It rained today.......

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.......we had a little tropical storm come in around Morgan City today and my tunings for the day all rescheduled because of the weather...........so all of a sudden I had a free day.

Well I decided I'd clean the house a little bit so I put on a Cirque Du Soleil Cd and got *inspired* if you catch my drift. ;) After about ten minutes of that music.....I dropped everything and headed for my music room.
This is what I spent the day doing. Everything's 1st or 2nd takes......it's not perfect but I was just playing around so I didn't really care........just a rainy day project. :)

BTW....what sounds like hiss in the beginning, is actually rain.....it didn't come across very well on the MP3. It fades out after the song gets going .

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
BULLETIN! BULLETIN! BULLETIN!
Sure wish I knew how to make these letters red.

If you don't like droning space music songs.....then don't listen to this 'cause you'll HATE it!!! :D
This is one of those songs that has a theme that it repeats until it drives it into obnoxiousness........constantly adding more instruments but always staying on that theme; so some folks will find it repetitious.
It's meant to be more of a mood piece.....kinda like, well hell, I don't know what it's kinda like.....it's kinda like a rainy-ass day, all right?! :D

Rainy Day Music
http://www.nowhereradio.com/wondercow/singles

I'm aware that I get a little too enthusiastic with the tympanis BTW. :D:D
 
I enjoy "inspired" tunage. Used to call it "VOAT" (endless variations on a theme). Well, until somebody got too tired.. :)
We got your rain over here right now, witha few tornado warnings. it`ll be just right in the morning when I get home, for me to get inspired while listening....;)
 
dude, your sax sounds really weird on this. what did you do to it?

:).
 
Yeah, this is that place!!! A really nice and effective listen Lt.
Visions....




" log date: 2141_0630 ... spite the successes we have accumulated in alliances since colonizing this strange land, which unfortunately have lazened us into a warmer sense of security and well being, there was a sense of uneasiness along the ramparts last evening. I say, even the dogdroids moved quietly about, with their ears pricked and their manes bristled. The Tribals kept the fires burning throughout the night casting warm orange glows along the dark horizon . Thru the sweet hot stickiness of the night, we heard the drums and instruments in an endless flow of rythymn, through the rains and heavy fog, eery as if the spirits of generations were moving all around..... We know not of what it is.., that is yet to come..."

:eek:


okay okay, I`m moving along... see ya ;)
 
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Pretty cool. Good arrangement of sounds - good instrument selection. Wow - tons of different instruments. Good use of panning.

It took a little while for the song to get started. I might shorten the rain sounds at the begining by a few seconds.

I liked the tympani. I thought there were only a few spots that I would call "too excited."

Could be movie background music.

Trip.
 
Lt Bob

Hi Bob:

This really does sound inspired.
I may not be very technical but I know when someone's having a creative moment.
I was thinking how cool this would be with some kind of spoken word in front of it along the lines of what Toki wrote above.

Speaking of rain we get over 100 inches most years up here
in the pac nor west.

You had yourself a really good day doing this. 10 minutes for housecleaning though?
You are a better man than I gunga din :)
 
Re: Lt Bob

HevyD47Ca said:
I was thinking how cool this would be with some kind of spoken word in front of it along the lines of what Toki wrote above.
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Ya' know......that's a very good idea.......I keep feeling that it needs something else....but there's no room. I mean, when I tried to add a guitar ride...or fills.....or sax, there just wasn't anywhere to put it, but a spoken word thing....that's a very cool suggestion.....I'm gonna put that on perculate in my brain and see what comes out...Thanks.

Toki........I knew you would understand......say; if I use Hevy's idea.....can I use some or all of that text you came up with? That is yours is it not?
And PM me when you get one of those songs ready for collabing. :)
Also, don't you live close to here? When are you coming to see me?

Eric.....I used a morph box on it...........the second thunderclap?....that's the sax. :D

Trip....thanks for listening man............yeah the rain's a bit long.....I really wanted to get that long-rolling thunder in but I didn't need so much rain. If I redo it, I'll shorten that.
 
Liked it!
Good job with the percussion. Those drum hits were great. Not totally on board with the sound of the synth that sounded a bit like human singing, but it adds a nice counter balance to the piece.
 
the tymps remind me of "george, george...george of the jungle"...WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!!

what kinda keyboard you do this on? nice bari saxes!
 
Curious..........I got the NWR page, but when I tried to stream lo-fi, I got the "page cannot be displayed" thing! What the..........?
I tried it twice, but I'll try again shortly.



bd


edit: OK.....now I can't even get to the page!
 
looks like nowhereradio is down, it isn't working for me either =|.

and i'm a huge fan of drone music!
 
