That guitar drills, lobotomises, excites...another startling collage.
: steel pick close to the bridge - brutal top attack - yeah!
it takes the displacement of sound to make a lobotomy seem exciting!
Love the funkiness of that bass
: Have always been fascinated by the twang you can get on a bass just by hitting it hard! Watching a vid of Chris Squire close up and he pummelled those strings mercilessly
All rather extraordinary high sounds..splintering and glittering. .whilst that mastiff bass minds the doors
Brilliance !!!!
Dat buoy bell beckons !
If radio static was feedback, this would be it.
Both guitars in the dusty regions imitating radio static feedback!
At any minute, the bass is threatening to bust out into a full on duet with a Mellotron and chase away the guitar, I can feel it.
Nah - I kept the bass on a leash
Beware the filters of March, they come for your Caesars!
There was some post-production stringy wah there!
If Adrian Belew played with soul...he might hunt you down and do a double album for this.
Ah Belew, the father of guitar noise. Remember I asked you about Echoes, with its variously described seagull or whale sounds - strange that Belew seems to think he was the first to do this. I find it hard to believe he hadn't listened to the Floyd.
Very 60s sci-fi soundtrack for a moment!
: It sets the tone!
I like the nods to structure buried here, while they never defy the princilpes of Boetheism.
: Yes, structure assembles out of chaos and then deranged and then restructed and then ... or as Furtkamp saith - jazz it, then destroy it. I have dreams of Ancient Rome.
Why, yes, that was a prog-like co-ordinated rhythm section. And I like it.
: When Chris Squire and Bill Bruford were together, gods walked the earth
yes, *that* guitar.
: The high up guitar is my Epiphone 339 semi, while the lower down riffing guitar is my new Exlusive with a scalloped fretboard, whammy and DiMarzio's -
: Dimarzio stacked buckers - it's essentially an Yngwie version of the Strat - not that I play like that [I wish]. But I just wanted to get a scalloped neck guitar.
There have almost been a few nods to riffage around here, now in the bass, up top in what I remember as a guitar.
: Haha I like that - in my day, guitars sounded like guitars! Riffage is really my meat, but I try yo stay on a vegetarian diet - now and again I have carnivore binges
great sound! the bell-like. almost modular synthesis.
: it's all just Boss guitar synth - and some after production. The guitar is my Tokai Tele which I've taken in to the repairman since to have the pickups changed out to make it sound even better [I hope]
: Sounds pretty good now, yo. But I do get that they're noisy. I've had many surgeries done on mine. It's almost bionic at this point, yet somehow still vintage.
: Yes, the noise is the reason I'm changing the pick ups out - I'm having stacked buckers in there - after hearing the stacked Strat type buckers in my new scalloped guitar and realising that they sound like single coils but without the hum, I had to get it done. Of course, it stands to reason that stacked buckers sound like single coils because only one of the coils is picking up the string vibration, the other coil underneath is purely cancelling hum. Tele's are worse than Strats for hum simply because the back pup is hotter and that inductance plate enhances treble - great sound, but need to cut down the hum - I especially don't like it as the hum increases when you take your hands off the guitar, and then you get pops everywhere when you put your hands back. Of course, hum can be used creatively - look at Furtkamp - but for cleaner sounds you don't want it in there.
: Yea, it's a bitch if a track is overrun by it when you don't want it. I've learned to embrace it sometimes, just to illustrate the things we normally sanitize away. But most of the time...I want....none of it!
p: Amen to that!
carved a hall in my head :)
: Ha! ha! Thanks - it's audio trepanning
bit of a prog feel here to it. dig the drum fractals marching in and out
, that might have been just a percussively played bass and not a drum i: Yeah, the prog thing is there - the bass and the drums are 'tight' , but I mixed the drums down.
i love how glassy this piece is. infinite mirrors
- I used my glassy sounding Tokai Telecaster through the retro synth to get those chime-like sounds. The bass and drums lumber around the hall of mirrors, stopping and starting as they glimpse themselves
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lyrics
Carved Hail
Eroded stone,
Split and striated,
By the agency of Time.
All of a sudden ...
Thunder and lightning,
Storm and hail ...
Crash!
Nature carves her runes,
Onto the tattooed land.
credits
from Carved Hail,
released November 4, 2017
Bill Boethius, guitar, guitar synth, bass & drums
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