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CoVI D Suite Work in progress
I've had a set of pieces floating around my mind since starting to use a weird starting point at the height of early covid. There was a reddit post where someone jokingly put up a chord that interpreted the word like this: CoVI D - they then played that, and it was a truly nasty piece of harmony, but seemed appropriate. I looked at the notes in it and found that they fit into a G Harmonic Minor scale, so started my slow escape from the guitarist's finger trap of the pentatonic box. I semi consciously started making short segments on iPad and guitar using each note in that scale as a starting point. I've now found myself in a G Harmonic finger trap, but that's a nice change from the old one.
An old friend who's into production visited my studio and workshop this week, mainly to see the crazy valve gear, but over cups of tea listened to some of my other bits and bobs, and encouraged me to start arranging them properly. This is the first, and the one that's really been orbiting my consciousness for far too long. It's very rough and ready, but is a good frame on which to build, and hopefully move on. I'll try to tackle one a week over the coming month or two, then go back and refine them - this one needs more bass throughout, and I should record the guitar in one take rather than use the loops I've assembled this one from. Light percussion / drums might feature, though I've turned them off after recording with a basic backbeat in this version. Better editing on the call response between second guitar and geoflute would also help.
I'll add to this thread over the period, thanks for looking listening if you do 
Comments
Interesting concept.
I don't think it needs percs, nor more basses, the low D and D# guitar notes in the first part are too loud in my opinion. But it's just me.
I love the mood, quietness, especially after 3:04, the few dissonances with the solo synth create some interesting tension. I love it.
Thanks jo, I like the dissonances too, and you’re very right on the balance at the start, I probably need to raise the levels on the latter part as well as lower the early bits… definitely a work in progress, and the pieces get louder and busier as they proceed, I deffo need drums in the next one, be great to get a real drummer recorded.
I like the intertwined nature of guitar and flute each one respondent to the other, thank you for sharing.
thanks for the kind words, I’m always happy to (sometimes over) share 🙏
May be the mood I’m in today, and/or your description, but this took me right back to how I felt during the first lockdown, great sadness, loss, fear for the future. Powerful stuff!
Thanks man, while not setting out to cause distress, having an emotional impact is always something we each strive for in our art I think… 🙏
Surprisingly ominous. Kind of Twin Peaksy.
Cheers Mike, I’ve long admired the way Lynch handles sound and music, possibly more than the actual film content itself - and I generally can’t think of music without some sort of picture, this one’s kinda murky and foggy though, shapes emerging from a misty gloom …
Really like that guitar tone, especially with that lush reverb. I also like how the instruments intertwine and I think this shines without percussion. Great atmospheric piece.
No worries: I meant it as a compliment for that very reason!
Splendid, I took it as such, just babbled on in my response 😁
Thank you - It’s a pretty simple setup; Japanese thinline tele copy, into nembrini AC30 with input gain turned down a good bit until it just about overdrives if you push it - I run it a bit hotter for the melody parts… then I’m afraid to say a touch of the ole blackhole, I keep trying other ‘verbs but that one just makes my soul feel stuff…
I will re-record the guitar as one take once I’m happy with the arrangement, and I want to use some sort of triple band delay to get some of the high notes to slapback - when I was figuring the chords out on MIDI strummer ages ago the delay on that just seemed to do it naturally and I want to get that effect back… oh, the guitar is tuned DADGCD - it makes the main chords just that little bit easier to reach, and really takes me out of the pentatonic space too, it might have some effect on tone too perhaps, I dunno, that guitar was a great buy nearly twenty years ago now…
Hi Krupa,
Nice soundscape to venture, quite a trip into an atmospheric space.
The guitar is very enjoyable, and also very relaxing.
Well done.
Rene
Thanks Rene!
Great piece and atmosphere. I like your modal exploration of the Harmonic Minor and how manage not to make it sound too minor, it gives a sense of melancholy but not in a sad way. Very interesting feeling.
It seems like a nice guitar tuning, I'll give it a try to take a break from FACFAC and BEBEBE which I love exploring lately.
Cheers Jan, it’s definitely fun exploring in this way, and avoiding the easy eastern sounding cliches is quite tricky but definitely rewarding. I do ‘borrow’ a straight F in one section, I fought hard to avoid it but it just sits perfectly to my ears… that tuning is pretty good, some nice chords shapes to find, though I tend to melody stuff on only one or two strings with it, probably unfamiliarity as well as the top two strings are really close together - I only ended up with it when I raised the b string to c app that the c minor shape I liked was more fluid to get into. I’ll try those two you mention at some point, maybe when I get my ancient Les Paul copy back…
Funnily that’s been the weather here in Sheffield for the past couple of days, so very thematic, whilst listening.
This is really great, I love the tuning, the idea and the song! It reminds me a bit of OK Computer era Radiohead, I hope that isn't offensive!
Ha no way! If I sang, I wish it were like him, I’d probably start thinking up something to say, and they’d be just the kind of band I’d like to jam with regularly… cheers seven!
And @knewspeak i forgot you’re just over them moors, I’m trying to talk myself up there today to get out of our fog, though I love it up there even when it is like this…
Nice piece… didn’t miss the percussion. Especially liked the guitar in the last section but thought the level a bit low (which you know anyway). Look forward to the next creations.