I enjoyed that moment. It was like a musical massage. Was a bit stressed putting on the headphones, and less so taking them off. I actually dropped my head and lolled it around a bit. Thank you.
A groovy groovy groovy groovy groove. This is a monster groove. I hope you build something on it cuz there's so much you could do with it. Cool that you somehow generated all these sounds yourself. Me, I'm dependent on loops to get going. Great job - great start of something major.
:) yes but it's so hard to me when it's not supposed to use any loop to get going .
thank you very much CitizenMofo for dropping these kind words
into my box .
I'm glad of reading your comment , thank you much much .
Seriously superb. This is a mix I can study to learn how to mix. The bass is fantastic and the horns and sax are perfect. I love everything about this - except one thing: It ends too soon!
Hey MrMofo thanks man!..it's always a dilemma on how long to make a track, I usually always think in terms of longer tracks (Lp's back in the day) but we've been conditioned to accept short tunes by the radio I guess..next time much longer for sure! haha...cheers mate Dave/PJB :)
3 thumbs up! Ambient, yes, I suppose, but to me this is more complex than that, more engaging, to me it's Cinematic, in fact takes me on a journey, an emotional journey with a lot of floating involved. I shut my eyes for most of it to listen, staring off into the distance of my eyelids. It's that kind of music, you see clouds in your eyelids and feel the breeze. Whether there's life after death or not, however, I do not know. But this music is a beautiful expression of the question.
Hello Mofo,
Thank you very much for your wonderful feedback and very kind words mate.
I find it very interesting and I do hope that we will meet after our death.
Otherwise as Pete said “What is our agenda for living.”
I am really glad you liked it
I only put it there just to tick boxes.
Thanks again mate
Jamid
I couldn't understand the words, whether Spanish or English, but I dig the obsessive simplicity of the music. And the insane bass - man that just fills your soul, that bass. It's a hard hitter and I like it.
Thanks a lot, it took a while to get that bass to sound big and powerful without it taking up too much headroom and keeping the kick up there. and yes, bass does fill your soul idk what we'd do if bass didnt exist!!
Instant fave! I love this song and I love your family. I laughed out loud at least 5 times. I like how the plucked melody plays out slowly, with all the other plucking going on. It's really a sweet, delightful piece! If there was one thing I would do, as a songwriter, is write a different second verse. I think it would add to the delight of it. For what it's worth. Thank you.
Very '80s! A great boppy little tune, enjoyed by me on a rainy Sunday morning. I do think you need a better vocalist - you still sound better than me, but this needs some real '80s flavor and pizzazz in the vocals that only a real pro could pull off. The vocals will be key. I think once you have that, you'll know what else needs to be done, if anything. You're well on your way to a really top-notch song.
Thanks for the comment, CitizenMofo. I'm sorry I didn't respond to your comment much earlier. Didn't mean to be rude. I didn't realize I had these comments on the trackI
I wholeheartedly agree with you that I need a better vocalist. I keep searching, but seems to be very hard to find anybody that is willing to work with me. But, I live in hope. :)
Great piece. The title and the music go together to create a mood. The mix is interesting to me, how the beat seems to ride above everything else but without being overbearing. I like when the vocals come in, all of a piece with everything else. Somehow it all seems to make sense.
Your words are welcome!
It's a bit of work to do with the equalization, I've been trying hard to improve, it's a genre that I do not have much ease with, but when I have a good idea, I'll go straight to try to create it,
thank you so much again.
This is perfect. Really an amazing, fully realized and executed piece of work, with every detail thought through, from the incredible power of the build to that great booming sound at the end. Loved it.
Lovely. Stilled my mind. Made me feel peaceful. Good blend of the two. The transition in the middle - a bend in the river, from a broader, slower flow to more flurries of rapids, but still the same river. I like the two planes, the plane of bowing and the plane of plucking - gave plenty to engage my ears and mind with the ineffableness of it all. Great build at the end. Loved it.
Cool track. I like the obsessiveness of the melody, but the variations keep it interesting. For about the first half. The second half seems pretty much a repeat of what we've already heard, so my inclination there is to desire more breaks and variations to keep my ears and mind engaged. But perhaps you mean it as a base track for vocals. At any rate, there's a lot of good stuff going on here.
Thanks, I appreciate the in depth feedback. You are absolutely right, the second half is basically just a repeat. Good to hear you want more variation, I was originally trying to keep it relatively basic so that vocals could go on top of it, but after hearing that I think I will copy the project and see where else I can take it! Thanks again for the feedback - Gnasty
I enjoyed this track, but mostly my ear was drawn to the subterranean stuff - that bass just kills it. The melodies riding on top of that, less interesting to me. I found my ears burrowing down into that bass all the time to see what it was doing. My suggestion - for what it's worth! - is to exploit that bass more, that subterranean drive. Maybe I just prefer darker stuff but I think maybe there's darkness in here that wants to take over...
Lush and lovely piano piece. Though it's short, there's plenty of variation in sound and pacing throughout with the alternation of the chord sections and the main melody. Enjoyed it very much.
Not enough happening in the track to hold my interest. To me, needs more development, more movement, theme and variations, contrasts, something. I appreciate the cleanness of the sounds that are here, but I want more to keep my mind and ears engaged. Thank you.
I completely understand where you getting at because i think the same way, but in this project I kind of wanted to let the vocals take over and drive the song( which would require a very good and experienced vocalist). After the vocals will I then revise the song and fill in those missing parts.
Man you just made my morning. This is a badass track. No guitar? Not around 3:00ish and toward the end? That ain't guitar? I'd swear on a stack of bibles that that was guitar. How you make a cello sound like that? This is the kind of track that pulls lyrics and melodies right out of my gut. I'm so tempted to ask if I could write some lyrics to it and record with Sunny, and maybe lay in some guitar too, but I'm up to my earballs in songs to record as it is. Still...? Anyway, great teeth-gritting bang-headed grunge. Love it.
Yes, there really is zero guitar anywhere in the track.
"I'd swear on a stack of bibles that that was guitar."
I'm totally with you and I would have thought the same if I hadn't made it. Here's how I believe it works: when you hear fat, distorted guitar, you're often no longer really hearing the guitar strings. What you're really hearing is the distortion. It can be used on other instruments but is most closely associated with guitar. Remember: cello is not wildly different from guitar, being a similar stringed instrument. So, all you have to do to get the kind of sound I've got here is put some cello parts through guitar distortion.
In this, I have used a mixture of VST amps (ie applying distortion to cello parts that were recorded clean) and my Boss GT-5 effects pedal for playing distorted cello live.
I'm not clever for doing this - I just don't think many other people are doing it though I assure you you can go totally badass with cello. Check out the virtuoso duo 2Cellos to hear and see them do it live (try out 'Voodoo People').
My cello teacher uses distortion sometimes and she gets many more strange sounds out of the instrument than I do. But she's been playing for about 35 years more than I have so kind of knows what she's doing.
"tempted to ask if I could write some lyrics to it and record with Sunny"
Sorry. I think it's mostly done as it is. And I'd need to know you better to consider doing any sort of online collaboration.
"I'm up to my earballs in songs to record as it is"
Good to hear. I'm struggling a bit with only a few to work on and they're not all going well.
Thanks for the thoughts and happy to be able to entertain you.
Ballsy and badass. Great for a base track. Now needs some mind-blowing lyrics and a screamer with a touch of funk in his delivery. Can't wait to hear the future project!
I enjoyed this track, ladyinred. There's over a minute of silence at the end but I'm sure you know that now. (I just posted a track with 12 seconds of silence at the end by mistake; it happens.) Anyway, very well mixed and a great groove that gets a body moving.
Epic groove. Makes a body move. Great for the dance floor. For me, I'd like a little more development of the theme and evolution of the structure, more so than just by the filters that are applied at moments throughout. Good stuff for dancing, but for listening, maybe a little more for the mind. Thanks!
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Nice to hear from you again.
Thank you for your great feedback I really appreciated.
I am glad you liked it.
Jamid
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thank you very much CitizenMofo for dropping these kind words
into my box .
I'm glad of reading your comment , thank you much much .
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Thank you very much for your wonderful feedback and very kind words mate.
I find it very interesting and I do hope that we will meet after our death.
Otherwise as Pete said “What is our agenda for living.”
I am really glad you liked it
I only put it there just to tick boxes.
Thanks again mate
Jamid
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I wholeheartedly agree with you that I need a better vocalist. I keep searching, but seems to be very hard to find anybody that is willing to work with me. But, I live in hope. :)
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It's a bit of work to do with the equalization, I've been trying hard to improve, it's a genre that I do not have much ease with, but when I have a good idea, I'll go straight to try to create it,
thank you so much again.
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Yes, there really is zero guitar anywhere in the track.
"I'd swear on a stack of bibles that that was guitar."
I'm totally with you and I would have thought the same if I hadn't made it. Here's how I believe it works: when you hear fat, distorted guitar, you're often no longer really hearing the guitar strings. What you're really hearing is the distortion. It can be used on other instruments but is most closely associated with guitar. Remember: cello is not wildly different from guitar, being a similar stringed instrument. So, all you have to do to get the kind of sound I've got here is put some cello parts through guitar distortion.
In this, I have used a mixture of VST amps (ie applying distortion to cello parts that were recorded clean) and my Boss GT-5 effects pedal for playing distorted cello live.
I'm not clever for doing this - I just don't think many other people are doing it though I assure you you can go totally badass with cello. Check out the virtuoso duo 2Cellos to hear and see them do it live (try out 'Voodoo People').
My cello teacher uses distortion sometimes and she gets many more strange sounds out of the instrument than I do. But she's been playing for about 35 years more than I have so kind of knows what she's doing.
"tempted to ask if I could write some lyrics to it and record with Sunny"
Sorry. I think it's mostly done as it is. And I'd need to know you better to consider doing any sort of online collaboration.
"I'm up to my earballs in songs to record as it is"
Good to hear. I'm struggling a bit with only a few to work on and they're not all going well.
Thanks for the thoughts and happy to be able to entertain you.
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thank you very much CitizenMofo .
:)
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