Singing Bowl, by Bob Appel

Singing Bowl

by Bob Appel

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1.	Circular Motion 02:32	buy track
2.	Celtic Dream Weaver 04:30	buy track
3.	Loop Guari 04:56	buy track
4.	Dobie Metalhead 03:45	buy track
5.	Tick Tock Motel 05:40	buy track
6.	Oujda 02:55	buy track
7.	In the Parlor 03:19	buy track
8.	Singing Bowl 05:22	buy track
9.	Enchanted Nylons 03:45	buy track
10.	She's Got It 03:28	buy track

about

Singing Bowl is simultaneously an exercise, a meditation, and a reaction to being sequestered at home. It is liberating to begin the creative process with a declaration of disallowing any second guessing. Use every instrument available. Relearn your first instrument (in my case the clarinet). Put that old ribbon mic on the piano in the living room. The birds calling out in the morning are so damn beautiful. I had to record those things (the mourning doves cooing are my favorite). My daughter sounds amazing singing with that sampled choir. Mic up the mixing desk and pound on it. Crank up the low end. And yes, drone on the singing bowl.

The result is a ten track record. I don't sing a note! That has never happened before. Making it was meditative and necessary during this uncertain time. Music heals. I hope it helps you as it has me.

- Bob Appel

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released June 15, 2020

All songs written, performed
and produced by Bob Appel

Jeff Burris plays
drums on track #7

Ruby Recht-Appel
sings on track #2

Micah Nelson plays
drums on track #1

and birds that sing
every morning outside
Hazelnut Studios
appear on track #3

All tracks recorded at
Hazelnut Studios, San Francisco, CA
excpet basics for track #1
were recorded at
Henhouse Studios, Venice, CA
by Harlan Stienberger

All songs © 2020 BMI

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Bob Appel San Francisco, California

When Bob Appel isn't writing rock 'n' roll songs, he often thinks about how to use all the instruments, toys, trinkets, and nature sounds surrounding him in the studio. He says it is freeing, releasing him from the constraints of two guitars, drums, bass and an occasional B3 part.

The result is "Singing Bowl." Yes, the singing bowl makes an appearance, as do the birds outside Hazelnut Studios. ... more

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