A strange forest of sounds, taking in quite a gamut of guitars from acoustic to electric.
Current feels
there are some places so Boethiusian, guitarits wont go there! fabulous
: Sometimes even I am not not Boethiusian enough, and I am Boethius ... no, *I'm* Boethius!" - 'which one of you is Boethius?'
another fiddly one..god knows how you play that
: kind of wide fingerings high up the neck, going laterally
: Sounds awesome, Bill
: Bill feels my pain.
oh yeah! dig that deep twang
: Using fingers to pluck the string so that it slaps on the Strat, and then let Leo's so-called tremolo system do the rest
: That's some fast trem work for sure
: as I've said elsewhere, the trem on this Mexican Fender Strat is so sensitive - just a touch and it is doing rapid microtonal madness - doesn't stay in tune so well but then the art of Strat playing includes making adjustments as you go! That's part of the fun - sometimes I tune sharp at the start knowing things are going to go flat -
:love that fiddly run there!
: Adopting that Miles Davis dictum - "don't play the first thing you think of - go to the next thing, or thing after that"
Thank you for this ride, I really enjoyed it
love this moment - especially those little scalar runs
- played those parts on a nice Epiphone 339 I have.
great sitar-like sound
- I've never played a real sitar though - keep intending to try - always listening to sitar music, though
: Got the same thing with sitar
you opened in a nice way the fence for me
: It's a strange and hazardous garden, but there are many unique fruits there to pick, if you will
Really great music and guitar!
And in the close, almost a beatnik 50s cafe vibe.
: Ibanez jazz box etc., that was the basis for the track
I do not know what animal that is, but....the world needs more of it.
: It's that 'sitar' sound again, variously tweaked in a vocal direction
: Well, that 'sitar' should make other appearances!
That sneaking almost synth motif is stealing the show.
: Boss guitar synth swoops in and out
: Their synth guitar stuff has always been solid, even if a bit cheesy at times - but I've never failed to get fun stuff out of any of it, even from its first iteration (and last analog ones) in the ME-6B.
And a sort of didgeridoo from some indigenous electric people comes and goes.
: some filtered bass in there
Almost birds fluttering in the background, to vanish in the vines and treetops.
: lots of high EQ boost there - Strat twangs and my Ibanez big jazz box scumbling away in places
: Makes sense, I wouldn't have thought jazzbox, but I can see how to make that work.
The filters and warbles really do make this jungle come alive.
: and that GT-6 sitar setting doesn't sound like a sitar but it sure makes an interesting sound!
: Yep, it didn't at all at that generation (and still isn't *great* unless you go full on GR-55 hex pickup)..but it makes neat noises!
Now there's an entrance of things.
: I needed a dinosaur after all those rodents
: Sometimes one must let the dinosaurs play!
The most articulate caterwauling. Always.
: That headless guitar has stood me in good stead over the years. I don't use it so much now, but when I do, as here, it always comes through. I used it on the first track you noticed of mine - the long gone Chromaligned (good title) - but then it was my main guitar [I only had that and a Yamaha]. Actually the headless is great for recording - very accurate instrument, EMG type pickups are nice and quiet but respond well to tones of overdrive and delay - and trem stays totally in tune even after dive bombs [can't say the same for my Strat!]
Oh, the springs, the springs!
: Is that the springs in the back of the Strat twang or the hot spring steam of the wailing headless guitar?
Either one!
Can almost picture the apes of 2001 jumping up and down on the guitar to make the spring sound again that pleases their tribe.
I cannot tell you how welcome these sounds are.
We sputter out but never extinguish. Bank those fires, Sir.
: Some squishy bass in there!
Oh, always such a trip, to those places where you see not with your eyes.
: Yes, sounds go beyond literal visions
Using those clean sounds to their tortured best.
: It's the naked quality of such sounds which heightens the sense of cruelty and even humiliation - sadists tend to strip their victims
Your opening gestures are ofte so good. This is one of the best.
- 'gestures' is a good word - music can be seen as a series of gestures which are traced in sound
But wait... what happened to Mr. Brassy? I was just getting used to him.
: He does return - it's actually listed as a 'sitar' sound!
Speaking a very interesting language!
: Double Dutch to some!
: lots of kool aid candy!
the music matches with the words
: I'm not always sure what comes first!
: Bill captured my horrific fight with the death of my husband. And, he fought until his last breath, and I fought to regain my hope of a better tomorrow.
lyrics
Accost the Sacred
There are places so sacred,
That even the gods won’t go.
There are no fences around them,
But these places are impenetrable,
Like virgin forests and undiscovered
Jungles.
Where all incomers will get lost.
Never to return.
Only a few yearn to enter.
They tremble with a cold lust,
Breathlessly aching to accost
The hitherto unfingered altar.
Straddling the threshold between studio performance and digital technique; the NYC artist applies "fake jazz" principles to synthpop. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2024
A collection of tracks from the singer and multi-disciplinary artist's 111 collaboration series, featuring KMRU, Laraaji, and others. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2024
