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KLAS is back

KLAS it's a Swedish independent composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, including accordion.

Releases a few tracks every now and then. Does scaled-down live performances as a one man band. CD-s and sheet music available at https://ko-fi.com/klasjonsson.

It's a NEW VERSION! Featuring a real 80-s Casiotone

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Been working on my first exclusively keyboard song tonight. Not sequenced, or just played a few bars and looped or whatever but actually played through. It’s been slow going. It’s weird learning a new instrument at 42 but it’s a lot of fun.

I’ve been using one of my vintage Casio’s. The MT-45 is a bit weird in the way it works. Half the keyboard is permanently dedicated to playing accompaniment so it never works as just a keyboard. You can set it so you can play bass by hand or you can get the keyboard to jam chords for you along with the rhythm patterns. I’ve been using the bass part to do a reggae baseline and doing simple rhythm parts with the piano side. It sounds cool. It’s oddly a very intuitive instrument for songwriting.

Hopefully gonna have a set before long but it’s early days yet. In the meantime, here are some draft lyrics:

Three Wise Men

Two ends of England

One in France

The other’s called John

He wrote a letter home

To tell the band

He was missing the sound

Of living out loud

To the trumpet

Two broken boats

And a fractured guitar

Tasted every joy

Under the sun

Three skinny blokes

And a circus troupe

Dancing the night away

To a song,

Two ends of earth

in the middle of a dance

Laughing the night away

Taking a chance

To live the life

Coloured by dreams

Do it tonight

where do you hear it going?