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Since Bill Barner posted a fabulous fusion track of his D.C. group Extremities this morning, FIGS, I wanted to add to his portfolio: and early mix of a song that I hope will be the final track on my organ-driven jazz ensemble recording, Rain Bather, due out later this year (if everything goes right). I play organ, electric piano and synths on this track, Bill plays all tenor saxes and clarinets. It's kind of a progressive New Orleans tin pan alley post-vaudeville acid jazz industrial noise fusion piece, or, as peacepiano says, "Avant Vaudeville."
I know the middle tenor sax solo is a bit hot, which has been fixed in later mixes. But the final mix fades into a 33 rpm rhythmic record scratch, as a concept ending to the CD, and fades out some of Bill's cool clarinet work at the end. I wanted to share this version on MJ with people cuz it has more Bill in it, and the ending clarinet improvisation he did is my favorite element.
I wrote all the melody lines and sent Bill a score from which he played all the separate reed parts. I also recorded MIDI reeds as a model, providing him dummy tracks, giving Bill the green light to deviate whenever he wanted. He played along to my complete mix (I also gave him a version with no MIDI reeds), recorded his solo'd instruments in separate mono tracks, and sent them back to me. I've mixed down several versions and added a bit more organ in a second pass. Then I added the 33 rpm scratches as a a crossfade to give the recording a post-vaudeville time travel concept feel, but will save that for the CD.
I would like to know you think this sound works with the other songs on the album. I have a hip dip influenced piece that sounds a but like Nehru Jacket that will come before it (that isn't ready to share) and I hope creates a good transition. Let me know if you think its a phone final track.
Also, I had trouble mixing in the tracks Bill sent because they had such a roomy sound to them. Let me know if they sound organic and integrated into the whole.
Rain Bather draft mixes on MJ:
Lightning Strikes
I Wanna Fly
Caught In The Current (feat. Bill Barner)
Finding No Path
Seven Buttons On A Nehru Jacket
Last Song On Vaudeville (feat. Bill Barner)
Other collabs with BBarner:
Secret of Life
Let Me Play (w/ McBoy too)
Pre-release CDs can be purchased here (includes more info on recording): RAIN BATHER.
I know the middle tenor sax solo is a bit hot, which has been fixed in later mixes. But the final mix fades into a 33 rpm rhythmic record scratch, as a concept ending to the CD, and fades out some of Bill's cool clarinet work at the end. I wanted to share this version on MJ with people cuz it has more Bill in it, and the ending clarinet improvisation he did is my favorite element.
I wrote all the melody lines and sent Bill a score from which he played all the separate reed parts. I also recorded MIDI reeds as a model, providing him dummy tracks, giving Bill the green light to deviate whenever he wanted. He played along to my complete mix (I also gave him a version with no MIDI reeds), recorded his solo'd instruments in separate mono tracks, and sent them back to me. I've mixed down several versions and added a bit more organ in a second pass. Then I added the 33 rpm scratches as a a crossfade to give the recording a post-vaudeville time travel concept feel, but will save that for the CD.
I would like to know you think this sound works with the other songs on the album. I have a hip dip influenced piece that sounds a but like Nehru Jacket that will come before it (that isn't ready to share) and I hope creates a good transition. Let me know if you think its a phone final track.
Also, I had trouble mixing in the tracks Bill sent because they had such a roomy sound to them. Let me know if they sound organic and integrated into the whole.
Rain Bather draft mixes on MJ:
Lightning Strikes
I Wanna Fly
Caught In The Current (feat. Bill Barner)
Finding No Path
Seven Buttons On A Nehru Jacket
Last Song On Vaudeville (feat. Bill Barner)
Other collabs with BBarner:
Secret of Life
Let Me Play (w/ McBoy too)
Pre-release CDs can be purchased here (includes more info on recording): RAIN BATHER.
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Bubowski
Your comments re: the signal on the woodwind part is spot on. They're pretty tasty but a little hot. I'm really not too sure about the prominance of the lo-fi percussion track. I think the lo-fi is a cool idea but it seems to overpower the rest of the mix.
It seems like to whole mix is a bit to "up front" to my ears, without a balance of foreground and background sounds. You've got a lot of cool elements floating around but it's hard to differentiate them in the mix. I do like the blend of the lo-fi perc and the grungie B3, but to my ears the perc needs to be backed off some in the mix and let the melody and harmony come out a bit.
--Graham