Delays in recording, advances in baking
I realize I haven't posted much here in the past week+, but I was planning on having a violinist come in this past weekend and make songs that have bad synth violin parts on them more palatable to listen to. Sadly, it got pushed back to Thursday night. So what the hey. I'll post something that has bad synth violin on it. That way you can appreciate how much it improves when real violin replaces it.
This song is kind of a fun number inspired by a scene in a book called "The Dream of Scipio" by Iain Pears. In it, a character gives a long toast to civilization on the eve of WWII. "We must mourn its passing, and turn ourselves into beasts to survive what awaits us." he says. I read it when it came out in 2002 and the scene stuck with me perhaps because the world was seeming a bit savage that year, but more likely because a good chunk of the toast was about the wonders of cheese.
Anyway, here's "Raise a Glass" with bad synth violins which shall hopefully be replaced Thursday, when I can repost the song with much rejoicing.
You might find it surprising that I am going on about bad synth violins when by all accounts the track is layered with terrible sounding synth drums. Well, I don't know what to say besides I like 'em. (It might surprise you to know that they are, in fact, played live. An old drummer of mine put down these electronic drum tracks back in 2005 before a mysterious ailment forced him to give up drumming. I found the tracks on a CD and resurrected them for this recording, adding only a little bit of programming.) I played this for Robin from Piñataland a while back and she found my affection for the drums kind of baffling but was not able to talk me out of it. You may try to do so in the comments if you wish but you are fighting a losing battle.
And, since I haven't really thought of that book in a while, I looked up Iain Pears to see what he's up to. Looks like he's coming out with a new one in May!
And lastly, I had planned on writing about cookie baking in this post, but I never really got around to it. It shall have to suffice to say that time spent not recording has been time spent baking a lot of cookies.
cheers,
dave
This song is kind of a fun number inspired by a scene in a book called "The Dream of Scipio" by Iain Pears. In it, a character gives a long toast to civilization on the eve of WWII. "We must mourn its passing, and turn ourselves into beasts to survive what awaits us." he says. I read it when it came out in 2002 and the scene stuck with me perhaps because the world was seeming a bit savage that year, but more likely because a good chunk of the toast was about the wonders of cheese.
Anyway, here's "Raise a Glass" with bad synth violins which shall hopefully be replaced Thursday, when I can repost the song with much rejoicing.
You might find it surprising that I am going on about bad synth violins when by all accounts the track is layered with terrible sounding synth drums. Well, I don't know what to say besides I like 'em. (It might surprise you to know that they are, in fact, played live. An old drummer of mine put down these electronic drum tracks back in 2005 before a mysterious ailment forced him to give up drumming. I found the tracks on a CD and resurrected them for this recording, adding only a little bit of programming.) I played this for Robin from Piñataland a while back and she found my affection for the drums kind of baffling but was not able to talk me out of it. You may try to do so in the comments if you wish but you are fighting a losing battle.
And, since I haven't really thought of that book in a while, I looked up Iain Pears to see what he's up to. Looks like he's coming out with a new one in May!
And lastly, I had planned on writing about cookie baking in this post, but I never really got around to it. It shall have to suffice to say that time spent not recording has been time spent baking a lot of cookies.
cheers,
dave
posted by Dave at
8:40 PM
1 Comments:
Have the drums play the violin part and vice versa. I like that phrase vice versa sounds more wicked and musical than it is.
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