This piece grew out of Wou-Wou and the Wormling’s 'Bum Note Blues' from their open collaboration page on Soundcloud.
As always with my experimental works, the concept grew and grew, and the original kernel receded somewhat into the sonic distance.
But even so, the 'bum note blues' stamped its marque on the final piece, which has a surfeit of such twisted azure notes.
cool industrial sick sound..
is that burbling a guitar? nice.
: That's an interesting one - it's a 5 string active bass put through a EHX bass synth set to reverse fuzz, and then with a Kaoss pad on the effects channel, dialling in various pitch shifting delays, and then all that going through a Mutron type envelop filter to get the burbling sound. That Mutron is my secret weapon for wetter than wet bass tones!
Good sound. I actually still have my Mutron Phasor II. I must find a way to get it into something.
Yeah - I din't like it for much until I tried it on bass frequencies - voila!
oh, the sludge in those chords.
Yeah I isolated Wou Wou's 4 note rhythm guitar riff and had it repeat, but slowed the tempo right down - I also lowered the pitch. Certain sounds start to get very sludgy when you do that to them! It comes down to the quality of the initial sound though - some sounds just get brittle and plastic. But this one provided a nice spongey ostinato which kinds of drags its weary limbs across the soundscape
I love all those stop time blues, which all derive largely from I'm a Man, or Mannish Boy, I suppose. This is an abstract of that kind of thing, done space age retro -
On the Wou Wou open collab track, Bum Note Blues, I liked it all, but wanted it much slower. I found that drums sounded brittle and midi-like slow, so I couldn't use much of them. The lead guitar was good, but I only wanted a few blues licks in there, and have them in 'qoutation marks' so to speak. I liked the bass, but best of all I liked the rhythm guitar - that makes the track - it gives it the weight - so I a chunk of that out and used it
So much is down to what can be used - so much stuff gets erased - my aim is to have every sound have its own integrity - even if it is the tiniest of glitches
your vocal and infinate sustain is a thing to behold. with my ears, i mean.
Thanks - that is the Ibanez GAX70 again, which is a gorgeous little thing, giving out woman tone like there's no tomorrow and seems to have a sustaining phased whine even acoustically! Action's set high of course, and the humbucker's are up close to the strings. And the whammy pedal further compresses the sound until it's 'squeeze my lemon, until the juice runs down my leg-g-g- baby-y-y!'
down on the killin' floor
Yeah, you've just reminded me of Led Zep II and the great Les Paul sounds on that, both in riffs and lead - those sounds may point towards this piece, subliminally - unless you are referring to Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin - if so, good on yer - we love our experimental twisted blues!
I was referring to Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin, but I do *love* that Zep II guitar sound! It was one of the the early things that made me know in my bones I had to do something somehow like that, somehow. I was a kid and didn't know anything, except that set my soul to flying.
Page just grabbed everything together like a massive alchemist - it's a valid vocation to follow, for gold was created by the hammer of the gods in those days ... it is more enduring than bronze that sound ... and he was using a Tele when Joe Walsh sold him the Les Paul - when I listen to the opening guitar riff to Whole Lotta a Love I know that that is very special sound created by a Mage who knew of Crowley, Joe Meek, Muddy Waters, Jimi, Jeff, and the whole current of the East ... these are not just sounds - they are actual transporters -
Very apt. title. The tone on this is tripped OUT! Love all the crazy suspended bends! Very odd soundscape as per normal ;)
Thanks - I'm pleased with the lead guitar sound on this one, Isleyish phased woman tone!
lyrics
Twisted Azure
Turned turquoise, a startled garnet
Thrust from shadows mercurial,
Blushed in purple sapphire heat;
Unquenched at the seat of Urda’s well.
credits
from Moon Fear (double album),
released August 24, 2016
Bill Boethius with Wou Wou and the Wormling
