wrote this on a whim, thought some of you may get a kick out of it:
http://popfashioninfantry.bandcamp.com/album/his-broad-brow
should be on Amazon any day now. It was supposed to be relaesed on his B Day (Oct tober 25th), but it wasn't. Oh well.
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
Just in case you want to give me money for the official mixed/masterd version, because money is good:
http://www.amazon.com/His-Broad-Brow/dp/B0061X99CU
Catchy.
This is good. It trumps my drunken sailor folk playing. Is all the music done by yourself?
Thanks for the feedback.
Nah it's a band effort. Even if I write the basic guitar I usually only do vocals, bass, and keys. I can't play drums at all - and even if I write on guitar sometimes, I usually want to spend as little time with a guitar as possible.
Do you write sea shanty music? I have actually tried to write a couple, but with no good results so far.
More land savvy than sea shanty, but the sloppy folk playing you'd expect of those sort. Sort of like this and this and this mixed together.
That's cool - if you can get a good full guitar tone like that (it sounds like there may have been a few 12 strings used on one or two of those tracks?) and get a good natural sounding echo / reverb on your vocals it should be easy to record, if you haven't done so already (and if you have, maybe you could post a track?).
Though I think my vocab may be different from yours. When I say "folk" / sea shantey I usually think of fairly traditional styles of local music - I don't think that was traditional folk (?) - it kind of reminded me of what I would think industrial type musicians would do if they converted to an acoustic guitar sound - could be worng but that's kind of what it reminded me of. And of course, this could still be called "folk", and probably is, it's just not the 1st thing I think of when I think of the word.
The Current 93 song had a 12 string. Death in June will occasionally use one live. I don't have anything to record with except my Flip video camera (which surprisingly has good sound quality, filmed a friend's band with it and used it to make a "live album"). If I record anything soon it would most likely be a bunch of friends and I playing for the hell of it and nothing serious (nothing of my work).
It's all part of the neofolk genre and you're actually not far off with the comment about industrial artists, Current 93 was doing noise projects before working with Death in June (as well as Boyd Rice), whom they cross influenced each other into doing neofolk and martial/industrial music. Pioneers of it seem to be Death in June, Sol Invictus, and Current 93 (all of which whom worked together at some point). The "neofolk" sound started popping up around 85 and was in full bloom by the late 80's/early 90's.
The more martial/industrial side of it, compared to a more laid back sound, as well as the "neo-classical" influences of Sol Invictus. Might as well mention Forseti also. The sound of the genre is pretty broad, from a more straight forward minamalist acoustic guitar sound to having a lot of electronics. If I had the software I wouldn't mind recording some guitar tracks and adding a few effects to it (I've already have stuff planned out, just not the resources to do it).
Edit: this would be the best representation of what I'm going towards.
I liked Location & Locomotion better :P
The Anarch is to the Anarchist what the Monarch is to the Monarchist. -Ernst Jünger
@bert
The softwareis pretty easy to pirate if you re just looking to record on your own - just look up acid music downlaods. Other than tha you can get fairly cheap 8 tracks at pawn shops or even a store like MArs music. And if you want to go old school, you can get a really cheap Tascam high bias cassete 4 track of Amazon or Ebay I'm sure - which is easy and fun to use.
As for adding effects, check into fruity loops, which is also easily pirated. And when you get done recording, be sure to post your music on here. Also,if you live in the great lakes region and haven't figured out how to play live anywhere and would like to PM me - I may be able to help depeing on the situation and if you don't have crazy rock star expectations.
@jargon
thanks for noticing the b side...I like it but we used the wrong drums and vocal tracs, so it bothers me. There should be no fills on the drums on the verse - plus my vocals are flat.
You're in luck, I just recorded this tonight (recorded with a video camera, converted to audio). Bad quality, and I f'd up quite a lot, but you'll get the general idea (only had to record once luckily, I didn't feel like stoping and repeating for a 7+ min track). I've heard of Fruity Loops pretty often, and have talked to people who'd use it for making electronica stuff.
Ha, I doubt I'll be "touring", but thanks for the offer. Sadly, all the DIY places that used to be thriving around here for music eventually end at some point.
Cool beans, it's good enough to still see what the song is. Nice progressions - i liked it when you went into switch to the relative minor (?) off the main riff. Sometimes it's best to play with a metronome to help the mistakes flow a bit better.
Either way, ifthere is no place to play in your area, an you like doing it - play at parties, or wherever the hell you can - maybe an abandonded warehouse or empty field or something.
And remember Acid Music and Fruity loops can probably be download for free somewhere fairly easily.
Good luck with your music
Was playing around with Fruity Loops earlier today and plugged my amp into my comp and came up with this. All I did was pick the E string once, the rest is feedback from the amp messing around with the knobs on the amp and guitar (low and mid all the way while the high is practically off). Only effect I have on my amp is the "chorus effect" which gives it that wavey sound. This is probably far from your cup of tea, but I sleep to this type of stuff.