Another remix that I did came out. You have to sign up to a mailing list to download it :(
Probably the one I'm happiest with actually although I sort of wish I'd done 200 takes for the guitar part in the balearic breakdown section rather than 100.
here's the link:
http://facebook.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8257d3332f00a86de331bc5cc&id=0847b5ea0e
― owenf, Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
i added a new track, something i did around 2005/2006 but never did anything with cause i don't really like my voice on it. it's a lot more straightforward drumtrack/guitar/vocals thingy than the other tracks, more melody as well i guess, less samples but still pretty loud and murky in a way.
http://naptimes.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-a-little-red-rooster-dancing-in-my-room
― burt oraneg, Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
put it on my soundcloud too:
http://soundcloud.com/cruelt/the-other-tribe-skirts-summer
― owenf, Monday, 15 October 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82oJ4WQxNg
the background music is from the two pieces we're doing on this concert, taken from our rehearsals
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Your voice is a bit higher than I imagined, but you sound great as an announcer anyway.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Put up some new stuff, under my guitarty technoy talias:
http://soundcloud.com/bleak-house/bleak-haus-slowdrive
Under my other alias, some evil Acid:
http://soundcloud.com/glocknspiel/matty-balaam-tr-s-acid
…and a tune from a couple of years ago I hadn't put online before:
http://soundcloud.com/glocknspiel/matty-balaam-1st-world
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 20 October 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Electro/uke-pop:
http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/all-i-wanna-do-is-strum-my
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
this is a blues thing i wrote -- it's kind more important to me just as far as progress in learning fingerstyle goes than it is great per se just because it's the first thing i've written where i've managed to keep a steady bass one/two bounce going while doing a syncopated melody...
mostly posting it because my 2 year old comes in at the end asking to watch the show Dinosaur Train and offers some withering rock criticism :)
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/dinosaur-train-blues
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
my band performing a short set in a tunnel just after midnight, recorded to my Zoom H4n:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6fkkds
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
downloading now, will listen when i get home tomorrow crutis
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
new song, no chance: http://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/save-until-it-hurts
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
love the mellow synth/organ soundz
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I really like that
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, that's good to hear because i was having negative second thoughts about the recording today. i had many moments of weakness yesterday and ended up quickly drinking a whole bottle of wine, with devastating consequences for a painfully frail person like me. wrote and recorded everything while completely wasted and i think it shows a little too much. but still, glad you like it! :)
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
'don't sing.'
That was pretty funny.
― earlnash, Saturday, 27 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
ouch
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Saturday, 27 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, i read that without the quotations and thought you were telling me not to sing. i was like Jeez, i know i'm not great but lay off me!
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
No that's my 2 year old from the thing I posted haha, she's not wrong!
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 October 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
probably the most ambitious/complicated fingerstyle acoustic thing i've written thus far...lol @ the joke "location" i added being added to the title
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/october-file-part-ii-at-winner
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I like it, and that's a lovely tone on the guitar as well
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
thanks! just recorded into the voice recorder app on my android phone, but yeah it's kinda crunchy in a good way
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
going through old emails i stumbled across this from about five years ago: http://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/drone i do wish i had either a less atrocious recording of it or any recollection of how i did it.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
Party sounds.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
newest thing i've written, definitely feel the best about this out of all the stuff i've done this year trying to learn fingerstyle/folk guitar...this is written in DADGAD, the bert jansch/neil young tuning, love this tuning so much....this is actually pretty hard for me to play so i fuck up a couple times glaringly but i just wrote it
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/the-lady-and-the-fox
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
I like it & don't hear the errors. What'll you do with it? Rearrange for a vocal or leave as is?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
thanks (and yr too kind about the errors, they are driving me nuts)
my ambition is to do an album of acoustic instrumental stuff, i cannot sing or write lyrics at all....thinking of using some primitive drum machine and synth textures underneath but nothing too much, just need to keep writing stuff & hope it's compelling enough musically to stand on its own
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
send them to me and i'll fucking shred on top of all of them
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
i require solos consisting totally of two-handed tapping, deal?
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
three-handed tapping
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
one hand clapping percussion
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'd tap that (b)ass...
― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
(through a guitar amp)
― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
did this refix very quickly after being introduced to it by n/a:
http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/anna-meredith-nautilus-chants
it's basically an edit with a new beat + effects. could have added more parts but it didn't feel necessary.
i feel like it's the most likely to work in a dj set out of anything i've done so far, but my perspective may be skewed.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
really cool jordan!
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
thanks matt
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
In high school, I was in a band that recorded a song (http://soundcloud.com/a-guy-called-fieri/outburstmp3) with verses that sound just like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." We had no clue until after we recorded the song. If only we could have shazam'd ourselves 8 years ago.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
nice that reminds me of the lucksmiths
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
In retrospect, I think we did sound like low production value lucksmiths. I liked the lucksmiths very much at one point in my life. We really wanted to sound like the Eccsame the Photon Band iteration of the lilys, but we always slowed things down too much and added vocal harmonies. We were obsessed with vocal harmonies. They all sound pitchy to me now.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
wrote this song, http://soundcloud.com/a-guy-called-fieri/thawingoutmp3 , to purposely rip off the lilys but it sounds more like the lucksmiths. I also wrote a vocal melody that mimics the guitar melody. I probably shouldn't have done that.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
don't know the lilys, not a huge jangle fan but i bought this lucksmiths used CD once and it really hit a nerve w/me
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
every lilys album sounds different. eccsame is probably the only one where they sound shoegaze, I think. I like the fingerpicking songs above, ilxors!
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
thx :)
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Those songs are kinda decent if basic. The melodies are impressively direct and hooky for a high school band. The vocalist (dunno if that is you, Sufjan Grafton, or some other guy) is really great. Gets the words out good, no straining.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, Eyeball Kicks. We all sang. The smoother vocalist is Mark. If you want to pinpoint more clearly what a combination of Sufjan Stevens and Sue Grafton sounds like, you need not look further than "Mannequin Awakes" (http://soundcloud.com/a-guy-called-fieri/mannequinawakesmp3). It confirms that I was one sad, sappy asshole in high school. I also pronounce words in the song like Jesse Pinkman of Breaking Bad.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
sh@kedown, you ever try open D tuning? (Just change the G to F#). Also, do you build songs by ear and messing around with finger patterns? Or do you know the chords for tunings other than standard? I'm curious about your process.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
Merdeyeux, that drone song is awesome. I kind of like the weird, if low production value, recording.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:27 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep i was doing a lot of stuff in open D before, there's a couple upthread in open d...now i've been doing more D modal just because i'm reading this book about UK folk and bert jansch and davey graham and them used it a lot and i like the spooky "not quite minor not quite major" feel of it
as far as non-standard tunings go, i'm totally in the dark, i just put my fingers in places until it sounds good and figure out picking patterns and build out from that....
i also mess w/open C a bit, which is what fahey and the takoma guys used a lot, really cool, but the lowest string is the C below drop D so it can get pretty floppy and my one guitar (the worse one) can't really handle it without buzzing
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Sufjan, in that Mannequin Awakes song the acoustic guitar is kinda like the way I play acoustic guitar - it needs a ton of EQ to stop the beer being shook off the table. But again, a lovely, lovely voice. Wish I could make it sound as easy as that.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 16 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
haha. I do love to play like that, like Neil Young plays in sections of 'On The Way Home' on Massey Hall. Thanks again for listening and for the comments. Maybe you and I can have a crossroads-esque guitar battle someday where we just play chords REALLY HARD on acoustic guitars.
― Mozzarella i Fieri (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 November 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link