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[Mally]

aka Retro Mal

About Me

Some of my music
Thanks for Jeroen Wijering for the Flash MP3 Player .

Mad about music all my life from school days onwards, and exploring so many avenues that it's difficult to know where to start.... so many styles - all completely different, so many different instruments (none of them mastered!), so many technologies over the years, so many collaborations (from the experimental to the mundane), so many moods, so many different episodes of music making, partners in crime and solo explorations, so much fun....

A few of my photos:

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Most of the pieces here are multi-tracked solo compositions dating back decades. All of them are different in style, age and content. Maybe there's a thread that runs though all of them? The exception is the piano improvisation which is from 2006


My 'Impro Mal' alter ego:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Members: Mally - piano, guitar, keyboards, bass, trumpet, sax, latin percussion, various pipes/flutes and pretty much anything I can get my hands on to play, plus latterly vocals.
Influences:

None of the following are to BLAME for my music!

    Messiaen Vaughan Williams Stravinsky Brian Patten Bach Kate & Anna McGarrigle Traditional Breton, Irish and Scottish This Heat Medium Theatre Dido Stackridge Henry Cow Robert Fripp Peter Hammill David Jackson (Jaxon) The B52-s Cajun John Betjeman Jim Parker Pere Ubu Blues Trad jazz Louis Armstrong Cole Porter Purcell Audience Backdoor Keith Gemmell Gentle Giant Ian Dury Mutabaruka Debussy Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band Ali Farka Toure Northumbrian small pipe Talk Talk Robert Wyatt The Inkspots Faure Gnidrolog Virginia Rodrigues TuneRise Fado Original Ska Piazzola Samba Ravel Sonora La Calle Cumbia Samba batucada Proyecto Uno Mahmoud Ahmed Merengue Soca early calypso Screamin Jay Hawkins Van der Graaf Generator King Crimson Giles Giles & Fripp Samuel Barber early Roxy Music Brian Eno Ray Davies Slade Klezmer Senegal Mali Forro Veronique Sanson Eminem Young Marble Giants Dylan Thomas Akendengue Djurdjura Nobuo Uematsu Erik Satie Magazine/Howard Devoto George Coleman (Bongo Joe) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

No apologies are due to those who have been spared from inclusion in the above.

Where were you when you first heard UltanJohn?


Sounds Like: Dig and the Antelopes (after the split), The Rad Bean Trio (quartet), Blindfist (Blandfast tribute band), and of course, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britiain:
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Record Label: Key Random
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New song - Without you, without your love

Finally a new song by the legendary Mal (well, old enough to be legendary anyway!), sort of "Nouveau Mal" rather than "Retro Mal".This song came about by accident while I was working on several new Gu...
Posted by [Mally] on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

A few notes about the tracks

Here's a few notes on the tracks on my player. Each one is completely different, so there's a good chance you'll like one more than the others. Try to get a flavour of each of them if you can:Why try ...
Posted by [Mally] on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:02:00 PST