You gonna sell my soul to me?
"Hooray, it's November! That's means we can finally put Christmas trees up in our stores and begin our lengthy campaigns stretching 1/6 of the year; forcing consumers into purchasing more worthless items and spiraling into more debt. So, readers of The Sun, fuck spending your money in climate crisis 'green' tax and buy more meaningless ways of showing your family you love them. They'll hate you if you don't."
Supposedly spending money on 'green' tax you'd be spending money on sustaining some kind of future for the planet, right? It's obviously another government ploy to make more money out of us. Just as terrorism has done so well for business lately, especailly at airports. But seriously, with the public's reaction, I really don't know who I hate more. The government or the general public. I try to avoid using the phrase 'hate' and replace it for 'dislike', but sometimes harsher words escape my lips, or my fingers and I can never be bothered to press backspace... only move forwards.
I'll try to avoid government and consumerist rants here, but it needs to be said I've spent a fair share of the week dealing with the authorities and listening to them telling me why they're right and I'm wrong. However, it's during this week I've been making a lot of progress with some music and I can't help that the changing weather and other events surrounding the week have fuelled my creativity. Who cares, I've made a reasonable start.
So my first official addition to the as-yet untitled album (I've put it under the working title of "Passive-Aggressive", and while I may refer to it under that title, I assure you that won't be the final name) is based around a funk beat, which - despite being in 4/4 - somehow only sounds good when sequenced in 9/4 (or 9/8?). It is accompanied by a haunting piano melody and rich ambient textures (I admit it, I used Absynth). The drums sound very live, despite being sequenced and therefore I doubt I'll record these live. Everything else sounds a bit sequenced right now in the background, but a live piano always goes well.
One of the main collaborators on this project is Tim Langsford, who will be performing most drums on the album. However, he also plays guitar and helped me to juxtapose the slightly clinical trip-hoppy textures with some raw guitar noises, both acoustic and electric. Yes I did just use the word 'juxtapose' there, but I can't think of anything else right now. Can't think? Or can't be fucked? I dunno.
And yes, I have some cynical lyrics (not quite finished) and a funky vocal line to put to it based on the week, but I seem to have lost the momentum now. Too tired to be angry. I'll come back to this one over the weekend.
Supposedly spending money on 'green' tax you'd be spending money on sustaining some kind of future for the planet, right? It's obviously another government ploy to make more money out of us. Just as terrorism has done so well for business lately, especailly at airports. But seriously, with the public's reaction, I really don't know who I hate more. The government or the general public. I try to avoid using the phrase 'hate' and replace it for 'dislike', but sometimes harsher words escape my lips, or my fingers and I can never be bothered to press backspace... only move forwards.
I'll try to avoid government and consumerist rants here, but it needs to be said I've spent a fair share of the week dealing with the authorities and listening to them telling me why they're right and I'm wrong. However, it's during this week I've been making a lot of progress with some music and I can't help that the changing weather and other events surrounding the week have fuelled my creativity. Who cares, I've made a reasonable start.
So my first official addition to the as-yet untitled album (I've put it under the working title of "Passive-Aggressive", and while I may refer to it under that title, I assure you that won't be the final name) is based around a funk beat, which - despite being in 4/4 - somehow only sounds good when sequenced in 9/4 (or 9/8?). It is accompanied by a haunting piano melody and rich ambient textures (I admit it, I used Absynth). The drums sound very live, despite being sequenced and therefore I doubt I'll record these live. Everything else sounds a bit sequenced right now in the background, but a live piano always goes well.
One of the main collaborators on this project is Tim Langsford, who will be performing most drums on the album. However, he also plays guitar and helped me to juxtapose the slightly clinical trip-hoppy textures with some raw guitar noises, both acoustic and electric. Yes I did just use the word 'juxtapose' there, but I can't think of anything else right now. Can't think? Or can't be fucked? I dunno.
And yes, I have some cynical lyrics (not quite finished) and a funky vocal line to put to it based on the week, but I seem to have lost the momentum now. Too tired to be angry. I'll come back to this one over the weekend.
posted by Angelchrome at 9:32 pm
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