ELWOOD'S MUSIC CATALOGUE

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Works partly or wholly performed on guitar.
All music and noises Š Copyright Paul A. Williams aka Elwood Herring - Please read these notes before downloading
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EXPLORING NEW DIRECTIONS AND NEW POSSIBILITIES IN MUSIC COMPOSITION.
LOTS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AND APPROACHES, EVERY PIECE A MUSICAL EXPLORATION. GIVE YOUR EARS A TREAT!
I CLAIM TO BE THE FIRST INTERNET COMPOSER - I HAVE BEEN GIVING MY MUSIC AWAY FREE SINCE 2000
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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 will not play correctly. If you use Winamp, please upgrade to the latest version (5.3 or above.)

GUITAR PIECES Play Op. ŠYr Mins CD Description & comments

Pleiades 63 Jul 08 18:35 Trippy swirly guitar piece. Very very weird.

A breath of smog   - 1978 04:45 A nice simple guitar solo to start you off. This had lyrics added, and became "Circle Round the Sun". I remember I worked on this piece for weeks, and thought it was really clever at the time. Now though... well, let's be honest - maybe the guitar just wasn't my instrument! (I really wouldn't bother downloading these early pieces if I were you - there's plenty of music on this site that's infinitely better than this junk. I just put it here for the sake of completeness!)

Transtemporal Paradox   - 1978 06:24 Another early guitar solo. Very basic stuff. Nothing else to be said about it really. (Love that final note though!)
What does the title mean? How should I know? Don't ask silly questions!

Llamedos

- 1978 03:15

03:05 A four-track guitar instrumental. This was my first ever attempt at multi-tracking. The trouble with instrumentals is, what on earth do you call them? I just jot down the first thing that comes into my head, in this case the name-plate on a house I spotted the week before. Good job it wasn't the one I saw recently - "Far Corfe"!
(Incidentally, if the MIDI version sounds a bit off-key, that's because it's meant to. If you play it, be sure to let it finish otherwise the next piece you play might sound off-key too. It's a quirk of MIDI music.)

Concerto for 2 Guitars & Synthesiser
9 1979 17:55 Combining guitars and synthesiser, a piece I'm quite proud of. Which is guitar and which is synth? Hard to tell sometimes. This needs to be played a few times to get into the "feel" of it, so don't give up after one playing.
(If you want to download this file in smaller sections, go here instead.)

Take 3 Revisited
16 1980 12:26 Not a synth piece at all really, but a "fuzz guitar" excursion a la Hendrix, albeit far less frenetic. I recently added some spacey reverb to it and it now sounds quite amazing (hence the "Revisited" tag.)

Herringbone Concerto
   10 1980 15:04 Jaunty guitar & synth piece which uses some of my earlier themes including the Upandunder Overture. The MIDI version was completed in Feb 2005 - a good "fun" piece which should get you whistling (I must warn you - that first tune will stick in your head for weeks!)

September Sunshine
- 1980 04:10 Another guitar instrumental, all done with simple root-position chords. Well it was September, and the sun was shining, so that's what it ended up being called.

Siberian Sunset

1981 07:38

08:15 Possibly my favourite of my own guitar pieces - originally called "Fade Out", it was improvised from start to finish (with Mark Walker on organ accompaniment) - before I realised the tape recorder wasn't running, so I had to do the whole thing again. The last few bars are sublime. I reckon the first version was better, but that's gone like the snow of 1981.

The MIDI version was completed in August 2008, and dedicated to the memory of Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose book The Gulag Archipeligo I am currently reading and whose death was announced just as I was putting the finishing touches on the piece. Seems fitting.

Battle
18 1981 09:20 From the "Impulses" Symphony - A 'pandemaniacal' (There's no other word for it!) Red Herring offcut with added effects such as a solo for bicycle pump and manic microphone-chewer. Does have a guitar or two in it though. Music that should be locked up for the public's protection!

here i go 1980 02:58 Take Syd Barrett's moody post-Floyd song, strip off the vocals (sorry, Syd), raise the pitch by about a fifth, speed the whole thing up and add a couple of bubbly synths, and this is what you get. Similar in sound to my "Herringbone Concerto", but a lot shorter.

