The initial idea came around the first of June when my wife got me a new Focusrite audio interface and I wanted to record some sounds as opposed to sounds in the  box.  I was wanting try something besides triadic modulations around different key centers and started messing around with harmonic minor.  It's a simple AABA idea that took about two months to flesh out.  I've been more concerned with absorbing theory idea and getting my fingers to translate these ideas better, but I'd still tinker with this song here and there.  Figured out transitions over the last couple of weeks and finished it up last night.  Hope you enjoy!

That Man Just Stole that Old Lady's Purse!

A mix of some of my favorite songs from 2023.  Enjoy!!

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2023 Best of mix

1.  Heejin Jang - “Taste of Metal” - from Me and the Glassbirds
2. Forest Swords - “Rubble” - from Bolted
3.  James Holden - “The Answer is Yes” - Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
4. Karen Vogt - “Daytona” - from Le Mans
5. L’Rain - “New Year’s UnResolution” - from I Killed Your Dog
6. KMRU - “orbit’ - from glim
7. Nyokabi Kariuki - “feeling body” - from Feeling Body
8. Penelope Trappes - “The Lapse of Months and Days” - from Heavenly Spheres
9. SELVEDGE - “CALLING THE STORM” - from CAPACITY
10. Tarotplane with Field Lines Cartographer - “54.05N, 2.79W” - from WF 80 - 32.38”N 76.62W
11. A Journey of Giraffes - “Pink Flutter” - from Empress Nouveau
12. Amy Cutler - “I Covered My Love” - from Sister Time
13. Observatories (Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall) - “rain patterns” - from forms
14. More eaze - “Accidental Prizes Pt 2” - from Songs of Luv+H8
15. Mineral Stunting - “Sun Worship” - from Stones and Mud
16. Martyna Basta - “It Could Be as it was Forever (feat. claire rousay) - from Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering
17. Marine Eyes + IKSRE - “Sun Circles” - from Nuture
18. Jake Miur - “Pipe Dream” - from Bathhouse Blues
19. Lucy Liyou - “Fold the Horse” - from Dog Dreams
20. Ki Oni - “My Grandmother’s Garden” - from A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life
21. Ly Trang - “O Gravity” - from Syenite
22. The Gateless Gate - “Into the Blue” - from We Need Light\
23. Soheil Shayesteh - “200 hz - 10 Ct” - from NhA
24. Nico Niquo - “Esperanto” - from Esperanto
25. Rrose - “Rib Cage” - from Please Touch
26. Loraine James - “Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2) - from Gentle Confrontation
27. Nate Schieble - “Plume03” - from Plume
28. Natalia Beylis - “Good Birds, Goodnight” - from Mermaids
29. Max Syedtollan - “Disposable” - from Disposables
30. Jeff Tobias - “Nightmare” - from Music from the Milky Way Underground
31. Kaho Matsui - “even after the room is cleared i will disappoint someone” - from NO MORE LOSSES
32. Emergency Group - “Inspection of Cruelty pt. 2” - from Inspection of Cruelty
33. Brad E. Rose - “I’m Scared of Dying III” - from I’m Scared of Dying
34. BACK TO COMM - “Time Will Fly in Equal Pinions” - from At Zeenath Parrellel Heavens
35. Bill Orcutt - “New Germs” - from Jump on It
36. Aho SSan - “Hero Once Been (feat. 9T Antiope) - Rhizomes
37. Acef Stripe - “Cleo in the Skies” - from Interoversion
38. Quintelium - “Running Along the Bridge” - from Moonwaves
39. William Ryan Fritch - “Blistering Wind” - from Polarity
40. Powers/Pulice/Rolin - “Magic Meadow Mirror” - from Prism
41. Cruel Diagonals - “Inurement” - from Fractured Whole
42. Fire-Toolz - “Inlet/Paraklesis” - from I am upset because I see something that is not there.
43. Andrew Weathers - “28 Feb 1975” - from A Cardinal With a Sign of Blood
44. Daniel Bachman - “All Their Sadness Turned to Gladness” - from When the Roses Come Again
45. Siavash Amini - “Instantia” - from Eidolon

VA - 2023 - Best Of

2023 Favorites Mix

I've had this simple guitar line that I've been playing around with for the last few months.  Key of A seems to be the most natural for me playing.  I got around to recording last weekend, just the main line and some additional guitar lines over that.  Spend last weekend and this working on arranging and mixing.  To me, it sounds triumphant, but life can be that way sometimes.  Not often but sometimes.

