New World Blues

Komrade K

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I'd been away camping for a few days and when I'd got back I found out about the double tragedy of Hurricane Katrina (with the consequent flooding) and the deaths of around 1,000 Shia Muslims during a religious festival in Bagdad, Iraq. This track is a personal response to this grim news.

On a more positive note... this is the first time I've successfully managed to record electric fiddle without interference/crackles. It was recorded in one take.

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Hits: 1879
Comments: 22
Fans: 2
Plays: 234
Downloads: 113
Votes: 19
Uploaded: Sep 03, 2005 - 05:23:28 PM
Last Updated: Jan 10, 2007 - 04:01:40 PM Last Played: Nov 10, 2009 - 12:44:31 PM

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Keywords:

blues (499), fiddle (27), violin (71), acoustic (588), distortion (37), effects (19), roots (18), Komrade K (21), improv (50), improvisation (80), improvised (53), lament (16), electric fiddle (5), electric violin (6)

Hardware:

iMac G5, emagic a62m midi, Zoom 1010 effects unit, Ted Brewer electric fiddle.

Software:

GB 2

Comments

Rebsie	Rebsie said 1541 days ago (September 3rd, 2005)
	Wooh, bloody hell! This is fantastically played. Very powerful and heartfelt. The effect that comes in half way through gives it a nightmarish edge ... and I don't think I've heard a distorted lead break played on a fiddle before! Extraordinary and very clever. Check out my latest song called Amongst The Colours (w/ Luna Trick)

Komrade K

Komrade K said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)

Wooh, bloody hell!
Thank you Rebsie - this track just happened: there was less than 24 hours
between coming up with the original phrase, playing around with it, recording
and posting on MJ. There's a big improvised element so some of the stuff
(particularly the final distorted section) just came out that way when I recorded
it. It is really a duet between the instrument and the way I was feeling at the
time.

Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

cjhoose	cjhoose said 1541 days ago (September 3rd, 2005)
	whoa this is fascinating... with the effects at the end the mood goes from subdued and mournful to heavy and possibly angry. Electric fiddle. Hm. More please! Check out my latest song called Julia

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)
	whoa You've hit the nail on the head - there definitely is a bit of anger in there! Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

matthew	matthew said 1541 days ago (September 4th, 2005)
	wow that was really unbelievable playing. i hope to hear many more of your songs with such deep complexities and melodies. i'm astonished. Check out my latest song called as we fall asleep

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)
	wow Many many thanks and welcome to MJ! Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

ziti	ziti said 1541 days ago (September 4th, 2005)
	ouch the pain you feel is evident...remarkably soulful performance...the use of violin and it's ability to capture the quarter tone sound of eastern music helps tell the tale of heartbreak in two worlds. compelling and heartbreaking.... excellent work Check out my latest song called All Smokey

Komrade K

Komrade K said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)

ouch
It was a very 'direct' recording so the way it was played was as close to my mood
as I was technically competent enough to achieve. I liked your comment about
quarter tones - I have to confess that that wasn't intentional and what I was
really doing were slides which I suppose come equally from blues and Celtic
music (although I sure there's an Eastern influence in there somewhere!)

Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

perceptualvortex	perceptualvortex said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)
	really clean That's some really great playing, and an awesome recording. Loaded with passion. The last, heavy bit is especially appealing to me in terms of tone, but the playing is great throughout. Check out my latest song called Machine Man (w Beastie Boys)

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1540 days ago (September 5th, 2005)
	really clean Many thanks PV - the recording's a fluke really, I just set up the fiddle the way I would at a gig and went for it. Very glad it worked! Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

alley-oop	alley-oop said 1539 days ago (September 6th, 2005)
	amazing! Very nice fiddle chops. Very soulful. you know your instrument. Very, very nice touch. great! Check out my latest song called anymore

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1538 days ago (September 7th, 2005)
	amazing! Thanks for dropping by and listening. Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

drakonis

drakonis said 1539 days ago (September 6th, 2005)

Intriguing, moody, electric
Very moving... interesting, as I listen to the first part, it
sounds vaguely oriental (pentatonic scale perhaps?) with
slight hints of Eddie Van Halen riffs, then screams with
electric pain at the end... gives me shivers, conveyed well!

The un-effected sound of your fiddle at the beginning is
quite close to an acoustic sound, but the lower notes
sound electrified... very interesting sound. I am glad to
see you back from vacation and getting your new
computer working with GB recording... so we can hear
more of these soulful compositions.

We should hook you up with newcomer Ceilidh, and the
two of you can probably come up with some heart-
wrenching Gypsy songs, hint hint :-)

ttfn,
Drakonis

Check out my latest song called Lullaby for the Inner Child

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1538 days ago (September 7th, 2005)
	Intriguing, moody, electric You've got it - it's largely based around a sort of minor blues scale (which is pentatonic) so I guess that gives it the eastern feel. Now 'hints of Eddie Van Halen...' I LIKE THAT! Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

mandolinquent

mandolinquent said 1538 days ago (September 7th, 2005)

Lovely playing...
... someone who mugs on the violin rather than plays it
I'm always in awe of anyone who can wrest beauty from
the instrument. Don't fess up about the "quarter-tones"!
They were intentional, weren't they? (I can play quarter-
tones too. Trouble is I can ONLY play quarter-tones on
mine...)

What did you do in that last, wild, Hendrix-ian section?

Anyway, congratulations, Komrade.

Check out my latest song called Had We But World Enough

Komrade K

Komrade K said 1538 days ago (September 7th, 2005)

Lovely playing...
First Eddie Van Halen (thanks drakonis) and now Hendrix - that's company I'd
like to keep! Always fancied having a go at a fiddle version of Purple Haze. In
that last section I hit an effect which I hadn't used before but seemed to fit -
there's a bit of double-stopping in there too...

Of course the quarter tones were intentional! Actually I was just sliding around
notes which probably sounds a bit like playing quarter tones.

Now Mando, I've heard your fiddle playing and I was impressed!

Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

Einarus	Einarus said 1530 days ago (September 14th, 2005)
	Wow Very emotional and very expressive. Freakishly cool effect in the end, there. Acid rock fiddling? Anyway - great performance. Good job! Check out my latest song called Good Things Come in Fours

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1529 days ago (September 16th, 2005)
	Wow Acid rock fiddling - now you're giving me some ideas! Thanks Einar Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

caroline	caroline said 1527 days ago (September 18th, 2005)
	magycal martyn... you've made me as sad with this as you made me happy with your previous upload - it must be my heritage. you've certainly got that fiddle speaking a language that touches this heart - ow! but - thank you x Check out my latest song called clink that link mjrf

Komrade K	Komrade K said 1524 days ago (September 21st, 2005)
	magycal martyn... Ah it were played from the heart, played from the heart...and what be your heritage? Check out my latest song called Ye Mariners All

selters	selters said 1485 days ago (October 30th, 2005)
	this is so beatiful! The start is so beatiful, makes me feel so sad inside..IT seems like you play with a great feel..so full of pain... and anger... it pushes some of my emotional buttons. something very interesting happens at 4.00 minutes. Very emotional indeed!!! Really loved this one... Keep playing that fiddle!! Check out my latest song called So Far (Out Of Reach)

renecalvo	renecalvo said 1351 days ago (March 12th, 2006)
	sweet I like the tasteful application of effects. not too much or too little. would have loved to hear you imitate an ambulance or police siren on the fade. Check out my latest song called Firefly

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The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. The form evolved in the United States in the communities of former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, field

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