TeeGee1965

Right on Tee Gee. Looks like the verdict is in on the spots in need of some tweaks. Sometimes crazy days work out, I suppose. This whole thing is became a bit of a surprise.

Mike

Thank you for your encouraging comments.
I know what you mean about the ending. I normally put a little effort into thje endings but don't seem to have done so this time.

Thank You And Will Do.

Not the sort of music which most people probably enjoy, but art is not often made with anyone aside from the artist in mind. There are elements in this which were specifically directed towards any mind which has a small opening in it. I will never know the effect that has, I'm sure. In general, it would be hard for someone else to fully duplicate a song such as this, since they would not have access to the one of a kind instruments I have made. That is as it should be... I don't need a bunch of Spivkurl cover bands hanging around after I die... ha ha. Thank you for listening and leaving your words!

Thanks Teegee.

Yeah,trying to picture that.It looks like balkan rave.

Thank you for taking the time.

Nelson

Pop ballad, that's interesting, I never quite thought of it like that.

And I'm definitely interested in doing collabs with people, but the issue I have is that I'm totally inexperienced and have only been 'singing in anger' for the past 7-8 months, so I'm going to have to wait and see if my voice and style develops over the coming months - but like I say, I'm definitely interested.

Thanks for stopping by to listen and comment as well, much appreciated :)

Thanks Teegee.
Funny you said you used to"scare" your colleagues at work,because i also listen to music at work and im pretty sure that some of my musical choices must put them off as well.
I have someone in mind to lay some vocals so lets wait and see.
Glad it made you smile.
Thank you for taking the time.

Nelson

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it!

Hello, TeeGee.

I'm glad you liked the track. I enjoyed making it, for the most part.

Yes, everything being played is how it should be. Granted, I did not keep any first takes. The riffs don't automatically come out without screw-ups.

I appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment. Have a pleasant day.

Evan

Thanks!

BABYLON YOUR QUEENDOM IS FALLING!!!!!
I know what you mean.
It was going to be a fun song about the nischief of drug taking.
It's like a rap and I wrote it in 1980. It's very popular with my kids who are now in their thirties and forties!
Thanksfor your time TEE.
By the way when you here my voice you might not think it such a good idea .... here's an example track three ....
https://www.reverbnation.com/control_room/artist/392159/songs

Hey TeeGee, thanks for stopping by mate! glad you found the track interesting, sometimes I think I should just stick to one genre per track but I love tangential thinking! lol...cheers mate all the best Dave :)

Thanks TG! I know its not your style of music but am glad you liek it!

Ha ha, I've been waiting for this to come up in the line of comments to reply to, mainly because of your question of the nuclear reactor. There is, in fact, a nuclear power plant in our nearby area... however, I think far more impact on my development as a human and a musician was influenced by the radiation I was exposed to as a child. When I was young, I spent many years in Alaska. Not only was the Chernobyl incident a fairly recent occurrence (Russia is 51 miles from Alaska at the Bering Straight, which used to be a land bridge), but my father used to bring me to an abandoned military facility for recreation (which was apparently used during the "cold war"). I would dig through the torn apart remains of their electronic equipment, and my childhood mind was in love with the place. Not too many years ago, my father, who still lives in Alaska, informed me that the area had been designated as a Federal superfund site. This was apparently done because of high radiation levels present on the site. Regardless of the fact, it still remains one of my fondest memories of childhood, and a place that I would like to return to some day. My mutations seem to be mostly psychocellular in form, and I doubt that this is the only cause. I have also had an array of dangerous head injuries throughout my entire life. More recently, both consensual and forced chemical exposure have deepened the impact. Strange things are afoot in the world called Earth. Thank you for listening and reacting!

How did I get that sound? Probably a mixture of cheap equipment and terrible acoustics in my room :)
If it means anything at all, I used Izotope Nectar 2 for the voice effects, and specifically the 'Airy Lead' preset with a touch of harmony.

Thanks for listening.

Hi.

Thanks for checking this out and sorry for the slow reply.

" it seems I tend to annoy you"

No, not really. It was just that one comment on my other cello-heavy (and heavy cello) track in which you asked for some "real cello". The track was full of real cello playing so it looked you had somehow mistaken all the cello sounds for cello samples I'd triggered from the keyboard rather than stuff I'd taken a while to play and edit. A bit like telling Jimi Hendrix one of his tracks needs some "real guitar".

Yes, this track has a very different feel from the other and there are more obvious cello sounds, which I assume is what you were looking for from the other track. No distorted cello riffage here though there is quite a bit of reverb and delay on the many cello parts I recorded. I think this one has quite a classy, graceful chillout feel and I loved listening back to some of the sections on a loop while making it.

Thanks for your thoughts.

You seem to be basically saying the same thing again. And I think I understood it the first time.

So I'll have to say the same thing again: there is pretty much a clean acoustic cello sound in there. Well, technically it's an electric cello as that's all I have. And it does have some reverb and chorus on it but that's just to fit my far out vibe. Listen at 4:23 and you'll hear it come in underneath the distorted Rhodes.

Sorry if that's not what you wanted. I'm doing my best though I still real struggle with the bowing.

Thank you my friend. It's always great to hear a positive comment. Well appreciated.
Cheers from Baja Ca.

Thank you.

I definitely need to work on mixing and mastering the songs better, and hopefully that will get better with time and new equipment.

:)

Yo.

Congratulations on not telling me a musical joke.

"I find it fantastic what you did with the cello"

That is excellent to hear, however this is much more of a problem:

"Maybe would have been nice to have some sort of real Cello in there somewhere"

All the cello is real!

It really is all real, electric cello really played by me. For real.

I go to some trouble to include as much useful info as I can in my track descriptions so people have some understanding of what they're hearing and how it was made. It annoys me how many people on this site put up almost no info so you have to ask things like "Hey, is this all samples?", "Are you playing the guitar here?", "Whose vocals are these?" and so on.

Yes, I only briefly referred to me playing the cello in my track description but if you go down and read some of my replies, I talk about it quite a bit.

Perhaps I've confused you because I accept that the cello does sound unusual here. I would never guess that all that heavy, distorted riffage is cello. Perhaps you're just asking for some more obvious, traditional bowed cello sounds. You can hear some of those sitting underneath the distorted Rhodes as things get funky just before it goes heavy again for the third and final movement. The bowed cello there just has reverb on it so there's no processing to fool you.

"the second part that is some sort of progrock"

Yes - I hadn't really considered that but I agree. The introduction of Fender Rhodes and strings (sample-based violins) merges nicely with the distorted riffage and is quite progressive.

"Did you plan this to begin with or did it happen naturally?"

I do not plan any of my tracks out, which is one of my great musical weaknesses though I also turn it into a strength. I have no real idea where something is going and am not able to really work out what the structure is going to be before starting. I just keep jamming and editing those jams and adding synths and moving whole sections around as I try to make something unusual and interesting (at least to me). When I'm successful, I get things that are quite different from other people's music as well as strange relationships between instruments and odd mergers of genres.

"Smooth transition between the styles"

That's great to hear as I have to work really hard at that. The track structure is often dictated by how smooth I can get the transitions. If I can't get a smooth transition, I have to go for a different structure.

If you'd like to hear a recent track with much more obvious real cello sounds, try this one. No distorted riffage but loads of layers of cello, employing various playing techniques:

The Warm Glow of Yesterday

http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176476

Thanks for your thoughts.

Hey TeeGee

Thank you for stopping by and reviewing this one, very pleased you enjoyed it, guessing if knew how to play guitar might have added more too, but whats there seems to do the job...Peace respect mosaic...