Alo Phogg's Music Blogg

This is the first in an occasional series about my efforts to create myself a little home studio for composing recording and mixing in a not particularly suitable room. This first part is about that troublesome room. You can either read about it here, or if you prefer, watch the video below. Series Overview This series is aimed at people like me, seeking to carve out a little studio space in a family home where both space and cash are limited and extraneous noise is potentially a problem. You should note I'm a strictly amateur musician / composer and this is certainly not claiming to be a professional quality build. If that's what you're looking for, you're in the wrong place! I'm trying to document my progress and the problems I'm facing. There's nothing theoretical about this series - it's a real world example of how an unknowledgeable amateur goes about building a technically complicated project. What could possibly go wrong! About The...

It seems to be traditional at new year to produce some kind of “top ten” list or other. Well, I’m not a fan of ordered lists, but I have produced a list of the YouTube music channels I watched the most last year. And there’s nine in my “top ten”! Before we start, a quick disclaimer. I’m not connected to these channels in any way and I’m not getting any kickbacks for plugging them. I just like them and I’ve got a lot out of them. Time to pay it forward. And this is purely my personal choice. I’m not saying these channels are the best or that there aren’t any others out there. These are genuinely just the channels I actually watch! Having said that, I’d love to hear of any other channels anyone thinks I might be interested in following - please use the comments. Glad that’s clear. Here we go: My first love, muscically, is the acoustic guitar – primarily fingerstyle acoustic blues. So I’ll start with a couple of acoustic players I follow. Rainer Brunn First up is Rainer...

Welcome This blog is going to be about my journey as an amateur musician and composer. I play guitar. Mainly finger style acoustic. I have a love acoustic blues - particularly country and Piedmont blues. My favourite player is Mississippi John Hurt. Composer? I like to try to write electronic music. I have published a few pieces to date. I find it a slow process! Where can you hear my stuff? Here's a list: I've recorded some videos of me sitting on the settee playing acoustic guitar. All the videos are in my Live From My Lounge playlist on my YouTube channel. Some of my original electronic music is on Bandcamp and SoundCloud . I've made videos for some of my electronica: see my Alo's Electronic Music YouTube playlist. There's some other music on my YouTube channel. You can reach them from my Channel Landing Page . Let's see how this works out! Stay tuned.