My second open collaboration with the amazing Wou Wou and the Wormling.
Wouwouopencollab – Spaceship
getting sucked into a wormhole!
just let it happen!
i got the space bends...but i like it
Like that - 'space bends'! - space and the ocean have much in common
Screeching intensity! - nothing like a Strat to get that. Exactly. Love that sound!
somehow you definitely manage to create a chaotic space vibe. like something major is going down on venus :D
- I nod to the movie 'the first space on venus' with the title, of course. There is an arch aspect here, but at the same time there is a genuine connection between sound waves and space as has been known since Plato, and long before Plato. There's also a blurred chaos magic association too, so your "chaotic space vib(ration)" is spot on
very cool!
A very pleasant transit, if this is the last ship off, I cannot complain about the accomodation!
Grand flow through here, right on.
Space sirens lit up, you are cleared to dock!
Visions of a vintage computer whirring, reel to reels flying in the datastream.
Delicious collaboration!!!
Drifts in and out of so many places. great sonic ship
out of the dub an evolution came. The Primordial Dub! - now there's a title!
This is crazy man, I like it.: to hell with sanity!
experimental, unconventional and creative right from the start
love the re-introduction of the bass at the end for that moment. Yeah I nearly chopped that off and then thought - no, there's my ending.
how very vocal of you: That's my red Squire Strat whammied out. It's the one with the humbucker on the bridge, so it's a SSH - that got me theorising when I did this - I realised that the neck pick up is the best sounding one on a Strat. The bridge pick up is ok but nothing compared to a Tele bridge pick up. So having a humbucker on the bridge of a Strat is good as you'll hardly use it. So this is mainly single coil neck pick up - sometimes I knocked the selector switch over accidentally - but that happens when you are torturing the whammy bar like that.
: I also feel that way about Strat bridge pick up. I do have a strat, but haven't used it too much since the 80's. I should take it out for a spin. I relied heavily on the neck pick up in a blues and R&B band I was in at the time that gigged a lot. The middle pick up, too. I also had a very fond place on certain recordings for that #2 knife switch setting that combined the two, although I imagine that setting to be a tad thin for you.
Since getting a Paul [and who would have thought it?] I've definitely tended towards thicker tones. I used some of the in between tones on some earlier tracks - and actually, I rarely used the bridge pup on its own, usually in between with the middle. That in between of neck and middle is great for funky chord scrubbing, blues picking, yeah.
Another thing is that the standard Strat doesn't have a tone pot for the bridge pup. I think there is always a place for thin tones though! Usually by way of contrast, but I always like a bit of girth even in a thin tone. So for single coils, the Tele bridge, the Strat neck and P90s in any position have that nice combination of edge and girth. But there is something about an overdriven single coil [like on this track] that has a wild quality to it. I just chanced upon a Youtube interview with Robin Trower where he said he used the neck pick up on his Strats mainly - that gave me the light bulb moment - and he gets THAT sound.
Not to mention Saint Jimi. Or I should say, angel, who brought thick light.
Of course, the start of all that: how to get thick Gibson like tones from a Fender single coil. But Les invented the Paul to be super clean! So the first revolution was actually Eric. He got that thick Paul sound on the Bluesbreakers album of 1966. Think how puny his Tele sound was up to then. So that thick Gibson sound was the revolution. Then Jeff B and Jimi sought to get those thick tones from Fenders.
: This track was a part meditation on the thick Strat sound [as well as on the shifting beats of Wou]. And it is there on the neck pick up. I'm starting to think along single pup lines now, too. Jeff Beck's Esquire, Leslie West's LP Junior. There is a well grounded theory that a single pup guitar sounds way better every time.
those flutes, that Wou Wou.: the way that 'flute' riff goes through the whole thing is very pleasing - I got the various repeats and then played about with them making a weird structure to hang strangeness upon
great passages here, perhaps to Venus, but certainly sonically. : the speeded up 7/8 beat is a gas there - and the synths - actually my Korg Kaoss pad! - were great fun, enabling me to express my inner Hawkwind!
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you absorb, or envelop the groove: initial opposition becomes integration; and then the grooves are turned inside out, mashed up and down, juxtaposed etc.
lyrics
The last Spaceship on Venus
Silent Venus,
Sister Venus,
Cosmic vessel,
My Earthling brethren
Desire with you to speak,
And upon your red sod, to tread.
You draw me upwards,
O Crimson lady.
Dear Venus,
Make a sound or three,
So that we, may,
To your dunes voyage,
And join ye, once more, in cosmic
Cacophany.
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credits
from Alchemical Scents,
released May 21, 2017
Bill Boethius; guitar, synth
Wou Wou; Bass, beats and flute.
