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A couple of calzones!
Love the first thirty seconds as an intro, but it does such a good job that I am disappointed when no rap/how/bellow/chorale kicks in to explain the world or simply judge me. Overall this is a well primed canvas, but I WANT MORE
Winsome misery of the purest kind. My favorite. Makes me think it must surely be an outtake from the same Allman session he recorded 'Please be with me'. And I guess in a way Duane was a kind of Huckleberry Finn at that.
This is very nice work, really appreciate the piano. Have put it on my desktop playlist for repeated melancholic drifting.
+1. Nicely done.
Very distinctive. Especially like the bass and piano sounds. While your toast isn't my toast, I often enjoy/appreciate the sounds you whip up. I must tell you off however for shining a memory light on a two month period when I worked in Norbury and Thornton Heath mid-80s. The whole period was disreputable, but I believe I had a few nights in Cinatras. While I shiver in shame, I also think it's pretty funny that we might well have been there at the same time: Hey, mate, I'll see you in thirty years. The good news is neither of us will be in Croydon....
This is a very well-organized/structured piece of pie. I hear it in the prog/floyd tradition (rightly or wrongly
) and if my fingers were on the desk I might prefer a little more overall bass end. Just toast.
Thank you, Mr G.
Pap definitely qualifies as the worst father in American Lit, and Veda Pierce holds the title of worst child, but I still have never been able to decide upon worst mother...
Glad you enjoyed the piece, and thanks again for listening.
Thanks Johnny. We may have bumped into each other once? I wouldn't remember......... I was all over the Manor. I do have some fond memories tho.......... When people over here in Cyprus ask me where i came from in the UK, i use to say, "The Croydon Area"........... They went, "Ah!.... OK!....... I went there years ago, ended up in Mayday Hospital..... I only went to buy the Daily Mirror paper"...... lol........ Told them they should of bought the "Sun", or the ''Daily Sport'' paper........
Now i tell them i come from "Purley'...... Saves a lot of useless gossip. A bit like, when they say "I come from the Bromley Area"............ I say, "Where about in "Lewisham'' did you live?"
To be fair, while Croydon overall is a shithole, Purley is actually quite posh.
I actually lived in Coulsdon(2 miles from Purley....... 5min walk from Smitham Station)..... But yes, Croydon is a Shithole!....... But I did my youthful clubbing & Debaultery there.
@richardyot @studs1966 Saw a girl in Purley for a while. Big front garden and everything. Her dad had a Volvo when they were something to have. Didn't last.
I'm happy to report that SOTMC has had exactly the effect I was hoping for in terms of productivity. I started the month plunking out a new tune on a banjo (have the voice memo recording for posterity) and spent the ensuing time learning how to use BM3 as a full-fledged recording tool in addition to composing/arranging/refining the tune. The homage to both @Shaken&;Stirred and 10CC are entirely intentional.
@studs1966 great production and love the laid-back vibe. It definitely has that 80s sound that you were shooting for!
@DefRobot nice tune! I was digging the feel for most of the duration of the song--something about the finger drumming gave it an agreeable organic tone--but I kept hearing some unhinged instrument toward the end. I suppose a wild guitar solo might do it, but really, anything that might act as an "elevator". Good stuff, though.
@Retzilience very clever cover! I went back and listened to the Dylan original after listening to your version and it brought two things to mind: 1. you really put your own stamp on the tune, which I truly appreciate! hard to do... 2. the way your vocal sits low in the mix "hides" the original lyrics a bit too much. Showing a bit more would allow the listener to make the connection a bit more easily. (The persistence of your arrangement actually works for me.)
@Bluepunk I felt like I needed a walk in the woods after listening to this month's tune. And I mean that as a big compliment because it takes quite a bit to get the blood rushing these days. So much of the "angst" the youngsters throw around seems artificial to me. The lyrics and delivery are incisive, clever, and achieve maximum impact. Love it.
@lukesleepwalker Nice bouncy tune (I guess a banjo is always going to add a certain element of bounce to a song), and catchy vocal melody. The noises and textures are great, they add a lot of character to the song, especially the more percussive sounds.
One thing that might be worth looking into would be to maybe fuck with some of the samples a bit more, do some additional sound design to make them a little weirder and off-kilter (filters, pitch, LFO etc).
Your voice is great, really nice smooth singing.
@gburks this is my cup of tea! Especially loved the Moog lead tone--brought a smile to my face every time it arrived in the arrangement. I also like the way the vocal sits in the song--nicely done. It would have been cool to have a little bit of dynamics somewhere in the arrangement (more space from time to time) as I found the tune to be just slightly relentless and my ears needed a break.
