This is the 1st album teaser for “Elegy For The Living” which contains 9 x 1 minute snippets from the first half of the album (a 2nd one will follow soon):
Note: The footage is not what’s going to be the full length music video which will be done for the full length of the album (approx. 70 minutes, 4K).
This is the first Q&A video, more coming:
I’ve done around 30 different mixes, tried like 10 different guitars, mixing the drum kit and making it sounding right has taken an incredible amount of time, I’ve tweaked the tiniest bits of sound to total exhaustion.
Should the grand piano have more mechanical noises… should the timpani have slightly more reverb… should the guitar have a delay or not, should I add the cello on top of the full orchestra, or an oboe? Should I widen the acoustic guitar or leave it as is? Is this chord harmonic enough for the one before? Is the Oberheim too loud? Should I use the Gibson EB0 or the Les Paul bass, finger or pick? Stratocaster or Telecaster? This or that cabinet, or none at all, what amp? Distortion or slight fuzz, tremolo?
Questions like that are bothering me all the time. And the production is so huge that my DAW crashes at least 3 times a day. Plus, anxiety, doubts… because “is it all worth it? Will they understand it?”. Sleepless nights. Then again: “fuck yeah!”. It all sounds absolutely heavenly, I get goosebumps all the time. And nothing is even mastered at all.
I have half of the album sounding as perfect as it gets, with the needed amount of imperfection to become perfect. I open parts of it again, again and again… stuff that I did a year ago that doesn’t sound right today, and may sound not right next week. You get the idea. 😉
No worries, it’s all good. It’s finished very soon. Once it’s done I have nothing to do with it anymore. Then it’s a product with a life of its own, and I will watch it learning to walk.
I will reply to all of your questions in a video that I’ll upload to Facebook and YouTube, very soon.
Our free soundware round-up series is back with one of the largest lists of free audio loops and samples to date. Some of the highlights include high-quality vocal samples, a sampled grand piano in SFZ format, and a huge collection of drum machine sounds. Check out the best soundware freebies for January/February 2017 below and we’ll… Read More
Source: Free Samples & Loops Round-Up (January/February 2017) – Bedroom Producers Blog
And so all day this Friday, February 3rd (starting at 12:01am Pacific Time), for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union, who are working tirelessly to combat these discriminatory and unconstitutional actions.
This means, when you buy my music at bandcamp on this Friday, 15% from what you pay will go to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The American Civil Liberties Union is a non-profit organization whose stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” Short: they were the ones that sued Donald Trump, and they deserve all our support. Plus, you get some great music.
Here’s something to get you started with, my latest album from 2014:
85% of what you pay for my music will go to me. Also not a bad thing, if you ask me. 😉 Thank you!
Source: This Friday, Stand with Bandcamp in Support of Immigrants/Basic Human Values « Bandcamp Daily
I have a few new things to update you on.
During my visit for a gig in Berlin last week I’ve found the time to (finally!) collaborate with my good friend, legend and all-over genius Bernhard Wöstheinrich (you have to check out his stuff, trust me!). Not only has it been a wonderful time with someone I dearly cherish, we’ve also worked on 3 tunes that sound crazy awesome (more is planned, of course), and the titles and the name for our new project are just as promising (and weird) as the music itself. Bernhard’s almost impossible wizard-like contributions to the project are, well … almost impossible to describe. The wizardry is strong on this one, that’s for sure. We will reveal details on this as soon as we can. And maybe — we really don’t know that, yet — we even perform our stuff live. Like in “playing instruments on stage”. First, let’s finish that music. Also, we are looking for the right label for this. Early interest is welcome.
Thanks for reading. 😉
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