To give the days some purpose, me, Austin Basham, Jack In Water, Alex Kozobolis and Lila Tristram set ourselves a weekly isolation challenge to each create a piece of music using the same stems as a starting off point. It’s been a great way to stay productive & creative.

We're calling this Isolation for Beginners.

This week's stems to choose from consisted of a bunch of beautiful stems from Austin including textures, vocal harmonies, trumpets, banjo, and birds singing.

Listen to this week: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-3
Listen to Week Two: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-2
Listen to Week One: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-1

Isolation for Beginners: Week Three

Isolation For Beginners

iNDIE fOLK/pOP 3 mY fAVE

Easy Days

Hold On We're Going Home

"Wildrunners" - Hugo Hans

From the album "Fog On The Lens" out 11/4 on Porchlight Records. Download at http://tomomusic.bandcamp.com

Cold Clear Moon

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed12niPVnsg
Stream and download: https://lnk.to/FWIwinter

Spotify

Winter Is Coming

itunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-why-i-need-you-single/id1066026197

Produced by Kyle Patrick
Mixed by Will Hensley
Mastered by Joe LaPorta

Lyrics:
I have so many questions, and places to go
There are too many options, far too many unknowns
This is why I need you

Everyone talks now, but no one is right
there are too many armies, with no one to fight
This is why I need you

Cause you make the darkness less dark
You make the edges less sharp
You make the winter feel warmer
You make my weakness less weak
You make the bottom less deep
You make the waiting feel shorter
You make my crazy feel normal, every time
You are the who, love is the what, this is the why

There are so many problems, and no one who cares
There are so many roads, and they all need repairs
This is why I need you

There's not enough chocolate, there's too many chores
There are so many mountains, that I haven't explored
This is why I need you

Cause you make the darkness less dark
You make the edges less sharp
You make the winter feel warmer
You make my weakness less weak
You make the bottom less deep
You make the waiting feel shorter
You make my crazy feel normal, every time
You are the who, love is the what, this is the why

You keep the ship moving forward
You make it easy to try
You make my crazy feel normal, every time
You are the who, love is the what, this is the why

This Is Why I Need You

youth - daughter

The Great Wave

This is the first Week of our collaborative project we're calling 'Isolation for beginners'. To help give ourselves some purpose during the weeks social distancing, The Last Dinosaur, Jack In Water, Alex Kozobolis, Lila Tristram and myself have given ourselves a weekly challenge of creating a piece of music each starting from the same set of stems. 

This week the stems were provided by Alex, which consisted of an array of op1 clips, Jamie seeing of he could hold a note for 20 seconds etc.

You Don't Have It by Austin Basham

Week 2 of the Isolation for Beginners project. This week Lila provided the stems. They consisted of a phone recording of Lila playing piano late one night at The Green Note, audio from a government news briefing on the virus at Downing Street, and a full John Renbourn song. 

I chose to focus on the piano excert and the govt covid update and go from there.

Briefing At Downing Street by Austin Basham

Part of the project 'Isolation for Beginners'

This project was born out of the quarantine and the desire to collaborate. Every artist was given the same set of samples and challenged with creating anything they wanted within a deadline of a week. Click on the link below to see the full playlist from week three.

https://soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-3

Joined at The Hips by Jack in Water

To give the days some purpose, me, Austin Basham, Jack In Water, Alex Kozobolis and Lila Tristram set ourselves a weekly isolation challenge to each create a piece of music using the same stems as a starting off point. It’s been a great way to stay productive & creative.

We're calling this Isolation for Beginners.

This week's stems to choose from consisted of a bunch of beautiful stems from Austin that I took in two different directions and didn't know which to follow so combined them both in a celebration of a beloved Sony cassette walkman that I got for Christmas 1994.

My track also features the audio from this video of a woman singing an acapella cover of Risk by Deftones (which is what the first part of the track reminded me of): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEBzymNtAes and a short snippett of Drake freestyling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2oQdE6Jlyc.

Listen to this week: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-3
Listen Week Two: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-2
Listen to Week One: soundcloud.com/isolationforbeginners/sets/isolation-for-beginners-week-1

The Erotic Life Of Property or The Gift Must Always Move by The Last Dinosaur

Week Three of the Isolation for Beginner's challenge: This week I chose the stems which consisted of a reverse vocal track, a banjo line, an op1 clip and some birds I recorded.

Outside These Windows by Austin Basham

Week 4 of the Isolations for Beginner's project. Beautiful stems provided by Will this week. They consisted of applause, an orchestra warm up, some beats and chopped up melodica.

Tartan Hat by Austin Basham

It is Week 5 of Isolations for beginners. This week Jamie provided the stems. For my piece, I used parts of a piano track, a recording Jamie captured of a man singing in Stoke Newington and some harmonies from Lila.

Makeshift by Austin Basham

Montréal

The Way I See It (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Future

RY X (AUS) released his Berlin EP on Dumont Dumont August 28 2013 as 12" vinyl and full digital release.

Berlin EP on 
iTunes http://www.smarturl.it/rbilib
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/2d90pcby1VFHjXUGYJNBJc

Tickets: http://www.songkick.com/artists/6888059-ry-x

RY X: http://ry-x.com

TRACKLIST
1. Berlin
2. Shortline
3. Vampires
4. Wanderlust

"an absolute masterpiece of a track from start to finish. It’s honestly one of the most cleanly gorgeous songs I’ve heard in a very long time"
- I Guess I'm Floating (US)

"intelligent and intuitive beyond anything we’ve heard done in acoustic circles for a long while" 
- The Line of Best Fit (UK)

"his upcoming release is stunning"
- Pigeons and Planes (US)

"We at Rough Trade shops predict a big future for this special talent" 
- Rough Trade (UK)

“Want to listen to something quite beautiful?  Well you should get a load of RY X and the track
‘Berlin’ which will ripple across you like a hybrid Bon Iver & Matt Corby track.  It’s not just good.
It’s exquisite audio silk. Get it into your ears now.”
-Your Music Radar (Australia)

“Velvety smooth, velvet arpeggio, RY X reinvents itself in intimate folk pop harmonies.”
-Pause Musicale (France)

“something really special.”
-Not Many Experts (UK)

Official video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXN20bpWtY

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/ryxmusic
https://www.facebook.com/RYXmusic
https://twitter.com/RYX_RYX
http://www.facebook.com/dumontdumontmusic

The Berlin EP on 12" vinyl is sold out

https://linktr.ee/DumontDumont

This release is now fully licensed to Loma Vista Recordings for North America and Infectious/BMG for the rest of the world.

Thank you for all the love and support!

RY X - Berlin

Austin Basham is a folk singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, showcasing an imaginative range of instruments & lyrics that fuse together into an uncanny cohesion.

Inquiries - austinbashammusic@gmail.com