mrwolf14
London is drowning and I live by the river
Munich, Germany
Joined : 7th Oct 2012 - 13 years ago
Last Online : 26th Feb 2024 - 1 year ago
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on If I ever fall feat Dylan Ogle by Baggadub
Liked the mixture of "classical" reggae vibe and the more electronic sounds. Well done.
Ciao, Domenico
on Things That Have Never Been by StaticNomad
Thanks for bringing this one up again to our attention.
This is a damn good one!
Even if the title suggests some sort of "sadness" I find this song more "reflective" than sad.
Maybe this is due to the female-vocal part which leads us through the journey (very well done by the way, subtle and very effective in highlighting the right passages).
The song starts immediately very well: a nice catchy bass part. Probably once more a processed guitar and not a real bass: it sounds like a "real" bass, the only strange thing is the way some slides are rendered.
But who cares if this is a real bass or not: it works well, and that's the only thing that counts.
Please let me spend a couple of words on the initial drum part: one of your finest ones!
I like the way you don't "overdo" it, keeping it interesting but never busy. Good!
The delayed banjo has more a "soundscape" function, the listener is carried away by the sound itself and not by the melody. This is one of your distinctive traits: you have a special touch for letting the sounds "ring and sing".
Maybe that's something we should hear more often.
The bass change aroung 1:50 is interesting: we go into a more "hypnotic" section.
So the guitar kicking in shortly before 3:00 has to be "strange" as it is. Good.
Drum doubling then, again one of your trade-marks ;-)
This leads us into a nice "middle section" where we have a "thicker" sound. Interesting how you manage to keep it "alive" for several minutes. Normally I would say that this section is too long, since there is no special "theme" catching the listener's hear, but you master this very well, so it's long but not boring.
I like how the song develops: it grows and then it comes back to the starting point, with the female voice coming back right in time to say goodbye.
I always like this kind of "fil rouge".
It's almost 10 minutes but they flow in a very natural way.
Once more, you did not disappoint me.
Thanks.
Ciao, Domenico
Second half you have heard and liked and is called Things That Should Always Be, the one with the 2 min reggae intro.
The title sounds a bit sad but it's actually a shortened version of a great concept captured in the phrase 'things that have never happened happen all the time'.
Maybe I should just call the track that but I felt it was a little too long.
I hope you noticed the female vocal (it's a synth) has some fun pitch bend on it.
No, bass part really is bass guitar! Hard to tell in my songs (as I have about 5 different methods for making bass) but it doesn't matter for listeners, only for musicians/producers.
Slides probably have a stereo widening effect on them but it's all my own chopped up playing.
Initial drums not one of my favourites (gets much better later on) but I agree that it's quite sparse and not overdone. Have to give the banjo and bass some space!
Yes, banjo sound really creates the mood here but I also think it's very melodic and emotive. Banjo only has short sustain but I play it with delay so like to let the notes ring out.
I'm mostly a groove instrument player so I just do simple stuff around the beat and then let notes ring out while I think up what to do next. Combine legato and staccato and you have groove and good variety - that's how I see things.
Bass at 1:50 goes into the main bass loop and where it starts to become a grooving song. Still just one bass guitar!
Middle section is what I see as the main, insistent, repeated riff, which starts on 4:40 though I spend a couple of minutes building up to that.
I love the guitars there (just chopped up playing, never played that riff as you hear it).
"there is no special "theme" catching the listener's hear"
I disagree and hear it as a riff I can sing (even though I can't sing).
5:34 I love it when it goes heavy and I then add some different chopped up guitar notes for variety.
Then, 5:58 we drop down into some killer new riffs (with little bits of high guitar squeal).
Towards the end, we move into some jazz to take the song down (6:58) with violin and female vocal doing long notes.
Then return to start, with some parts identical to intro. Nice banjo conclusion. Then big, ambient fadeout, with the dulcimer having the final say with one last, low note.
I did not know the phrase 'fil rouge' but looked it up and now understand it. You could also maybe say 'motif'.
"It's almost 10 minutes but they flow in a very natural way."
Good as I make it in a very unnatural way! So much editing to do but I love doing and if I didn't do it, there wouldn't be as much creativity in my work. Editing is my special compositional technique. I do more cutting up and sampling (of myself) than any hip hop producer.
Thanks for your thoughts. More music coming soon.
on Green Cars by MCLA
I like the way you're singing: powerful and yet relaxed.
The guitar builds a nice "wall of sound". Good.
I can only see a couple of points where the levels could be better (eg. the gtr solo around 1:00 is a bit "buried").
The drums sounds are OK, but maybe you could improve a bit a couple of fills (eg. the very last one).
Overall: I really enjoyed it! You have a lot of talent!
Ciao, Domenico
on I Just Wanna Love U featuring Antranita by MastaMnd
Antranita's voice is beautiful and you merged it very well in your song.
