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About Me


welcome to Longcat space, or longcat's pace... which i have to tell you is pretty slow...
all previous weeks improvisations (including all 4 cutups) are in the blog , the blanket & the random ...
Tunes:
All I Am is a sketch with Matty Heanes, made one day out of a glistening sound from a juno 6, some rhodes and some voice...
in 2007 my brother got married. The Almost Mrs Knight is one of the tunes i wrote for the ceremony
Don't Think I Won't Leave You, is fairly obvious i guess, written just after i left my girlfriend and feeling like i could leave anything...
Mara's Lullabye is for a beautiful baby girl i know... on the track there are several vocalists: Robbie Knight (me) - the slightly shaky one... Siggi Mwasote - the soulful one... Emma Quinn - the angelic harmony one... & John Sinclair - the ragged deep bassy one... the drums are played by Jarrod Pizzata... everything else is me...
Mapping the Gordian Knot being an improvisation on saturday 29th november with the moog opus 3 and a minimoog impression by the vintage keys sound module x
"i'll be there with you" i put together may '08 after watching this inspirational lecture given by norman finkelstein about the israel/palestine conflict... it's his closing words, some drums by darren smart from an improvisation session we did a couple of days ago and my rhodes...
a sketch from january 1st
thames path is the soundtrack to my film - water & improvisation that i made between december 2005 & february 2007...
i play chess & i play in The Spanner Jazz Punks ...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/04/2006
Band Website: http://www.longcat.net
Band Members: just my self here...

but i do play with others, the longcat weekly improvisation - while being mostly me, has been graced by the likes of:

john sinclair - poetry, yr3wk32 & yr2wk48
elliott levin - tenor saxophone, flute, poetry, yr3wk9
gareth mitchell - guitar, voice, LHC2.1 yr3wk44 , LHC2.2 yr3wk44 , LHC yr3wk13 , yr3wk36 , yr3wk27 , yr3wk8 , yr3wk4 , yr2wk50 , yr2wk35 , yr2wk30 , yr2wk27 , yr2wk11 , yr2wk6
darren smart - drums, yr3wk45 , yr3wk34 , LHC yr3wk13 , yr3wk19 , yr3wk8 , yr3wk4 , yr2wk50 , yr2wk30 , yr2wk27 , yr2wk6
kieran doherty - drums, LHC2.1 yr3wk44 , LHC2.2 yr3wk44 , yr3wk26
tony cannam - voice, LHC2.1 yr3wk44 , LHC2.2 yr3wk44 , LHC yr3wk13 , yr2wk11 , yr2wk3
david lintern - omnichord, synths, LHC2.1 yr3wk44 , LHC2.2 yr3wk44 , LHC yr3wk13 ,
dan spanner - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, yr3wk50 , yr3wk17
simon peevers - vert, yr3wk14
jair-rohm parker wells - bass, yr3wk22 , yr3wk9
bill gold - bass, yr3wk19 ,
marco rojas - bass, yr3wk26 , yr3wk24 ,
johny thompson - bass, yr2wk30
graham silbiger - bass, yr2wk5
matt mars - guitar, looper, yr2wk40
paul silver - tenor saxophone, yr2wk38
bongo paul crawford - drums, bongos, yr2wk38 , yr2wk8* ,
patmo sheeran - guitar, yr2wk22
trevor yamba - voice, yr2wk21
dave randall - guitar, yr2wk20
hannah marshall - cello, yr2wk18
simon d'souza - tenor saxophone, yr2wk12

i'm considering gigging on my own, armed only with my voice, my mopho, my piano/rhodes module & my hammond organ module...

it's a crazy plan but i'm (kind of) currently working on a new retelling of a beautiful jazz standard with Yimkin

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Influences: john berger. haruki murakami, bheki mseleku, herbie hancock, william maxwell, nella bielski, richard ford, amin maalouf, marcel proust,
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My Blog

yr4wk10 voice & hammond

ooops... quite forgot about this blog for a couple of weeks, so, just as i (very late) put up yr4wk11 on the front page of this myspace, i have to put up both yr4wk9 AND yr4wk1...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:13:00 GMT

yr3wk9 piano

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Posted by on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:51:00 GMT

yr4wk8 moog & overdrive

yr4wk8 moog & overdrive from longcat on Vimeo.the opus 3 going through the Blackstar HT-Drive valve overdrive pedal...x
Posted by on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:41:00 GMT

yr4wk7 overdrive city

yr4wk7 mopho, hammond & blackstar overdrive from longcat on Vimeo.absolutely loving this Blackstar HT-DRIVE...and yes, maybe i'm overdoing it...but who wouldn't...? i ask you?the DSI mop...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:21:00 GMT

yr4wk6 moog & voice

yr4wk6 moog & voice from longcat on Vimeo.loving that moog logo x
Posted by on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:01:00 GMT

yr4wk5 rhodes improvisation

yr4wk5 rhodes improvisation from longcat on Vimeo.just the rhodes, with a ton of reverb x
Posted by on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:18:00 GMT

yr4wk5 mopho & revelation

yr4wk4 mopho & revelation from longcat on Vimeo.some news, and the Dave Smith Instruments mopho...x
Posted by on Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:34:00 GMT

yr4wk3 juno 6

yr4wk3 juno 6 from longcat on Vimeo.a little bit of ranting... some ROLAND Juno 6 beauty...on a precipice x
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:12:00 GMT

yr4wk2 moog, hammond, voice

yr4wk2 moog, hammond, voice from longcat on Vimeo. the moog opus 3 & the creamware B4000 hammond organ... x
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:18:00 GMT

yr4wk1 hammond organ

yr4wk1 hammond organ from longcat on Vimeo. the creamware B4000 hammond organ x
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:45:00 GMT