Cars Complete

Well I've allowed myself a little break from the challenge and the blog. I think I deserved it, as I was pretty knackered. I mainly spent the time in the recording studio with Greg the Electrickery drummer laying down nice meaty guitar tracks.
Back with a vengeance though. Yesterday's tune was:
Popular Songs for the Classical Guitar (Green Edition) (John Zaradin) - Stars Fell on Alabama (classical guitar)
This is a great book of jazzy arrangements of standards plus some latin numbers thrown in. I bought it years ago, before I could sight-read so I got nowhere with it. It's really satisfying to be able to plough through it now with a newfound confidence and ability. Today I actually picked out another tune and played that - "Tico Tico" which I have a staggeringly good showpiece version of by the box player out of Altan, Dermot Byrne. I'm going to stick with this piece for a bit I think as it has a latin sparkle which makes me go a little gooey inside. In fact here is him doing it live, and I strongly advise you check it out. If you don't play the box, let me assure you that tune is hard as nails.
Today's tune is this:
The Classic Guitar Collection Volume 2 - Recuerdos De La Alhambra (Francisco Tarrega) (classical guitar)
This piece involves a technique which I have never worked on - the repeated picking of the same note with consecutive fingers of the right hand, with the melody being plucked with the thumb in the bass. It is really hard and takes years to perfect. I didn't have years this evening sadly, but I was quite pleased with my progress. Nice Spanish sounding tune it was too. Here is a version being played at roughly 10 times the speeed I can do it by a lass called Kaori Muraji. I'm jealous.
The real meat of tonight's work however was finishing my orchestral version of Cars by Numan, and committing it to mp3 for posterity. I guess it's different enough from the original to allow me to post here without invoking the wrath of A&R:
It's just occured to me on posting this that this is the first recording to feature my voice. This is quite a stylised performance and I'm kind of putting on a voice for it. I've also used a vocoder for the word "Cars" every time it appears.