A Waltz for New Arrivals

Miniforms II: Ten Pin Alley is coming to Bandcamp on June 29, 2018, and will be on streaming platforms as well.  This four song EP will focus on some of the more pop orientated songs from the Forms sessions of 2014, though this song in particular is way older than that.  Like Summer of 2008 old.  It's about my wife, whom I just started corresponding with at the time.  I put it up on Myspace as a hint.  Maybe she heard it then.  I don't know.  I don't do lyrics often, and a couplet really isn't a lyric, but it captured this happy nervousness I felt at the time.  Feeling still there.

I Just Wanna Play Remaster 2018

Opening track to Annihilate Your Masters.  Full album is now available through WEATNU Records​. You can stream on your choice of service below:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2PO6ilbpiNkJIEmxmtDOxJ

Bandcamp:  https://whettmanchelmets-weatnurecords.bandcamp.com/album/annihilate-your-masters

Choon: https://choon.co/albums/0qqam3e4cjz/annihilate-your-masters

Itunes/Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/annihilate-your-masters-ep/1420655468?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Preparation (Thesis)

“Alas… The Sun is Shining and You are Still Alive” finds Whettman Chelmets exploring more of the guitar sounds and textures that defined his teenage life, and that sound lends a nostalgic longing to each these three tracks. The first track hits right of the bat with the artist plunging into shoegaze, fuzz-echo noise pop structures reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, and Phil Spector. Track two takes on acoustic treatments and blends them with 4/4 kick drums, reverberated guitars and chimes that weave to a grandiose apex with nods to the The Tornados’s “Telstar” and other larger-than-life sounds. Track three slows it all down to a glacial pace and unfolds guitar textures over the course of nine minutes, moving from a dreamy yearning to crushing waves of feedback and noise. At 18 minutes, Whettman Chelmets takes us on a journey through fuzz-tinted memories.

Alas, the Sun is Shining and You are Still Alive

Alas... 2018

Final Track from "Giant Eyes & Infant Steps", a new 6 track EP from Whettman Chelmets featured in it's entirety on the Phantom Circuit radio program on Resonance Extra in the UK.  

https://phantomcircuit.com/2019/01/18/phantom-circuit-238-with-a-session-by-whettman-chelmets/

Available on digital and cassette February 8 through Girly Girl Musik.  

https://girlygirlmusik.bandcamp.com/

This 18 minute EP explores the concepts of new fatherhood and the adjustments one makes.  Taking inspiration from the drones, white noise, and arpeggios that often fill year ears of new life, with this, I explore the fun, frustration and feels as my daughter approaches her first birthday.

This track was composed primarily through the Behringer Neutron with various guitar pedals.

She Says Dada

Out now! Whettman Chelmets Doesn't Remember.... A 7 song cycle of half-forgotten nostalgia, exploring old recordings through vapor, shoegaze, and classical lenses. On Strategic Tape Reserve.

Tape: https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/doesnt-remember

CD: https://whettmanchelmets.bandcamp.com/

Streaming: https://song.link/album/s/5T5VOCbsYi5LJvo7m8oqHv

Recall (Outro)/ The Swimming Hole

Second single for Long Read Memories.  Out October 11 digitally and limited-cassette tape run through Aescape Sounds.

Steps to the Old Courthouse

The Devil DoubleCrossed You

But I Need To

1000 Faces

Guarded Threshold

For...

For... - Track 10 - Summer 2 (The Promise of Better Days)

Out now! Long Read Memories. An 8 song cycle of catharsis and reconsilation.  On Aescape Sounds.

Tape: https://aescapesounds.bandcamp.com/album/long-read-memories

CD: https://whettmanchelmets.bandcamp.com/

Streaming:  https://linktr.ee/whettmanchelmets

Kinda ambient, kinda noisy, kinda shoegazey, kinda composed, kinda post-rock. 

You can always e-mail at wc.helmets@gmail.com.

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