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All music and noises © Copyright Paul A. Williams aka Elwood Herring - Please read these notes before downloading
NOTE ON PLAYING MIDI FILES: All my MIDI works are meant to be played using the standard Microsoft GS Wavetable. Usage of any other wavetable will give unintended results. By all means experiment if you have the capability, but please be aware that what you end up with will not be what I intended!
Also, some MIDI files played on Winamp before version 5.3 (and it appears, after 5.541) will not play correctly. If you use Winamp, please up/downgrade to a version between 5.3 and 5.541 (incl), or alternatively, download this version or go here where you can download ANY version of Winamp.
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HERRCD02 INTERFACE Opus: N/A Length: 51:00 Instruments: Crumar Stratus and Korg synthesisers, Yamaha CX5M music computer, Acoustic & electric guitars, vocals, drums, percussion, sound effects Composed: 1982-84 My second attempt at creating a Rock band, this time a bit more serious. More info here. Download the whole album FREE as a single ALBW albumwrapped mp3 file from Megaupload. |
| MIDI | Mins | Description of individual pieces on CD. | |
| The Adoration of the Earth | 1:23 | Extract from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, played by my humble self on multi-tracked synthesisers. I was originally going to attempt to do the whole 30 minute piece, but bottled out. | |
| Aslan's Theme |  |
3:10 | A lightweight instrumental piece. Aslan was suggested as a name for the band originally, and the name somehow got transferrred to this piece instead. (MIDI version made in 2004.) I haven't included the original mp3 as frankly it's a bit naff. |
| Who needs friends? | |
3:02 | Written about a former Herring member who did something unforgivable. |
| One More Lie | |
6:07 | A dark sinister-sounding piece, with guest vocals by Spooky the cat. Can you work out what it all means? If you can, please email me and explain it to me because I haven't a clue. |
| November | |
7:41 | The longest, most complex song I wrote before the current century - my Bohemian Rhapsody or MacArthur Park if you like. (MIDI version made in 2005 - and see also Interface Reconnected below for the new 27 minute version!) |
| Beeblebrox Rides Again | |
3:04 | With dubbed vocal by Mark Wing-Davey (voice of Zaphod Beeblebrox - but not in the MIDI version of course.) I hope he approves. |
| Vienna | 8:47 | Midge Ure's famous Ultravox song, with a central instrumental added by me. Yes, I know my vocals can't hold a candle to Midge's, but that's not the point - the central instrumental is the reason why I did this, so please try to ignore my weedy voice and concentrate on the new stuff! | |
| Pavanne | |
4:41 | Written as an elegy for a girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared in 1979. (Anne-Marie Gallagher, where are you? Last seen around 1978 or 1979 in Birmingham, England. If you find this message, please PLEASE get in touch at elwoodherring©blueyonder.co.uk. I need closure!) Anyway, I wrote this tune in 1983 and recently used it as the main theme in my 4th symphony. It has also been arranged quite beautifully by Patrick Dent as a Sibelius music score. |
| Roadrunner | |
6:20 9:30 | Another instrumental, ending with a reprise of Aslan's theme. The MIDI version goes even further, adding a reprise of November, and clocks in at nearly 10 minutes, with some great synth solos that I couldn't ever have managed live. |
| The Marathon | |
6:23 | A superior version of the old Red Herring song. (MIDI version made in 2005) |
| eil erom eno | 0:45 | Some clever backwards vocals to finish off the album. | |
| Interface Reconnected | 52:30 | A complete MIDI reworking of the majority of the album in two large musical suites. I was never happy with the finished mixes of the above songs, and there's no chance of ever "getting the band back together" so my only option was to recreate them in MIDI format, and while I was at it I took the liberty of reworking the tunes into these two suites in 2005. Well they're all my tunes, so why not? I had great fun making these pieces, and I hope you enjoy listening to them just as much. |
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