Numan's a New Man

Beyond the Compass (Roy Palmer) - The Flying Cloud (voice, acc. guitar)
I rushed through this tune today. One day my voice will grace these pages. Not this week though. No real effort made, as I was rushing on to the next exciting project.
Where I work, four of us who sit in the same office are keen amateur musicians (some more amateur than others!) and we decided on a mutual challenge - to each record a cover version of the same well known tune in our own inimitable styles. We chose a song each and voted on which we wanted to do. The winning tune was "Cars" by Gary Numan. Judging by the styles of the participants, that means we get one proggy keyboardy version, a strummed acoustic one, and a soulful pop number. As for my version, well I'm not going to give anything about my arrangement away until it's actually finished, but I got disappointingly little done this evening - only a few bars progress.
n34 is coming on apace.
Here is a tune to keep you going:



This is a sampled rendering of the first movement of a string/clarinet ensemble I wrote last year for my friend Becky. It is a kind of fugue and rips off both Bach and Shostakovitch without even coming close to their quality. I'd love to hear this done by live musicians one day.