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went indoors around sunset, felt like picking up the guitar, was noodling a little while reading chat, the song idea came up and developed, I thought like I could record this. but will the batteries last, in the end, I fired up the studio, and focused hard on not loosing time tweaking sounds too much, or trying to record better takes

all 1st takes and done in 1 1/2h http://alooshu.byethost17.com/autumn%20days.mp3

it's a drop D tuning, fx are a-Comp, Calf Phaser (all guitar tracks), Gx Amplifier-X, Gx Stereo Echo (additionally on solo track), Zam Comp, a-HighLowPass on the percussion track, percussion from GMSynth's built in soundfonts, Calf Multiband Limiter, Tal Reverb II on master, DAW is Ardour 5.12

you know what, it's actually a 4-tracK-recording, ha ha

Enjoy :)
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That song is impressive! Great tone staying on edge, great blend of disonance among chords, with some music-theory, metal, and jazz,
all riding a solid beat, and presenting a cohesive view of whatever the enery is you're trying to capture. While listening,
I'm thinking, '...this is an mp3?! Whoa... 8)
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I like both the sound and the feeling a lot! It reminds me of something I cannot place, not music, but a movie, I think.

Thanks for sharing!

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forestandgarden wrote: Sun Dec 12, 2021 12:34 am went indoors around sunset, felt like picking up the guitar, was noodling a little while reading chat, the song idea came up and developed, I thought like I could record this. but will the batteries last, in the end, I fired up the studio, and focused hard on not loosing time tweaking sounds too much, or trying to record better takes

all 1st takes and done in 1 1/2h http://alooshu.byethost17.com/autumn%20days.mp3

it's a drop D tuning, fx are a-Comp, Calf Phaser (all guitar tracks), Gx Amplifier-X, Gx Stereo Echo (additionally on solo track), Zam Comp, a-HighLowPass on the percussion track, percussion from GMSynth's built in soundfonts, Calf Multiband Limiter, Tal Reverb II on master, DAW is Ardour 5.12

you know what, it's actually a 4-tracK-recording, ha ha

Enjoy :)
I like it. Very cool.

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@@oscillator thanks, being evocative in a way that can't be reduced to a cause-effect rationale, is some of the biggest praise I could desire; being 'the ghost in the machine', playing that ace of not being a bot, but knowing the technology I want 'spirit' to propagate across, is a big part of my self-understanding

in that sense..

@@glowrak guy you've made me think about that, mp3-128 has indeed become like a second skin to me, mainly because of bandwidth limitations when sharing, but my current sound ideal and mp3 may indeed have struck a symbiosis without me even noticing consciously. Funny how categorization is working: I had picked 'psychedelic' and 'folk' as my own genre tags, but can completely follow how metal (some of the sound aesthetic) and jazz (approach to performing and composing) could be seen as dominant influences. Wrt music theory, that always came second, as a tool, not to design, but to explain what was discovered in exploration.I think what's happening there a lot, is going by the name of 'options', i.e. those additions to standard triads that follow the alternating major|minor 3rd pattern, Am, Am7, Am7 9, Am7 9 11, dto. with C, Cmaj7, Cmaj7 9, more or less the world where you are when you're hitting every 2nd white key on a keyboard, and finding out where that's getting you - in contrast to the more 'jazzy' 'alterations' like b5, #5, b9, #9 - whether they're dissonant or consonant, depends on where one is drawing the line, I liked 'edge' as a description. and would rather identify with pushing the limits of consonance than deliberately seeking dissonance. You could say I'm borrowing the notion of 'modal jazz', as a loosening up of narrow concepts of the type 'chord X and Y do imply scale A and B'. Btw., I'm just realizing where my psychedelic & folk self-tags are coming from here: Crospy, Stills, Nash & Young. whose vocal arrangements are having a lot to do with adding options up to and above the [maj]7th, and whose electric side is more audible on side projects, like the little known Crosby & Nash: Whistling Down the Wire album. So marry that to any Allan Holdsworth, and you're getting an idea of the influences that particular track might be revealing :)

@@bluebell hey, long time no see, thanks for the like. You back on IRC yet? libera.chat is where it's all happening now, some places have migrated, other new ones sprung up, use your nose :)
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Wow the sound is amazing: guitars and the overall arrangement sound like Al Di Meola's "The Infinite Desire" album, that I have always loved also because of its production and overall tone. Great track and playing too!
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Every time I see one of your posts, @forestandgarden, I know there's going to be a rocking jam. And you did it, once more. Never disappointing, my props :D
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Post by milo »

Sorry again to be late, but this is another one I can't pass by without a listen and a virtual pat on the back to the artist. Well done! This one I downloaded and added to my playlist.
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