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Break dancing robot synth drum machine noises A few weeks ago I had some involvement in a residency at Dance Base in Edinburgh with dancer and choreographer Skye Reynolds. She has been collaborating for a long time with sound designer Jung In Jung (whose awesome work includes the SonicBella) in order to develop performances and systems that use different types of technology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tableau of a Lithotomy Many many things are happening these days, despite the apparent silence on this blog. You can check the Lucky Frame blog for some examples of the stuff I’ve been up to. I’m working on a few videos and things to post here, in the mean time I wanted to share an amazing record I found. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spores at the Botanics Thanks to everyone who came down to the Botanics last Sunday! Patrick and I had a drop-in session to show off our Secret Sounds of Spores installation, and we both felt that it went really well. We got lots of great video and photos, which we will be going through in the coming days. In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secret Sounds of Spores, opening today! I’m posting this from the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens, where I’m busy installing my latest installation, The Secret Sounds of Spores. Followers of this blog and my twitter feed will no doubt be aware of this project, as I can’t seem to stop talking about it! In a nutshell, I’m working with mycologist Patrick Hickey [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spores at the Apple Store For the past few weeks Patrick Hickey and I have been working more and more on our Secret Sounds of Spores project, which is coming together nicely. For those of you just joining us, we are building an installation for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh which will create music from falling mushroom spores. You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Sounds of Spores I’m working on a project right now with Patrick Hickey, founder of Nipht Technologies, which involves building an installation that will create music from mushrooms. This all came about when Patrick showed me some videos he had made using closeup footage of a laser pointed underneath a protected mushroom – as you will see in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sugar in her coffee… I just got back from a few days with my brother recording some great new music together with percussionist extraordinaire Paul Clifford. I’m really looking forward to editing and mixing those new tunes. In the mean time, here’s a (slightly strange) music video I made of a new Seznec Brothers tune: You can also watch a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exercise Magic!! Readers of my twitter feed will remember a series of tweets a few weeks back about my performance at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow called Exercise Magic!! This performance was part of a Cryptic Night with fellow artist Rachel Maclean. The night featured videos by the both of us (including my “Penalty Shootout” and “A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TEI Conference at MIT A few weeks ago I got to attend the astounding TEI Conference at the equally astounding MIT Media Lab. It was awesome for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which was because I got to present some great work. I was working on a project by Sarah Kettley and Martha Glazzard of Nottingham [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gelkies at the Hannah Maclure Last year I was lucky enough to be the Digital Media Artist in Residence at the University of Abertay, Dundee, a position funded by the Scottish Arts Council. It was an amazing experience for me and my career, and it officially culminated in the production of my first solo gallery show, which took place at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Knut and Nils I always love reading what happened on this day in history, and today is particularly fun. On this day in 1785, French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American doctor John Jeffries crossed the English Channel in a hot air balloon, marking the first aerial crossing and setting an example of Franco-American cooperation that I can’t help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seznec Brothers – Crow Jane I’m back in Scotland now after a lovely break with the family in the States. I got to play a few shows with my brother Cory – together we are the Seznec Brothers, and in between our shows we managed to record a couple of videos and even a new song! Here is the first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expected Arrival Time Last Friday saw the premiere of my new installation Expected Arrival Time in Dundee, as part of the Winter Light Night event. This piece came together surprisingly quickly, thanks to the support of John Gray from the Dundee City Council and Donna Holford-Lovell from Abertay University Cultural Projects, and an incredible amount of help and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NeON Festival, Dundee Last week I was very pleased to play a small part in the first edition of NeON, an amazing festival of digital media and interactive design in Dundee (a city which has many, many, many claims to fame in those fields). But why don’t I let the Scottish news media tell you about it instead? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I live in interesting times I have lots of things to post about these days. I suppose that’s a good thing! I’ll take them one at a time. A few weeks ago I was invited down to Cardiff for May You Live in Interesting Times, a “festival of creative technology”. I took part in both the “Micro Maker Faire”, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolo on the Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast I’m off to Wales tomorrow (more on that soon!), but before I go I wanted to mention that I was interviewed for the most recent installment of the Tech Weekly Podcast from The Guardian about my work making music software for Wii remotes. I had a great time chatting about my successes and challenges…you can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolo + Groanbox I’m heading off to London tomorrow to play a gig with my brother and his awesome band Groanbox. It’s all going to kick off tomorrow night at 7:30 pm at the Luminaire in Kilburn. Tickets and info about the gig can be found here, it should be a great show! I’ll be bringing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolo + Groanbox I’m heading off to London tomorrow to play a gig with my brother and his awesome band Groanbox. It’s all going to kick off tomorrow night at 7:30 pm at the Luminaire in Kilburn. Tickets and info about the gig can be found here, it should be a great show! I’ll be bringing a whole [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lumièrophone This week I was very happy to present at The Sounds of the Silents, an event at the University of Edinburgh about the history of film sound. There were some amazing lectures and demonstrations from historians and foley artists and more. My presentation was about the Lumièrophone, a screen that I made with Kristina Johansen. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seznec Brothers in Edinburgh August was a slightly crazy month of amazing projects for me, which were all topped off by a visit from my brother Cory. We played two gigs at the Edinburgh Book Festival, which turned out to be a brilliant little venue. We had tons of fun, and we were able to get a few videos [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rough Cut Nation I feel very honored to be involved in Rough Cut Nation, a brilliant show that’s happening right now at the Nation Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. In a nutshell, the Rough Cut Nation project is a bunch of Scottish artists who took over the Portrait Gallery, which is closing for renovation at the end of the summer. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coming soon… Many of you already know what I’ve been working on for the past few months with Jon and Mike - Mujik, a charming and fun music toy for the iPhone. We have submitted version 1.0 to Apple and we are just waiting for them to approve it and put it on the app store. In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gelkies at the Hannah Maclure Gallery Here’s a short video of the Gelkies in their current home at the Hannah Maclure Gallery in Dundee! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dispatches from the Maker Faire The Maker Faire was absolutely incredible for all sorts of reasons, not the least being meeting all sorts of brilliant people working on amazing projects. I brought my camera along to San Francisco with the aim of interviewing some of the other musical Makers. These videos are now on Create Digital Music, but I thought [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unique Beats Last week I was sorry to miss the amazing sounding Unique Beats festival of electronic music here in Edinburgh. I was able to make a few short appearances via video, though! Here is the first video I made for them, a tutorial explaining how I made the Wii BeatLooper in MaxMSP: The Unique Beats podcast also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maker Faire Day 1 Goodness me, yesterday was amazing. I met tons of interesting people here at the Maker Faire, and I’m sure today will be no different! Thanks to everyone who dropped by and said hello and played with the Jam Jars and the Wii LoopMachine. My favorite moment so far? Boyfriend: “beep beep boooop” (playing with jars) Girlfriend: “What’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wii BeatLooper download The Wii BeatLooper, which I showed off a couple of days ago in this video, is now available for download! Click here to download the standalone application for Mac OS X, as well as some free samples, a pdf that explains connecting the Wii remote to your computer, and the Max/MSP patches for anyone who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Say hello to the Gelkie Family! I’ve been hard at work building a bunch of Jam Jar Gelkies to bring to the Maker Faire in San Francisco this week. Here are four of them in action! Aren’t they cute? In case you didn’t see my previous post about the Jam Jars, they are light dependent synthesizers housed inside glass jars. They are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Gelkie is Born… Today I built a couple of Jam Jars to bring to the Maker Faire! Check it out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wii BeatLooper Here’s a demo video of a new mini piece of wii music software, made in preparation for my trip to the Maker Faire next week. The BeatLooper is a fun scratching looping device! I’ll be posting this software very soon, along with the Max Patch, and of course there is much more on the way! