“Somewhere with Charlie” off Twelve and Twenty is the track of the day at AllAboutJazz!
Tag: Free Improvisation
“Somewhere Else Entirely” in Acrylics
Ward Whitney Spring painting “Somewhere Else Entirely”, accompanied by my tune that the painting was named after.
New Album: “Twelve and Twenty”
“Twelve and Twenty”, my latest solo improvisation album, is out now! It’s a bit special, as it marks a couple personal milestones: twenty years of full-time employment in music and my twelfth solo improvisation album.
Check it out in any of the usual places and, as always, thanks for listening.
-Vic
New Album: Six After Ten
September 26th, 2024 was the 10th anniversary of my lesson studio at Boomer Music Company in Fort Collins. To mark the occasion, I recorded this improvisation that week in my lesson room on my usual teaching gear: workhorse instruments, practice amps, and a recording app on my business phone.
The two sessions have been edited slightly for time and there’s some studio reverb added for depth, otherwise it’s an accurate documentation of my typical noodlings while waiting to teach.
Give it a listen on CD or the music service of your choice, and thanks for listening.
-Vic
Analogues of Infinity turns 10
My first Curious Automata release, Analogues of Infinity turns 10 today. It’s free on Bandcamp (and up on all the streaming sites) so give it a listen and try to figure out why the heck this is the most popular track:
New Release: What Was (Curious Automata, 2023)
With the 10th anniversary of Curious Automata coming up in March of this year, I think it’s time to clear out the archives a bit. This album is a collection of misfits whose tone didn’t match the projects for which they were intended. Also, in the spirit of moving on, all the tracks on this album are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license so anyone can use them as they see fit.
“Broken Tree” was improvised after my favorite shade tree was split in a late spring storm in 2017. It was previously released as a rough cut for my Bandcamp subscribers but it’s much prettier and has been edited for time here. I think it still captures my mood as I waited to see if the tree survived, though.
Tracks 2-12 were all recorded during the two sessions for 2018’s “We Were”. Those were during the end of my marriage, so they were a bit of an art therapy project as I went through a divorce. I wrote a list of things to remember, then improvised around each idea. For the original album, I decided to lean toward the positive tracks, so the remaining ones here have a bit darker tilt.
I hope you enjoy these moody leftovers, and thanks for listening.
-Vic Dillahay, Guitarist
New Release: Two Into Two Twice
New Release: Somewhat Precedented
What if it happens?
What if it happens and you thought it could happen?
What if you thought it could happen and it happens and you are surprised it happened?
What if you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and it happens and it happened again?
What if it happened again and you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and it happens and you hope it won’t happen?
What if you hope it won’t happen and it happened again and you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and it happens and you know why it happened?
What if you know why it happens and you hope it won’t happen and it happens again and you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and it happens and you cannot stop it happening?
What if you cannot stop it happening and you hope it won’t happen and it happens again and you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and it happens?
What if you cannot stop it happening and it happens again and you are surprised it happened and you thought it could happen and you hope it won’t happen?
What if you cannot stop it happening and you thought it could happen and you are surprised it happened and you hope it won’t happen?
What if you hope it won’t happen and you thought it could happen and you are surprised it happened?
What if you hope it won’t happen because you are surprised it happened?
What if you are surprised it happened because you hope it won’t?
What if you hope it won’t because you are surprised?
What if you are surprised because you hope?
Then this is an improvisation on acoustic guitar recorded in a single improvised take on June 26th, 2021 at The Foundry in Loveland, Colorado.