moozik

You can actually hear me do a song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SaqvkW8OgU if the mood takes you.
Strange tale to it: Mike Cope sent me a sonnet a couple of months back, and asked me if I couldn't turn it into a blues of some sort. I said I'd give it a bash when and if I had time, and - a couple of weeks later - picked up my guitar and played something more-or-less like what you hear here. Seemed okay, so I played it to Vera when she got home and she said it was quite nice and probably had her mind on other things, so I let it drop.
Then, in early January, I was down in the Savoie with a couple of friends, skiing (them)(me just learning) and making music. I strained an old injury and found myself in the place alone one day, so I thought I'd bung something down and send it to Mike to see if it was the sort of thing he'd had in mind.
After an abruptly terminated discussion as to whether I could do it with a slightly more South African accent ("It's a blues," I said. "You don't do blues with a South African accent"), this was his reply, so I guess it sorta was...

nam lo mo p'ag mo lo sar pa la tra shi de leg shu

may the year (my gek lo - year of obstacles) be filled with wonder and bliss.