Autumn Breeze - new CD title cut (featuring Chris Vadala)

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Hey there!

Had a great tracking session with guitarist Douglas Lichterman last night, netting 3 new completed tunes for the upcoming CD! Once is the title cut, Autumn Breeze, featuring Chris Vadala on flute and Douglas on the guitar solo... I'm everything else:

http://www.reverbnation.com/philtraynor

Autumn Breeze is the first tune...
Your thoughts and opinions are welcome!
 
Guess I never got the error cause it played fine for me. The mix sounds great. Lots of amazing playing going on in this one. :cool:
 
Thanks much!... I re-uploaded it really fast after re-exporting the master WAV, you may have caught the 2nd pass.. :)
 
One bump for this, I just had Douglas come over tonight and recut the solo, and the new one is orders of magnitude cooler...

P.S. for those who may now know who Chirs Vadala is, he was Chuck Mangione's sax/flute plauer from 1975-1990, during Mangione's big run. He's now the director of Jazz Studies at U. Maryland. He was always one of my huge heroes coming up. Landing him for my CD is sort of the moral equivalent of one of you hard rockers landing George Lynch or something... :)
 
RAMI said:
This is cool. Love the "ping" of the ride cymbal. Great mix.
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I got so lucky on that cymbal man, it's a 21" Zildjian "Rock Ride". It has such a melodic and expressive set of tones for such a thick cymbal. I taped the bottom to stem the huge swell of overtones that builds up when it's running "commando" ;), and it just sings now. Thanks very much, man...
 
The ping's the thing.
Lovely!
I love the way the bass growls through the guitar solo as if begrudging & then supporting it.
Flash work Harry!
 
rayc said:
I love the way the bass growls through the guitar solo as if begrudging & then supporting it.
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That may be one of the coolest quips ever; you give it such a personality. Never thought of it that way but you're absolutely right! :D

Thanks kerrio as well! :)
 
This is just personal preference, but I've never been a big fan of that sound of keyboards (reminds me of the 80s where everyone was using it), but this sounds good. If you ask me I'd just go with straight up piano, but it works.

Everything is really nice and full and sounds good.

I'm certainly no expert (as you can tell by listening to my stuff), but the bass and bass drum seem to possibly be taking up some of the same frequencies...maybe not.

this sounds pretty damn good.
 
Have you posted this before? Seems like I remember that phaser-rhodes from somewhere...oh yeah, it was on Bellavia.:D

Really like the arrangement....up and down...nice contrasts. Excellent string pads used. The mix was very solid....really can't find a fault with it. Especially loved the bass tone...it was tight and right in the pocket. Well done. I'm really looking forward to picking up this CD when it's finished.:)
 
TeyshaBlue said:
Tell Chris I love his onions!


*rim-shot*
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Not quite film noir; but I'll take it. :D :D Thanks man.. It was actually more "Chase the Clouds Away" that inspired this tune, and really to an extent the whole flavor of the CD. Many of the tunes I've posted lately are using this voice. I got a new synth several months ago (Yamaha MO8) and when I hit that sound for the first time, it moved me so much that actually catalyzed the notion of doing a CD of my older unrecorded material... (Of the 11 tunes on the CD, one is 2009, and the rest are all written from 1983 to 1988).

Robertt8, you're right that the sound is retro, and this is by design. I was going after Mangione/Bob James/Dave Grusin of the late 70s and early 80s. When I originally wrote the tune (in 1983), I'd used a piano, and it sounds decent enough (delicate, but less fluid), but less "period-accurate"... :) As for the kick and bass occupying the same frequency range; they do indeed. It's a battle I fight a lot, juggling the respective EQs and field placements to try to alleviate it...
 
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