maxiewawa

There’s an ad that has a really catchy tune in it… it has been playing on Australian TV for some time. It’s really got into my head. If you’re interested in seeing it, have a look at it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5zLNU0k4U

Anyway, it’s been going around in my head for ages now, I s’pose this is my attempt at getting it out.

I don’t endorse AAMI insurance in any way, by the way. If you are really looking for insurance, I suggest you don’t take my word for it, I was just repeating what was in the ad.

The song is actually called “A Little Bird” and was originally by Evelyn Knight. I know, I know, I said “A Little Girl” in the recording, it was a mistake.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5zLNU0k4U
TuDou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/YnjLb6NwYb4/

Original by Max Roberts.

Piano, Hammond Organ, fender jazz bass, les paul guitar and tambourine by Max Roberts.

Featuring handclaps by Max Roberts senior, Lisa Roberts, and Aika Mori.

For performing in this piece, I offered everyone in my family an equal share in the profits. For most of my musical stuff the profits are approximately zero, but for this one I’m putting up an mp3 for purchase. Just 99 US cents! A bargain!

Click on the following to buy an mp3 of this track. It will cost 99 cents US and will guarantee good fun for a lifetime. Click below to pay through Paypal or Credit Card.

YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnKgvWp6eYA
Tudou video: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/356YNby1Gkg/

Found an interesting article in today’s newspaper:

A new investment trend is turning up the volume for music fans. Bandstocks.com is a UK-based website where punters can invest in stocks to help bands showcased on the site raise enough cash to record their next album.

The article goes on to mention SellaBand.com, a similar site.

Here’s the SellaBand story as I understand it: ‘investors’ hear a musician/band that they like, buy “stocks” in them, and when enough people buy enough stocks ($50 000 worth!), the musician/band records their album. ‘Investors’ get a limited edition copy of the album, and a cut of the profits. I’ve signed up as a musician. I’m not sure if I’ll be hitting the 50 grand mark any time soon, but it can’t hurt to try, right?

I’m also interested in making money (aren’t we all) at this site, I realise that I’m not going to make a living out of it, but I’m sure one would get a kick out of investing in someone who ended up making you a profit. Kinda like gambling; you know you’re not going to make any money but it’s fun to just try and see if you do.

I’m still poking around the site to find out what it’s all about, but have already created a profile and uploaded three tracks. I put up “Faridabad”, “Fish On A Stick” and “Helmut”. Here it is: http://www.sellaband.com/maxiewawa/

Like I said, I’m still nosing around at this site; I think that if you’d like to invest you’ll need to sign up. Not sure if they take PayPal, but they probably do… everyone seems to at the moment, don’t they.

Hopefully I’ll get a bit of a clearer picture on what they’re all about soon, and will be able to make an earnest pitch to everyone to try and get some of your hard earned money.

Originally by Lasse Lindh. As heard in the Korean drama Soulmate.

As I mention in the video, I accept requests. Feel free to request anything, I’m always up for a challenge!

Just leave me a message, a twitter (I’m maxiewawa) or a reply on my blog at maxiewawa.com.

Thanks for listening, subscribing, and rating. And special thanks to tomatoberries for requesting this!

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC0LoZIml2E
Tudou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/wto-ZyG-d7M/

Original by Max Roberts.

Once again I’ve come up with the title of this tune by pressing “random article” on Wikipedia.

Tried to be a little arty with the video for this, not sure if you like it or not.

Thanks for listening, watching and favouriting as always! I’ll be doing a request next! If you didn’t know, I accept requests, just send me a PM or leave a comment requesting a song, and preferably a link to a video on YouTube. I’ll do my best to do any style at all.

mp3 link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Helmut_Bellingrodt.mp3
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5bZtUhpkM
TuDou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/8vjY31TO8y4/

Before I spent all those years in China, I was in a band called Ndugu. It was great, we’d get together often, not the weekly rehearsals that most bands do, but two or three times a week, and more.

Now that I hear the recordings we make it occurs to me that we were pretty good!

I’m not sure what the other two guys are doing now, but would really like to get Ndugu going again. The easiest way would probably be to give James and Luke a call and get them over, but have lost their phone numbers.

On the off chance someone knows who they are I’ve made this video and post.

The far more likely option is starting a new band!

So if you’re a musician in Sydney and are interested in this kind of music, let me know. I play keyboard and bass, and I hope you can get some idea of what musical styles I’m into from this blog and YouTube channel.

Ta for watching.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWsZoGx1WmY
Tudou: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_PsGHkcMjNQ/

http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Funky_Chicken.mp3
http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Minor_7.mp3
http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Rockmelon_Archipelago.mp3

Great song right? This is the kind of thing I want to do when I get home. Make intimate music in a small, simple studio, put it on Youtube/Facebook/etc. Except I hope to make money on it *fingers crossed*. I hope you don’t think that’s conceited, it’s just that to do anything for a long time, and do it properly, it had better be paying the bills, right?

For the sake of web crawlers, here are some words about it: Rivers Cuomo Weezer video one of us.

Anyway, enjoy.

If you can’t see it, here is ye link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm84NTSW0zg

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

An original by Max Roberts.

Faridabad gets its name from a place in India. I pressed “Random Article” in Wikipedia and that’s what came up.

This one is a bit rough, but I hope you get the idea how the full band with five piece brass section version of Faridabad will sound.

There are only two guitars, but I couldn’t be bothered miming the other one, so you’ll just have to imagine it!

Thanks for rating/commenting/subscribing.

mp3 link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewawa/Faridabad.mp3
The video (if you can’t see it already): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnuSj72t0nk
podcast feed: http://maxiewawa.libsyn.com/rss

An original by Max Roberts.

I think this would sound good as a string trio or quartet but until I get my violin/viola/cello skills up to scratch this will have to do! Melodica and acoustic guitar don’t sound too bad though.

If you’re wondering which key it’s in, say its name three times fast.

mp3 link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/maxiewa…

Here’s the video if you can’t see it already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QWoaeDKjk