Outstanding work on the guitar and the keys. Very good drums.
As somebody already pointed out, the bass "may" be improved but the overall quality is already excellent!
Ciao, Domenico
Much success to you!
on Precious Moments - Larry Wiggles aka Mark Jeffries by larrywiggles1
This song flows really nicely. One may not completely love the choice of some 80s-sound, but for me they are really well chosen and perfectly sitting in the mix (somebody said "howard jones"...good comparison)
Very good.
Ciao, Domenico
Many thanks for listening and for your kind comments, so much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Mark/Larry!
on Didnt want anything feat Patricia Edwards by doudei
Of course the voice of Patricia is outstanding, but you did a superb job in preparing the perfect music for her.
My personal "highlight": the wonderful bass groove. I like the sound and you played it in a special way: it is a synth bass but a lot of the "slides" are really resembling closely what a "real" bass player would do.
Simply wonderful.
Ciao, Domenico
it's cool you mentioned the bass, i like this one very much too and i usually spend a lot of time working on the bass. i used to play bass guitar and ever since then i have loved to create bass lines :)
on Apocalypse Ft ImproveWithError and TaraToxic by SeriouslyJoking
We have a very interesting piece of music here. Kyle has a great voice and I *TOTALLY LOVE* how you "used" it! A bit "off" in some points but it adds a lot of tension. Veeeery good!
The bass: good sound, I like that you chose a pretty aggressive sound for such mellow tune. Again, it helps to build tension.
Good work!
Ciao, Domenico
=)
Take care!
/SJ
on Avicii - You Make Me synth rework by prakashsimarofficial
It would be interesting to see it developed further.
Ciao, Domenico
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
This is a beautiful example of how different sounds can be mixed together producing a track that really touches the soul of the listener.
Loved.
Ciao, Domenico
i am really delighted to read about how it made you feel. thanks for sharing your thoughts here, i appreciate it!
ciao :)
on smooth operator by domr30
Outstanding work on the keyboard. The sax sound is "almost perfect" but what is really impressing is the work on the piano/nylon-gtr.
Well done!
Ciao, Domenico
on The Cure - Lullaby - COVER - feat Spivkurl by JoyfulWAVE
Sounds more like one of the "japanese whispers" ... but on the other hand I always thought that lullaby was a bit out of place on disintegration.
Really curious to see how it develops...
Ciao, Domenico
on appellare by domr30
Ciao, Domenico
on Sloth by XmafaX
I definitely enjoyed this track. I like the "slow-industrial" atmosphere you have on this one. Very good.
And your guitar has an incredible tone, as usual.
Very well done!
Ciao, Domenico
I am glad you like it!
Best regards
Paulo
on Low Key Love by StaticNomad
Unfortunately I have no time for a longer comment, but I wanted to let you that I really liked this new song of yours!
My personal highlight: the clean guitar around ~6:40
I really liked this song... even if it has "less" drumming than your usual songs, but I find it beautiful!
Ciao, Domenico
PS: is this going to be on your "electro-jazz" album?
I don't think this has much less drumming than normal. There's quite a bit of jazz complexity though I kick into some simpler grooves at certain points eg during your "personal highlight" section, around 6:30.
That was fun guitar to play and it hopefully sounds a bit different from my usual range of playing.
I do a mixture of fingerstyle and pick playing (slide playing is almost always just with fingers). This was with fingers to get that close control and short, muted notes. I also really like the piano parts behind that clean playing. I had to edit the guitar parts quite closely to make sure they didn't collide with the piano. That section is a particular type of cool, swinging jazz but I don't know who it sounds like. Simple drum groove really drives it and inspired the guitar.
I thought you might be particularly interested in the bass in this one. The main bass drives the whole track and plays all the time, except for the two rock guitar/drum sections and then the end couple of minutes. That bass (detuned slide guitar) is not very bassy, which really helps allow other parts to be heard.
I don't know if you're a Mark Sandman/Morphine fan (Danke is) but I guess this slide bass playing is closest to the amazing 2-string slide bass playing he did in his band Morphine.
I see bass as a concept - not necessarily something that has to be played by bass guitar or synth bass. If you want more space in a track - go for more of a mid-range bass.
There are five different techniques for creating bass used in this one: bass guitar, guitar through octave pedal, synth bass, slide guitar detuned one octave in the computer and bass guitar chopped up, sampled and played back in from the keyboard.
Yes, this track will be on my jazz/funk album. There's always some electro in my stuff but that album will have quite an acoustic sound. I don't think this track sounds like it's very electronic. Maybe it even sounds a bit like a live band (I'm not sure). The album has some unfinished tracks you haven't heard. One track that will also be on there is An Early Monring Appointment With God.
