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'Ain't Dead Yet' Taster Rehearsal recording

This track was originally named "Noel Dissonance", a work in progress created for a compilation album.

This version will feature on the compilation album  "A View From A Hill", released under the Linear Obsessional Record label at midnight on Christmas Eve 2017

Composition description and poem included with the release ;

This composition is a reflective piece designed to allow room for thought, imagination and flight …

                                                   “Steeple Meet” 

As I stood upon a grassy hilltop in my small hometown, I looked out across the land. I soon became inspired by a cold, winter landscape, mysterious and dark, with wandering sound colour as clouds rolled across the sky, throwing out giant, unforgiving Angels of light onto distant hills and trees. 

Black clouds danced with ease, but with menace, unfolding whispers of dark Magic …

With a cold wind swishing and biting around my earlobes, I heard distant voices ebbing and flowing from a Church Steeple below, and a lonely bell, tolling in the wind.

A Choirs’ meet I thought. 

It filled the landscape with wholesome melody carried up by the sweeping wind. Divine, ghostly voices, soft, and deep, warmed my skin as invisible music score touched it, much like silk ... 

A low White sun, once again unhidden, forcing me to squeeze shut my eyes, to listen acutely, to be there! Fly there! Together, on dark, foreboding rooftops, to join in a Steeple Meet.

Composed by Amanda Brooks
Digital Music and Sound Arts

Logic Pro X software with Alchemy Plugins within Logic Pro X, Alchemy VST's, and I used my own voice to weave in with the Choir.

'Steeple Meet' Featuring on 'A View From A Hill' comp' album via the mighty Linear Obsessional Label

This is a song I wrote in Nashville several years ago when I was really missing home and some special people.

When I Come Home

Karl Mee - Cosmic Cowboy.wav

"Walk, Don't Run" is an instrumental composition written and originally recorded by jazz guitarist Johnny Smith in 1954.

It was later adapted and re-recorded by Chet Atkins in 1956, and was a track on the LP Hi-Fi In Focus. This arrangement was the inspiration for the version by The Ventures in 1960 (though the Ventures' arrangement is recognizably different from Atkins' finger-picked style) which achieved world-wide recognition, being regarded by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

'Walk Don't Run' (1954), Instrumental - Performed By The 'Spoke Shave' Roy Brooks (2020)

Ditch the Demon, founded by Brooks-Byron in 2018, sense the ‘un-sensed’.  Their creative message suggests strong innuendo for change, freedom and obscurity.  

Join, together, in the world of ‘Demon-ear’ and open your hearts to the warm, liberating influence of British psyche-rock as we know it today.

‘Time Machine’ – Mee (2019) 

Production/arrangement: Mee/Brooks-Byron/Maplesden/Keen 

Produced by Ditch the Demon 2020 

'Ditch the Demon' Logo - Richardstoneimages.co.uk
Cover Image -  Gustav Dore

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Harvey Summers at Broadoak Studios, Bexhill, East Sussex.

Presented and released by Coven Ground Records 2020 

All Right Reserved ©2020

Lead Vocals/percussion – Dr Amanda Brooks-Byron (aka Mandie.B)

Vocals/percussion – Vicky Tawamana

Guitar – Karl Mee

Keyboards – Terry Keen

Bass – Steph Bennion

Drums – Jay Maplesden

'Time Machine' Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Broadoak Studios, Bexhill, East Sussex.

Ditch the Demon, founded by Brooks-byron in 2018, sense the ‘un-sensed’. Their creative message suggests strong innuendo for change, freedom and obscurity.

Join, together, in the world of ‘Demon-ear’ and open your hearts to the warm, liberating influence of British psyche-rock as we know it today.

‘Sigil’ – Brooks-byron (2019)

Production/arrangement: Brooks-byron/Mee/Maplesden/Keen

Produced by Ditch the Demon 2020

'Ditch the Demon' Logo - Richardstoneimages.co.uk
Cover Image - Gustav Dore

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Harvey Summers at Broadoak Studios, Bexhill, East Sussex.

