crucethus

hello Steve
I am very grateful for your words man...
I can only thank you.
peace

Thx alot, mate...glad you liked it!:)

Cheers____Orlando

Hi Steve,

thanks for listening and glad we hit the right note with you with this fun track. Thanks again Steve.

Best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

Hello Steve!
Haha the war of the reversed cymbals, yes I like them this way too.
I changed the intro a bit (redid this a week ago, just late with all the replys) and maybe it's a bit better now.
Thanks for listening!

Thank you very much. Someone has to do it, lol.

Wow...I have a lot of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (Manifesto is my favorite,) but never knew about this album. Will have to look it up.

Cheers,
Scott

Hi Steve...I did start out with echo on the vox but then I wanted to have the echo stand out on the held notes so I dropped it. I could try it using two echo units with one cutting in and the other out when needed? Might try that. Vocals make the song in this one as they are so strong and well pitched. Glad you liked it!
Regards
Steve

i am sure you are right on 'jungle' It was self-serving using it I suppose. there is always more to do with these tracks. it was a good second effort for me with FL Studio, my new DAW. also made some progress in working from the picture back to the music and coming up with something closer to what I was hearing in my head. really appreciate your stopping by. now on to your tracks! peace

wow yes ! links were amazing !thank you.
your review is so nice to me .
i really appreciate your words and links too.
a big thanks .
Elena

Hi Steve!
Yes I need to listen and remix this without headphones, Simones vocal is a bit hard to bring forward without loosing her special sound.

To be continued...
=)
/ SJ

Hi Steve,

Thanks for listening and so pleased we could help you unwind!

Take care and speak soon,

Mark/Larry!

"I appreciate a good review and it's refreshing to see someone contribute like that..for me it's not a competition"

Sorry if I made it seem like a competitive thiang. Not my intention. Once you hit that 'post reply' button, it's gone! I was trying to say that Maffin's words kind of set a new standard in commenting, though you've done loads of good ones too, no doubt.

"I can think of no one who sounds like you in the states."

I agree and probably it's because of all the additional instrumentation aside from guitar. Not many people into delta blues seem to like combining it with psychedelic, electronic stuff. Most people into it seem quite traditional and conservative.

I'm not sure my actual blues guitar playing is unlike anyone else (in the US or elsewhere). That seems unlikely as I'm just not that good and don't play very often. I do play live solo delta blues stuff at open mic type events (but it bores me so don't really do it anymore) but all my recorded tracks add so much more as I love all the electro stuff too.

My resonator guitar is not a good enough quality one to present in a track naked and uneffected. And I think solo delta blues stuff is pretty boring unless you're a real virtuoso. Or have vocals. I'll do some sparser delta blues one day.

The most interesting delta blues guy I know of is Harry Manx, who inspired me to play banjo. Stunning slide player who is unique because he also plays a mohan veena, a rare instrument that is a cross between guitar and sitar, all played with a bar (slide). I want one but you can't buy them in the UK.

Stunning singer too and I'm going to see him live in a few weeks in London.

Wax Audio kick arse/ass. He loves Judas Priest (the Gaga one is good) and Iron Maiden though I'm not into either of them.

Blue Jump is one of my favourites of his. I'm a big Tears For Fears fan. Shout is one of the greatest pop songs ever!

Take care, Non-Bald Faux G.

Yo. I was actually going to send you a PM drawing your attention to Maffin's wonderful review. Not good because he likes the track but because of how he expresses it and the empathy with issues I struggle with when making it and others.

And he even asked for it to be longer - first time anyone's done that.

You now have to think when commenting on my stuff "Is that review as good as Maffin's Low Key Love review?" If not, you need to make it better, which doesn't necessarily mean adding more Latin!

Anyway, the track:

6:07 bass sounds a little different cos of the cool, tom-driven jazz drum groove I drop into. That inspired the swinging guitar there.

And then that high, tinkly piano, which is one of my very favourite things in this.

Yes, bit like an upright and with some playing that makes me think of old, cool, winging jazz like Cab Calloway or someone. I don't actually listen to any of that but was reminded of it the other day when re-watching The Mask feat. Jim Carrey.

There are two pianos in this, with the second coming on 7:04.

This title is, unintentionally, a triple entendre. There's meaning 1, about my more subtle, less ostentatious love for someone, number 2 could be about Norse God Loki and 3 suits the track really well - love for a low musical key (low D). Coincidence that the track is all based around a low key bass part. So, it's a perfect title, though my only intended meaning was number 1.

I'm not sure what the British blend is that I bring to Americana Appalachian blues. Don't know if any of my music sound 'British' (maybe you only say it cos you know I'm English).

I try not to sound like anyone else and not to think too much about other music I like when making my own. I think only about the sounds and where I can take them to make something I've never heard and which I haven't yet heard as I'm always inventing genres in my head.

I can't do all of the stuff I make up as I don't play enough of the instruments and probably don't have the ability. So, I just do what I can, which is still quite a lot.

So much blues bores me but I'm so influenced by the sound of the slide and genuinely think I put it into musical contexts that other people haven't before eg in this track. There's not much slide bass at all, apart from Mark Sandman though his band Morphine didn't actually play jazz. And they had no piano and didn't kick into psychedelic slide rock.

I'm also trying to make some of the music I wish other people had.

I bet you like a good mashup as that's a glimpse at what two or more good artists could have made if they had got together.

Wax Audio is my fave mashup guy. He has 3 great free albums, containing wittily-titled gems such as this:

Golden Teardrops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GtzaV3Tkk0

Interview with the guy

http://jesterjaymusic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/interview-with-tom-campagnoni-wax-audio.html

wow two versions !
thank you again Steve .

Thanks for listening!

Hi Steve,

A really big thanks for giving this a listen again and for your comprehensive and much appreciated comments. I take your point about the length of the track and generally I have tried to keep my tracks between 3-4 minutes (the really early ones were shorter) but I agree this one should be longer. something for me to think about for future tracks. thanks again Steve for your valued opinion.

Very best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

Thank you Steve!!
Really nice to read this, I don't think you missed much having not heard the first version - I only added some piano (after the encouraging words from Ed) and repitched some of the guitar/bass and flute sounds. Oh, and added some percussion in the very poor first drum line in the beginning (thanks to Behnam! ;)). And took away some of Kyle's vocal. Hey...that maybe was a bunch of things in the end anyway.

That track from Talk Talk - now I'm stuck! I 've been listening to it over and over and over again since yesterday, don't Think I ever heard that one before. What a tune!
My music is nothing like that but I'm hearing some minor similarity with those songs from Brian Ferry though.

Say hello and thanks for the listen to your wife too and have a good day!
/SJ =)

Aw thanx Steve. Great idea about the bass line, how'd you fancy doing it for me? Bout time we did a collab!

K;)

Thanks my friend, I will take in account when I release my new album!

thank you Steve .
i can't wait to hear what you've done.
sorry for delay .
i'm going to listen track.
yes , Bear is one of greatest musicians here.
and one of my fav composers beside you , Behnam
and Tumbleweed .
nice to see your underestanding and prof attitude and respect for him .
i really appreciate you .
*Cindy*

Thanks Steve! That video was really funny and mentioned some very interesting points! Pop music has changed and i think it will continue to change over the next couple of decades.

Hopefully it turns into something that will be inspirational and we as musicians can be proud of. If it continues down it's current spiral, music will eventually become a has been thing.