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That guitar bit works SO well in the beginning! Great buildup and so fulfilling when it hits the 1:30 mark. Yeah, you've got another great track here! You've got something really going with this exploration-expansion thing you're on to lately. Man, I'm so looking forward to tracking your development! Great track, victormusic01x!

Definitely dug hearing psychotropic loops in the beginning, and it was the first time I've actually heard someone using the same loops as me. I'm with JackRipper re: 1:57 - that needs to be turned down some as it was really distracting. Banging track to be sure.

Funny seeing how many people have listened to this at least twice but I'm writing the 4th review. I like this song specifically because it's constantly surprising. I didn't expect the guitars, then I didn't expect the vocals. Happy surprises, to be sure. You're amazing with arrangement and seem to know exactly where each instrument should be in relation to the others. If this were my track, and I was going to revise it again, I think I'd try to pull the guitars up somewhere (not all the time) to give them a bit more presence. Very nice work here, and an enjoyable song as well!

[EDIT] Having listened to Salook's remix, I had to come back to the original. Hurrah! It's as good as I remember, but sounds like you've refined it? Surprised I didn't fave it before, and certainly doing that now!

This is a great debut track, to be sure. BeyondEvolution's right, this could easily be the opening credit/theme track for a serial cartoon. I did a similar approach with very different sounds imagining a jungle anime (jungulation) to create a song, too - and I'm glad other people use things like this for inspiration.

Very pop oriented, and makes me look forward to hearing what you produce next!

I'm wondering how much of my listening to this track is flavored by having looked at your profile and seen what you listen to. Kind of like if Joe Strummer and Adrien Bellew got together with Parliment for a session. Really glad this one popped up on the Featured Track frame!

I love how you push thing right to the edge of disaster, but somehow dance right away without falling. Excessive in the best of ways. And inherently happy, too. I hope I can actually watch you do your thing someday, as it'd be such a treat to watch a Master at his Art. Faved.

Days later: Man, this one just grows on you! It's rapidly moving to a position rivaling "Your Natty is your Beauty" as my favorite track of all time on this site! Heal up and make more!

From the mouths of babe, aye? My youngest is about to turn 11, and I love watching her imagination at play.

Vanessa has some lines here that are so poetic, I had to backtrack and hear them immediately again. Glad you're obviously fostering the creativity in the family youth.

How subversive.

Yeah! Great mix, no doubt about it. I love the panning going on in this, and how none interferes with the vocals.

There are elements in you vocal qualities that remind me a lot of Echo and the Bunnymen. Maybe for me this is emphasized because of the ambient qualities of the piece, and the intro guitar.

Yeah, this is a bloody great track. Cheers, mate!

Simon said it: this is outstanding! The arrangement, the melody, instrumentation - all fantastic. And the sincerity underlying your beautiful voice actually leaves me wanting more. Thanks for sharing this with us, and I look forward to hearing more of your work.

It's a drag loosing touch with musical friends. I still do the search for some of mine about every six months, and have found 3 this way (lost for 12 years), so don't give up.

I really like this track. It easily could be a cinematic piece, yet works perfectly for ambient as it really reaches in and plucks the emotional strings. I love soundscaping strings like this, and it reminds me of some 4 track stuff I did in grad school with a Balinese rebab running through a Boss DD-2 into my Laney Linebacker (https://www.looperman.com/users/detail/247253) - it's like whale songs, but not. A musical metaphor? How your pieces shifts into a more rhythmic intensity really brings Tangerine Dream to mind, too. Yeah this is fabulous, and I hope you do more ambient stuff sometime. Cheers.

Nice one! I love how guitar shifts into synth/organ. Great reverb on the percussion. This is really sweet! I hope you're planning on extending it.

Reverse1984 - you've listened to my stuff, so I doubt you'll be surprised that I absolutely love this one! This is IT! Without the back story here, I would never have suspected that this wasn't a carefully arranged collaboration. Your choices of sound and how Elaine's voice becomes inseparable from the glitched sounds is really amazing. It's one thing to make music artfully, and entirely another when art is musical - you have indeed 'nailed' it here. The simplicity underlying the complexity of your rhythm works so well. "I wish I was God, the All Seeing Eye." Faved for sure.

