It’s finally here... Angelchrome, Navigator and more...
It's Saturday night and I'm having a night in to myself. I have the flat to myself. My Mac nearly blew up earlier as I went out to enjoy the sun for a little while and I realised I'd be a little fucked if it did. But it didn't, rejoice! Time to back some shit up.
I've been painfully busy lately. Keeping a day-job and working freelance takes its toll on one's free time. I've just finished a video for Vidal Sassoon's fashion show tomorrow - I'm not even a video editor, but kudos can be a powerful ally. More importantly, after 11 months of intense recording sessions (spreading a massive 92 tracks of audio in Pro Tools), mixing, re-mixing, tragedy, personal trauma with a little bit of mastering, I finally finished Navigator's EP - "Transcendental Union" with Alan Webb (who pretty much performs everything except the vocals). The 18-minute epic (yeah, I know 18 minutes doesn't sound that epic, but trust me, it is) can be heard at www.myspace.com/navigatorproject - go have a listen to my awesome production skillz.
So with a day off, I also managed to update the Angelchrome MySpace - as promised with a new song. This is new Angelchrome. Forget the old. The line-up now consists of myself and Judith Haustein (http://www.myspace.com/judithhaustein). If you haven't heard her music, then be sure to check her out. She is incredible!
I decided earlier this year that I wanted to use her voice and musical talents for Angelchrome. It feels like the right direction. Recording is hard, though. We're both so busy, but we're working on songs. We have about four on the go at the moment and I'll be updating the page as and when they're ready*.
The first song you'll hear is Falling Asleep (Anesthetic Awareness) - originally started as an experiment where I used her own song 'Falling Asleep' on a new song I was writing back in May this year. You could argue it a remix, and to an extent it is, but I feel it's turned into a song in its own right and early listeners have already said it's the best thing I've done. Some have even said it's the best music they've heard in a long time. Yeah, it's easy for friends to be biased, but any musician (or composer/producer in my case) knows what the current musical climate is. It's not easy to write music that feels relevant. I feel on a roll and this is just the beginning.
So. Enjoy the music, post your thoughts / comments and I'm going to enjoy the rest of my day off with more beer.
Gabriel
* - ready = 'final demos', i.e. probably not final mixes and subject to having new instruments added for effect, like the triangle.
I've been painfully busy lately. Keeping a day-job and working freelance takes its toll on one's free time. I've just finished a video for Vidal Sassoon's fashion show tomorrow - I'm not even a video editor, but kudos can be a powerful ally. More importantly, after 11 months of intense recording sessions (spreading a massive 92 tracks of audio in Pro Tools), mixing, re-mixing, tragedy, personal trauma with a little bit of mastering, I finally finished Navigator's EP - "Transcendental Union" with Alan Webb (who pretty much performs everything except the vocals). The 18-minute epic (yeah, I know 18 minutes doesn't sound that epic, but trust me, it is) can be heard at www.myspace.com/navigatorproject - go have a listen to my awesome production skillz.
So with a day off, I also managed to update the Angelchrome MySpace - as promised with a new song. This is new Angelchrome. Forget the old. The line-up now consists of myself and Judith Haustein (http://www.myspace.com/judithhaustein). If you haven't heard her music, then be sure to check her out. She is incredible!
I decided earlier this year that I wanted to use her voice and musical talents for Angelchrome. It feels like the right direction. Recording is hard, though. We're both so busy, but we're working on songs. We have about four on the go at the moment and I'll be updating the page as and when they're ready*.
The first song you'll hear is Falling Asleep (Anesthetic Awareness) - originally started as an experiment where I used her own song 'Falling Asleep' on a new song I was writing back in May this year. You could argue it a remix, and to an extent it is, but I feel it's turned into a song in its own right and early listeners have already said it's the best thing I've done. Some have even said it's the best music they've heard in a long time. Yeah, it's easy for friends to be biased, but any musician (or composer/producer in my case) knows what the current musical climate is. It's not easy to write music that feels relevant. I feel on a roll and this is just the beginning.
So. Enjoy the music, post your thoughts / comments and I'm going to enjoy the rest of my day off with more beer.
Gabriel
* - ready = 'final demos', i.e. probably not final mixes and subject to having new instruments added for effect, like the triangle.
posted by Angelchrome at 10:26 pm
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