Glad you liked the beauty in this one as jazz is not my natural playing style and I know nothing about jazz chords or theory!
on your name is a mystery that I know by ElenaSatine
I see that you are experimenting with your music, and this is always a good thing.
I think this short tune "works" well, even if there are some rough edges, but that's the price to pay for trying to be unique and creative.
So keep up the good work!
Ciao, Domenico
PS: Some details:
- nice intro guitar... disjointed from the rest, but I thikn that's your goal (and I see the same rhythmic gtr coming back later... nice touch)
- first transition ~0:40 works very well. Good!
- the stop at ~1:20 is good; but the dist gtr afterwards is a bit too loud in the mix, it's a pity (or was it intentional?)
- the stop at ~1:50 is a bit "abrupt", probably intentional but I don't catch the "idea" here
thank you much much for time to drop a usefull comment.
yep . :) . I'm experimenting with my musics.
tor for me .
I really wish oh I really wish to can be a good anad ESPECIALLY UNIQUE composer.
there are few composer here who are inspirator for me.
soon i will take a look to your stuffs too .
ps:first thank you much much for etails,
- disjointed ? i don't know . i just know i loved that guitar loop and I couldn't find it in my hear to don't use it . anyway it's good if you say it's good too . :)
-oh yes!right . thank you for hint . i'll correct it.
-my idea was a different stop . people may say this was
somehow strange . but i wanna be a UNIQUE composer.
that's is my idea.
:)
this was best comment i got for this track.
I really appreciate you.
on NO to child labour Behnam ZanDi deciBel by deciBel
This is wonderful! Perfect technique combined with tons of creativity and a powerful message. This songs is perfect!
I really love how you have arranged it: you have such beautiful riffs (like the one around 3:47) but instead of repeating them (as many would have done) you decide to always push harder. All these stops are building a powerful picture of uneasiness.
Thanks for sharing your genius with us!
Ciao, Domenico
on The Summer Of Minor Regrets by Orlando51
One of the finest compositions I have heard.
Your guitar does a wonderful job.
Ciao, Domenico
Thx alot again for listening and generously commenting, but here's Ed's acoustic guitar in action...not mine (you can read the new description of a title).:)
Best wishes___Orlando
on My Memories Of A Ghost With The Violin by Orlando51
Impressed how you enriched and respected the work of such great guitar player. Hats off!
And I totally agree with you: "dubious spots" are required in a masterpiece :-)
Ciao, Domenico
...and I'm impressed with your generous and kind comment!:)
Best wishes___Orlando
on Pieces Spinn Off Reworked by SeriouslyJoking
I am listening on HP and it sounds very good!
I have checked also Steve's version and of course his "touch" helped to bring out the song's potential.
This is a very good track! (I hope it's already on Loopradio...)
Ciao, Domenico
Thanks for taking your time to both check Steves version and mine - I have been resting my ears (!) for a couple of days but trying to catch up now and implement all the great additions and ideas that Steve came up with for this track. After I've done that maybe it is Loop Radio ready! =D
Take care and see you around, talented guy!
/SJ
on Cry baby-Joplin-cover by janis71
This track is great! You did a wonderful job here.
And the last 30 seconds really gave me goose bumps: you are such a huge talent!
Ciao, Domenico
on REVIVE by mackit
Is there room for improvement? maybe you could try to give a more "live feeling" to the other instruments (IMVHO drum & bass), the synth layering is perfect.
All in all, a great jazzy chilly track.
Respect.
Take care, Domenico
on sang av ensomhet by Prelude
Really curious to see how this will develop... sounds really promising.
Of course you could also use it as it is, not bad at all.
Enjoyed it.
Ciao, Domenico
i'm not sure but maybe !
let's see what guys will do with it.
i appreciate your taken time of listening and writing.
thank you very much.
on To the next one - Ottos Daughter Megapaul Mix by Megapaul
The vocals are good, and you really created the perfect environment for them.
It reminds me a bit of the early Duran: and coming from me, this is a huge compliment.
I am just missing the bass of John Taylor ;-)
Ciao, Domenico
comparison to DuranDuran I understand as a big big compliment.
Thanks a lot
on Ill do anything for you feat Patricia Edwards by Baggadub
I think the solo sound is OK: I understand you may want to have it sounding "bigger" but I think the current one is better suited for this "old school" track.
Outstanding work!
Loved.
Ciao, Domenico
PS: I would like to have a "slower" fade out in the end, twice or three time the length of the current one. You cannot end this wonderful piece of music so "abruptly" :-)
Peter
on Spirits Of The Past by PRINCELECTRO
As somebody already mentioned, you are a fast learner!
Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Ciao, Domenico
PS: the main melody reminds me a bit of Love-will-tear-us-apart, not saying that you copied it, just an interesting connection my mind has made. :-)