Track Listing for “The State of Things” Album
Heavyconfetti. The state of things without and around us, featuring Emily Biolley.
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Children Again (emily vox)
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A Sweet Arrangement (emily vox)
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Why don’t they get it? (instrumental)
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Limbo Eye Lily (instrumental)
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The Playground (emily vox)
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I got out my guitar (emily vox)
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Oceanic Eyes (emily vox)
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Straight to Jazz (emily vox)
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Stupid People (tony vox)
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A Void Dance (emily vox)
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Lint Trap (emily vox)
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Mug Shot (emily vox)
I aim to have both lyrics and backing tracks finished before the end of the month, adding vocals in September; mixing and remixing and mastering, culminating in a CD release in either October or November.
Changes, future
I’m going to be repurposing this site somewhat over the next few months. My plan is to use this site as a focal point for a web television show, a podcast and other sundry endeavors. Of course heavyconfetti music will always be available here. However I’m going to engage (enlist, plead with) some other artists to collaborate to make this website more of an interactive, lively place. I’ve always wanted to create alternative media and this site will be the hub for that idea.
A new website design is in the works, which will be deployed once I get a handle on the new structure of this alternative media project.
I am still working on The State of things CD and am looking to introduce vocals to the mix early next month. Then back to mixing and mastering. I’m sure we’ll have a CD release party shortly after the master is finished. I haven’t yet decided fully on just how I want to distribute this music. My own music I’ve always put out there, carte blanche, for anyone to take for free. But I think I want to do something different with this new CD. We’ll see!
The State of the State of Things
After weeks of mapping out the drums I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate them. The drums themselves are all right, but they’re just not right for this style of music. So I’ve changed out the drums on three of the songs so far and will probably do the same for the whole album. This represents a slight setback, but I’d rather be happy with the drums and percussion – which I feel are so essential to a solid mix. The drums need to be less busy than in previous projects. And more funky and hip-hoppy, though subtly so. We are progressing, we are going forward!
Working Three Tracks
I originally set a goal of finishing five tracks this weekend but I’ve stepped down from that perhaps unrealistic aim and am now focusing on completing three tracks. I’m doing a whole lot more midi in this project than any previous. Software synths have come such a long way now that you can make the simplest midi pattern sound like the London Philharmonic or like it was produced by prodigious aliens from alpha centauri.
The main thing is to create mixes which compliment Emily’s voice. I’m hearing Portishead meets Morcheeba, but perhaps not so wistful. Melancholy funk, maybe? With some ambient sonic backgrounds?
the state of things without and around us
Everything has been back-burnered. The current HC project is a down-tempo, trip-hoppy, bluesy, ambient excursion featuring a great deal of synth work and the astonishing vocals of Emily Biolley. The name of the album was originally called “The Deflectives,” but I came across a quote by Charlotte Bronte and took an excerpt which became the name of the album: “The state of things without and around us.” While I’ve done remixes featuring vocalists before I’ve never actually designed a whole project around one singer. Emily’s wondrous voice came to my attention just recently; I had this “down-tempo” idea in progress when I heard her sing. Wow. I began to get ideas: I felt like her voice and the music I was writing might just mesh perfectly. I asked her and she graciously agreed to participate!
I’m presently writing and recording all the tracks, penning the lyrics and will then have Emily lend her ethereal, evocative vocals to the mix. I’m very excited about this album/CD. This represents somewhat of a distinct departure from the “rock-jazz-weirdo-fusion" I’ve been doing for the last ten years or so.
Anyway, I will continue to post on the album’s progress – more consistently than I’ve tracked any previous project on the site.
Long time no post…Three cuts from Phronemophobia
I began the thing as a FAWM entry, three years ago. Now we’re chipping away at it again….
Kill Television!
Track Seventeen from Error Supremacy. Some scales, patterns and modalities reminiscent of stuff from Deconstructing Shred.
Sansgrog
Larry Coryell and Phillip Catherine performed a jazz tune they called “the no-booze blues.” Well, I’m finding that I have to get on the old proverbial water wagon and stay there for good. Or things will turn out very bad. So this little tune, which BTW meets a current Guitar Collective Task, is called Sansgrog, or “without grog.”
Arpeggios it is
Third track from Pettier Onus, and also a Guitar Collective Task. Arpeggios of various note values, lasting a little over a minute.