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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Wow, Brad, this is fucking amazing! Serious
Lalo Schifrin vibes, and I mean that in the most complimentary way. It has all the elements of his late’60s/early ‘70s work; cool and sophisticated.
I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album. Will you be putting out vinyl for this release?
Lalo Schifrin vibes, and I mean that in the most complimentary way. It has all the elements of his late’60s/early ‘70s work; cool and sophisticated.
I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album. Will you be putting out vinyl for this release?
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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Yep, vinyl is coming but will be delayed past the release date because of course it will—it’s 2023.
Thanks so much for listening! I love Lalo Schifrin—not a conscious influence here but I can totally hear it
Thanks so much for listening! I love Lalo Schifrin—not a conscious influence here but I can totally hear it
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Is the whole album in a similar vein?
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
A lot to like here. Seriously good tune. I love the melody of the strings. There’s a real golden era Hollywood soundtrack feel to them
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Yes and no.
Yes in the sense that it's all weird instrumental music.
But not all of it has strings. Not all of it has drums. Not all of it even has time/meter.
The next single (out in a couple of weeks) is kind of a bizarro odd-meter distorted riff rocker but with stylophone and modular synth. Guitars played through a Minimoog and a Ludwig Phase II at the same time. That kind of thing.
Almost no guitar amps were harmed (or used) in the making of the album.
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Awesome
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Cool! Sounds great. You do this at Lucy's?
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It’s like Creed Taylor barged in on the session for Tortoise’s TNT.
That is to say I really like it.
That is to say I really like it.
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If you don’t mind me asking, I’m wondering what your process is for something like this. Is it something you sit down and chart out, with specific melodies along the way, or do you work in a more linear way where you take several passes at it and layer as you go? I’m curious because the second approach is how I work, but that’s only after I’ve charted the song out on piano or guitar and laid down a guide track to reference as I go. Since you’re much more technically skilled than me, and need to direct other musicians, I assume you need to work in a more organized fashion.
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
That's a compliment I'll take gladlymarqueemoon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:34 pmIt’s like Creed Taylor barged in on the session for Tortoise’s TNT.
That is to say I really like it.
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I don't mind at all!Telliot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:44 pmIf you don’t mind me asking, I’m wondering what your process is for something like this. Is it something you sit down and chart out, with specific melodies along the way, or do you work in a more linear way where you take several passes at it and layer as you go? I’m curious because the second approach is how I work, but that’s only after I’ve charted the song out on piano or guitar and laid down a guide track to reference as I go. Since you’re much more technically skilled than me, and need to direct other musicians, I assume you need to work in a more organized fashion.
In this case my process was "show up with no instruments, nothing at all prepared and start making stuff up." This was kind of gently suggested by the label... it's how they like to make stuff.
I think I worked out a sequencer/arpeggiator type thing on this ancient modular Moog and just sort of started with that, then kept doing weird stuff. Recorded Octobans to an ATR-102 at half speed then pitched them up. Played a giant 26" bass drum by hand with a mallet. Improvised a baritone guitar melody, then harmonized it. Played some bass, then played the guitar at the end, probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.
I kind of got it to where something was almost happening over the course of a day, all using the studio's instruments (the guitar at the end, which so many people assume was some kind of fancy archtop, was a very cheap plywood flat-top with flatwounds, a no-name blade magnet pickup bodged on, and a weird rubber bridge).
Then I had some touring, so I took it away and wrote a string arrangement on an airplane on a seat-back tray table. Came back, a brilliant string quartet came in and read the fuck out of my charts, and then Mark Guiliana came in and blazed those drums in a single take.
A bit different than the way I usually work, which is to come in ultra-prepared with clear vision. I was able to kind of do my usual thing by making the string quartet's charts extra-refined, but the rest was all just fucking around. I never would've written something like this with my usual processes, so I was grateful that the label kind of nudged me on a different course.
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
That really sounds like fun, what a great opportunity!
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Re: tecnologia (modular moog, baritone guitar, string quartet, drums)
Quality. Will be recommending to friends.