Cowper Band » melbourne http://cowperband.com Band of dried leaves, flour, and water. Brisbane, Australia. Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:52:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Long And Wining Road http://cowperband.com/2011/07/the-long-and-wining-road/ http://cowperband.com/2011/07/the-long-and-wining-road/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Rowley Cowper http://cowperband.com/2011/07/the-long-and-wining-road/ 20110702-124644.jpg
As luxuries go, my current activity would have to be up there. I find myself on a brisk winter morning standing underneath the arching, spindly arms of a leaveless tree in the midst of Yarra Valley wine country. It’s a Saturday and I’ve come to Melbourne to help celebrate a good friend’s birthday…a welcome break after a busy few months.

The album continues to prod along, and although the slow pace can be maddening from time to time, it does have a few benefits…one of which is the pleasure of playing the various ‘new’ and exciting instruments that find their way into Massive Studio, the latest of these being a wonderful synth keyboardish device known as an MS20. All I can say is that I never understood synth junkies until now – I spent a whole afternoon twiddling knobs the first day, and since then I’ve been reading up and playing with a few simulators through Ableton…brilliant.

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All this ‘break’ stuff is good, but at the same time I’m pretty excited by the knowledge that the next 3 months see me a little more permanently located in Brisbane, where I’ll be able to spend more time on creating!

Happy times :)

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Tash Parker Tour

The lovely Tash Parker, whose song “I Take The Blame” was one of my favourite tracks of last year, has fashioned herself a bit of a dual state residency, and has been nice enough to bring Cowper along for the ride.  To say that Jaymis and I are excited to be taking Cowper to Melbourne for the first time is a serious understatement…check out the gigs page for times, etc and as a hint: you can guarantee that we will be staying for dinner so come and say hi and have a laugh with us!

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