tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190431002024-03-26T10:07:20.943+01:00Meite U's Recording Sessions BlogI'm Meite U, a Dutch singer-songwriter. I used to blog my recording sessions here. This blog is more or less dead since all mp3 links died. I keep it up as an archive. My new blog, which also contains a link to all mp3's that used to be here, can be found on <a href="http://lostingredients.blogspot.com">http://lostingredients.blogspot.com</a>.Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-88758733544187750692009-10-30T20:29:00.004+01:002009-10-30T21:21:28.318+01:00The Heavenly Virus - 9 New Songs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0YmUBEDFuikUlA391vfc6usvj5eO_ECuGDWuAsIB6wFh0eLPAGl5NuaSImu6Ni4kAr-sJ7TWW3DCyVywoo6XD5KPPLBggYBnuhss1Bg0x62rwHpn_VTVVFLFRRI_2ROhDAwMVRA/s1600-h/MEDICINE+HIV+virus+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0YmUBEDFuikUlA391vfc6usvj5eO_ECuGDWuAsIB6wFh0eLPAGl5NuaSImu6Ni4kAr-sJ7TWW3DCyVywoo6XD5KPPLBggYBnuhss1Bg0x62rwHpn_VTVVFLFRRI_2ROhDAwMVRA/s200/MEDICINE+HIV+virus+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398480835356599522" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />EP:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The Heavenly Virus </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79994_cbbyl/1%20-%20Selected%20Aeroplanes%20Nudging%20North-East.mp3">Selected Aeroplanes Nudging North-East</a><br />2 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79995_xcbih/2%20-%20The%20Secret%20Of%20The%20Stone%20Dead%20Clown.mp3">The Secret Of The Stone Dead Clown</a><br />3 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79996_qlxuq/3%20-%20Fantastic%20Vibes.mp3">Fantastic Vibes</a><br />4 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79997_77h5h/4%20-%20Groce.mp3">Groce</a><br />5 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79998_kj6sm/5%20-%20The%20Return%20Of%20The%20Pain%20Grocer.mp3">The Return Of The Pain Grocer</a><br />6 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/79999_zyxbz/6%20-%20Sixty-Seven%20Bears.mp3">Sixty-Seven Bears</a><br />7 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/80000_romt1/7%20-%20Pain%20And%20Susan.mp3">Pain And Susan</a><br />8 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/80001_qqci5/8%20-%20The%20Night%20That%20Jeremy%20Flied.mp3">The Night That Jeremy Flied</a><br />9 - <a href="http://www.filefreak.com/files/80002_mo09t/9%20-%20Baby%27s%20Blue%20Gauntlet.mp3">Baby's Blue Gauntlet</a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">October 2009<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Zoom H4 digital fourtrack, PC with Audacity </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar, Ibanez electric guitar, Faridah Western guitar, Vox AD15VT amp </span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> I'm in daytime treatment therapy, and making and recording music is one of my therapeutic assignments. So here you go.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Not this time. Too much work.</span></span></span></span><a href="file:///I:/Mijn%20muziek/MP3%20128/The%20Heavenly%20Virus/1%20-%20Selected%20Aeroplanes%20Nudging%20North-East.mp3"></a>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-87640196815237174382009-05-03T17:20:00.003+02:002009-05-23T10:58:22.497+02:00New Toss-Off Song and Fragments of Band Session<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-rpYslVRD18KChmxxRM-lA_O1jqz-ad07snqcWm7KCNCTXbVRhKWvbV2OELLBlUdTc6gU9rFe4szZ2pbEyQMN6ZVesfhLnqe0zVmWPsFdpjFiDYJ0_sfQtD3nqpHFFe0OMkogw/s1600-h/GH-How+Bravely+the+October+Sun....jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4-rpYslVRD18KChmxxRM-lA_O1jqz-ad07snqcWm7KCNCTXbVRhKWvbV2OELLBlUdTc6gU9rFe4szZ2pbEyQMN6ZVesfhLnqe0zVmWPsFdpjFiDYJ0_sfQtD3nqpHFFe0OMkogw/s320/GH-How+Bravely+the+October+Sun....jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331621769079538018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/October%20Sun.mp3">October Sun</a> and <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/The%20Lost%20Ingredients%27%20First%20Blood.mp3">Fragments of The Lost Ingredients' First Session</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> May 2nd 2009; a Tuesday-night in April<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Zoom H4 digital fourtrack, Audacity<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Farida D-10E steelstring; Ibanez electric guitar<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> I have some serious inhibitions concerning musical creativity. To get me started once again I recorded this toss-off song. The other mp3 is more than a full minute of fragments of two songs we're working on with my new band, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Lost Ingredients</span>. The band might not survive very long, which makes the material even rarer. The songs are in an embryonic phase.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Said I'm sorry that I even exist / You're the golden goal I shouldn't have missed / I'm so worried that I might be a mouse / I have left behind those wonderful vows / I am scared of the sun / I can hardly be one / I'm intelligent or so it appears / I'm a giant in an ocean of fears / Pick your number and be gone for a week / For the next eleven years I won't speak / I'm so sober anew / Oh, October sun do / Shine on </span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-76872933459278284342009-02-09T13:26:00.005+01:002009-02-09T14:21:44.038+01:00Four New Songs: The Firstfruits Of My New Zoom H4 Digital Fourtrack<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0ASOd0gi672r6Gn-gqQF1wfcMw9XLTatBmoYAXhtG6xHZlcmcUb8tzHWkLnb8OubcCzco2n1bgWudXWU3SbtJ8VxMQ05SGnoG60SzktQHoPOr4yQ9CCu92PwmC8MVSyi03Huzw/s1600-h/Poppy+Appeal+Launch+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0ASOd0gi672r6Gn-gqQF1wfcMw9XLTatBmoYAXhtG6xHZlcmcUb8tzHWkLnb8OubcCzco2n1bgWudXWU3SbtJ8VxMQ05SGnoG60SzktQHoPOr4yQ9CCu92PwmC8MVSyi03Huzw/s200/Poppy+Appeal+Launch+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300780277894719778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />1) <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Without%20A%20Warning%20%5BNew%20Mix%5D.mp3">Without A Warning</a><br />2) <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/When%20You%20Move%20Into%20the%20Void.mp3">When You Move Into The Void</a><br />3) <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Painfully%20Missing%20From%20the%20Floor.mp3">Painfully Missing From The Floor</a><br />4) <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Won%27t%20You%20Tell%20Me%20Your%20Name.mp3">Won't You Tell Me Your Name</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Recorded on my new Zoom H4 digital fourtrack. Edited in Audacity.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:<br /><br /></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">[Without A Warning] Seasons change / Without a warning / They return / Attacking your mind / Golden cage / For terrible darling / I must walk / 'Till I'm in a coma / I must work / Until I'm defied / I must talk / Until I am / Swept away by the Final Day<br />[When You Move Into The Void] I / Am looking for ways to get hold of / The time that expires when you / Move into the void / And you leave me paranoid / High above the skies / Counting the days while I'm looking for ways to ignore you / 'Cause I ain't true / Terrible days in which voices are raised in the morning / And I can't get out / Rolling away with the prizes they pay in the morning / Just to be alive / I cannot say / I cannot say who I am now / But Im alive<br />[Painfully Missing From the Floor] She said there was no / Other way to take it / Bad news from hell / She could take it well / She was planning to leave anyway / And I watched her big head / Her beautiful big head / And I still heard what she'd said / When she was finally gone / And I had to check on her work / She'd / Been a pin-up / But now she was / Painfully / Missing from the / Floor<br />[Won't You Tell Me Your Name] Tomorrow / I'm gonna be a better man /My sorrows / Are gonna have to face my plan / I'm broken / I'm shattered and I'm left behind / I will need some time to heal / This is how I'm gonna feel / Ain't it right to wait for the morning / I'm gonna make a last appeal / Fly to the ceiling of the moon / This is how I'm gonna... / Hey, I ain't gonna climb my way up to the heavens / You have to let me in for your own sake / Everything I make is tumbling down / I ain't never gonna wear no crown / You gotta believe me / I gotta believe you / Wow, and I know your life and truth / Won't you tell me your name?<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-16883380504398293172008-10-22T15:43:00.005+02:002008-10-22T20:23:12.584+02:00Experimental and romantically desperate: fourteen and a half glorious minutes: 'Into The House Of Solid Souls'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoQnhMQeX3vhZt0rE-Z9t_Nar06pVbHmRdHG4-CvhZ9bQAAKp6-7_eQvjntuw6g_IEz2bGZ4bbJ8ZDrAnpBAApsiaFJAeHU-oWcJLXoW0gH0vt6YILKxJ6_7-bbou-FEwyeyI8Q/s1600-h/The+House+Of+Solid+Souls.