back here… READ


Angel Eyes MP32011/06/14

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Ahhh. Finally finished up Angel Eyes by Matt Dennis. As per usual with our little long distance trio, Sean recorded piano which he bounced to me. I recorded clarinet and bounced that to Colin, then Sean added drums, and Colin added bass. Colin then cooks the whole dang thing in some kind of multitrack audio editing software, and waaaaah laaaa, it’s done. I wasn’t exactly true to the original melody. Not intentional, I was practicing soloing over the chord changes and like this enough to keep it. The melody is in there in bits and pieces but mostly woven within the strange little solo. I like it well enough, has some sweet moments and lots of… READ


N-Track Multitrack Mixer with Zoom H22011/05/23

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The less-than-optimal method I and many amateurs use to record an isolated track of themselves while playing to other tracks is to pop a disk into your CD player or load up a tune on your iPod, plug in headphones, turn on your recording device and start playing. In this lo-fi technique, you record your playing and not your playing plus the backing track. The problem is that you can’t… READ


Mulatu Road2011/05/22

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This past week, I’ve been working on a piece for Mahatma Candy Project entitled Mulatu Road. The piece is centered around a groove established by piano. The music is rich rhythmically and a departure from the music we’ve been doing. There isn’t much of a melody, but instead has short chant like motifs from the clarinet. I wrote a melody for the piece and Sean laid down a groove on piano, but I never really liked the melody and decided to try something different. I used vocal percussion, chopstick and kettle percussion, and a kind of quasi throat/nose singing. Colin will be adding bass a singer and friend Josephine, will be adding high vocals.

Mulatu Road by Mahatma Candy Project

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