This is the iPad Musician Facebook Group 2014 Halloween Track to win cool apps. I used Drumperfect, Drumjam, iSem, Alchemy Mobile, iFretless Bass, Samplr for the Gregorian style vocal chants (my own), my 1986 J tele, Norman Acoustic, both through Apogee Jam, and Apogee Mic for the voices. FX in the input slot included Yonac Tonestack, AUFX DUB, and Holderness Media Echo Pad and Crystalline, and the long reverb tails on the acoustics were my fave verb (Can I call it Faveverb?), Virsyn...

Kids And Fireworks

Track 1 of "A Secret Underground"...

A night of uncertainty...

A Secret Underground

The Vacant Lot

Chris Catalano - A Secret Underground - 01 - The Vacant Lot

The Doom Bones

Chris Catalano - A Secret Underground - 12 - The Doom Bones

I tried to make a Song sound like an Earthquake. Try it.

Lightning Angels

Chris Catalano - A Secret Underground - 13 - Lightning Angels

From my Guitar Rig to you, Merry Christmas...A moody ambient guitar instrumental with additional sounds from the magnificent NI Una Corda and xfer Records Serum Synth warbling away in the background...

Snow Blind Alley

Another Winter themed Guitar Instrumental. They don't turn into songs, just something to float around the background. Merry Christmas!

Winter Stars

From a moody and experimental series of Guitar Instrumentals...

Merry Christmas!

Snow Flake Dust

A Slice of Lofi Ambient guitar, using multiple pedals, but mostly holding down an em chord, banging the old J Tele body and spinning the tone and volume pots to get crackle and body chamber sound resonances. Feel free to use it to make your pristine e minor tracks sound broken!

June 11 Lofi Tele Slice

Just a very strange but I think kind of funny dream about some bears who came to visit.

Some Bears In My Dream

A semi-improvised Christmas Piano composition. The melody popped into my head a few days ago, been getting into Dorian mode a little more. Eb minor so the sixth is raised except on the big chord change where it is natural.

Mostly using Spitfire Audio Labs and Originals. Eventide Blackhole Reverb on the sleigh-bell sends.

Christmas Piano 1.1

Short Ambient Guitar rig jam with some added NI stuff.

Ancient Dream 1.1

From a compilation of iOS ambient stuff I have in the can, sum total working title "Microsonics" This makes much more use of the astoundingly beautiful iOS app "Samplr". Just get it. It is crazy good...and some low key guitar licks...Drawing from Community Arts Council show in 1986...when I was in peak monsterhood...

Monster Win

Ends appropriately. Field Recording, New Years Eve 2020.
The Final Fuck You is at the end of my weird version of Auld Lang Syne, some guy in Rosemary Brown Lane letting 2020 have it once and for all!

Happy New Year 2021

I have been writing, performing (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, and percussion/drums) and recording my own music since the early 1980s, just prior to studying Painting at Emily Carr. In 2011, I graduated from the advanced music production program at Nimbus School of Recording Arts, and was invited back as a guest artist to do some final tracking on "A Secret Underground", a body of music and art that I started working on in Japan in 2004. I began releasing fragments of it on Facebook and Soundcloud in 2011, and am in the final stages of an official, fully mastered release. An earlier C.D., "Echo Off a Cloud", is available on iTunes.

I have recently become an avid iOS musician, and believe that the platform has tremendous potential for creating very high quality music in places and environments heretofore unexplored.

Chris Catalano

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