maxiewawa

Original by Max Roberts.

Aika and I are heading home soon! After 4 years in Shanghai, I’m going back to Sydney for good, and she’s starting a life in a new home.

The upshot of this is that I’ve already sent some musical equipment back and am not able to use my microphones, or most of my musical equipment. This track was arranged on GarageBand. The instruments and loops all came with it.

Whenever you get a flash of inspiration, you should always record it because you never know when you’ll get another. I was in Suzhou a few weeks ago with some friends (anyone with my facebook should have a look at my profile to see photos) and I heard something similar to this tune in a music shop. In actual fact it might have been completely different, but within a few minutes of leaving this tune was stuck in my head so in any case it was inspired by the few minutes in the music shop that we had. I wrote down the tune in a kind of shorthand on my iPod touch. (For everyone musically inclined who can’t read, I recommend it for exactly this purpose; you never know when something pops in your head and you want to record it somehow.)

I’m not too keen on this arrangement but I think I’d better get it down somehow before I forget it. Perhaps when I get to Sydney I’ll do something better, but I always think that if you should just keep yourself “in practice” when it come to music. – You can’t just wait until you have something perfect, just get it out there.

Anyway, hope you like it. The title is another one I got from pressing “Random Article” on Wikipedia; it’s the national dish of Cameroon.

mp3 link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Ndol.mp3
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOlYUF-6Fk
if youtube is blocked: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODE1MzU0MDg=.html
podcast: http://maxiewawa.libsyn.com/rss