Presented and released by Coven Ground Records 2020

All Rights Reserved ©2020

Vocals/percussion – Dr Amanda Brooks-byron (aka Mandie.B)

Vocals/percussion – Vicky Tawamana

Guitar – Karl Mee

Keyboards – Terry Keen

Bass – Steph Bennion

Drums – Jay Maplesden

'Sigil' -  Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered at Broadoak Studios, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.

*WARNING* ⚠️ EXPLETIVES *WARNING*⚠️ EXPLETIVES   *WARNING*⚠️ 

A playful, abstract 'spin-off' from the last episode of the 'Vocal Show' via Resonance Extra FM: Composition,  'Life is Short'
where Amanda Brooks uses her vocal sculpting abilities with contemporary vocal processing computer software and hardware equipment to create a display of characters who all play a part in the composition narrative. 

Brooks applies her unique 'It's Not What You Sing, It's How You Sing It' concept to show that the natural sculpting of the voice, i.e, the shaping of the human formant and resonance chambers: mouth, cheeks, workings of breath, chest and diaphragm, and the intricate use of the manual workings and muscular components of the throat, is essential before the voice enters into electronic processors. 

Brooks works has been  described as a 'modern day ventriloquism' where the voice becomes a 'body' in the 'minds eye' of the listener.

In this episode, main characters: 'Red', the expletive, naughty, sweary ventriloquist puppet, and 'Laid Back Lewis' who, although is a good friend to Red, often suffers at the hands of puppet Red's 'gobby' abuse. 

Both characters take part in a famous car race in front of a talking, whispering and disbelieving audience. The story continues with a series of random sketches and scenes which are often a part of the narrative, however, often, they are not ..

All characters heard in Brooks 'Vocal Show' compositions are Brooks's own voice disguised by removing her own vocal characteristics e.g. frequency, timbre, tone, formant, amplitude and pitch, in order to ventriloquise a multitude of characters, speech characteristics and personas far removed from her own.

'Tomorrow is Another Day' was recorded and written by Brooks at Bolt Hole Studios, Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Soundtrack Components: 

Sigil' and 'Kemical Kosh' : 

Original track 'Kemikal Kosh' written by Brooks, performed and recorded by Brooks at Bolt hole Studios, Hastings, East Sussex, England. 

'Sigil' : Written by Brooks (2019) performed by Ditch the Demon:

Lead Vocals and percussion: Amanda Brooks 
Vocals:                                      Vicky Tawamana
Guitar:                                       Karl Mee
Keyboard:                                 Terry Keen
Bass:                                          Steph Bennion
Drums:                                      Jay Maplesden

Racing car scene soundtrack: 'Sigil' - Brooks (2019)performed by Ditch the Demon, recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Harvey Summers at Broadoak Studios, Bexhil-on-Sea, East Sussex, England.

'The Deep Forest Singers' scene  - Witten and performed by Brooks (2020)written and performed as part of 'Tomorrow is Another Day' at Bolt Hole Studios, Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Ambulance Scene - A verse from 'Vienna' written by Ultravox (1981)

Nightclub scene soundtrack: 'Kemical Kosh' - Brooks,(2020)recorded at Bolt Hole Studios, Hastings, East Sussex, England.

'In the Middle of The Ocean' shark scene soundtrack: 'Violin' and 'Cello' sounds emulated using voice through an analog Vocoder - Brooks (2019), Recorded at the University of Brighton, Brighton, East Sussex, England.

'Whistle' and 'Flute' sounds heard weaving through the composition, emulated using voice through an analog vocoder - Brooks (2020) Recorded at Bolt Hole Studios, Hastings, East Sussex, England.

Sound design effects by Freesound.org

"Ey the night is black is grey, the Devil take you away, who's crying now .."

'Time Machine' Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Broadoak Studios, Bexhill, East Sussex.

Amanda Brooks

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