some of your guitar playing reminds me so much of the great Marshall Allen sax playing
Thanks - have listened to quite a bit of Sun Ra, but haven't studied his work closely - I guess there's a common influence thing going as I studied Coltrane for a time - but I also think it's the Space vibe - when you start to tune into the planets etc., especially looking at Jimi up there, then it starts to come through in similitudinous sounds - I hear it in you too - the vibrations are so complex now that there is no end and no beginning to influence
Hearing their world, speaking boldly!
: their language is inverted and harsh to our ears, but they are actually very gentle
Another beautiful piece Bill. Thanks for your art!
Loving the molten solar shade
: even lava can form a canopy
the old wheel still turns
: there's an overarching guitar which groans through the whole thing heading down to the depths
: high bludgeon bass - phantom guitar's in there somewhere, ring modulated to bits
almost a trumpet. is that a guitar? these are the most twisted guitar sounds i've heard in some time.
Actually that's a filter on the bass, pushed to extremes - strangely it added those squealing horn like ornaments, while allowing the bass sound through, so they sound like two different instruments, but those wild overtones are generated by what I am playing on the bass [and twisting the knobs of the filter at the same time]
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That was a mighty good one you found. If I couldn't turn pots while I played, I'd have little left. The last refuge of a scoundrel without technique (speaking only for myself!)
Well yeah. but as my favourite quote from Jimi says, 'I don't play guitar, I play amplifier', and the amplification on an electric guitar is more important than the strings and frets - and when you factor in stomp boxes et al - well, twiddling knobs is a technique in itself!
Here it was pure chance. I had the filter on, and on the spur of the moment put the knobs up to 11 - wee ooo! that's a great sound! I then went with it, and when I added other guitars on top it was integrated into the improvisation!
The Vacuum Tube Godz were with you (even though there may not have been any tubes, as such, involved)
: whether there were any tubes or not, I am always thinking 'tube' [or valves as we have it here]. I only want to hear those kinds of sounds
everythings falling apart. it's great.
Yeah, because its moving - falling in on itself, and falling apart from itself, it is all movement ... and it happens s l o w l y ..... just as I like it to
wow, what's flying around in the background there, like winged shards?
extreme forms of pitch shifting delay, I think!
: ain't it great when even you don't know?
: Sometimes I don't even wanna know!
Really, I'm usually in a trance like state when I play - and after its all been put down it is like ... what did I do there? Was that even me? I do try to label the tracks as I'm working, but then I delete them all straight after making the master. I then forget everything fairly quickly afterwards!
Actually, you just reminded me that there was some interesting post production there - I had a guitar track done on the Dean ready to put on here - when I went to it 90% of it had gone - it was if I had used an eraser and just left 30 second bits of it there every two minutes or so - the system said it was probably a bug. I was quite despondent as it was a nice track. So I put it through two lots of delay, all pitch shifting, which sealed up all the gaps and then some, and got that crazy passage there
That's a good description of a large part of my own process.
I'd know your sound anywhere. What greater praise (and forgive me if I've said it before)
: I think free improv helps that, as you only have your own imagination to fall back on
Now there's an alien brook babbling in the starlight I needed today!
: my favourite bit - manic bass trills through a Mutron
: If you love the Mutron, if you ever find one cheap..Boss ME-6B. Ugly yellow thing. Totally analog filter section that's obscene, I still have mine after 20 years for reasons including crazy filters that work on anything, even if it's not an everyday toy.
Of all things, and coming from me, funny - this is screaming for a little more jazz kit cymbal/brass on the top end.
You're right - I was only thinking this morning that it's a while since I added some cymbal stuff to a track. Because I did a few like that I subconsciously laid off it. It would added an extra spectra here
As we go on down that lazy liquid load!
: yeah, this a real sloth like thing [Sloth - Fairport Convention - must listen to that again]. The whole track is slowing down from start to finish, actually
Almost went mellotron flute there!
: wow- you gave me an immediate King Crimson flash there
: Yea, it was on that realm fast for just a second.
lyrics
Xenology
The study of extra-terrestial life.
Philosophy must be as the Romantics conceived it; as a great overarching, overreaching, attempt to encompass the Multiverse.
The philosopher must be a voracious, divine animal; - a descendant of the killer ape, he jettisons himself into the solar system and beyond.
Fermi's Paradox states that if extra-terrestials existed they would be here now ... hear now ... hear hear ...
credits
from Alchemical Scents,
released May 21, 2017
Bill Boethius - guitar, bass and drums
