Monday Nights With Mino

Dark Cathedral

Another haunting and beautiful tune by Mino. Recorded live. No overdubs. Franco plays his wooden recorder purchased on his trip to Italy. Mino plays Franco's classical guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtKAQLVHq4

Song from Rocky Horror: Over at the Frankensteins' Place

Mino does a great rendition of this cult classic (Franco has still not heard the original and isn't sure he wants to.)

Guitar and vocals: Mino

Recorder: Franco

Recorded live in the winter.

Like Grace Kelly

She is a little girl,

who plays beside the ocean.

She is a woman,

who's won every man's devotion.

Song by Mino Christante

Enjoy the song on Youtube as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QIxnSIllkI

Thanks for listening. 

Bless: A song by Franco. Violin by Mino.

Extra credit if you can identify the background singers.

Franco's site:

www.awkwardguy.com

Our Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTWmAGXVuf6B1JebloVaVg/

 

The Door is Always Open - Waylon and more...

Mino sings some Waylon Jennings, Franco sings some Shakespeare, other tunes are played and Nashville studio stories about Waylon recalled.  Listen and watch more on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTWmAGXVuf6B1JebloVaVg/

One E minor chord is all you need

Mino and Franco finally carve out sometime to record another half-hour podcast. First, they jam on an E minor, making it up as they go. Next, they play a haunting tune about broken promises and someone waiting in the corridor.

https://www.facebook.com/minochristantemusic

http://www.awkwardguy.com

 

Diggin' a Hole - Our first Monday Night recording

On a dark winter night in 2017 Mino and Franco met after work and recorded this dark but whimsical not-quite-country-rock song. Be safe if you listen while driving. You don't want to wreck your mercedes.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTWmAGXVuf6B1JebloVaVg

A Shakespeare Song: Come Away Death

We do a lovely, haunting, Shakespeare song. Mino on violin. Greg Nottage on stand-up bass. Music by Franco. Words by Bill Shakespeare. Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDiQvcy-AYs

...Forces Good and Evil Join (What is Your Name Girl?)

Cozy electric guitars and warm tube amps worked very well on this Monday night. The youtube version was recorded ten minutes before this version. This one is take 2. Maybe it's better. Mino on rhythm guitar, Franco on lead, Mino singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFxnErQEW6o 

Scream in the Dawn (A Day Last Fall)

Beautiful, haunting song of Mino's in 6/8 time with a twist of humor. Mino on guitar, violin and vocals. Franco on guitar, piano, percussion and backup vocals. Recorded in one evening in Franco's studio.