Dear AC Watchers,
Here's a little preliminary listen to what we did on Febrary 28th! Go to my music tab and find three songs, recorded by my friend Craig Gendreau (and nicely mixed by him).
We're shooting for a slightly higher-quality mix later, but now you can at least hear some of what we got.
Enjoy!
Adam
My Woodwind Quintet is done. It only took me 18 years to write it. And it's only 12 minutes long. That's...what...1 1/2 years for each minute of the piece?
Go to my music page to hear it. Let me know what you think.
Love,
Adam
Now that you've seen Adam Cole produce an album in a single month...
It's time to see your favorite cover band once more, the Wipes, this time doin' music FOR THE GROWNUPS!
Yes, the Wipes are performing to benefit the Grant Park Cooperative Preschool, and this time we're takin' no prisoners. Eurythmics, Police, Jayhawks, James, Springsteen, all the tunes you never thought you'd hear us do.
The event is free and open to the public. Lots of amazing items to see and bid on, lots of great things to eat and drink.
You won't see the Wipes like this again, so check us out while we're still ADULTS!!!
Go to
http://www.gpcp.org for all the details!
Love,
Adam
Dear friends and Adam Cole Watchers,
Round about 3 PM they started arriving. Billy Rossbottom with his bass. Alan Connor, Brad Kaegi, Philippe Bout with their guitars, my fellow Feldenkraiser Louise Runyon, old friends Mark and Sylvia Davis, and synagogue companion Gil Grodzinsky with their voices, my daughter's cello teacher Marie Pantina with her cello, fellow elementary music teacher Craig Gendreau with his Djembe and recording equipment, and the formidable William Rossoto with his video gear, capturing the whole thing on film!
A couple of them were seasoned musicians, a few were amateur players . Some didn't even consider themselves to be musicians at all, or even musical! They just came to sing the best they could...what bravery!!! Gil, Craig and Marie hadn't even rehearsed last week, but came and dove right in.
And so we rehearsed about 30 seconds of each song, took a break for me to get my vocal mike, and then we did it. One take per song. Straight through.
It was great. [...]
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Pretty well!!!
We had 3 guitarists, 5 vocalists, 1 bass-player, 1 man from Prague who was a friend of a vocalist taking pictures, and 1 videographer who was another friend of a vocalist videoing everything! All along, we had the children running around playing, making a joyful noise.
We learned all ten songs in about an hour and a half, and then we all sat down for some delicious homemade soup, with wine or beer or what-have-you.
I'm very excited about next week. It was such a kick to sing my songs with people! I can't wait for you to hear it, and to add your own voices and hands.
Adam