Low Red Moon
ギター弾いてる時だけは、なんか無敵になった気分でさ！！
About 43 minutes into this week’s Phantom Circuit is the conclusion of the session I recorded for it.
The video below is what the first part of that is based on before it became electrified, synthed and effected.
It’s the sort of thing I’d lumber Richard with to make up a tune and lyrics back in the VTOR days.
On this auspicious day, Thursday 2nd February 2023, Beachy Head Radio played a few new tracks of mine as a Phantom Circuit session, archived here.
They kindly mentioned my Bandcamp page which I realised didn’t have much music in the same vein so I did a summary of vaguely similar tunes on social media which I now collect here.
In the same ballpark, ‘Wickham’ from Amateur Hour
A bit more tenuously, ‘The Streaming Suite’ as found on Ne me quitte pas
Mr Slater’s Parrot fit the bill when not in guitar mode with ‘Openshaw’ from a previous Phantom Circuit session and anything from On The Beach the likely suspects.
The ‘long track with lots of different bits’ came into it’s own when my 4 track broke down whilst recording the ‘Field’ albums in 1998 with Voice Of The Rain and whilst it was being mended I just had my Alesis MMT8 hardware MIDI sequencer and a Roland JV1080 synth I won in a Sound On Sound magazine competition to play with. Wishworlds, the second of a couple of tracks here, was the result.
Going further back to 1992’s Other People’s Angels from the tape of the same name is the first of the completely effect driven guitar numbers in what would now be called the ambient style.
But even something like 1988’s ‘Mesmerise’ by The Gits has the airy fairy guitar and reverby drums.
There are s number of other tracks which incorporate the same approach but within more usual structures and a lot of the YouTube stuff, soem of which I’m thinking of sticking on a release with tonight’s session.
NB. Video thumbnails for embedded Playlists only show if the YouTube API is used and as I haven’t they don’t here. They will nonetheless still play.
But this is probably enough to be getting on with for now.
Further to my video of 18th November…
Another of the videos I’ve made after working out how I played some tunes from back in the day.
I’ve been working out how I played a few tunes of yesteryear from less than exhaustive notes and videoing them for posterity.
The denouement won’t come as a shock to regular viewers…
Cock-up on the editing front so this is the new improved version with the title and date correct this time, some duff edits replaced and some effect induced oddities deoddidified. I’ve also added parenthesis to emphasise the sotto voce section and of course introduced a new error. The song remains the same.
Hopefully to be followed by the video I started out making about adjusting individual string volume to better balance levels when bowing.
I bought a cable to split the output of a hexaphonic pickup to individual channels. First go…
I posted this to Twitter a couple of times as on the first occasion a grand total of three people caught a brief glimpse of it as a dim blur in the far distance (a.k.a. a Tweet impression).
…Of any social media referencing of my noise making endeavours and it seems that a couple of years ago someone spent a portion of the short time they have on Planet Dirt to upload The Gits (UK) tune ‘Hold Me Now’.
Source…
Relevant text…
YouTube blurb…
An entry in the Chords of Orion Trial by Remix from back in the twenty first century. I’ve half-inched some dialogue to add a little impetus half way through from ‘You Will Become an Old Musician | Bring it on!‘ where the great man himself reads out a less than polite comment he’d received.
The only other additions are new drums and a synth part derived from Bill’s playing where I add an extra bar to the melody to fit the imposed structure. Plus special guest appearances from tam-tam and kangling 1.
Everything else is done by editing, effects, and of course – mirrors.
This is the original.