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzoQnhMQeX3vhZt0rE-Z9t_Nar06pVbHmRdHG4-CvhZ9bQAAKp6-7_eQvjntuw6g_IEz2bGZ4bbJ8ZDrAnpBAApsiaFJAeHU-oWcJLXoW0gH0vt6YILKxJ6_7-bbou-FEwyeyI8Q/s320/The+House+Of+Solid+Souls.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260045454843143970" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Album:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Into The House Of Solid Souls<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Old%20And%20Buried%20In%20Sorrows.mp3">Old And Buried In Sorrows</a>; 2. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Naked%20in%20the%20Sea.mp3">Naked In The Sea</a>; 3. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Messy%20Mezzo.mp3">Messy Mezzo</a>; 4. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Into%20the%20House%20of%20Solid%20Souls.mp3">Into The House Of Solid Souls</a>; 5. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/He%20Fell%20In%20Love%20With%20A%20Patient%20Whore.mp3">He Fell In Love With A Patient Whore</a>; 6. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/A%20Welcome%20Song%20For%20Little%20Sunshine.mp3">A Welcome Song For Little Sunshine</a>; 7. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/The%20Messianic%20Age.mp3">The Messianic Age</a>; 8. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/For%20A%20Good%20War%2C%20You%20Can%20Wake%20Me%20Up%20In%20The%20Middle%20Of%20The%20Night.mp3">For A Good War, You Can Wake Me Up In The Middle Of The Night</a>; 9. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Never%20Been%20No%20Hiker.mp3">Never Been No Hiker</a>; 10. <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Into%20The%20House%20Of%20Solid%20Souls/Good%20Morning%20Crocodile.mp3">Good Morning Crocodile</a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> The recording of #5 dates from Dec. 2007; that of #6 from April 2008. All other songs except #8 (which was recorded around May or perhaps June 2008) were first recorded on fourtrack around June or perhaps July 2008. I edited and mixed all songs in October 2008. The process took a couple of weeks, with intervals of course.<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Fostex fourtrack; cheap dynamic mic or semi-SM58 mic, can't remember; Audacity; headset-mic<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Takamine acoustic guitar; Casio SA-1 keyboard</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">This was mostly a project of fourtrack-songs that I'd left, but have tried to revive with excessive digital editing. I took a couple of strange runaway songs on board as well. <a href="http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/">Jeroen Breebaart</a> saved my ass once again with his brilliant plugins.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">[1. Old And Buried In Sorrows] I never thought I would be here / Amazed and bewildered / I now that you /Can disappear and suddenly strike me / Intrinsically mild / But like fire / That burns to make sacred / You've made me your child / Take away / The greed and the hatred / Oh, oh / I never thought I'd be so old / And buried in sorrows / I try to find instant delight / Like there's no tomorrow / Hurried and wild / I'm on fire / Blow out like a candle / </span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">You've made me your child / For you I can't / Be too hard to handle [2. Naked In The Sea] Naked in the sea / Stung by a sacred bee / Leafs whisper goodbye / 'Don't you even try / To die / Unsaved' [3. Messy Mezzo] [4. Into The House Of Solid Souls] Into the house of solid souls / Swim in a bath of burning coals / I close my eyes in disbelief / Enclosed in a garden filled with grief / And I'm afraid my life has ended / I have com here to just let go / I'm haunted by your love offended / I could just shake my feet / I know / Shrunken back and disarranged / I just wish that nothing'd ever changed / You are real and you can laugh / Don't know how to lose all that I have</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> / And I'm afraid my life has ended / I have com here to just let go / I'm haunted by your love offended / I could just shake my feet / I know [5. He Fell In Love With A Patient Whore] Ooh, not a trace of delight / And the face of [sorrow] shining bright / Scorched heights of [hell] with the flags of the sweet / [Sunbird] burnt down to swart / Swallow and wag / Manhandled and put in a bag / Oh, the sun ain't shining no more / He fell in love with a patient [whore] / Oh, with a patient whore [6. A Welcome Song For Little Sunshine] Wake up / Little sunshine / The world's been dark / For such a long time / You are welcome / Welcome in our home / Little sunshine / Little sunshine won't you come / Won't you come? [7. The Messianic Age] Won't let down my hope / For the messianic age / Life that I can't grope / Like a torn out final page / I'm a man / Filled with blood / And I can / Talk to God / Searching for the start / With the finish far behind / Brainboard full of darts / There's a multitude of signs / I can't miss / My last train / Here them hiss / Fear and pain / I shouldn't fear / But I do / Shouldn't look back / But I do / Shouldn't look down / But I do / Training me again / For the road that lies ahead / Unexpected friends / Make me feel I'm not dead yet / I'm alive / But I'm bruised / Life or death / I can't chose / </span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> I shouldn't fear / But I do / Shouldn't look back / But I do / Shouldn't look down / But I do [8. For A Good War, You Can Wake Me Up In The Middle Of The Night] Shadows're gonna stone me / Truly I don't know how to reverse my skin / Bable boy gone to the shore / To dance in the moonlight with the wolves / Oh, how cruel / Is that ego on top / For the ego on wheels / [Drop me a line / Father ] / Thirsting for war / For a good, good, for a good, good, for a good, good, for a good, good war / Yeah [9. Never Been No Hiker] If this is only / A test for Meite / Gonna like me Bobby / You don't know I'm so sad / In the world I suffer / Never been no hiker / Never been no hiker.. [10. Good Morning Crocodile] Not heat / The cold sun / Empty nutrition / I bleed / Am not one / Roll me away / No hiding place for me / No sugar-coated eyes / The snowman holds me back / I've come too far / Trembling / Good morning / Crocodile belly / Mortuary / Thunderstruck ally / </span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Good morning / Crocodile belly / Mortuary / Thunderstruck ally / Good morning Croc!<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-13558473735306652152008-10-06T18:23:00.004+02:002008-10-06T18:51:46.024+02:00Nine-Minute Constellation of Lo-Fi Songs: 'The Fallen Hemisphere'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZrCBtX5eXKICQKXUhTf1zapk35k3DBZRU1yiZRvOlu7ss9QqJRnxoH4nfOdIAZPtHf0nQsr4rjblvVB1PE7IjvrENpg2HOCXGAzVc34gNoKTQNEzsLDNlTnfmwQqzus9zxqx7g/s1600-h/QuietSun.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZrCBtX5eXKICQKXUhTf1zapk35k3DBZRU1yiZRvOlu7ss9QqJRnxoH4nfOdIAZPtHf0nQsr4rjblvVB1PE7IjvrENpg2HOCXGAzVc34gNoKTQNEzsLDNlTnfmwQqzus9zxqx7g/s200/QuietSun.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254084490508175378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/The_Fallen_Hemisphere.mp3">The Fallen Hemisphere</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Between September 20th and October 6th 2008<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Cheap headset-mic, PC, Audacity<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Talamine acoustic guitar, Farida D-10E western guitar<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Fed up with having to re-install my recording equipment because of a bug that has appeared ever since I moved my stuff to another room, I decided to say ^(&*$-it and just do some improvized recordings with that good ol' headset-mic. I edited the stuff in Audacity with a minimal amount of effects because even most of my plug-ins were gone after the move. Anyway, here is a nine-minute constellation of songs that I think fit the weather.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Hello, papa / I'm a hellhound / In love with the tides / I just wish I could recall my number / 'Cause now I have to hide / Between the sandhills /<br />.....<br />She was standing in the doorway / Murmuring about gold / Things that I have never told her / I could only go away<br />.....<br />Hovering just above the ground / Sergeant Impulse keeps on letting me down / Patiently keeping an eye on the bathroom-door / She might come out and slap my map to the floor ! / Drunken stars, please step to the fore / I have only heard of you tenthousand times before / If you hover black between black between twinkle Jack specks / Drunken stars, please.. / Please, step to the fore..<br />.....<br />You said be silent / But silent was the last thing that I could be / Escape to the city with a bag full of garlic in our bones / Rise up full moon / With the flickering of bloodstained teeth below / You said / I want it to be slow and special / Like an evil snail<br />.....