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Seducing the Darkness Pt 2: No Going Back
Seducing the Darkness Pt 2: No Going Back
Dedicated to the disappeared.
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Wow. Excellent overall production approach. I wish I had your dedication to high standards. I am reminded of the
early synth masters like Wendy Carlos and Tomita: cinematic renderings of orchestral techniques.
Thanks @McD ! Comparison to Carlos and Tomita is high praise to me. Exactly what I go for.
Good… it’s usually dangerous to compare music to another artist but I can hear the respect you show for those masters.
Wendy probably more so but maybe just this particular effort.
Love it! I like how the intro bass synth bounces subtly from left to right with the doo-wop synth adding to the mix. Then the electric piano comes in over the top. Then seamlessly into part 2 after a dramatic pause and a big power chord, with some nice interplay between two Moog-like synth solos, one panned left and the other to the right. Next, it moves into part 3 with the bass taking the center stage with some light tasty percussion over the top, and some airy flutes with just enough reverb. Followed by part 4 with the marching snare drums. That builds nicely into part 5 with a strong majestic melody. Part 6 brings back the bass synth with some deep kick drums and unexpected vocal parts. I couldn’t understand what they were saying, but they were two people trying to get my attention. Perfect. On to part 7 with another strong melody. Next, a complete tempo change for part 8 with some big crashing chords with some air space between them. Part 9 is a total mood change. I think a sad violin would sound really good for that melody line. Just my two cents. Then it drifts off into an entirely new key for the final finish and fade.
The mix is super clean with every instrument in its place just right and tight. The whole piece has many unique parts that flow seamlessly from start to finish. This is the type of thing I strive for. A musical story that held my interest all the way. I really enjoyed studying this and will probably “borrow” a few things from it in the future. You nailed it!
Who remembers when vinyl albums had “liner notes”? This little essay is a great example of why the liner notes really
helped the listener get a potentially new perspective on the music.
One of the Miles Davis albums had note “War Lord of the Weeguns”… I remember reading it in line at the
K-Mart and wishing I could be 10% as cool as Miles.
Google Gemini won’t support my memory but it does s remind me that Bill Evan’s wrote the liner notes for
“Kind of Blue.”
@Paulieworld thanks so much for your careful listening and comments. You “studied’ it? I am indeed honored. I need to up my game if folks are gonna pay that close attention.
The processed words are “down on the ground now”, “get into the van”, “show me your id”. This was not meant to be political but a purely human take on recent events. I see the growing cruelty, the wide public acceptance of and even pleasure from it, as another ascendency of evil. Hence the title. Depressing I know. I gotta stop.
“Good composers borrow, great composers steal”, (paraphrased from Stravinsky). Go for it.
@McD I loved bringing an album home, opening the plastic wrap, and laying on the bedroom floor with my head between two speakers. I also bought a lot of records at K-Mart. I think my last one was Humble Pie Live at Fillmore. I had the pleasure of seeing Miles live at Grant Park in Chicago on the lakefront. I almost died that night on the way home. Miles was the king of cool. Lester Bowie was pretty far out, too. Saw him with Jack Dejohnette at Showcase.
Boomer is the real deal. He played with the world famous NIU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ron Modell. They were every bit as good as the Tonight Show Band. They still are, as far as I know. Here is a little sample…
Hard to believe these are just college kids! Google them.
I will! And it’s pronounced Eye-gor. Walk this way.
Abbie? Abbie normal?
I did a little research as Google start integrating search deeper and deeper into Gemini… making their cash cow irrelevant overtime before OpenAI, Meta, Amazon or Elon’s xAI take over this new market for cutting corners.
Much of this literally from Gemini because great commenters steal.
Pablo Picasso is also reported for this variant "Good artists copy; great artists steal".
While the sentiment had been expressed before by others like T.S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky, it is Picasso's name that is most strongly associated with the concise, memorable version of the quote. It’s a perfect distillation of his own artistic philosophy and career, which involved him famously borrowing and transforming from a huge range of sources—from African masks and ancient Iberian sculpture to the work of other artists like Velázquez.
The phrase has been a favorite of many creative and innovative figures since, including Steve Jobs, who famously used it to describe how Apple developed the Macintosh by taking existing ideas and making them their own.
So, while the idea has a longer, more complex lineage, your association of the quote with Picasso is the most common and well-known one.
@Paulieworld thanks for sharing that track. It was just after my time but i do remember Tim Crawford. He was the keyboard player when I was there. That was a VERY long time ago.
@McD i stand corrected. I always thought it was Eye-gore that said it first.
He probably did but Picasso had the same idea. It’s pretty much a given that each generation of artists stand on the shoulders of those that came before and inspiration does often lead to “borrowing”. Go figure.
@McD and @Paulieworld are far more knowledgeable and literate than me but I just wanted to say… bloody hell this is good 🙏