New old scraps

Brothers and Sisters!

I was hooting around in the readily available audio archive of yours
truly and found some old sketches and goofs and whatnot that made me
wanna start a (rock?) band. So I made one or two up, and posted 'em
at soundclick, with a possible eye towards recruitment, and at the
very least, to put my feet to the fire to come up with some more new
stuff.

If anyone's interested, go to

http://www.soundclick.com/themyrmidons

for the more microtonal selections.

There's also a xenharmonic thing called "Ipiales" at the more (?)
conventional (and probably more rockin', in a way) page

http://www.soundclick.com/theniceladies

Hopes you enjoy, comments welcome, and all due apologies (in
advance?).

Salud,

Pete

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 "ambassadorbob" wrote:
>
> Brothers and Sisters!
>
> I was hooting around in the readily available audio archive of yours
> truly and found some old sketches and goofs and whatnot that made me
> wanna start a (rock?) band. So I made one or two up, and posted 'em
> at soundclick, with a possible eye towards recruitment, and at the
> very least, to put my feet to the fire to come up with some more new
> stuff.
>
> If anyone's interested, go to
>
> http://www.soundclick.com/themyrmidons
>
> for the more microtonal selections.
>
> There's also a xenharmonic thing called "Ipiales" at the more (?)
> conventional (and probably more rockin', in a way) page
>
> http://www.soundclick.com/theniceladies
>
> Hopes you enjoy, comments welcome, and all due apologies (in
> advance?).
>
> Salud,

Pete,

Salud a ti también!

The Nice Ladies Rock!!! But what's the right year -
1992 or (heh) 2007?

Nice bluesy guitar riff in Chuck Jones Jeff.

Only thing that appeals to me in Ipiales is the solid
drumming; the tonal component is rather vague and
feels directionless.

Remorseless is. :-) I've _known_ Nice Ladies like that
... But 2:22 is way too short - I'd like to hear a longer
version of that, say about 4 minutes, with a big
crescendo near the end.

So Many Words has a pretty guitar fill, and a strong,
broad melody; there could be a pop song in there! 8-0

I like the rhythmic interplay between textures in
The Myrmidons' Road to Ibarra. A bit like hearing
a gamelan transported to the high Andes!

But the other three didn't cut it for me.

One question - why no singing? Unusual in any "rock"
group.

Oh OK, one MORE question - what parts of the music
did _you_make?

Regards,
Yahya

Hi Yahya,

Interesting comments, thanks VERY much!

You’re teasing, right?

I played everything. Guitar, bass, keys, cello, and drums/handdrums (in one case I overdubbed the kit, and in the other, I had the kit track first. Note: my drumming has improved considerably in some ways since then, but so has my discretion about recording it, I hope ;-). Oh, and Tarka (Bolivian subharmonic flute)! [Fair warning: I have a clarinet now, and have learned to play it!]

There are loops and sequences, but a terrible (;-) lot of it including the triggered-with-a-footswitch one-hit-at-a-time fuzz-toned and echo-ed snare sample on So Many Words, is actually played. c. 1992 is correct. I hope I’m still alive in 2007 (smile).

My singing and songwriting is very much a work in progress. There’s a link on one of those soundclick pages that will supply all the evidence you’ll ever need to explain why it languishes, perhaps. But I still dream, as Richard Thompson once sang…

Cheers,

Pete

Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 "ambassadorbob" wrote:
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>
> http://www.soundclick.com/themyrmidons
>
>
> http://www.soundclick.com/theniceladies
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