<br />If I could never cherish you / I would go back / And try to dig up the truth / Holding you and me aloof / We walked a pretty while together / You were naked / And I was all alone / Terrorized by inner drones / And if you'd rather be / Untied and free / Why don't you eat your pain / Take it all and all away / And if you are / Superfar / I thought that we could be best friends / But I didn't / Know about your withered hand / Buried in a rental tent / I choked below the yellow ceiling / She was smoking / Smoking under silver skies / Exploded into distant cries / And if you'd </span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">rather be / Untied and free / Why don't you eat your pain / Take it all and all away / And if you are / Superfar / Away from the enemy / Take the enemy away<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-17333897180387602742008-07-28T14:41:00.004+02:002008-12-09T07:42:55.260+01:00Newsflash: Gig on August the 1st in Joure!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1j3FHZoBYgsvjiiYoRfcdD6b34ND8GeYZsOVq_ht6rQMjGsFvN_VInwYng8jkFQ65J5qCWDUM1k33ybqWOlL-qOdUK578e7PAmy9DhTdqPuDPcxCHMgWcB5EB4fZfEhO3_O1S6Q/s1600-h/man_reading_paper.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1j3FHZoBYgsvjiiYoRfcdD6b34ND8GeYZsOVq_ht6rQMjGsFvN_VInwYng8jkFQ65J5qCWDUM1k33ybqWOlL-qOdUK578e7PAmy9DhTdqPuDPcxCHMgWcB5EB4fZfEhO3_O1S6Q/s400/man_reading_paper.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228045782889247250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />What & Where?! </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Yes! U is gonna gig once more. Friday the 1st of August 2008 on the </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.opesjouwer.nl/start.html">Street Festival of Joure</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">. Look </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.opesjouwer.nl/programma2008.html">here</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> for the program.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Erik Klinkhamer is going to support me on bass. We're practicing our asses off right now.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Featured will be a couple of brand new songs along with MURSB's classics like Solomon's Choice, Moonspells, Arrows of Hope, On a Monday He Stepped Out of His Grave and Went to Work, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Lester, Lester</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">, Filling Out Coordinates, Knick-Knackery Peace, The Story of the Three-Legged Horse, Only the Son, The Potatoe-Plate Midday-Break.. Stuff like that. Probably. Don't bet your money on it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Just be there!!</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-21995726077311072502007-10-20T17:21:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:55.332+01:00'Before the Gates of Answer Flood' : 13 hitlets!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3thRb3EqBh6a5CuvAD8O3LDHcxGkppYGmuvY_5hNrJdAUUUnywLYLSr3VUfnoHqNCQog2ckdXLF_TJWVmetgcUQKNbXDrTJGsYMeaEGE_0qUbn6cluhl0qkBioGr1bcuaFxrJug/s1600-h/Voorkant+Before+the+Gates.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3thRb3EqBh6a5CuvAD8O3LDHcxGkppYGmuvY_5hNrJdAUUUnywLYLSr3VUfnoHqNCQog2ckdXLF_TJWVmetgcUQKNbXDrTJGsYMeaEGE_0qUbn6cluhl0qkBioGr1bcuaFxrJug/s320/Voorkant+Before+the+Gates.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123458175490864850" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/1-%20Someone%20Who%20Didn%27t%20Rot%20Away.mp3"> 1 - Someone Who Didn't Rot Away</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/2%20-%20Who%20Cares.mp3"> 2 - Who Cares?</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/3%20-%20Arrows%20of%20Hope.mp3">3 - Arrows of Hope</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/4%20-%20Pageturner.mp3"> 4 - Pageturner</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/5%20-%20Sugar%20and%20Bones.mp3">5 - Sugar and Bones</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/6%20-%20What%27s%20a%20Man%20Without%20Eternal%20Passion.mp3"> 6 - What's a Man Without Eternal Passion</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/7%20-I%20Was%20a%20Happy%20Clown.mp3">7 - I Was a Happy Clown</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/8%20-%20The%20Side-Effects%20of%20Jesus%20Christ.mp3"> 8 - The Side-Effects of Jesus Christ</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/9%20-%20Sing%20for%20the%20Planter%20of%20Souls.mp3"> 9 - Sing for the Planter of Souls</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/10%20-%20Before%20the%20Gates%20of%20Answer%20Flood.mp3"> 10 - Before the Gates of Answer Flood</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/11%20-%20The%20Emptiness%20Cage.mp3"> 11 - The Emptiness Cage</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/12%20-%20Welbehagen.mp3"> 12 - 'Welbehagen'</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Before%20the%20Gates/13%20-%20Time%20for%20a%20Release.mp3"> 13 - Time for a Release</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> September and the first bit of October 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> PC using Audacity, </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic, cheap dynamic mic<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Takamine acoustic guitar, Yairi acoustic guitar, Squier bass, percussion stuff, toy xylophone, wind-organ </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> This was born out of the enthusiasm of beginning something new. I wanted even shorter songs - and lo, I succeeded. With <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunblisters</span>, I arranged the songs in chronological order of recording. Now I've arranged them strategically. It's only 12:47 minutes, but it's meant to seem much longer. There are different atmospheres here: lovely and absurd, cynical and honest.<br />The cover was created by Jonathan Sterkenburg (thanks pal. And thank your granddad for cooperating.)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics: </span></span></span></span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>1 - Someone Who Didn’t Rot Away /</b>And if I dream – somebody pinch me - but I don’t feel a thing! / I’m alive with all the hazards of you /And if I cry, it’s because I can’t remember a thing / Of all the miracles that I have seen / Through the curtain / And it is certain / That we die / But hey, hey, hey! / There’s someone who didn’t rot away..</span><br /></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b><br />2 - Who Cares? / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Don’t say you’re sorry / When you ain’t / Don’t say: ‘Don’t worry’ / To a saint! / Don’t say anything at all when you got no message for the unrich / Are you sandwhiched? / Between hope and despair / Like everybody cares / But someone does / Yes, he does</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b><br /><br />3 - Arrows of Hope / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>From the city I fled when I lost all my pets / I thought it was a joke.. / I’m a supersad guy with the moon in my eye / And I am always broke / Come to me, arrows.. / In the village of grey I am lost in today / I’d like to travel back / To the years of delight when the future shone bright / I always hit the deck / Come to me, arrows / Of hope..<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>4 - Pageturner / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Don’t wanna hurt nobody / I’m in too much pain / I’m gonna throw a party the day it’s gonna rain / It’s gotta be stopped, and started / Someone open this cage / It’s gotta be robbed or guarded / Someone’s gonna turn the page / I am a simple fellow, all I see is blood.. / I just don’t know why I know that there’s a God / It’s gotta be stopped, and started / Someone open this cage / It’s gotta be robbed or guarded / Someone’s got to turn the page<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>5 - Sugar and Bones / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Riding the waves of a million flies / I’m heading back to this paradise / If you feel cold or cannot sweat / I’m not so bold, I’m just a head / Carry the stones / Oh oh oh / Sugar and bones / Oh oh oh<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>6 - What’s a Man without Eternal Passion? / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >You’re extraordinary and afraid that your moment won’t last / All catastrophes in a box, always up to the test / Several sequences later you’re still on the very same spot / All exacerbates when you don’t have a passion from God<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>7 - I Was a Happy Clown / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Rain is falling down on the highways of desire / And the sellers are so tired / Wearing heavy crowns / I have been around / For a short while and I think back / To my schooldays, oh how happy / Yes I was a happy clown<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>8 - The Side-Effects of Jesus Christ / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >I’m sick and tired of these crazy meds / They steal and lie and have no regrets / There’s only one medicine / That really works / It’s the Son of God / Who was killed by jerks / Like you and me / But can you handle the side-effects, the heavy side-effects? / Can you handle the side-effects of Jesus Christ?