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website See you in San Francisco? Next week I am going to California for the very first time, where I will have a stand at the Maker Faire, an intimate gathering of 80,000 of my closest friends. Over the next week I will be getting all sorts of stuff together for the trip to San Francisco, and of course I will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the Chicken Box! Here's a little demo video of me playing around with a synth I finished building this weekend. It has just three knobs (whose function I don't really understand) and it sounds crazy cool!All of this synth building will eventually culminate in an interactive installation called "Don't Talk Back". More on that later... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing the Jam Jar! I'm working on a project right now that involves building digital synthesizers that react to light. As a first step I made a small synth that I was able to fit inside a jam jar. I creatively named it the Jam Jar, and it totally rocks. Here's a video that explains what it is and shows me jamming out with Ableton Live!For more pictures check out myFlickr set. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Penalty Shootout On the 28th of January 2009, Dundee United and Glasgow Celtic battled to a 0-0 tie in the semi-final of the CIS Scottish League Cup. The game thus went to penalty kicks.Celtic won, but not before every player on both teams (including the goalies) took shots in what must have been one of the most epic penalty shootouts in Scottish (if not world) football history.Watching the coverage I was struck by how the camera angles were always very similar for each penalty. I edited the footage and lay ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing Geese Here's a track I made the other day...I took a recording of "Wild Goose Chase" played by the incredible fiddlerClyde Davenportand edited two little sections out.I then imported those samples intoAbletonand layered them all together, usingfollow actionsto randomize the way they were layered and played back. This created a sort ofSteve Reichphasing effect, except with the added fun of randomness.Enjoy!The Amazing Rolo - Goose Chasing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darkness in Glasgow It looks like a video of mine will be shown in Glasgow next week...As we speak is an artists video screening night in Glasgow dedicated to the promotion of new contemporary video works. The next one will take place on January the 20th 2009 in Stereo, Renfield Lane (behind Central Station). Free entry.See the As We Speak myspace page for more information.To celebrate, here is the video that will be shown, for those of you who can't make it (including me, unfortunately!). It's called "Darknes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trying to get home My brother Cory and I are both at home in Maryland, and we're going to try and make a few more semi-improvised videos like this one over the next few weeks...enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An audience that cares I'm in a funny situation these days, where I'm working really hard on a bunch of different projects, but have very little to show for it all! It's been frustrating me a bit, so I made an extra effort to make a finished version of a song I've been working on for a while. I will probably continue working on it at some point soon (I would really like my brother to lay a banjo or guitar track down, for example), but I really like how it sounds now too. Give it a listen!The Amazing Rolo - An aud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is that a cowboy outfit? Here's a cool video art piece by Lucy Keany, with sound design by me: "Is That a Cowboy Outfit" by Lucy Keany from The Amazing Rolo on Vimeo.It was shown at the Edinburgh College of Art degree show 2008. Imagine it projected into a totally blackened room.Doing the sound design was loads of fun - Lucy and I agreed very quickly on the sound aesthetic we were after, which makes everything easier! I found much of the source material on archive.org, which is a fantastic place to look for copy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pour un monde meilleur This June, like last June and the June before that, my brother Cory and I met up in Paris to work on a play with our cousin Fabrice Macaux at the Abbaye de Maubuisson. This year the play was called "Pour un monde meilleur", and it featured a 12 person choir! Cory and I composed all sorts of music and sound design that used the choir together with our trademark electro-acoustic hybrid style. Cory was a character in the play, whilst I was a shadowy background character, controlling all of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The walls have ears It's been a long time since my last post, because I've been working on several projects at once. One of these has finished up, for the moment, and I'm now back in Edinburgh. I spent most of March in Paris working on a play called "Ces murs qui nous écoutent" ("The Walls Have Ears"), which was written and directed by Fabrice Macaux (loosely based on the novel by Spôjmaï Zariâb) and featured Delphine Zucker in the lead role. I did a little bit of acting, wrote and recorded original music and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loop Machine 2.0 released! Today I am happy to announce the release of my Loop Machine 2.0 software! As regular readers of this blog will know, this is the result of five months of very hard work, so this is very exciting for me. Go to the Loop Machine Website at theamazingrolo.net/wii/ to check it out. You can also see the press release here. Thanks to everyone for your continued support! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wii Loop Machine 2.0 preview As I've mentioned many times on this blog before, I am currently working on version 2.0 of my Wii Loop Machine. I'm happy to announce that I've just launched a brand new website dedicated entirely to my Wii music software. It has all of my previous Wii blog entries, videos, and information, as well as a brand-new forum for questions, comments, and WLM discussion. I will be posted all of my Wii news on there for the most part from now on.The software is nearly finished, I've started Beta tes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guten Tag! Tomorrow I am going to Germany, where I've been invited to speak at the Audio Mostly conference in Ilmenau about my Wii Loop Machine. I will be presenting a paper entitled "The Wii Loop Machine: Musical Software Development for the Nintendo Wii Remote," which you can download and read by clicking here. I will even be giving a short performance of the Wii Loop Machine on Friday night! I'm rather excited. If you happen to be in the area don't hesitate to say hello! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Piano + Computer For some reason I don't usually mix my piano playing with my electronic music. I'm quite happy with this new song, though, so I suppose I'll have to do it more often. It's very frenetic and crazy, but that's kind of my mood these days! I'll be playing this song (among others) at the Forest next tuesday night.The Amazing Rolo - EarthFireWindWaterHeartThanks to the University of Edinburgh Physics Department for the use of their MS-20 for the bass. The banjo part is sampled from Lucius Smith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another sound toy I'm quite busy these days working on my thesis - I'm making an interactive sound installation based on movement. It's very cool but very stressful! So all of my other projects have taken a bit of a backseat for the moment.Well, almost all of them. I have found the time to make a new little bit of software for you. In audio-geek-speak it's an FM synth where the modulating frequency is generated using subtractive synthesis. The frequency and harmonicity ratio are controlled by seperate step s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mariage Blanc Cory and I recently finished the play we were working on in France. We wrote and performed original music at a 13th century abbey outside of Paris, and it all went quite well. We recorded most of the music, here is the main theme:The Seznec Brothers - Mariage BlancFor this song Cory would play guitar and sing, and I would sample and loop his playing and singing to build up all of the layers in real time. It was a bit nerve racking but it worked each time!In other news, you will notice a new ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound toy! The other day I made a slightly silly little sound toy. You can load in a sample (wav, aiff, or sdII) and manipulate the sound by drawing in a box. It's fun!The Amazing Rolo's Visual Sonicalizer for Mac OS X Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A few wii projects No music this time, but here are a couple of other things for you.As I mentioned earlier, one of my current school projects entails making "Loop Composer" software that uses a Nintendo Wii wireless controller as an interface.I've finished a very early prototype, which you can play with if you happen to have Max/MSP, a Wii controller, and a bluetooth enabled computer. Click here to download the Max patch, directions, and a pdf of a short presentation I will be giving on thursday. If anyone d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wii Loop Machine This weekend I finished the Wii Loop Machine software that I started a few weeks ago. It's a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time.It's now ready for download as a standalone application...if you have a Mac with OSX (10.4.8 or 10.4.9 recommended) and bluetooth and a Wii controller then you should give it a try:Download the Wii Loop Machine Version 1.0[edit] Please go to my new website dedicated to the Wii Loop Machine, there you will fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A little Bach Last week I got a new toy at a Car Boot Sale - it's a type of electric harmonium, I think, although it calls itself a "Rosedale Electric Chord Organ". In any event, it sounds gorgeous, and it feels so great to have an acoustic instrument in my room again!I find the reedy organ sound so poignant, despite (or perhaps due to) the extremely loud motor that pushes the air through the reeds and the complete lack of dynamic range. I hope to use it to make a bunch of recordings of Bach preludes, am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Five More Minutes Here's my latest song, right on the heels of my last post. I recorded the guitar part at the farm in Maryland, and added the rest over the past few weeks.The Amazing Rolo - Five More Minutes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New album and more. It's been a very long time since my last post, but I'll make up for it! I promise!First things first, my brother and I have finished our new album. We've printed up a few hundred initial copies to sell at our shows and such...we're planning on printing up a thousand or so sometime next year. For now you can buy one for $10 at our shows or by emailing me. Here's the title track:The Seznec Brothers - SedimentWe're playing a big show on New Year's in Brooklyn, check theSeznec Bros websitefor d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolo at the Forest Cafe Tomorrow night (friday the 10th) I will be playing a set at the Forest Cafe right near Bristo Square...click for a flyer. There will be lots of music from other people in (or somehow affiliated with) my course, so it should be lots of fun! On top of all that, it's free! I'm waiting on the recording of my show in