you keep the density up - still i am not feeling slain by frequency salad - that is a remarkable quality
at the hop
oh boy!
thats really great i like the voice its like a voice, is it a voice bill?
; it's not a voice but a guitar [Fender Strat with Lace Sensor pick ups]; I added a filter which gave that momentary vocal sound - it's spooky, like a ghost inhabited my guitar sound for few seconds to say something.
i really dig it!- playing loose and reckless on a blue Epi Les Paul that has gorgeous flame [blue flame] on its body. I can get very Nigel Tufnell about such things!
ohsnappums - diggin it you can really lock horns and groove on that part ... briefly ...
diggin you diggin this - awesomepossom
Theremins can go so crazy
bass just got nekkid for a few seconds
Good show, sir.
And there is the circus to town that is perfect. Shades of Lemmy.
- using my TBird here as Lem used one - and even when he changed to Ricks he put TBird pickups on. Circus is right - or rather Zirkus
I half expect Vangelis pads to kick in at any moment.
This has the sheen of something from the post-industrial future at times, like an imagined Buck Rogers city in the clouds.
- you imply a favourite trope of mine, the view that as we push the envelope of the futuristic, the primal shadow starts to grow. Image from a Buck Rogers comic would make a good cover - retro futurity
Little angels and dogs somehow coexist in sequenced space.
heheheee
your images are so outre -
Something almost Zappa in this.
Space Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny
An urban claustrophobia of sorts. - it's like Milton and Keats - in a city pent - or even Betjemen, or Ezra Pound - angry with traffic
Do you trigger these drums with a touch pad, or program them in another way? Either way, nice work.
The drum track on this was actually bass and drums together - I just jammed my bass against a drum machine rhythm for 20 minutes or so. I then took the parts of it I liked to make the foundation of this tune. I then improvised various guitars and theremin over that. I then took the drum pattern out at various points, and put it back at other points. So. as always, the editing goes alongside the playing. As I edit I add other parts - and not always on top - sometimes I might add a bass part last. So I don't use touch pads or triggers on anything. I just lay down parts, work on them - lay down more parts etc etc.
That is very much akin to my own process for my more "composed" and produced pieces. They are built from de- and re-constructed improvised segments; building blocks taken from the forge and then sculpted and painted or glazed.
Yeah - it's a nice blend of conscious and subconscious - of accident and design - of rote and random. I like it when accident predominates but with snatches of things which act like anchors or signposts - but only snatches
i like how you re-introduce time in this section, relentless march.
- slight return! I had to pare away the layers above it to expose its rawness before setting the dogs on it
landing in bedrock, i might add, in, not on.
There's a big sweeping filter on the TBird bass sound
well that was a nice skittering passage
: throwing out phrases on my recently acquired blue Epiphone Les Paul Standard in a way similar to Pollock throwing paint
oh, the hurly burly of it all, the Big Bustle...
- the oscillator is a Theremin put through my Boss guitar synth
fireworks of sounds, very rich track
lyrics
Load Stone Death
Life has been compared to a deadly weight,
Bearing down mercilessly on the living,
Crushing them to death, with its stone-like fate.
Those slaves of breath, relentlessly driven
By those base animal urges to procreate.
Hence the need to return to our alien
Forms invisible, and pure souls of white light.
credits
from King Chaos,
released December 4, 2017
Bill Boethius: guitars, lap steel, Theremin, bass & synth
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