<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>9 - Sing for the Planter of Souls / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >With my cold head on the playground / I should just stand here, I suppose / Breathe the air that I still take for granted / If I’m broken, then it be so / I know the one who loves the most / Will never leave the souls that he has planted<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>10 - Before the Gates of Answer Flood / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >I’ve entered a new story / The tunnel of a green light / I lingered till she came with force / The night / A dozen teardrops falter / The night is endless and without / A goal / Clap in your hands, it’s appalling! / The shameless way you’re happy to exist<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>11 - The Emptiness Cage / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >I need a break here, I step to the side / With a hole in my head, and a knife in my thigh / I feel so lucky, I’m one of the few / With the problems of Mars, yes I do! / Gather together all the flocks of delight / But when you got no mustard well them dogs gonna bite! / There’s sorrow and wisdom in the eyes of a child / But the beggars and tramps have gone wild / Beggars and babies in need of our love / Prisons and parties, keep spending your time / Your time and your money, your sugar and honey / I’m with the emptiness cage!<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b>12 - ‘Welbehagen’ / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Pictures of hot chicks abound / If you feel an unclean spirit, cast it out! / All the good things that the Lord has bestowed upon us, we try to steal them away / All my petty sorrows are bizar / My cravings and my longings are at war / I want to feel like a high botherbugger but I’m really just ripping myself apart / He wants to make us feel good / He wants to make us feel good / He wants to make us feel good</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><b><br /><br />13 - Time for a Release / </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >It’s time for a release / The stars are sighing: ‘please’.. / I’m hardly ever on my knees / I want the honey without the bees and flowers / Trepidation, yes / I hardly can believe that I’m alive / With all that’s hunting me / I hardly can believe what I can see / It’s time for a release / The stars are sighing: ‘please’..</span><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Copyright and attribution:</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >You are free to copy and/or share this album or the songs on it on a strictly non-commercial basis. This album is licensed under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0) which can be found at the following internet-address: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-music </a><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >Cover created by Jonathan Sterkenburg. Thanks!</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" > I used the following sound files from Freesound (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu):</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >By Spandau: rainoncarroof.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=40700); by sazman: 070422-cats-sample.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=34094); by sandyrb: USAT BOMB.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=35643); by Paracelsus: radio.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32266); by ERH: Sweethearts at war.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31645); by freesound: Bye_Bye_Claps_ses1.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=25292)</span></p>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-36021186363256434232007-09-09T09:57:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:55.471+01:00The New EP: 'Sunblisters'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7RF7-PHz1DXmdJxOPUMYCZKZAJ8oawS4Ael_fkl-WFUcXvbMoPDSqrwY9wueNpVK2dNXC_DQ02H-DdJcQ9bIxwXk9gsw9avHtzfCVxK5HbRBcI6Us4IaeeWOqVxjdZNe9YR0-Q/s1600-h/Hoesje+Sunblisters+uitgeknipt.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7RF7-PHz1DXmdJxOPUMYCZKZAJ8oawS4Ael_fkl-WFUcXvbMoPDSqrwY9wueNpVK2dNXC_DQ02H-DdJcQ9bIxwXk9gsw9avHtzfCVxK5HbRBcI6Us4IaeeWOqVxjdZNe9YR0-Q/s400/Hoesje+Sunblisters+uitgeknipt.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108119917056189650" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/01%20-%20Rearing%20Dogs%20that%20Never%20Bark.mp3">Rearing Dogs That Never Bark</a><br /> 2 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/02%20-%20Solomon%27s%20Choice.mp3">Solomon's Choice</a><br /> 3 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/03%20-%20Post-euphoric%20Blunder-Soup.mp3">Post-Euphoric Blunder-Soup</a><br /> 4 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/04%20-%20Whatever%20Happened%20to%20my%20Calling.mp3">Whatever Happened to My Calling</a><br /> 5 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/05%20-%20Maximum%20Output%2C%20Minimum%20Gain.mp3">Maximum Output, Minimum Gain</a><br /> 6 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/06%20-%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Night%20Air%20II.mp3">Secrets of the Night-Air II</a><br /> 7 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/07%20-%20The%20Old%20Light-Searcher.mp3">The Old Light-Searcher</a><br /> 8 -<a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/08%20-%20Moonspells.mp3"> Moonspells</a><br /> 9 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/09%20-%20Funkin%27%20with%20Cornelia.mp3">Funkin' with Cornelia</a><br /> 10 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/10%20-%20The%20Daily%20Mysery.mp3">The Daily Mysery </a><br /> 11 -<a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Sunblisters/11%20-%20Waiting%20for%20the%20King.mp3"> Waiting for the King</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Last third of August and first bit of September, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, cheap dynamic mic<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Takamine acoustic guita, Yairi acoustic guitar, Squier bass, shakers, Yamaha RY-10 drumcomputer </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Rather different from 'Cool World', both musically and lyrically. Short songs again. Used a lot of samples of every day sounds. Recorded in less than a month. Only 'Whatever Happened to my Calling' (original title 'Called for the Job') is an older song that had to stand in for a weaker little brother that died prematurely.<br />'The Daily Mysery' is <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> a misspelling.<br />Reception by small fan base was enthusiastic. Now what do you think of it, world? (Comment!)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Lyrics: </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>1 -Rearing Dogs that Never Bark [1:15] </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Questioning the question-marks / Never taking stand / Rearing dogs that never bark / Laugh while shaking hands / Wasn’t cruel otherwise / Had a puff too much / Had a passion to argue / Always feeling too slow / See, believe, if you don’t stop yourself / You’re gonna travel low / On the road to where you find the end / Of everything that grows / Having a good time you suppose / A fatal overdose</span></span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>2 – Solomon’s Choice [2:10] </b>A Solomon’s choice / Raise your voice / And speak to the terrible boys / Confident stuff / Opened wide / But closed when the going gets tough / I feel fresh tonight / Don’t think that I will ever sleep / Lost my cash tonight / Climbing a mountain way too steep / Warmer than me / All you see/ Are bits of spectacular dreams / I’d like to be/ Far away / From faults and failures today / I feel hot tonight / Don’t think that I will ever sleep / Talk to God tonight / Climbing a mountain way too steep</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>3- Post-euphoric Blunder-Soup </b>We wondered if it was real after all / The feelings we had were giant and small / Striking us like a power we didn’t know did exist / It was a fortunate explosion / Of disproportional emotions / I wanted to grasp the magical past / Preserve the contact that came with a blast / Muddling in a soup I didn’t know much about / It was an unfortunate exception</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>4 – Whatever Happened to my Calling [1:26] </b>Haven’t you called me for the job of saving? / Haven’t you been true to the life that you’ve given? / Haven’t I lied to myself and to you? / Haven’t I died to the world to be your son? </span></span> </p><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>5 – Maximum Output, Minimum Gain [1:11]</b></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Maximum output, minimum gain / Without you I just can’t sustain / In every season / There is you / Devil-dead-end at the corner of the road / Wish I could push a little button / And implode / You long for love that burns away / Everything else</span></span><br /><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>6 – Secrets of the Night-Air II [1:01] </b>I spend some time with the night / She tells me that everything’s right / But I can’t hear the cries of those / That get hurt / I can’t get out of this train / Of thoughts that drive away pain / Now I can’t hear the voice of him / Who got hurt/ And died to fill the universe / With his life</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>7 – The Old Light-Searcher [0:57] </b>I’m a silent crow / Waiting for a glistening light / To catch my old eyes / I just wanna grab and to hide it / Don’t ever play no more / I can feel the weight of my bones / I’ve seen too many nights / But I still hope that I will find it</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>8 – Moonspells [1:20] </b>Once again I hear the church-bells / Hear the living call the dead / I’m swimming in a sea of moonspells / I’m driving around in a bed / And all the pills that make you sober / They’re gonna turn you into an elephant / They’re gonna work until your brain is fried / Might it not be better to turn to God? / Might it not be better to turn to God?</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>9 – Funking with Cornelia [0:30]</b></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-GB"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>10 – The Daily Mystery [1:48] </b>In the middle of the week I fall down / Lying blinded on the floor / Struck by lightning that has come to turn around / In my mind I see the door / This is how I wish my life would start / Because I’m not as smart as you are / ‘Read your Bible and pray every day’ / But when you fade away, it’s hard / The dishes are waiting for me / Cold and absorbing / Rude and exhausting / I’m building a tower of songs / Their destiny is falling / Gibberish they’re calling to you</span></span></p><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>11 – Waiting for the King [1:37] </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Far horizons / Glorious reminders of our hope / Shattered puzzle-solving / Newspaper, coffee, I’m alive! / Don’t you sit down / Forever in an electric chair of fear / The future is waiting / The future of the king who will appear / The binding of the anointed one / Has freed us from our strings / He died a torturous death for us / The creator of all things / And now I wish to praise his name / The living one of old / You love me and I stand ashamed / How could I grow so cold?</span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-14086943666329672712007-08-31T12:48:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:55.779+01:00Newsflash: Got Some Five+ Songs But Am Waiting Till Full Release<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9O20Dh9jONsNnTv20BhckgJOUdj4hpxlGJQJajY5_6YBPSSDNYXZZc8oOqFuULYVtLKNxEVBxmNir1Jkx9s6TYae-h6S6mt-9H9xX087YlUjkfuvd4rKdUY6MZWDn8_XnZxOMg/s1600-h/Larry+Public+Service+Reading+Paper+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9O20Dh9jONsNnTv20BhckgJOUdj4hpxlGJQJajY5_6YBPSSDNYXZZc8oOqFuULYVtLKNxEVBxmNir1Jkx9s6TYae-h6S6mt-9H9xX087YlUjkfuvd4rKdUY6MZWDn8_XnZxOMg/s320/Larry+Public+Service+Reading+Paper+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104815738585834690" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />Yeah, I got some five+ songs, but as I said, I'm workin' on an EP, and though my EP's may be short, five short songs is too short even for me. So hang on, it's gonna happen, just give me some more time.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-80193764648053706472007-08-18T15:44:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:55.927+01:00Newsflash: Workin' on a New EP<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9A0xDeqL3fhbu2W6jwWFGT9Opuqn9-hK8rhO-4EMfmMmhgvCTK0A9zmuuGd1Wtpg8tF2KTl_yf1rzn8ODYONgbQItg8XHDijGZRqybsk3-aE5jkkQjKkRLijFU41jap5Zg4mqDg/s1600-h/Larry+Public+Service+Reading+Paper+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9A0xDeqL3fhbu2W6jwWFGT9Opuqn9-hK8rhO-4EMfmMmhgvCTK0A9zmuuGd1Wtpg8tF2KTl_yf1rzn8ODYONgbQItg8XHDijGZRqybsk3-aE5jkkQjKkRLijFU41jap5Zg4mqDg/s320/Larry+Public+Service+Reading+Paper+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100036797195052210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">I've decided to start working more project-wise, that is, creating collections of songs (EP's or CD's) rather than individual songs. This will significantly slow down my output but I think it's a better way of working eventually, one from which I will learn more. So I'm working on another collection. I'll keep you updated.</span><br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-87363237476233945542007-07-23T23:20:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:56.210+01:00Seven New Songs: 'Cool World'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqYGsyam7r4jCO7lkOyxp2WHfCuoJM5tpiTTlfllWS1i7y9pfiPWmIw5OgOLrbiCcKA3Lsk8zRfIg6t6-pABPaa0XDWJWDVWmzLv-n87wwBZqzqTNnAiKxse3CgyuiKZ-VmBkQw/s1600-h/hoes+Cool+World+geknipt.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIqYGsyam7r4jCO7lkOyxp2WHfCuoJM5tpiTTlfllWS1i7y9pfiPWmIw5OgOLrbiCcKA3Lsk8zRfIg6t6-pABPaa0XDWJWDVWmzLv-n87wwBZqzqTNnAiKxse3CgyuiKZ-VmBkQw/s320/hoes+Cool+World+geknipt.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096672503562193586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Songs:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/1%20-%20Rushing%2C%20Blushing%20and%20Reality-Crushing.mp3">Rushing, Blushing and Reality-Crushing</a> [2:08]</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/2%20-%20Accidental%20Semi-Pig.mp3">Accidental Semi-Pig</a> [1:35]</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />3 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/3%20-%20Lamebrain%27s%20Sad%20Silly%20Song.mp3">Lamebrain's Sad Silly Song</a> [0:58]</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />4 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/4%20-%20Happy%20with%20You%20World.mp3">Happy with You World</a> [1:20]</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />5 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/5%20-%20Wrong%20Lane.mp3">Wrong Lane</a> [1:03]</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />6 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/6%20-%20Martyr%20in%20the%20Wrong%20Arena.mp3">Martyr in the Wrong Arena</a> [1:36]</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />7 - <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Cool%20World/7%20-%20On%20a%20Monday%20He%20Stepped%20Out%20of%20His%20Grave%20and%20Went%20to%20Work.mp3">On a Monday He Stepped Out of His Grave and Went to Work</a> [2:57]</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">:</span> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I recorded this little lo-fi sucker for a friend of mine, Dirk in Amsterdam (cheers mate). It's a bit of a concept album, mixing biographical elements with a harsh critique (clothed in harmonic sarcasm) on our modern day hedonism and escapism.<br />It was recorded between Tuesday, July 17 and Tuesday, July 24, 2007. It's got seven songs that were all primarily recorded on my Tascam 8-track and edited in Audacity, sometimes adding extra tracks.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">July, Tuesday 17 till Tuesday 24, 2007<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic, dictaphone<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Ibanez electric guitar, Squier bass, Takamine acoustic guitar, eggs, shaker</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, wind-organ</span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-90822324072850869322007-07-08T17:27:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:56.677+01:00Quick and Drowning in Cult: 'Snapfastener Pre-Breakfast Kick'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGhIoBrkfFEEuAsLARk08mQ8SvGkNY2FXsNafNyd6Iz0kDlhay14DFnSBmsLvwjN7gei_25tVITSKc5foX4CBVg0L4jWN9tv-OBqNWEiOryDimc9CUFR7dOLvZ4Urm1P2SqxYNQ/s1600-h/snappy1.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGhIoBrkfFEEuAsLARk08mQ8SvGkNY2FXsNafNyd6Iz0kDlhay14DFnSBmsLvwjN7gei_25tVITSKc5foX4CBVg0L4jWN9tv-OBqNWEiOryDimc9CUFR7dOLvZ4Urm1P2SqxYNQ/s400/snappy1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084851326186173058" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Snapfastener%20Pre-Breakfast%20Kick.mp3">Snapfastener Pre-Breakfast Kick<br /></a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">July 7-8, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 4588 MKII used as a mixer, PC with Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic for guitar, cheap dynamic mic for vocals<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Ibanez electric guitar, Vox AD15VT amp, Squier bass, conga's with paint-brushes </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> The title is admittedly slightly Pollardish.<br />Played a guitar with the Vox's tremolo; played them old conga's with one euro paint-brushes bought at Xenos (flung quite a bit of delay over that track). That was yesterday. Wrote the lyrics this morning and recorded the vocals in the afternoon: 2 times the same part plus a higher voice. Used some reverb and delay over the first two vocal tracks. Mastering: Compression, hard limiter... You know how it goes.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Straightforward and shy at the same time / I die in the midst of a telephonic poll / Hey sandgirl, Stop lookin' at me! / I'm just a stand-in for the better part of me / Stop cookin', We're all gonna die / I'd like to order an airballoon - oh my!<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-48978352030201682492007-07-06T21:02:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:56.844+01:00Plain, Simple and Possibly Beautiful: 'Diarrhoea'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdFX6h596OmpY8NKpLhBU3vt0TzLxlMR4mUFOWQiYplc5BWq6S_p6J_Ax6uC3HGwTmozYjWCB0bVbdTxGvSXF8X5fta9t6FGSddyPxZ3Wdgd3HRR0tIX981VlUWq8Zujb84m2nQ/s1600-h/diarrhea.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdFX6h596OmpY8NKpLhBU3vt0TzLxlMR4mUFOWQiYplc5BWq6S_p6J_Ax6uC3HGwTmozYjWCB0bVbdTxGvSXF8X5fta9t6FGSddyPxZ3Wdgd3HRR0tIX981VlUWq8Zujb84m2nQ/s320/diarrhea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5084165870880567906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Diarrhoea.mp3">Diarrhoea</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Friday July 6, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C1 condensator mic for guitar, cheap brandless dynamic mic for vocals<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Old Yairi guitar in alternative tuning, Vox AD15VT amp</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Alternatively tuned my old Spanish guitar and plugged it into the Vox. Put the Behringer C-1 in front of it. Used the amps' tremolo. Strummed around.<br />Grabbed an old cheap mic that my wife once bought for singing in a band called 'Fudge' (long, long ago). Invented some lyrics, sang, didn't bother 'bout perfecting it so sticked with the first track. Put some classical delay over the vocals as well as some reverb. Duplicated the vocal track and ran a high pass filter over the dub.<br />Mastered the whole thing. There you are. Plain and simple.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> You found me high and dabbling in plastic truths / Got no reply / You let me go lo[o]se / Stepped into the world with a broken radio / Lookin' for a girl that would speak and make me slow / There was anguish / I was sandwiched / Between hope and bitter curse I pronounced / Over myself and over her / So we drowned / I didn't get it / I didn't know how love would feel / Thought it was just diarrhoea / It never made me kneel / There was sorrow / No tomorrow / But you have led us along paths unknown / Taking out this heart of stone<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-65219668459161474432007-07-03T22:01:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:57.086+01:00Dreamy Alt Country: 'Closing Up the Hatred Chapters'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5deIbPQvN5vkOERvSuTJxjQmn1Bi6guAQbNJHdVlOKWMRSgqKF1QurK31idxdncsO0RH2U_WWRu3XKZ-0KX8cNtP5QFGZXH4awCIicwwM5Ud8Slc3GbNBczjn20Qbq6SP_dVpFA/s1600-h/fable-the-lost-chapters-20050822003603351.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5deIbPQvN5vkOERvSuTJxjQmn1Bi6guAQbNJHdVlOKWMRSgqKF1QurK31idxdncsO0RH2U_WWRu3XKZ-0KX8cNtP5QFGZXH4awCIicwwM5Ud8Slc3GbNBczjn20Qbq6SP_dVpFA/s320/fable-the-lost-chapters-20050822003603351.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083065453014692418" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Closing%20Up%20the%20Hatred%20Chapters.mp3">Closing Up the Hatred Chapters </a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tuesday, July 3, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic for instruments, semi SM-58 mic for vocals<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar, eggs, shaker, Squier bass </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> I wrote this song the day before yesterday, at least the chords and the melody, in about five minutes. Today I decided to record it. Invented the lyrics on the roll as I usually do.<br />Mixing the song took quite some time. I used a classic decay effect over the vocals, amongst others.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> If you take me to the perfect storm / Where hearts are warm / And we get harmed.. / Don't believe that it comes today! / When it comes it will rain and rain / If you draw me to those poison eyes / I'd rather die / Than to hear him speak / But you gave me the words of truth / When you come, you renew my youth / The starlight shines again / The parlour is my friend / And I will close up all these chapters again<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-6337632765147642532007-06-29T12:36:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:57.178+01:00Experimental but Song-Like: 'Simply So Little Time'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LGIYYWQ4PmSsHjN7CMQt0cd6nH6ICZVTAIoBme9XQtmrGpMJTCSuGbLEGowbvesGlAx1adCkW9WIOabvm1UK2kvhKZtkGK_BX2TQ7fFWKaIC1Ic9FzPzy51xrG_7q0UJPBo0TA/s1600-h/Belarus3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LGIYYWQ4PmSsHjN7CMQt0cd6nH6ICZVTAIoBme9XQtmrGpMJTCSuGbLEGowbvesGlAx1adCkW9WIOabvm1UK2kvhKZtkGK_BX2TQ7fFWKaIC1Ic9FzPzy51xrG_7q0UJPBo0TA/s320/Belarus3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081435654659781138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Simply%20So%20Little%20Time.mp3">Simply So Little Time</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Friday June 29, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Ibanez electric guitar, Vox AD15VT amp<br /></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">An attempt at using my new amp's delay. Lots of cutting, copying and pasting here.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> There is only a phrase in the sand / Are you stuck in the middle / Of something falling out of your hands / There is simply so little / Time / That's why you should make the best of the rest of your life<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-60683805580099264772007-06-19T21:52:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:57.499+01:00Just Another Imperfect Beatlesque Song: 'Fighting Snakes' (Bonus-Track: 'The Swinging Stellabirds')<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcAvj51aV-yGD-zqSWnXcYHoB7YWs1lIZF8TGhVK9K0pWYqIz6Z77h3ks2H0yIYRHCGaZyXOjfYtfMXs06KCH0PLBZOcre-fNFYh4W8hYMwsuHzJQO5sJlm4LPqw0NPxlBHF_4A/s1600-h/fighting-snakes.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcAvj51aV-yGD-zqSWnXcYHoB7YWs1lIZF8TGhVK9K0pWYqIz6Z77h3ks2H0yIYRHCGaZyXOjfYtfMXs06KCH0PLBZOcre-fNFYh4W8hYMwsuHzJQO5sJlm4LPqw0NPxlBHF_4A/s400/fighting-snakes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077871572837449634" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Fighting%20Snakes.mp3">Fighting Snakes </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/The%20Swinging%20Stellabirds.mp3">The Swinging Stellabirds</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tuesday June 19, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer; PC using Audacity; Behringer C-1 condensator mic for instruments; semi SM-58 mic for vocals<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Takamine acoustic guitar, Squier bass (new strings!), percussion<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Wrote the song yesterday and recorded it, but the first session crashed and the second was bogus. So I did it all over today. I think it's not so bad; a beatlesque song. The lyrics are inspired by my preparation of a sermon on <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2021:4-9&version=31">Numbers 21:4-9</a>. I've been editing the vocals heavily to straighten up volume-wise imbalances. Used an 'anechoic room simulator' on the verse vocals with a large room. Recorded the chorus vocals with boosted hi frequencies; then edited the sound with some classic LP equalization; then pushed it through a hi-pass filter..<br />Yeah, it's a lot of work.<br />'The Swinging Stellabirds' was the <span style="font-style: italic;">aperitive</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> I don't know how / I could ever trust you again / 'Cause I am hardly innocent myself / I don't know who / Could ever clean up this mess / When will we ever get some rest at home / But you need Jesus in your heart / To fight the snakes that bite your heal / Only he can heal you / But you need Jesus in your veins / 'Cause there is comfoprt in his blood / You need a blood-transfusion / Your pain is no illusion / I don't know how / I will ever love and be loved / I find that my wells have all dried up / I don't know who / Could ever wake 'n shake me up / Misery will never stop, they say / But you need Jesus..<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-32623367540938623342007-06-08T17:54:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:57.639+01:00Semi-Taperecorder to Taperecorder Songlet: 'Seed'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bp4kQVBUjlwE8uoefhC89g0xCvb9xoTpKoNwKd20DEHpy9Kq-BnjNYPDTicL_X4iUJ8GOoyyNo9wWtjvGJevxyAa___jlE3wT6KgTfGyO_TOlK7PNq5sim2ciidUl2er7QC8jw/s1600-h/koolzaad.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5bp4kQVBUjlwE8uoefhC89g0xCvb9xoTpKoNwKd20DEHpy9Kq-BnjNYPDTicL_X4iUJ8GOoyyNo9wWtjvGJevxyAa___jlE3wT6KgTfGyO_TOlK7PNq5sim2ciidUl2er7QC8jw/s320/koolzaad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073724889287343986" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Seed.mp3">Seed</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Friday June 8, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tascam 488 MKII, pC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic for guitars, semi SM-58 mic for vocals<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> This is an attempt to do some taperecorder-to-taperecorder-like recording. When I was younger, so much younger than today, I used to record that way. It was an effective way at beating perfectionism: I used to overdub everything so many times that making mistakes was no longer an issue as you wouldn't hear it in between all the overdubs anyway.<br />So, for this song, I recorded some six semi-identical guitar-tracks and ditto vocal tracks. Did some ping-ponging here. It sounds... Well, not as quirky as the real thing, but quirky it is, no questioning.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> It is too warm today / To be afraid of distant wars / The sun is spoiling our heads / And wealth has made (up [Hollandism]) our beds / There's babies everywhere and / Mums who care about their / Brand-new families they / Wish to do a better job / And we're still childless we are / About to enter a new world / At least we hope that we will / We know we're ready for life / You put us together, didn't you / Say that you had our seed in mind / We know we can't do it / Only you..<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-90194781023881381692007-06-06T22:15:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:58.086+01:00Another Impressively Simplistic Ditty: 'Knick-Knackery Peace'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMfERfzUmjoc8_mDSHW-2ab5crVQ1tw7b3ziYL1IWYVhwZQp0_QlkyUk5We6v7Q2B7PgTQrEOqtfJOZiywGDTHQ99GOdjLxAE-0GI4pGF4Q5wI45i5_CFCQit81r4d5jO4Mr45g/s1600-h/Heather_01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyMfERfzUmjoc8_mDSHW-2ab5crVQ1tw7b3ziYL1IWYVhwZQp0_QlkyUk5We6v7Q2B7PgTQrEOqtfJOZiywGDTHQ99GOdjLxAE-0GI4pGF4Q5wI45i5_CFCQit81r4d5jO4Mr45g/s400/Heather_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073051477070036834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Knick-Knackery%20Peace.mp3">Knick-Knackery Peace</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tuesday and Wednesday June 5 & 6, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic, PC using Audacity<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar, shaker, eggs, Ibanez electric guitar, VoxAD15VT amp </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Another improvisation that grew into a song. Not an easy birth, this one.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Don't gimme / No knick-knackery please / I see a swarm of bees / Failing to find the flowers of peace / They suck the nectar of disease / Hey now, seems like you're struggling / Just to find a place to be safe / Hey now, seems like you're smuggling hope from the cradle to the grave / And the thingies aren't quite what they seem / Are we living in a dream? / Everything has a price and everyone wants reliable lies / Happy money, happy food and neuro-sorcery / For a happy-snappy mood / Hey now... / Razor-edge coins fall from the clouds inside your head / The fire in your loins could drive you home until you're dead<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-4875411290987254972007-05-30T22:25:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:58.300+01:00Lo-fi is cool-fi: Five Brand New Songs!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhSECgRbm7FPtRVg1AGqqWEYqZn71fwpU-IEXS9prdtcCCXba87Ez7jmVRr1tm8WO4RO_CDppDWE8D5PNVxyxXiy2Vdrr6YpXuQNNx7nL6sTOLJ_ynKWsStal_exUVYyHZ0da-Q/s1600-h/ct-spier-nyana-newspaper-racing-600.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhSECgRbm7FPtRVg1AGqqWEYqZn71fwpU-IEXS9prdtcCCXba87Ez7jmVRr1tm8WO4RO_CDppDWE8D5PNVxyxXiy2Vdrr6YpXuQNNx7nL6sTOLJ_ynKWsStal_exUVYyHZ0da-Q/s320/ct-spier-nyana-newspaper-racing-600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070733789823132978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Songs:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/1.%20Deaf%20n%20Dumb%20n%20Blind.mp3">1. Deaf & Dumb & Blind</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/2.%20Called%20for%20the%20Job.mp3">2. Called for the Job</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/3.%20Morning%20Zombie%20Needs%20to%20Pray.mp3">3. Morning Zombie Needs to Pray</a><br /> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/4.%20The%20Will%20That%20Didnt%20Work.mp3">4. The Will That Didn't Work</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/5.%20Laughing%20at%20the%20Juncture%202nd%20mix.mp3">5. Laughing at the Juncture </a><br /> <br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tuesday and Wednesday May 30, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tascam 488 MKII and PC using Audacity<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Takamine acoustic guitar, Ibanez electric guitar, Vox AD15VT amp, Squier bass, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic, eggs, shaker<br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Decided to start recording some real lo-fi sh*t right on my Tascam. I only have a 90 minutes tape left, which is not good for quality (you need 60 minutes). Sixties weren't available anymore. What the heck. I <span style="font-style: italic;">want</span> it to sound bad. Lo fi is cool fi.<br />Did these songs yesterday and today. Just improvising, guitars first and then the vocals. Juts mixing it down on the Tascam and then recording it on my PC. Added no digital effects, as far as I remember.<br />O yeah, the guitar amp is new, as well as the electric guitar. I bought them with the money my parents gave me for finally finishing my studies. My Godin Radiator is gone now. This Ibanez is the sh*t. The amp ain't too bad either, though a bit over-fancy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Deaf & Dumb & Blind:<br /><br />I'm so afraid that maybe I will die / Without blooming up into the sky / Without being whom you had in mind / Without seeing / Deaf & dumb & blind<br /><br /> Called for the Job:<br /><br />Haven't you called me for the job of saving / Haven't you been true to the life that you've given / Haven't I lied to myself and to you / Haven't I died to the world to be your son?<br /><br /> Morning Zombie Needs to Pray:<br /><br />I wake up and feel like a zombie again / I'm glued to my bed, Sister Sleep is my friend / But I know her older sister is Death / I get up and head for the shower / I shoot at ideas as the water comes down / Get dressed and I eat so I know I won't faint / There's no way to beat the new day / Man, I need to pray 'cause I long for you<br /><br /> Laughing at the Juncture:<br /><br />Listen to me and dust the moon / Wipe off the cheese and cry / You had a fight for eleven years / And lost every natural high / Go blow the trumpet, they will see / You never chose thsi hour / Clappin' and jumpin', let them be / First we all need a shower / 'n All this rivalry, it's only good for adrenaline / Too much too high for me / I just need food, please no channelling! / There's so much left that we can count / We need to take a break / There's so much lost that could be found / We must stop being fake<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-50257314395936196482007-05-23T22:33:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:58.555+01:00It Began with Alternatively Tuning a Rattling Guitar: 'Between Death and TV'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQ8ZjM_Nmz3YjJyJ5z-gODI2OPMXGZNMUMIBkczGGf2cQDN0e0JUjb9KpfTV9H4AAwZ3U2bjw9AXaVn465OMoi9pQdWNmfXwT1qeKozKJYeaFjd3Z5Tlf4QM0nFn8YyiNS4d6NQ/s1600-h/explosives09.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQ8ZjM_Nmz3YjJyJ5z-gODI2OPMXGZNMUMIBkczGGf2cQDN0e0JUjb9KpfTV9H4AAwZ3U2bjw9AXaVn465OMoi9pQdWNmfXwT1qeKozKJYeaFjd3Z5Tlf4QM0nFn8YyiNS4d6NQ/s400/explosives09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067860778824656098" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Between%20Death%20and%20TV.mp3">Between Death and TV</a><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Between%20Death%20and%20TV.mp3"><br /></a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Wednesday May the 23th 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Old ragged acoustic guitar, Squier bass<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Oh boy, does that guitar rattle. Anyway, lo-fi is lo-fi, and the question is: are you willing to go all the way with me? Did some percussion with my bare hands on this one. Guitar was in alternative tuning.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Well, I think that I am wrong /As I tell every hurt to get lost, oh! / And all options have been thoroughly discussed / I didn't come here just to watch TV and die / And release some kinds of tension in between / Neither is this a commercial enterprise / Well, I think(/know) that I am wrong.. / Couldn't we get a new morning?<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-535650341297316392007-05-23T16:38:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:58.695+01:00Spaced Out Synths: 'On the Verge of Going Nuttiebops'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhw3MHcWZfPE_mkxVprIXI_DQp65e4Za_eaMJ6mv4IVIAhsL038RQMU5QWNasBBR48pT3B7TWka7fGtPXn-MNKxc_MB6FCgNBo8Msj74TR70WaN0R8JFgsAJsnfnli_Ni0Lv8gw/s1600-h/Nuttie_Buddies.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhw3MHcWZfPE_mkxVprIXI_DQp65e4Za_eaMJ6mv4IVIAhsL038RQMU5QWNasBBR48pT3B7TWka7fGtPXn-MNKxc_MB6FCgNBo8Msj74TR70WaN0R8JFgsAJsnfnli_Ni0Lv8gw/s320/Nuttie_Buddies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067767612394071250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/On%20the%20Verge%20of%20Going%20Nuttiebops.mp3">On the Verge of Going Nuttiebops</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">May 17th 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">PC using Audacity </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Tuareg 2 (freeware tracker with in-built synths)</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Played around with software synths.. Results are completely random and completely cool. Almost.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">- </span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-62587001367053030292007-05-22T15:02:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:58.932+01:00Semi-Disco: 'Are You Hungry, Nino?'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyO9y-4-Wn8W1tU5jMdY5EhSFUW2CC3wsJ2wPIYhFwTjvNApt1-reWl0G8R5iSxcCHw7aCBmSkZ40cK56fP0TO8SPVmz_p46ZsGbH7nZpQ6JFzKZilT7tv-HOFaxn5opuQSCfcnw/s1600-h/florida_orange.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyO9y-4-Wn8W1tU5jMdY5EhSFUW2CC3wsJ2wPIYhFwTjvNApt1-reWl0G8R5iSxcCHw7aCBmSkZ40cK56fP0TO8SPVmz_p46ZsGbH7nZpQ6JFzKZilT7tv-HOFaxn5opuQSCfcnw/s400/florida_orange.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067371655064085650" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Are%20You%20Hungry%2C%20Nino.mp3">Are You Hungry, Nino? </a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Monday & Tuesday May 21-22th, 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar, Squier bass, Yamaha RY-10 drumcomputer</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A jam that rather quickly grew into a song. In the end you hear my wife asking: 'Are you hungry, Nino?' and our cat affirming her question with heartbreaking intensity.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Gonna find another reason / To hide inside myself / Anticipate the orange season / Gonna cut the world in half / And all this juice is gonna make me / Be a prisoner of fun / And all these bombs are gonna shake me / Leave me searching for the pun / Now I know that I'm too late/ I have to pay back what I ate<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-61426262726727192422007-05-20T18:08:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:59.150+01:00Sunday Afternoon Vibes: 'Henry & Cinderella'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1cIbvbbJVD_rACV7lED6ZgYNZi7dX_UsZt26zS5_WjvIiSshyphenhyphenDhQTwqZyp81tI7BDUffi8xuy837uwXD1szAKxyLuE0sPsJckEHEDPXU6PebxlyH-9G2X2qMQEYSiUTAAhRr2g/s1600-h/1-drooling-dog.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf1cIbvbbJVD_rACV7lED6ZgYNZi7dX_UsZt26zS5_WjvIiSshyphenhyphenDhQTwqZyp81tI7BDUffi8xuy837uwXD1szAKxyLuE0sPsJckEHEDPXU6PebxlyH-9G2X2qMQEYSiUTAAhRr2g/s200/1-drooling-dog.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066678206824342658" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song: </span><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/Henry%20and%20Cinderella.mp3"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Henry & Cinderella</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Sunday May 20th<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer (what's new?), PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Music Gear:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Takamine acoustic guitar<br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A quicky. Tried to add some space guitar after the basic two guitar tracks and the two vocal tracks - didn't succeed, just left it like this. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Not pretending to be anything special.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Those I often like the best. Has a peculiar quality about it - the quality of earlier four-track-stoned-on-a-sunday-afternoon recordings. Not that I'm stoned, far from it. Won't touch that shit again, preferably. Might go to hell if I do.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> I sailed the seven seas / And hoped that you would find me in a dream / I could find no release / I looked behind the screens of plastic trees / And plastic minds / Lying in the grass with you / Are we through / With the games that aliens play / And they do / Try to fool / Henry Hunter and Cinderella Drool<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-4045105079307512382007-05-19T20:24:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:42:59.382+01:00Toy Instruments Out of Pandora's Box: 'P-Box Ditty'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54nHMNmDBduO8a2UAFT8c2EemxQWPhwDCuZ-eVXO55QfAXIQEJGhQfjzIrgj7cMU1RqgRsxzAURzrGr71sYQowKhOqXwHJj81hAXCmK0sxI8U6EJt6kz122-gd4aRdvM8GS6frg/s1600-h/bony-fish.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54nHMNmDBduO8a2UAFT8c2EemxQWPhwDCuZ-eVXO55QfAXIQEJGhQfjzIrgj7cMU1RqgRsxzAURzrGr71sYQowKhOqXwHJj81hAXCmK0sxI8U6EJt6kz122-gd4aRdvM8GS6frg/s400/bony-fish.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066345780650599538" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/P-Box%20Ditty.mp3">P-Box Ditty</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Session Date:</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">Saturday May 19th 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recording Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer, PC using Audacity, Behringer C-1 condensator mic, semi SM-58 mic<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Music Gear:</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> Kawasaki toy keyboard, toy trumpet, Takamine acoustic guitar<br /></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> This is typically a song born out of despair. I bought a one euro Kawasaki toy keyboard which turned out to be hardly functional. The keys were so stubborn that for getting the bass and higher keys together I had to record two tracks. I played a passionate piece on a little toy trumpet and threw a bunch of reverb and delay over it. Played a rythmic acoustic guitar bit which serves as a bass as well. Wrote some lyrics, recorded two vocal tracks.. There you go.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Will you raise up in the sky a new breed of clouds to follow me / Will the end come to the world and wake up dead parts of me / Coming to swallow me, coming to make me see, coming to open up Pandora's box / Coming to chase the sea - there's the moon! / I feel dead but I must live cause I'm alive ain't I / He has touched me and I cried cause I was all hurt by / Stinking fish I kept as pets behind the cellar-door / But they krept under my bed and made a lot of noise</span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19043100.post-3780433811301943172007-05-09T23:05:00.000+02:002007-05-10T00:23:38.440+02:00Video of 'You Belong to Me' Performed at the 5th-of-May Gig<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qX5jX9jyuAE"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qX5jX9jyuAE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Song:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/2/46737/You%20Belong%20to%20Me%205-5-2007.mp3">You Belong to Me (audio extracted from camcorder)</a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />Log: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Here we are, P o r c u p i n e, risen from the ashes. This song was one of the songs I recorded for my first demo in 1995. The lyrics were inspired by a friend of mine, Jelmer van der Leij, who asked me if I couldn't write a songtext with the lyrics 'As the flowers bleed in heaven'. Well, I could.<br />The song, though most often performed alone and acoustic, suited the band real fine. The last time we played it was some ten years ago, but it surfaced immediately when we got together again. Rocks.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Lyrics:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">As the flowers bleed in heaven / You belong to me / As the hours fail to severe / You belong to me / Up in the sky / She looks at me / I whisper Love / For you and me / She aks me Why / We cannot flee / And I sing: You belong to me<br /></span></span></span></span>Martenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08383945797885018886noreply@blogger.com1