Really fun track, lots of details of interest!
, it was fun making it - 'detail' is a good word as I approach sound works more like they were drawings, paintings
Cool wind instrument too
: its actually guitar through a faux flute setting on the guitar synth
I really like that crazy bass going around everwhere
: I got the growl on the bass which excites me and makes me play a bit more than I normally would
This is truly an intruiging piece! Reminds my slightly of Jazz from Hell, Zappa, lovely restraint chaos, latent power ...
This has an astoundingly diverse palette - I have heard everything from reggae to Bleep and Booster (showing my age!) and all colours in between. A tasty smorgasbord to delight the palate!
- I've heard of reggae, of course, ... but Bleep & Booster? You're having me on!
When I was nor but a lad, Blue Peter used to show stories about robots (I think) called Bleep and Booster. The pictures were accompanied by "space music", probably created by the Radiophonic Workshop, who also created the Doctor Who theme. That was my point of reference!
: Ah - now I'm with you, Daphne Oram (?) and all that!
A pleasant journey to the end of the void, it was pretty well spot on. Didn't stop me from wrecking it anyway!
Fascinated by what you did to it - it's like you didn't do much *ostensibly*, and yet you changed the whole sound and feel so much
Yea, it's amazing how a little tweak here and there takes things to a totally different space.
and now i know it is sunday
Yeah - I did my last one on Sunday too - need to break the habit
wow, so very flute
yeah - flute synth setting on the Boss Gt-6 - guitar is the Les Paul
and always, just a hint of the blues. a hint only, mind you.
There's usually more blues in the first stages, it then gets cut down, leaving the essentials
such a jaunty player enters the scene.
Korg Volca bass, of course
there's something keyboard about some of those lines, perhaps it's in the tuning. i like it.
Ibanez GRG guitar - tuned to all fourths
Ha - I fell asleep when listening to the mix and awoke to do the mastering - hence the theme [not the only reason, but it's good to have a slick story]
Heh, I started nodding off while copying the slider settings from a patch onto the actual sliders on the synth, so I could have a starting point when I woke up. Uploading the monster now.
these are the dark engines of creation!
Excellence again and again.
Torn and smiling bravely, dancing naked in the rubble.
: that is very much the film for which this is the soundtrack
Every moment of dread is welcome to Warriors.
: as such moments promise the deepest joys
: Such delicious machinery Bill!
: Lots of Ibanez GRG on this - 5 springs on the trem makes it sound so much better
inventive, chaotic and full of feeling-bravo
- blues is there somewhere
A tense, challenging, beautiful strange landscape, Bill
A building intensity and urgency. .is that a clockwork sound?
: It's the snare drum track you remarked upon before, this time put through the Kaoss Pad
And out popped a rather fetching bass run! :)
5 string Yamaha bass - walks like a ... walking thing
Love the snare detailing. ..suggests the call to order and daily ritual
Wow - glad you noticed that - I wanted to get some snare drum sounds on this one as I usually favour toms etc., you provide the rationale there
loss and disappointment of that reality rush on waking..these sour notes are perfect for that image. The swirl of sleep nicely created by the bass and other guitars
l - there is also the loss of the dream upon waking
lyrics
Viral Reality
The reality virus had escaped, and spread like wild lice.
Petrifying forests, Paralysing parasites, concreting towns
And solidifying cities.
We were trapped under the mousetrap gaze of its TV Eye.
Our brains squirmed and swarmed, uncoiled.
The final migration of the imagination was here,
And fantasy was about to breathe its last gasp,
Amongst our dying and diseased dreams.
..........................
[ - that feeling we have when coming out of a dream...]
credits
from Viral Reality,
released October 14, 2017
Bill Boethius: guitars, bass, synth
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