Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - HHA (Demos)
Various - GLASS ONION: SONGS OF THE BEATLES
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - The Great Carving
Kavall - Inmitten
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, and Andrew Cyrille - Taking Turns
Awoke super early and listened again to the 25 minute demo (and some tasty Beatles covers)...
HHA = Hip Hop Album - but it will not be that...
Anyway...
Immediately to work...
...re new music Friday - not that I "need" any new music...
...and the HHA with Edward Spark...
By 7:44, the full 63 minute Demo LP had been created...
I had AI create pictures of two men in various situations...
I asked for minimalist...
Then asked for it to be more realistic...
Then I asked them to be surrounded by synths...
...and, finally, that they should be bald...
This was my initial pick for the cover art...
I WeTransferred the 63 minute demo to Edwardo...
An hour later the 14 tracks had been split and revised artwork, the second pic, added...
"How did you do it so quickly, Dave?" I hear you ask - or I imagine I hear you ask...
During our discussions over the course of the day, said this about what I'd done...
"As ever, the element of chance in what I have done creates "stuff" which is interesting...
I basically added various Disquietmusik guitar pieces to your tracks, amending keys and tempos to go with your pieces and underlaid the entire work with some tasty Short Wave Radio and slowed to 5% ambience from a New Zealand building site...
Now it sounds like you and me and that we'd always planned it - and your erstwhile friend's presence has been extinguished...
Very little thought went into it but the power of coincidence prevails as ever...
I know it’s hard for you, having heard these as “songs” a thousand times but, other than the first couple of bars and deciding MOG was shite, I’ve not heard any of these pieces with words...
In fact I put this together mostly without even listening to your tracks apart from the first one...
I just checked the key and BPM and added the guitar (and on the 1st 3, extra drums - I was too impatient to do that with the rest!)...
Then, underlayed the SW Radio and slowed ambience...
...and, once I had all of them done, exported the whole thing - it wasn’t till then that I listened to any of them all the way through but this is a very nice LP, thanks to your painstaking work and my 30 minutes..."
It was, in fact around four hours' work to do it...
Re the artwork and titles, I explained to Ed that "the two guys look to me to be railroad barons carving up the land - other than "The Great Carving", the track titles are taken from names of North American Railroads"...
Listening back...
Then, out with Anne - a 30 minute walk to the dentist...
Various X-Rays taken - nothing untoward found - some fixing re overbite and sensitivity...
£50 away...
To the tram...
Into St Andrew Square...
Xmas shopping for families...
...was followed by a well deserved lunch at the Rendezvous...
Three courses for around the same as the dearest starter at the Golden Dragon on Monday...
Didn't mange to catch the banana fritters before they mysteriously disappeared...
An X18 chasing a 26, which it caught and home from the terminus...
November almost gone...
Listening back again...
"Milwaukee Road" is the fave for both me and Sparky...
I will soon receive the full stems for his music and work can start in earnest...
Today's work will no doubt be included in a bonus stylee...
Liking the Amsterdam screen saver that's popped up out of nowhere...
On telly, "Intelligence" came to an end - we were disappointed to find that "Season 3" comprised just one double length episode...
Oh well...
Remains of Anne's lovely home made soup for tea...
Caught up with "Shetland" after sleeping through it on Wednesday...
The Aussie "Death in Paradise" continued and was good...
As was "Have I Got News For You"...
Late on posted some CDs listened to this week for CDFriday...
...then, preceded to fall asleep again, before heading to bed at midnight...
To be fair, it had been a busy day...
Highlight of the Day : Creating...
Today's New Music:-
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