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Gee... this took me ages to finish. The process was rife with difficultly finding good times to record... and then more problems that when I did record, things stuffed up.
Eitherway, unless you've been hiding under a rock here... this is another derivation of 'Saturnine' by The Orbiting and hopefully I havn't quite missed the bandwagon for this song and everybody isn't quite sick of it yet :P.
Anyway, about this mix. Well there were two things about the original Saturnine song that stuck out to me that I wanted to focus on.
1. The introduction to the song.
2. The general feeling to me that with most of Lisa's (Ledebutant) songs, although they have outside appearance of innocence, sweetness and all round cuddlyness (helped largely by her 110% honey, -10% burbon & wiskey vocal cords)... in the underlying content of her songs something just isn't right... life has gone astray somewhere and she's left with depressing situations that would normally be sung by an old black blues man with a voice like a wounded bear.
Unfortunately I only had time to concentrate on point 1 this time. If they give me another chance in the future I might be able to spend some time focusing on point 2.
So this is what I got when I focused on the very intriguing first few bars of Illuminati's soundscape.
Hope you like it and can picture yourself somewhere with smoke filling your lungs, a glass of red wine in one hand and something with long legs in the other (no, not a bar stool).
Eitherway, unless you've been hiding under a rock here... this is another derivation of 'Saturnine' by The Orbiting and hopefully I havn't quite missed the bandwagon for this song and everybody isn't quite sick of it yet :P.
Anyway, about this mix. Well there were two things about the original Saturnine song that stuck out to me that I wanted to focus on.
1. The introduction to the song.
2. The general feeling to me that with most of Lisa's (Ledebutant) songs, although they have outside appearance of innocence, sweetness and all round cuddlyness (helped largely by her 110% honey, -10% burbon & wiskey vocal cords)... in the underlying content of her songs something just isn't right... life has gone astray somewhere and she's left with depressing situations that would normally be sung by an old black blues man with a voice like a wounded bear.
Unfortunately I only had time to concentrate on point 1 this time. If they give me another chance in the future I might be able to spend some time focusing on point 2.
So this is what I got when I focused on the very intriguing first few bars of Illuminati's soundscape.
Hope you like it and can picture yourself somewhere with smoke filling your lungs, a glass of red wine in one hand and something with long legs in the other (no, not a bar stool).
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ledebutant
I had the feeling you would focus on the intro, since you'd mentioned being disappointed that it had dropped out in the original. The chords are really very unsettling ones and that plays into the whole concept you put forth in Focus Point No. 2. (Obviously, I need to drink more, too)
To say that I was blown away by this would be a massive understatment. I listened to it the first time with my mouth hanging open and did a Bill and Ted style, "whoah" at the end. The production is genius, genius and is what really elevates this from a really well-done jazzy number into something I found absolutely fascinating and will go back to listen to again and again. I love the way the song vascillates between the normal and expected production for this type of song and something entirely different and out-there. The moment when the intro portion of the song burst into the fuller sound made my legs and arms tingle. I don't know what that means, but that's what happened. The way you have the vocal dip under the piano and bob above it again is great. The entire thing is just so unsettling and very evocative of a piano bar in some alternate Universe.
I LOVE THIS. Also, you're obviously welcome to have all the chances you want, Bryan, although I find this pretty definitive on point 2.
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this Bryan. Also, that bass sounds completely real. I even scrolled up to see the type you used. I was very surprised that it was done in GB.