Steve: I tried too. It was a "members only" download, but when I tried to log in, NWR gave me error messages. I suspect it's all part of the same issue Waldo mentioned above.

Mike

BTW, you make text red by putting "color=red" between brackets, like this , then after you type the text put "/color", also between brackets. I can't show you the whole thing, cause then it'll just make my text red, and you won't see the tags. :)
 
Hey Steve,
..yeah man, i saw a little footage of that weather you guys are having on the news.... .....bummer. ...but days off are nice too.


....I cant get in.... got the error message mentioned above. I'll try later.
 
Toki987 said:



" log date: 2141_0630 ... spite the successes we have accumulated in alliances since colonizing this strange land, which unfortunately have lazened us into a warmer sense of security and well being, there was a sense of uneasiness along the ramparts last evening. I say, even the dogdroids moved quietly about, with their ears pricked and their manes bristled. The Tribals kept the fires burning throughout the night casting warm orange glows along the dark horizon . Thru the sweet hot stickiness of the night, we heard the drums and instruments in an endless flow of rythymn, through the rains and heavy fog, eery as if the spirits of generations were moving all around..... We know not of what it is.., that is yet to come..."

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inspired by Lt. Bob , written by Toki987.
Given as gift to Lt. Bob (AKA Stevey) on this date 6/30/03 by my hand:
Toki987

:)
 
I think Toki's comments put it all in the right perspective. It does have that hypnotic thing going and I feel like this is music meant to be experienced by a group...or tribe. Since I know you're down in Louisiana, I kept having this image of these darkly dressed musicians marching down a rain soaked street and hearing this music--first from far away and then approaching--unstoppable.

I enjoyed this and I like the restraint you used in the production. even though there is a lot going on, its always tasteful and never over the top. You should miss work more often. :D
 
Thank you Toki......I kinda already have an idea how I'm gonna use it. I think I'm gonna have to add some tracks to it to do what I want but that's no problem. I think it's the last piece this thing needs.....cool.

And thanks to Hevy for thinking of it.

Mixmkr......George of the Freakin' Jungle!! :D
Ya' know, there's a song on a Sea Level album called 'Grand Larceny' The reason it's called that is 'cause everybody from the Macon area (this was Capricorn's heyday) used it as a jam song for about two years before they recorded it. Anyway, it had that kind of pulse to it and we all just called the song 'George'.....good times, good times.
The keyboard is a Roland XP-60

Doug H.....thanks for listening.....yeah, I wanted a bit different sound on that but I'd been doing it all day and that one worked well enough. I do want the choir thing.....but I have a vocal card in my keyboard with about 250 of them so I need to take some time and find the right one. I wasn't gonna fool with it any more but now Hevy and Toki have given me some ideas so I think I'll tinker with it some more.

Crawdad! You actually got the sort of imagery I had in my mind while I was working on this. Except I was picturing it out in the bush somewhere.....with the aboriginal musicians coming from off in the distance, celebrating the spring rains that bring life to the land.
But we were both wrong.....it's actually the droidogs out protecting the ramparts. :D

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Toad Rush
Waldo
dachay2tnr
G........sorry you couldn't get in.......hopefully later.
 
Hey, I finally got in! WOW what a rush! I don't think I've ever heard a song continually build for six minutes. That takes some serious creativity! I really liked this a lot. I also like the idea of the spoken word standing under that storm. Really good stuff! I think we're fixing to get some remnants of that very same storm, maybe I'll get into the studio too. Uh, don't think I'll get the same results though.

Thanks Waldo! For getting NWR back up and running so quickly.


bd
 
Still no go for me. I can't log in to NWR to enable the member download.

But I'll keep trying. Maybe by the time I get in you'll have the "breath deep the gathering gloom" voiceover added. :D
 
You and Jimi...

"Hey, man... it's raining..."

When this one started, I had the headphones on, and immediately got up to close all the shutters cuz I thought it had begun raining. LOL

hot didgeree dog and pan pipes - nice

Yeah, I like this one. What'd you use to make it? Those sounds are way nicer than anything I've got in Fruity Loops. I suppose the difference might have something to do with the fact that I paid $100 for Fruity and you paid $1k for your synth? LOL I'm gonna put a few tunes with loads of Fruity sounds on them up here soon. I love working with sth other than guitar and bass, but the sounds in the synth are the key.

If you do the spoken word thing with this, something with a bit of a storyline to it might work well.

Good work - really unusual for you. Oh, hang on - maybe you do this sort of thing all the time? Okay, first time I've heard this kind of music from you. It's still good, though. :)
 
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