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Showing posts with label Recording. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recording. Show all posts

Monday, 10 November 2014

Humour Me

This could either be a great idea that spawns something great! Or it could be the worst thing I have ever thought of.

I made a playlist a couple of weeks ago containing my top favourite albums. This was regardless of genre type, or musical stylings. The end result was 4.4 days worth of music for me to listen to and spend pretty much all my time listening to it and figuring out what it means in the grand scheme of things. This is why I have not updated in a while.

I am still trying to figure out writing layouts as well as statement. The goal I have in mind is to share with those who care why I say what I do. I also want to expose albums and sounds that may not be as well advertised. These are also albums that I feel may be advertised as what they are not. Like calling Aphex Twin just electronica without going into what the Richard D. James album contains.
On That Note

APHEX TWIN- RICHARD D. JAMES ALBUM
This album marks my intro into the world of abstract concepts in music and orchestration. This album contains many different emotions, but the overarching feel is that of confusion and anguish. The album contains some of the most gentile piano lines and some of the harshest drum lines. It is also home to some of the most awkward displays. for example: "I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits." Yes. That is a thing. It is also chanted behind some of the most delicate melodies.
I tend to use this album as a background to my day to day. It may explain why my mind can feel so disorganized and draped in chaos all of the time.

For a sound review: I am not quite sure what to say. Though some of his albums hail on the heavier side, this one does not. Pieces from this would go fantastically into a period movie or something. The songs match an imagery of people waltzing. Think almost steam punk; with the random bit of electronics mixed in with period articles of clothing.
I find myself going back to this album at the strangest times for something different every time. I assume everyone knows who Aphex Twin is, by now. I keep being surprised by who people know and who they don't. Now I am rambling. Ramble ramble ramble.

Monday, 5 August 2013

QUICK UPDATE!

I still don't have much to say seeing as this week has been a pretty personal self-exploration kind of week. I DO have new songs, though!









FINALLY I can share what I have been up to for the last year! Jeff, Steve and I recorded this a month or so ago at the Church of the Nazarene in Preston. The tracks were engineered and mixed by Ryan Prasad, who is a fantastic man and I would recommend that everyone says hi to him if you get the opportunity. The recording was done with two M-Audio mic's in an X shape placed infront (mildly on top) of my kick drum facing towards the pews. Everything was live off the floor and each song had about 5 takes. I was not present for the mixing of the tracks, but it worked beautifully.

In other news, I have short hair and a beard. What the hell, right? Let me know what you think of the beard, if you have seen it. Please give some feelings on the tracks. My two personal favourites are Weird Science and First Day of Fall.

Go listen to more Cursive.