Thank you Goyacobol,
Thank you for being in tune and listening to our work, it means a lot to us... To answer some of your questions: As
BlueToad (band) my partner and I play live sets several times a year in festivals or small venues, as a duo backed up by other musicians, where we are more of a DJ/VJ team, singing and playing a certain number of songs along with the pre-recorded material. Our shows are interspaced with projected visuals and musical sequences very much like a complete band depending on the gig.... (Ann (MissRoBee) is a jazz musician whereas I am a writer and visual artist - sound techy - so we bring onboard the best of of our friends to make our concerts as entertaining as we can. We also work under:
HippSaints, and I as
TrapMystic for dj-vj gigs...
One thing to remember is that we are retired (ealry to late fifties) and do this as a (somewhat) passion and not to "make it" or "make money from it", we do it cause there are 24 hours to a day, and instead of watching teevee we feel better creating something of our own. So, for the last playlist: FUNKED UP, we have projected to involve lyrics but havent gotten around to it yet. We post our compos straight from the instrumental basis, and then a little at a time turn the tracks into songs, and invite our listeners and collaborators to bring input. It is a slow but natural progression sometimes involving other artists from all over the planet. Sometimes we just go for it and freestyle it! (very liberating work process, our own therapy of sorts)
We made a few video clips, over the years for our own work, mostly for others, some of which are more to the point today then they were when we first made them: here is a page where we test our own stuff and post work with others as well. Mostly the videos we've made are jobs for others and they own and manage the final works. but you can see here a few clips that we still have on one of our Youtube pages. If one clicks on the "videos" menu and start at the oldest, you can see and hear what we are up to on several levels. Work for us, work for others, etc.
YOUTUBE Media by BlueToad
Here are some of MissRoBee (Ann)'s versions and jazzy versions of some of our stuff, all played on a keyboard interface to compose our songs:
MissRoBee - In the Honey for Good
Some collaborations with artists abroad:
Collaboration selected - since 2017
We do not take ourselves more seriously than necessary! But it's a great way to evolve positively as far as we can feel!
Thank you! And thank you all forum members for listening to our work... And there has been a good lot of traffic from this page, it's very strenghtening to know that we are not alone in this.... Otherwise we would start golfing (joking or swimming marathons, ahaha...) Cheers to all... Although my partner does not speak english I spend many hours translating the incredible insights I feed on here! (No matter how I present it I always feel pretentious proposing my work?! That's probably why I am so bad at it?)