Glasgow last week, because my little machine didn't work too well. In the mean time you can listen to this mp3 I recorded in preparation for that show...it's quite long, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Dark My brother recently showed me a really awesome page full of old appalachian recordings for free download. I took one of the songs and used it as the base sample for a new Rolo song. The lyrics are inspired by a cool art piece I saw down at the Royal Scottish Academy. The Amazing Rolo - In the Dark Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Field Recordings I've made some pretty cool field recordings recently, and I thought I would share the excitement...for starters, this is the sound from my window this afternoon: Bagpipes in the distance And 10 days ago I borrowed the binaural microphones from my school and went to a Hibernian FC soccer game with a friend. Here are some of the results: The game gets started Just after a goal is scored (the recording of the goal itself is too distorted, sorry).You'll notice that the stereo im ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Groanbox Remix #2 I just got an email from my brother Cory saying that his group The Groanbox Boys now have their mp3's (ahem...that I engineered and co-produced...) up on iTunes!In celebration, we created a new page for the three Groanbox Boys remix tracks I recently did, one of which I've already released on this blog. Here's another one for you podcast subscribers:The Groanbox Boys - Wham Bam (Rolo Remix) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Train of Thought Drag Just before I left for Edinburgh I made some recordings on the piano at my parent's house. This is a song I had been working on for a few weeks. Very old fashioned (in a good way, I hope). The Amazing Rolo - The Train of Thought Drag Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Louis Armstrong remix The other night I was listening to some early Louis Armstrong recordings...the old Hot Five and Hot Seven stuff is completely amazing.The song "Oriental Strut" caught my ear and I absolutely have to remix it right then and there:The Amazing Rolo - The Oh Be Gentle Strut(I also put in some samples from Alban Berg's Wozzeck)In other news, I'm now in Edinburgh. So far I love it, I think I will be very happy here! I should be posting lots of projects here, so check back often. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newish oldish music I'm back! It's been a pretty crazy couple of weeks, what with the musicking and the travelling and the recording and all. But now I've got a hold boatload of music for you. I'll start with a song I recorded with Rebecca a long time ago. I was unhappy with it and I put it away, until a few days ago when I felt like making some electronic music again. I pulled this one out and polished it up and now I quite like it! Enjoy: The Amazing Rolo + Rebecca - Mansuit Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Boat (is finished) Here's another Seznec Brothers song, one of two we recorded today:Seznec Brothers - My Boat[edit: that link works now, sorry about that]Some of you may remember the"original" versionI recorded on my own in March...this new and improved version has vocal harmonies and a gourd banjo (and we sped it up a bit). I think it's much better, but you can compare and see for yourselves, if you like! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Search the Ocean I bought a microphone stand the other day...I decided to test it out by getting my brother to play in front of my microphones. Here's one of the songs that came out, some good old fingerpickin' blues: Cory Seznec - Search the Ocean (this is also available on the Seznec Bros site) Also, you may have noticed that I've redesigned this blog a bit. I found the old design a bit hard to read...please let me know what you think! Does it work in Windows? Does the header font look cool? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Here's a new Seznec Brothers tune for you, recorded yesterday in our bedroom. We're not sure if it's finished yet, I might add a piano track one day. More is coming soon! Seznec Brothers - Wind Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's remix time As you can see from the picture, my page hits have multiplied in the past few days (possibly after being linked byAudioMastermind).To give my newfound audience something new to listen to, here's a remix I recently made of a Beastie Boys song:Beastie Boys - Stop That Train (Rolo Remix)I've been on a big of a hip hop kick lately, and fellow electronic musician Deltasleep recently posted some mp3's from a great synth demo record on hisblogthat I just had to use... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One from the vault. Occasionally, while looking for something on my hard drive or in a closet or in a pile of old tapes, I will run across something I recorded a long time ago and be pleasantly surprised. This happened to me yesterday, and I thought I would share it with you all.When I'm working on a song I tend to listen to it obsessively (like most composers, I imagine). I listen over and over, partially as a way to figure out how to make the song better, but also because it helps me understand myself. Even ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Willow Garden: the remix Today my brother Cory recorded a charango track, as well as some backup vocals, for the version of "Down in the Willow Garden" that I recorded in January. Give it a listen, and you can compare it to the old version if you like! The Seznec Brothers - Down in the Willow Garden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website