This is also my cup of tea! Until you hear something that just works like this, it's hard to know how deceptively hard it is to build an instrumental tune that builds momentum and keeps the listener's interest. You do this very well in this tune by expertly sculpting sound in different ways. The vocoderish voice thing that comes in at 1:39 is a great example, as is the vocal line that comes in at 2:45. There was a band back in the 90s called Creeper Lagoon who did some interesting middle eastern flavored instrumentals in between their pop songs. I enjoyed their album because there was variety in the songs and my ears didn't get tired. I could see you mixing this instrumental in with your tracks with vocals to good effect. Really enjoyed it and hope you are weathering the construction project.
@lukesleepwalker, great tune. Beautifully recorded and mixed, and decidedly twisted. I'd agree with Richard, that you could make it even more twisted and odd with a bit more mangling, but that's definitely a nit.
Wow man, it's an honor! This made me laugh, very cool track. Ain't BM3 fun!!? Totally digging it myself. Yeah, you got it goin' on in this track. Lots going on. Fun to listen too, you put every bit of the sonic spectrum and stereo field to good use. Everything is crisp, and can be heard. Vocals sound good, and sit well in the mix, and woman sounds almost analog! Nice work, see ya next month!
@richardyot I really like the replacement vocal sounds used here. Like some strange language never heard before.
Some good panning going on too, especially with the echoes.
Works well as an instrumental. Does have a bit of a noodle feel in places, like it could do with some focus. I think it’s the wandering bass that’s doing this.
Reminds me a lot of The Orb overall. Good stuff.
@Janosax Lovely jazzy feel but with a very eastern sound. Interesting and original mixture. Great playing and very atmospheric.
@lukesleepwalker Really good off the wall feel to this. Great mix, I love how the sounds poke through in all the right places and at the right volumes. Lovely piano. It all cuts through really well. So clear.
Cool percussion and samples towards the end to build up the finish. Only thing that I might suggest, is a slightly bigger reverb on the vox or a delay, just to let it blend in with the track more.
Really enjoyable, apart from the bits at the end that sound like my other half nagging at me. They’re well done, but she says those exact same things!
Thanks everyone for kind words. It's great to feel productive; already started on Dec tune...
@richardyot I had hoped to mess with the samples more, as you suggest, by learning how to use the automation features in BM3 but I ended up spending more time composing and arranging than I had originally planned (which isn't a bad thing, I guess!). It's on my list to go back and figure all that out, using this tune as fodder.
@DefRobot good call on the reverb. I really want to figure out how to best use BM3's "mVerb" because I like how it sounds but I ran out of time this month dialing it in. Something to work on for next month!
To my eternal shame I am not done with reviewing yet but I am not done with reviewing yet.
@Retzilience said:
This is relentless and gently bleak, which considering the lyrics makes all kind of sense. I'm not certain if it helps or hurts to be in Portuguese, or -better put- I wish I could listen to it in Portuguese as my first language, but not an option.
Great airflow also. While it can be frustrating (noise, other people, potential death) air travel does offer chunks of time well spent on tunes. This sounds very pro and I can make a good guess at the shoes the guys in the video might be wearing. Despite your bemoaning a meager Eurorack, I would be interested in hearing the Gadget original as a basis of platform comparison etc....good effort Mister Burks.
Irie indeed. V. nice cover. Plenty of the reggae root, but I love the (very gentle) circus-type sounds. Also really like the shouty almost-toasting concrete jungle vox bits. Main vox is lovely. Bob would give you the nod on this one.
Love the almost Bosch-in-Newcastle lower pic. The upper one looks like you're going to have a lovely studio.
As for the tune at hand, would be very interested in answers to two specific questions:
One: Did you know before you started this piece that there'd be no words?
Two: How much did you pay @MonzoPro to come by and make all the gibbering noises?
That to one side, I like the rolling groove (not sure that's really the right word). It almost feels like two pieces (the separation for me being driven by the different vocal noises, the first with the shadow of Monzo at the door who never quite makes it into the picture and then towards the end a sudden bloom of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. And I don't mean that as a matter of being derivative, more just shorthand for how it feels. I like it a lot, but as a result I'm also going to be a dick about it and say I'd still like some words on it. I understand (believe me) your circumstances as regards The Men, but perhaps you could ferret out some well chosen samples to add in?
Last question: Was it actually quite a relief?
Good luck with the work (and the work). Remember that despite their different clothing builders are very much like childbirth, messy but the pain is largely soon forgotten while what they deliver is enjoyed ever after etc (or until the next time).