Recently, my wife and I discovered the TV show Portlandia, and it has become our Saturday morning ritual to watch the latest episode with our coffee. Anyways, I kind of got the theme song (http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/02/portlandia-whats-that…
This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...
This track is actually 99.583333% M.T.C. But, I needed an easy project for July, since I didn't have a lot of time last month. He had published it as a "B-Side" called "Quarter of a 60th Spanish." For fun, I just added a few subtle twists. Probably…
The title came to me as I was listening to the track and was reminded of looking through [Savage's](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) telescope at a starry sky and us being completely unable to figure out how to get it aligned :)
The title itself…
Sometime yesterday, sandbags posted "In the Ocean of Night".
Fuelled by a lovely walk and some pints, I was inspired to make some additions.
Technical/process details:
Guitar was my Michael Kelly going into GT-10 which had compressor, delay…
After the damp squib of a start to the party it eventually got started and what a party it was........you should have been there....the whisky started to flow......it must have been the most debauched night down the cellar yet…
Well, screw the metronome, damn the torpedoes, and grab a capo!
Sometimes the best versions are the ones played fast and loose. Hope you enjoy this song adapted from one of my all-time favorite poems (I'm a bit biased since my dad wrote it…
I have tried to capture that "stabbing"feeling that comes when someone says, "You were really pissed last night! Do you remember what you did?" And of course you don't remember! So you don't know whether you were a dickhead, or an arsehole or…
Reg heard this collab (Quarter of a 60th Djörk (M.T.C.) and thought it brilliant, the music made it so easy to put the words to, a story of holiday romance.......with a bit of Tom Jonesing going on..........Thanks Djork and M.T.C for letting…
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Sorry it took me 11 to check this out (no internet connection)...sounds good!
Groovin on this one tonight
This and djorklandia sound like movie music to me. Grand landscapes and epic travel shots.
Nice -- this sounds fantastic through headphones. I like how the bass is clearly separated out from the higher instruments.
:)
Wow! This is great! I heard the version with MTC, but missed the original
amazing! so cool this came from a workbook exercise...
fantastic track, nice work!
wow, awesome!
excellent, so musical! wish i could compose stuff like this...
trip thru space, I like the change ups throughout. Nylon? guitar bit is a great addition to the various textures here.
Oh Yes! This is excellent!
Far out indeed. Nice work.
Excellent arrangements
Awesome-O :)
Dig the name, (nylon guitar?) - Far out, man!
Woo - lots happening in here. Cool sounds. Nice one.
Great groove and good nebula to look at thru a telescope!
yes, one of my favorite nebulas :)
New Genearl Catalogue object 6611 ? Eagle Nebula :Far out indeed
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very cool mad scientist stuff ;)
cool stuff
:)
i like the rhythm a lot here... good stuff, evocative of a violent encounter with zombies.
hey yeah, i like that. drums, strings and sea sounds add a little extra flavor. nice collab :)
excellent :)
cheers happy birthday!
excellent. that would make a nice movie: cowboys versus spies :)
whoa never heard of any of those instruments. brutal sounds!
lol: kurt cobain + les claypool... i can hear it...
yeah there's the hard stuff - great work!
sounds like slightly more up tempo than I remember the first version... i like it :)
excellent! love this :)
well, i guess we've all been there :) cool track!
nice!
strange but familiar... well played :)
space surfin'
nice job. i love that song :)
muy bn :) a pretty convincing tom jones you've got goin' there
great mix, too :)