Blind River Jr - work in progress - Mar/Apr 2023

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 12-14 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Ableton Live 11, Live and M4L devices, vocals plus two guitar excerpts from a May 1992 recording called "Un-Blues."

Photo is from 1992 as well. A co-worker's wedding.

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

Cold Lunch In Blues (MPC March challenge #2)

"Troy, Into Walls" by Blind River Jr

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 19-21 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, except alto sax, recorded 25 Jul 2018 (in the bathroom).

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Voice, alto sax, Jay Turser Mustang, Dr J Lancelot Distortion pedal, Native Instruments Kontakt, Arturia Pre Trida & Delay Eternity, Ableton Live 11, Ableton/M4L devices, (including Simpler, Echo, Vector Delay, Hybrid Reverb, Random, Scale, Arpeggiator, Polyrhythmus, Beat Repeat, Buffer Shuffler, Note Echo, Designer Drums - Carbonized)

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

Troy, Into Walls (MPC March Challenge #3)

"An Email From Sun Ra" by Blind River Jr

Submitted for the March Challenge 4 for Brian Funk's Music Production Club, prompts provided by mrtorian

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 23-27 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY and on East 70th St, NYC. Koala samples recorded on 19 Aug 2019 in the New York Burger Bar bathroom in Massapequa, NY. Some drum sounds from 10 Mar 2019, Massapequa, NY.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Voice, Jay Turser Mustang, Zoom MS-70CDR pedal, Nobels ODR-1, Arturia Wurli V, Ableton Live 11, Ableton/M4L devices, (including Color Limiter, Vector Delay, Reverb, Random, Scale, Arpeggiator, Beat Repeat, Buffer Shuffler, Designer Drums - Carbonized), and iPhone Koala app.

The original prompt from mrtorian

Word Prompt: Dog Tried
I am dog tired but that has been said. Has ''dog tried'' been said? Maybe but for sure now!

Musical Prompt: make a 1/4 or 1/8  note alternating octave bass-line interesting. We all love them and maybe default to them, and they are amazing. As with the above, what's something that's not been done or done to death?

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

An Email From Sun Ra (MPC March #4)

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 29 - Apr 02 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY and on East 70th St, NYC. Some lyrics based on Short Faces (poem from 21 Sep 2017).

©2017, 2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Voice, Jay Turser Mustang, Brian Funk's 100 Year Old Piano, Ableton Live 11, Ableton/M4L devices, (including Vector Delay, Reverb, Random, Scale, Beat Repeat, Buffer Shuffler, Designer Drums - Carbonized, Spectral Blur, Harmonic Filter, Pitch Hack), nylon string guitar, cuatro, electric piano, Operator bass

---- for what it is worth, here is the prompt I used for this - I came up with this ----

Marchapril Week 0 "Grupo Madí"

Word Prompt: How do you know that time is passing?

Musical Prompt: Give your music an irregular shape.

Grupo Madí - a Buenos Aires art movement of the 1940s, focused on playing with traditional conventions of Western art. For instance, irregularly-shaped canvases.

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

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An Email From Sun Ra (MPC March #4)

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