NEW SONG - Brownstone

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Hello again, gang!

My trip to Swannanoa has yielded another successful recording!

This one is a long-awaited rework of my popular 1990 tune Brownstone. It’s a little darker, a little funkier than my normal sweeter mood. The song was originally inspired by a trip I made to New York over Christmas of 1989 to visit a dear friend (and brilliant guitarist) Bill Galanin. We took the train from Ossining into the city on a rainy morning to look around, and as we went through Harlem, I saw all the tenement buildings with people hanging around outside them; and the gloom that seems to emanate from the area. There was a palpable sense of anger and desperation, mixed with the love of family, people making the best of being dealt a bad hand. Anyway, it was inspiring…

Once again, I have enlisted the services of the indescribably good Pete Huttlinger on guitars. (http://www.petehuttlinger.com) He’s doing all 4 guitar parts this time, not just the solos. Pete has been an incredible inspiration for me, and he has an almost freakish ability to know exactly what I’m looking for in the recording process. Many thanks to Pete for his great work!


Listen to this new song exclusively at Artistlaunch!
http://www.artistlaunch.com/llarion

*EDIT - fixed links*

Thanks very much!!
 
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First, your link doesn't work properly. I had to just go to your artistlaunch page.

Got there, and man, that kicks some ass.....Well done from the start. Very good sounds, well played, and has a very upbeat feel. Mix sounds very good. Everything is very vlear, and has it's own space. Guitar is cool.....Way cool.

Man, no more to add.....you did a good job on this. :D
 
I like the tune and arrangment. I've seen that same scene many times while coming into Manhattan.

The funky rhythm gtr on the L side is a little edgy in its highs. Very nice funky/relaxed solo gtr lines. This would sound super with real drums.

Tim
 
Smooooooooooooooooth....and fUnKy. Nice sounds, man. Are you doing everything on BROWNSTONE (besides the guit for this tune). A lot of nice subtle stuff, like chimes (I think), etc...Very nice.
 
Coooooooool jazzzy sound! Great Job!!! And your right, the guitarist kicks!
 
RAMI said:
Smooooooooooooooooth....and fUnKy. Nice sounds, man. Are you doing everything on BROWNSTONE (besides the guit for this tune). A lot of nice subtle stuff, like chimes (I think), etc...Very nice.
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Thanks guys!! :)

Here's the lineup, Rami:

Me: Drums (Roland V-Stage), Bass (1983 Peavey Foundation), Keys (Roland RD-500 DynoRhodes patch and Korg Triton 61 <pads>), percussion (separate shaker, bar chimes, and triangle tracks)
Pete Huttlinger: guitars (2 rhythm parts, solo and solo harmony)

Recorded into a Korg D1600 in my case, with individual tracks exported to Adobe Audition (WAV), Pete's stuff is ProTools, exported to WAV, mixed and mastered in Adobe Audition.
 
Very smooth, very nice work. I'm really liking the guitar solo around 2:30. That's neat, it sounds like the chimes move from one ear across to the other at times. To me, the last guitar solo sounds slightly too soft or panned too far to one side. Overall though, very well done and professional sounding!
 
Thanks Snakedog! You're exactly correct, I have the bar chimes moving acrosss the field each time... I pulled the end solo back just a notch on purpose, I wanted it to be just a little more distant sounding, because the melody main statement is mingled in there too.

Pete Huttlinger was WELL worth the expense of hiring him, he really bent over backwards to give me a good product... he's a world fingerstyle guitar champion; check out his stuff at http://www.petehuttlinger.com ; most especially The Santa Rita Connection CD; it's AWESOME...
 
sweet track man, very clean sounding.
Cool chords as well, nice rythm.
exelent playing, cant say anything on the sound, sounds very good to me.

overall a very good job.

keep it up. :)
 
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