22 posts tagged with Guitar and lo-fi.
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Manhattan Skyline
Some recent discussion on MeFi about the band a-ha reminded me that I'd recorded this acoustic cover of one of their songs a long time ago. This is actually based on an arrangement by Kings of Convenience, who made some interesting changes to the original song structure. Me on vocals and guitars (nylon-string and steel-string). [more inside]
The Leaving of Liverpool
I had a great time collaborating with billiebee on a cover of this traditional folk song/sea shanty. The goal was to record a simple arrangement that was different from the more lively covers out there -- to borrow billiebee's phrase, a gentler version. I'm hoping our rendition highlights the lovely melody of the song. [more inside]
Thoughts in B-flat
In the past couple of weeks, I found myself going back to a piece that I'd started working on a few years ago -- probably because it's in a slower triple meter that's somewhat calming for me. This is a condensed one-minute version, featuring piano and guitar, for the 60 Seconds and Under #2 MeFi Music Challenge. [more inside]
Cryptid
One of the first compositions I wrote when I bought a guitar looper, recorded in my friend's apartment last June. Anxiety, illness, helplessness.
Relationship Material
A sub-2-minute garage-pop type of deal [more inside]
Optimizing Performance (Antag Bounce)
A bit of synthy iPhone silliness [more inside]
A Whole Pile of Difficult
An annoying little new wave ditty [more inside]
Under Radiant Signs
Another acoustic guitar thing. [more inside]
Leon's Song
A song written for a friend going through a bad break-up.
Tik Tok
My acoustic cover of the Mefi favourite by Ke$ha.
I Have a Window
Another bedroom-recorded song. [more inside]
Every Wave of Sound
My break-up song, written a number of years ago. [more inside]
Bring Us Your Leader
Another lo-fi acoustic tune about the end of the world. Not too cheerful stuff. [more inside]
A Brand New Fabrication
The lyrical counterpoint to "My Cirripedian Friends". [more inside]
My Cirripedian Friends
This is a song about drowning at sea, denial and adventure. [more inside]
Eyeless (Slipknot cover)
This is what Slipknot would sound like if they were only one guy in his bedroom and didn't yell so much.
The Bottom Falls Out of the Clouds (demoriffic version)
cortex was kind enough to let me borrow the lyrics from his song "The Bottom Falls Out of the Clouds" (which he wrote for the first ever MeFi Music Challenge), and allow me to set them to new folky/acoustic/lo-fi music for this month's challenge. [more inside]
Take this Hammer
Cover of a Leadbelly tune. [more inside]
imp 4
Four years ago, I was trying to feel what it's like to be able to improvise. These are three takes over the same short chord cycle : take 2, 1, 3. My conclusion is : to improvise, you have to be able to wait.
mobile
like the ones which hang from the ceiling and slowly revolve.
lo fi vamp
hi. This is actually my first attempt at improvising over a vamp. It was recorded with a 500 mhz computer and a webcam. First track recorded first, then played through the speakers so as to allow me to improvise over it, and then the whole recaptured by the webcam again. Hence the muddy sonics. The computer had trouble to play and record at the same time : results in clicks. On the whole.. I like it. Listen to my next post to compare with a cleaner version. Sometimes the rawer the better.
moonlight
an egregiously lo-fi and unpolished acoustic recording. the song was once designed to 'woo' a girl of my fancy. it worked, for a while anyway.
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