Work in progress 2024…
After a considerable period of fascination with Open C tuning, in recent times I’ve returned to my roots playing slide in standard tuning.
I’ve loved digging out a bunch of guitars I’ve not used for a while, and exploring what they can do.
I’m currently focusing my energies on writing original music, arrangements and improvisations, with a view to performing these regularly this year, and possibly recording :-)
More news to come!
“Everybody’s Fighting” excerpt, live October 2023
(Richard Pratley - bass, Glen Child - drums)
(Click album cover to hear)
See. (Dylan Kay, 2022)
See. is the result of a series of songs I wrote during the Covid period of lockdowns and restrictions. The songs were all written and played in Open C tuning (the title "See." being partly a play on words).
I tried my best to challenge myself, to write honestly and to produce songs that meant something to me.
There's a lot of slide guitar (some of it beautiful, some of it noisy), a lot of me scratching my head in Open C tuning, a lot of me trying to find my voice (both literally and metaphorically), and a lot of great playing from my friends.
Jo Kelsey & Dylan Kay duo
Jo is an old friend from UK days, a phenomenal singer and a creative tour de force.
We’ve crafted a set of jazz, blues, gospel and quirky pop arrangements, which I play entirely in Open C tuning.
These are regularly unleashed on unsuspecting audiences in Auckland and beyond :-)
1224 Project
1224 Project was the culmination of a long-standing musical friendship between myself, bassist Leslee Booth and drummer David Bouet.
We did a LOT of playing together, spent a lot of time exploring our musical curiosity together and performed a lot in London and further afield.
We released the album What Happened to The Foot in 2011 (click album cover to listen).
