Joshua Van Tassel

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NB music journalist/music lover Ken Kelley was kind enough to do a web Q/A with me on his great site www.musicnerd.ca. He asked some really interesting questions about instrumental music, and one specifically about licensing it and whether it’s easier due to the fact that there’s no vocals. It’s a tough call and entirely dependant on the visuals, but here’s an example of a quick piece I made for a friend who is about to release a really interesting iPhone app. I’ll post the trailer when it’s done, but here’s the background music. There’s a female voice narration that goes on in the video, so it needed to be something that had some melodic interest, but not too over bearing as to distract from what she’s saying.

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Ended up doing another super fun CBC Drive session recently, this time with the sharply dressed David Myles. Have a look at the videos here –

I recently got to play with a real gentleman and amazing songwriter named Doug Paisley. He’s a favorite of mine and deserves all the accolades he gets, and more. Here’s a CBC 3 sessions we did with him. Beautiful tune. Quietest session ever, and the engineer Ron Skinner captured it beautifully.

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About 2 weeks ago I said I was going to try to keep a better eye on the blog here, and obviously that plan failed, fairly spectacularly. This is a really busy time, with lots of people around me making really amazing and inspiring music. Must be that fall/back to school thing that gets people moving. After Christmas though we’ll all shut it down and hibernate til touring season, like big musical dumb bears. Here’s a few clips of some really varied stuff I’ve been making for people over the past little while.

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