Comments on: As kids

As kids

ORthey — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:09:17 -0800

A short instrumental, played over an old tape of me reading something in French as a kid.

Doing this felt very nostalgic, both because it was me as a kid and because I so rarely play audio cassettes. I have no idea what it is I'm reading!

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:50:02 -0800

Really, really cool. Is that the fist-against-the-desk drum?

By: ORthey

ORthey — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:08:34 -0800

Thanks, micayetoca. You're right again... I think it may be time to get myself a real drum kit! Or at least use some electronic beats.

By: haunted by Leonard Cohen

haunted by Leonard Cohen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:12:10 -0800

You have really captured a great mood there, lovely. **reaches for a tissue**

By: danb

danb — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:52:17 -0800

I like this a lot.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:05:53 -0800

Nooo, not at all. It sounds great, and actually when I heard it in N'entre pas I thought it was a drum machine (played by hand, not programmed).

You really did manage to get a different general "feel" in this one. Congrats man.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:10:31 -0800

nice. really wonderful.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:39 -0800

ORthey, thank you.

By: chococat

chococat — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:22:44 -0800

Something about a chief in pyjamas?
My favourite thing is the sound when you turn the mic on and off...I had the same kind of deal as a kid; I think you turned the "off" switch on the mic and it actually put the tape recorder in standby until you turned it back on, so you get these kind of lurches in sound as the tape gets back up to speed. Very nice. Kind of the audio equivalent of jump-cuts in super8 film, in a nostagic-y way.

God, I am going to have to dig out my old BASF cassettes of crank phonecalls we did in the 70's.

By: edlundart

edlundart — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:01:11 -0800

Very pretty. It does have a kind of cinematic, nostalgic feeling to me.

By: !Jim

!Jim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:15:41 -0800

This was really cool, thanks.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:04:10 -0800

It feels like a scene in a movie. Very nice.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:25:08 -0800

Thanks everyone!

Chococat, I also love the little lurches. They happen right after I mess up reading a word... my mom was a university French professor and would tape me and my sister reading or telling stories and bring them into her phonetics classes for her students. We probably have twenty tapes full of this stuff!

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:12:49 -0800

That's funny. Similarly, my mom was a Family Studies teacher and when my sister and I were kids she taped us reading that Baby skit from Free to be You and Me and would play it every year for her class. I think she was still playing it into the '80's when I ended up at that high school, but mercifully I was spared the humiliation of sitting through it with my teenaged friends.

By: umbú

umbú — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:22:34 -0800

I like this a lot. Before I even read edlundart and Corduroy's comments, it struck me as either the music accompanying the opening credits or the closing credits of a film I'd like to see.

Thanks for the banjo jam invite--I'd love to, except that I only have access to a banjo when I'm out-of-town at my parents' house and can use my mom's. I'm going to sign up to the Mefi music collaborator's website when I have a minute.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:27:13 -0800

Hey, funny, you had such a fine French then...(kidding) - real nice patchwork. Wonderful guitar and sound. Thank you.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:09:18 -0800

you horrible horrible person.
A+

By: ORthey

ORthey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:43:34 -0800

you horrible horrible person.
A+

Thanks?

By: edverb

edverb — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:07:23 -0800

This is endearing. I dig the instrumental behind it. It's sweet and cinematic. Great work ORthey!

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:38:04 -0800

Exactly what edverb said. I was trying to figure out how to describe my opinion of the song and I saw that and though "Oh yeah, uh that. That's it exactly."

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:35:35 -0800

What chococat said about the boss in pajamas and what haunted... said about reaching for the tissues. Wonderful stuff.