The Typography Blues
With apologies to George Gershwin: white man — particularly this one — can’t sing the blues.
With apologies to the listener: it’s rough and ready, words written and the four parts recorded in about an hour and a half. And I can’t sing the blues. Or even sing.
Tagged logic blues guitar bedlam piano comedy.
Chorlton
With apologies to Augustana; this comedy cover was put together in just four hours, so it’s a bit rough around the edges. But even I sound like Coldplay now.
Tagged comedy cover logic guitar bedlam piano.
Black Metal Birthday
Tagged logic dream guitar metal aeolian.
Excerpts from the piano Toccata by Khatchaturian used to test a microphone arrangement on my upright piano.
Tagged logic piano classical.
Beneath An Empty Sky
Raven’s lyrical poetry; the improvised “radio edit” of the song.
Tagged piano aeolian.
“Call the Ships to Port” by Covenant went a bit silly in my head. Now it’s “Call the Cowboys Home”. The rules:
- no music
- no practice
- figured out by ear as I went along
- one take for each track (no going back and fixing mistakes)
- instrumentation: one guitar, my voice (beats are done by knocking the body of the guitar)
Tagged garageband comedy cover acoustic guitar.
Radio/Karaoke Edit of Paranoia Infection
The full version of Paranoia Infection was about twice as long and contained many verses of misanthropic lyrics. It was all written and recorded during the evening of 31st December 2007-1st January 2008. Part of the original soundtrack featured the sounds of fireworks in Old Trafford celebrating the New Year.
I particularly like the entry of the distorted guitars, but most especially the ring of the overdriven piano.
Involved:
- GarageBand
- some XLR and instrument LightSnakes
- Dream, my seven-string Ibanez
- a Digitech RP-7
- my gorgeous piano
- various breakbeat samples
Tagged garageband lightsnake dream piano breakbeat.
It’s so late in the evening that it’s already late in the morning. Fuelled by non-alcoholic cocktails that GarageBand breakbeat loop got stuck in my head. A couple of riffs from Liquid Tension Experiment’s “Paradigm Shift” started playing themselves, and this prog / industrial / breakbeat mash-up was born. The video above was added afterwards, using an EyeToy camera which struggled to stay in sync with the music.
