travelling in the car with me must be painful sometimes. getting ready to even pop to the garage or the shops i scan my cd collection - grabbing 5-6 cds for a 10 minute journey! at the moment all i am listening to is black metal or death (not usually the best music to drive to unless you want to get zapped by speed cameras!)
anyway i digress....the other day i picked out my brutal insanity album (my old band). i really like most of the music on it but it reminds me of bad times, petty squabbles etc. i suddenly had a eureka moment!
i find the cd plagued by shitty sounding weak guitars and tinny bass. i also hate some passages from it. so.... my idea is to not really remaster as such but to edit bits that don't do it for me and to write new guitar lines for each song and record them over it. keeping the original guitars but trying to beef the sound up a little bit. not sure if it'll work. anyway i guess it'll take a while what-with it having 12 songs on it. but i will cut two songs at least that i really don't like anyway - don't think i can make a good song from a bad starting point.
i'll be posting little bits here and may even make the whole thing available for download here when complete.
other that that i am still working on my black metal project but it's coming very slowly at the mo. also garnering ideas for and 80's cover cd for my parents xmas present - did my mum a cover of the stones "paint it black" last xmas and she loves it so asking various friends to add to my list of 80s covers. will whittle it down to 10 or so. got about 30 ideas so far. anyway here's a song from the brutal insanity album in its original form before i try and make it better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0oYwVRH9fE
Friday 16 March 2012
Tuesday 6 March 2012
missed opportunity.....
ugh......
checked my emails today. got my monthly smashing pumpkins newsletter. i hadn't read them for a while. i was unaware that billy corgan was running a competition for smashing pumpkins cover versions! i have done sooooo many of them. i often record covers when i am in between writing my own material. i only do them for my own amusement really. that and to get more experience in recording processes.
anyway on reading it the date for submissions has already been and gone! argh!
shit happens i guess. but to me more than most!
http://grungereport.net/?p=10513
ok so regardless of that i thought i'd post one of my pumpkins covers. it's for the song "starla" - bside to "i am one". it also appeared on "pisces iscariot". thought i would cover it as it's not the usual song a fan would cover (being over 10 minutes long and layer upon layer of guitar and one of the great guitar solos). as per usual it is me on all instruments. enjoy!
checked my emails today. got my monthly smashing pumpkins newsletter. i hadn't read them for a while. i was unaware that billy corgan was running a competition for smashing pumpkins cover versions! i have done sooooo many of them. i often record covers when i am in between writing my own material. i only do them for my own amusement really. that and to get more experience in recording processes.
anyway on reading it the date for submissions has already been and gone! argh!
shit happens i guess. but to me more than most!
http://grungereport.net/?p=10513
ok so regardless of that i thought i'd post one of my pumpkins covers. it's for the song "starla" - bside to "i am one". it also appeared on "pisces iscariot". thought i would cover it as it's not the usual song a fan would cover (being over 10 minutes long and layer upon layer of guitar and one of the great guitar solos). as per usual it is me on all instruments. enjoy!
Monday 5 March 2012
music to come....
hmm thought i'd better post as i haven't done for a while.
i have been listening to a lot of black metal recently, ranging from burzum and abigor to usbm. but i have seemed to be busy doing other things besides music so after this week i will focus solely on writing.
i have set myself a target too - to write a black metal opus each month until i have 9 - enough for a full length cd. it doesn't seem too difficult to achieve if i look back at how many songs i was writing last year but this is going to take a monumental effort as the amount of work that goes into each fragment of a song is almost infinite.
last week i started writing the 2nd song for my black metal project "baal ov". it took over 3 hours just to record the opening 10 seconds. i could say an analogy of the process is a quote by boswell on the writing of "the life of samuel johnson" - "every word was like tearing a strip of flesh".
the beginning to the song - hmm - well i sampled for a beating heart (it was actually very hard to find a decent sample on youtube). i use the beating heart as the rhythm instead of a drum and a piece of music fades in over it reminiscent of goblins soundtrack to profundo rosso. then it kinda goes folky and then BRUTAL!!!!!!!
last year i would have been posting a song here every few days but hey i'm going for quality over quantity now.
i posted a new vid to youtube a few days back. i was a black metal song i did using samples of anneliese michels exorcisms as the vocal track. see what you think.
i was quite pleased with it apart from i didn't like the sound of the drums too much.
oh well - better go and get on with music now.
i have been listening to a lot of black metal recently, ranging from burzum and abigor to usbm. but i have seemed to be busy doing other things besides music so after this week i will focus solely on writing.
i have set myself a target too - to write a black metal opus each month until i have 9 - enough for a full length cd. it doesn't seem too difficult to achieve if i look back at how many songs i was writing last year but this is going to take a monumental effort as the amount of work that goes into each fragment of a song is almost infinite.
last week i started writing the 2nd song for my black metal project "baal ov". it took over 3 hours just to record the opening 10 seconds. i could say an analogy of the process is a quote by boswell on the writing of "the life of samuel johnson" - "every word was like tearing a strip of flesh".
the beginning to the song - hmm - well i sampled for a beating heart (it was actually very hard to find a decent sample on youtube). i use the beating heart as the rhythm instead of a drum and a piece of music fades in over it reminiscent of goblins soundtrack to profundo rosso. then it kinda goes folky and then BRUTAL!!!!!!!
last year i would have been posting a song here every few days but hey i'm going for quality over quantity now.
i was quite pleased with it apart from i didn't like the sound of the drums too much.
oh well - better go and get on with music now.
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