Didn't hear the first draft, so can't compare - but it seems to me that you must have heeded Spivkurl's advice. The vox sizzle in my headphones. Love that little "yoin yoin yoin" bouncing throughout. Seems you're getting better with each track, my friend! Can't wait to hear six months from now. Well done, and cheers.

EDIT: Wicked edit, man! It was sounding good before, but now it's HAPPENING! I have no advice at all for you this time! Nice one!

Where did this one come from? Disabled for a stint? Post-Traumatic-Stress related? "Debacle?" What about the dancing in the streets? Having heard "Lance Johnson Surfer" first, I'm really struck by how much that song is connected to this one both thematically, and sonically. Too bad Joe Strummer's gone, as I'm sure he would have dug this track (and I'd track him down to have him listen), as it carries the same vibe as some of the Clash bits. I love the way you attack those strings - the physical expression is perfect for this piece. Love the fusion driven rhythms holding the foundation. "I love it more than my life." Yeah!

The analogue recording - no corrections, edits, time stretching - have to hit the zone. I imagine with some noise filters (I believe you can do this with Audacity) you could remove all analogue traces. Cool hearing a rediscovered track of yours!

I love that this site shows the members currently online. I discover all kinds of interesting tracks this way. This track really brings it to the forefront of where human music began. Our vocal chords, wind-pipes, and tongue/mouth cavity is capable of creating amazing sounds (I play didgeridoo, and have really come to a different understanding about breath/rhythm/tonal manipulation). The vocal work here is grounded in a tradition that originates long before textualized history and certainly manipulates emotional states. I do wonder about the audio quality, however. Are you recording this on analog cassette before transfering? There's a lot of noise that reminds me of digitalized cassette tape sound, that seems beyond something caused by reverb. If so, this is quite easily corrected with readily available software. I think this would be even more powerful if there was a bit more crispness in the recording. I look forward to hearing more of your chants! Cheers.

Must be the right background in musical listening. This one really works, both rhythmically and in terms of melody. I will be keeping my eyes on you!

What I dig particularly about ShaubYaella is his muli(anti)generic approach to the sonic art. In many ways, this is the counter-current to the literary cyberpunk genre, of which they both respond to the problems and solutions of technology itself. A musical pharmacon where the poison is also the remedy. You could label this one cinematic as well, and would be a sonic asset to nearly any sci-fi movie.

Well, it's not a ready-made so I'm guessing it was inspired by "Elle a chaud au cul" which is a source of inspiration for everything. Dig that digital reek of dadaism! Nice mix, btw.

Truly inspired and whimsical, with just enough similarity to "Carmin" to really blow my mind. I'm kicking myself as I wonder why haven't I been by to check your music out yet? Especially after all the brilliant tips you've sent my way. This is brilliant! Faved.

There's a cinematic vibe going on here as well, and your opening sequence reminds me of a lot of Peter Greenaway's musical choices. Then of course it mutates several times into distinct movements. Very interesting moving from contemplative trancy bits into head bobbing rhythms. Nicely done on several levels.

Wow, I'm having flashbacks of "Positive Vibrations," the weekly college radio broadcast in Seattle back in the late `80s. You've jacked straight into the tradition here! Absolutely beautiful track here, both musically and vocally. Love your delay on the keys, and your perc track is to die for. Faved.

For me, your music is incredibly visual. I keep vacillating between impressionism and dadaism. It's the layers and the mega-texturing you're doing at the deep levels (either that or I'm suffering audio hallucinations again). Wanting to drift off into total digressions, so I'll just give a nod and say how much I like this.

Sweet, a bit like if Men without Hats were starting out in this century. Those are perhaps the happiest synth sounds I've ever heard! Dude, sampled edgy electro-pop! Ain't no shame in using the loops and offering them up recontextualized as sonic collage. Any chance of extending this one out somewhere past 3:00 min? I want to fave it, but it leaves me wanting (yes, this is a blackmail attempt). Shoot me an email, would you? (PS-after review) - blackmail was a joke, and a bad one. I was trying to motivate you to extend it dangling the carrot of faving the track. Still, it's a brilliant piece of work, and I look forward to hearing more creations you make!!

Whoa - short track, and I was really getting into it too! Yeah man, this works as cinematic for sure. Extended out a bit, it could be 'dance' or 'ambient' equally well. An underlying tension in the sonic choices. Great ending 'note', too. I really dig the rhythms, especially the breaks you've got going on. Nice one.