A quick, fun Canada Day project: yesterday morning, the great Canadian guitarist and educator Matt Warnock shared his arrangement and backing tracks for a solo over the changes of the Schwarz/Dietz standard “Alone Together”, in the style of the late Canadian guitar great Ed Bickert, using some direct quotes. To celebrate the day and pay tribute to two greats, I learned and recorded his arrangement by that night, adding my own solo just after 2:00.
https://soundcloud.com/sundar-subramanian/alone-together

“Locating Echoes”, a new solo guitar/electronics piece of mine was included on the Ottawa Experimental Music Comp II compilation, released today.

Direct link for my piece:

Link for the album:

My solo guitar version of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” will be broadcast on CKCU-FM’s post-rock etc programme Hexon Bogon tomorrow morning (5 May) between 9:30-11:30 am. Thanks, Adriana! Listen at 93.1FM in the Ottawa area or online anywhere.

https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/60403.html

I recorded this solo guitar arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s tune “Footprints”, using expression pedals to modulate short digital delay times.

I just released an EP with modern solo guitar arrangements of two traditional carols. (For those so inclined, “God Rest You Merry Gentlemen” is arranged in two-voice bimodal counterpoint and “Les anges dans nos campagnes” (“Angels We Have Heard on High”) is a chord-melody arrangement drawing on jazz harmony; both have improvised solo sections. “Les anges” was recorded last year and put out on Soundcloud but it is properly mastered here.

Thanks again to Adriana Ciccone for including a piece from Electric Currents on CKCU’s Hexon Bogon for the second week in a row.
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/58548.html?fromedit=1

Thanks to Adriana Ciccone for including “Processional” on the playlist for tomorrow’s episode of the post-rock etc. programme Hexon Bogon on CKCU (93.1 FM in Ottawa, 9:30-11:30 am Friday): https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/544/58465.html

I recorded this version of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Nearness of You” some time ago (ahead of my wedding!), trying out a couple of new effects I’m working on. Single take, no comping:

On the weekend, I recorded these pieces from the standard classical guitar repertoire. Please get in touch if you are interested in lessons or event performance.

Spontaneously jammed out this solo version of this classic jazz ballad to celebrate my birthday on Saturday in appropriately middle-aged fashion. It’s slow and a bit rubato; had fun with the harmony and voice-leading.

In other jazzy endeavours, I took advantage of a broken thumbnail a little while ago to work on my flatpicking on a steel string and finally got this bit of Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing” solo up to tempo for the first time: