Electric Swill

The world isn't the glamorous potato it's made out to be anyway. The sooner this is realized, the sooner we can dash our illustrious misconceptions and proceed to engage said potato in meaningful ways.

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Yada Yada,
Brennan

Thieves - a missing link?

*Am I far off on this one?

It feels like it could lead into something very well. Don't know what quite yet. Some ideas floating around. Tinkering around like some blimp mechanic.

A lot of the tracks need polishing, that's a given since this is all just being mashed together with my looping pedal. I have a very high chance of becoming overwhelmed when the choice of possibility is presented. Maybe I'll have my new mac by then and it'll be my first project. Though I suspect I may become an electronica junkie right off the bat with all the beats I see you can make.

Now I'm reconsidering moving parts around, the actual composition comes next. Things are getting exciting.

A sudden ambush of stuff lunged up at me continually for the past few weeks.

I've been mulling over another piece for a while, trying to decide whether or not it belonged in this song. Since then I have come to the conclusion that it deserves its own legs. With that decided my brain decided to finally move past the tumble dry stage and come up with this bit. I hope you like it as much as I do.

• Part 1 - rCut2.
• Part 1 - rCut3.
  
  
  
  Lyrics:
  Don't be afraid of me.
  Lock your windows now they're coming.
  Don't be afraid of me.
  I will stop pretending if you do.
  *CherubBoyy
  
  Edit 11/24/2008:
  Added Part 2 - rCut3
  rCut3 adds a hint of xylophone and a new bass line over the "Lock your windows" line.

Thieves - another part of the puzzle

A lot of interesting things have been happening with this song. It originally started as this sort of meeting place where the members of The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Smiths sat down around a large wooden table and reminessed about their teenage years. But then space shot out my ears and the reverb dial couldn't hold still. After I had posted the part that I posted earlier, I went back and rethought a lot about how these bits would sound and how they would work together. 

I'm not sure if I've achieved either but I suppose these are the medium stages of a longer process.

I present my audience with another part from Thieves - my work in progress.

• It says "Part 3 - cut2" but don't trust it.
  
• Part 3 - cut3

Lyrics:
Who are you? Leave us alone. Thieves!


Fun facts about this chunk:
- didn't sound anything like this until after a wonderful bike ride at night where I met a fellow musician, Demez, who was also enjoying a bike ride.

- it's my first recorded guitar solo

- it's unfinished

- You'd think that a second piece of a song would clue its author in on what it's about.

Enjoy,

Brennan

P.S. I just noticed that mediafire (download host) has added a little ad beside the download button. Make sure to uncheck it unless you really like spam. Click on my ads instead.

[Edit: September 16, 2008 @10:27 p.m.]

Added new cut. 

Will be posting all subsequent cuts of this part when they become available. 

Thieves - part4 - cuts

Hello,

This is a section of a song I've been working on. It's called "Thieves". I thought it might be fun to show the/my fractal stages of songwriting.

Lyrics:
We need to feed. We are never full. We are thieves.

Links that are [hopefully] working:

• Part4 - Cut2

• Part4 - Cut3

If I can be as productive on the other parts I will upload those as well.

[Stay tuned. Use headphones.]

Cheers,
Brennan

[Edit: September 16, 2008 @10:17 p.m.]

Added old cut. For comparison's sake.

Will be posting all subsequent cuts of this part when they become available. 

new batteries. old headphones.

This is my musical cubicle.
What I do when I'm not scribbling.















Clockwise from Left:
1. (red) Boss GT6B pedal board
2. Fender Guitar Amp
3. GB Backline 110 Bass Amp
4. Yamaha ydp223 digital piano
5. Bose Noise=Canceling Headphones (w/fresh batteries)
6/ Tascam US-144 recording device
7. Korg MicroKorg
8. Korg er1 rhythm synthesizer
9. Korg ca30 tuner
10. Creative speakers
11. dad's old clarinet
12. Bow
13. Music Stand w/Notebook + Pens (black/blue)
14. Picks and sticks
15. Yamaha digital keyboard
16. Boss tu-2 chromatic tuner (no batteries)
17. Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass
18. brother's Fernandez electric guitar (on loan for my old bass)
19. mom's old spanish guitar
[Not Pictured]
20. Fender Precision bass (my 1st bass)
21. SWR Henry 8x8 Bass Amp (aka Hank) w/Ampeg B2R head

22. Boss RC-XL20 looping station

23. my age

Glorius Shuffle

Tonight I saw my roommates fight to the tune of "Warwick Avenue" (0:00-1:26) by Duffy, an emerging soul artist from England. Another tiff screeched to life and was concludedly squashed as the song came to a close (3:47). They then ravaged each other with a bear hug until 1:09 in "Scared".

(Shuffle was turned on.)