At the end of last year, a clarinet player I follow on Twitter pointed out that the words "Delta Omicron" produce the anagram "Clarinet Doom". It reminded me of a recording I had made a few months earlier for a lockdown podcast of Nature Boy (a mysterious and mournful jazz ballad covered by Nat King and Natalie Cole, George Benson, 60s psychedelic band Gandalf and even David Bowie.)
So I suggested to my partner-in-crime at that we give it a go at the local open mic. We didn't have much (any!) rehearsal. And there were some, shall we say, opinions, even heckles from the crowd who didn't like the pedal
had on his guitar. I loved it. Maybe it's like Marmite. Maybe you will have other opinions entirely. The clarinet is playing on a synthetic reed and with a massive dose of reverb, because I was trying to make it sound like a rock instrument.
Maybe, just maybe, it is something like Clarinet Doom...? You be the judge!
Here's our second number: