Welcome to the music of Karmadillo – the award winning band where witty English songs are written and performed on a South American folk instrument. Described as 'Hawaiin Beach Music Gone Wrong', we mix the the beautiful sound of the South American charango with quirky songs and heartfelt ballads. Think Divine Comedy meets Noah and The Whale with Zappa looking on as an approving grandad!
Karmadillo singing science songs at ya! For the full lowdown checkout the Karmadillo science song website or the Professor Karmadillo Facebook page.
Our Latest Release is a tribute to Yuri Gagarins first ever manned space flight – titled ‘Radio Gagarin’ on the ‘Geek Like Me’ EP. Give it a listen (or even better a purchase!) from iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp below.
It will be 10 Years since I wondered into a shop somewhere in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. To celebrate this momentous moment I thought I would have a gig. It will also be the last Karmadillo gig for a while due to imminent baby arrival – plus the last time I drink as after this I will be on emergency labour transport alert. It’s going to be a party!
To say a big thank you to the staff at the NHS who have given knee operations and physiotherapy this will be a fundraiser for Chesterton Hospital Physiotherapy Section and the Osteopath Clinic at Addenbrookes. I put my faith in them, they gave me hop, and now I repay with charity.
Also a big thank you to the following peeps for supporting me in this endeavour.
Karmadillo 10.15-11.00
Jacqui & Geoff 9.40-10.05
Jana Tyrell 9.05-9.30
Tom Conway 8.45-9
David Young 8.30
Portland Arms, near Staples in Cambridge. 8pm start £6/£3 NHS staff
Fundraising for Addenrookes/Chesterton gig flyer
So ex-Blur dude Graham Coxon is running a competition for a band to support him. I’d quite like to be able to support him at The Junction in April, so to that end would like to suggest you nominate the zombie youtube video. Obviously you can nominate whichever band you wish – but it would be cool if it could be a Cambridge one!
Go to http://toursupport.grahamcoxon.co.uk/, login with Facebook or Twitter, choose Cambridge and then (ideally!) nominate the Karmadillo Teenage Zombie vid. You can do it by entering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdcGILO9xE in the popup. Or choose a video by the many excellent Cambridge bands! You can also show support for the bands by Liking the videos you like.
Thanks for listening, and efforts if you help the Cambridge musicians!
It being Christmas and all I thought I would get down and make progress on the Professor Karmadillo album that is being recorded at the moment. Being dis-satisfied with the freeware reverb plugins I have and ones that came with my Cakewalk Sonar package I decided to go on the hunt for something new. Tally Ho!
I have one friend who works for Sound on Sound Magazine. His personal favourites are EastWest Quantum Leap Spaces and Flux IRCAM Tools Verb, which came with a its-quality-but-pricey warning. I investigated those and while I don’t mind paying a price for quality reverb I don’t particularly want to have to carry a dongle around to use my laptop for recording, which ruled those two out.
His third recommendation was Valhalla Room, though he hadn’t used it personally. Immediately I warmed to this software. It has effects that are named Sulaco and Nostromo for starters. The price was much less that the other two and the developer is donating 10% of all ValhallaRoom proceeds to the American Red Cross International Disaster Relief Fund. Liquid Sonics also did something which he highlighted.
Another muso friend pointed me to a page rounding up the 10 Best Reverb Plugins you could get. The first humungous plus about this site was the clear and simple explanation on what reverb is and how it works. Then comes a good roundup of various plugins – covering a range of types and and price points including freeware. Some of those required dongles again which left them off my list. In addition some hadn’t been updated in a while and one didn’t exist anymore (which they pointed out but it is no longer downloadable) – the article is from a year ago. Essentially the useful list I got off that site, at the time of writing, was
Finally two other recommendations came via a fellow artiste Matt Parker – King Dubby and Blue Cat. The former was Mac only and the latter was stuff I couldn’t get into. However the Blue Cat tools seemed excellent for analysing and mastering stuff, so I’ve made a mental note to check their stuff out down the line.
The next step is the process of trying these out and seeing which I like the most!
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