SKETCHES 1978 42:46 Early solo guitar pieces and moody songs from the late 70's - the earliest stuff I still acknowledge as being half-way decent. Go to this page for details.
RED HERRING
Made In Hong Kong
Careful With That Sax, Colin
Apatcheye
White Elephant (African Version)

1982 03:08
12:45
03:00
04:10 The album "Back by Unpopular Demand!" - all the best bits from my Herring days. Here's four guitar-based tracks from the album. More details here.
(Please note it's not necessarily yours truly playing guitar on these tracks - but I do play one on "Apatcheye"; it just doesn't sound like a guitar - can you spot it?)

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*GUITAR PIECES*	*Play*	*Op.*	*ŠYr*	*Mins*	CD	*Description & comments*
Pleiades		63	Jul 08	18:35		Trippy swirly guitar piece. Very very weird.
A breath of smog		-	1978	04:45		A nice simple guitar solo to start you off. This had lyrics added, and became "Circle Round the Sun". I remember I worked on this piece for weeks, and thought it was really clever at the time. Now though... well, let's be honest - maybe the guitar just wasn't my instrument! (I really wouldn't bother downloading these early pieces if I were you - there's plenty of music on this site that's infinitely better than this junk. I just put it here for the sake of completeness!)
Transtemporal Paradox		-	1978	06:24		Another early guitar solo. Very basic stuff. Nothing else to be said about it really. (Love that final note though!) What does the title mean? How should I know? Don't ask silly questions!
Llamedos		-	1978	03:15 03:05		A four-track guitar instrumental. This was my first ever attempt at multi-tracking. The trouble with instrumentals is, what on earth do you call them? I just jot down the first thing that comes into my head, in this case the name-plate on a house I spotted the week before. Good job it wasn't the one I saw recently - "Far Corfe"! (Incidentally, if the MIDI version sounds a bit off-key, that's because it's meant to. If you play it, be sure to let it finish otherwise the next piece you play might sound off-key too. It's a quirk of MIDI music.)
Concerto for 2 Guitars & Synthesiser		9	1979	17:55		Combining guitars and synthesiser, a piece I'm quite proud of. Which is guitar and which is synth? Hard to tell sometimes. This needs to be played a few times to get into the "feel" of it, so don't give up after one playing. (If you want to download this file in smaller sections, go here instead.)
Take 3 Revisited		16	1980	12:26		Not a synth piece at all really, but a "fuzz guitar" excursion a la Hendrix, albeit far less frenetic. I recently added some spacey reverb to it and it now sounds quite amazing (hence the "Revisited" tag.)
Herringbone Concerto		10	1980	15:04		Jaunty guitar & synth piece which uses some of my earlier themes including the Upandunder Overture. The MIDI version was completed in Feb 2005 - a good "fun" piece which should get you whistling (I must warn you - that first tune will stick in your head for weeks!)
September Sunshine		-	1980	04:10		Another guitar instrumental, all done with simple root-position chords. Well it was September, and the sun was shining, so that's what it ended up being called.
Siberian Sunset			1981	07:38 08:15		Possibly my favourite of my own guitar pieces - originally called "Fade Out", it was improvised from start to finish (with Mark Walker on organ accompaniment) - before I realised the tape recorder wasn't running, so I had to do the whole thing again. The last few bars are sublime. I reckon the first version was better, but that's gone like the snow of 1981. The MIDI version was completed in August 2008, and dedicated to the memory of Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose book The Gulag Archipeligo I am currently reading and whose death was announced just as I was putting the finishing touches on the piece. Seems fitting.
Battle		18	1981	09:20		From the "Impulses" Symphony - A 'pandemaniacal' (There's no other word for it!) Red Herring offcut with added effects such as a solo for bicycle pump and manic microphone-chewer. Does have a guitar or two in it though. Music that should be locked up for the public's protection!
here i go			1980	02:58		Take Syd Barrett's moody post-Floyd song, strip off the vocals (sorry, Syd), raise the pitch by about a fifth, speed the whole thing up and add a couple of bubbly synths, and this is what you get. Similar in sound to my "Herringbone Concerto", but a lot shorter.
SKETCHES			1978	42:46		Early solo guitar pieces and moody songs from the late 70's - the earliest stuff I still acknowledge as being half-way decent. Go to this page for details.
RED HERRING Made In Hong Kong Careful With That Sax, Colin Apatcheye White Elephant (African Version)			1982	03:08 12:45 03:00 04:10		The album "Back by Unpopular Demand!" - all the best bits from my Herring days. Here's four guitar-based tracks from the album. More details here. (Please note it's not necessarily yours truly playing guitar on these tracks - but I do play one on "Apatcheye"; it just doesn't sound like a guitar - can you spot it?)