this is so fucking beautifully disgusting and beautiful at the same time

Songs like this really get me thinking on why it sounds so so good; it feels like it both should and shouldn't if that makes sense-

3 years and a lot of changes, and this is still one of the most beautiful and emotional pieces I’ve heard

Such a wonderfully organic piece. The absolute embodiment of "method to the madness."

Deep Water

‘The Broken Places’ starts off with a vocoder loop. See, when I’m making an album, I’ll tend to write about 300 songs and narrow it down to the 15 songs that are on the album, which isn’t to say that the songs that don’t make it onto the record aren’t any good. It’s not like 300 amazing songs and I have to get rid of 285 amazing songs. Some of them aren’t very good. 

This song ‘The Broken Places’ was a weird instrumental that I’d written that I liked and thus assumed no one else would like it. And I played it to a few friends and they were like “Ah actually that’s interesting”. The more I lived with it the more I liked it. And what I love, it’s quiet repetitive and almost every element in there is broken, which I guess in keeping with the title but it’s an old Korg vocoder that barely works. I forget what drum machine I used but one of those, I think it might have been a home made, there is this company from Ohio called Paia and I got a home made kit drum machine that someone built in the 70’s. Again, it just barely, barely works. 

So I felt like this was a broken down, sort of winsome, endearing, electronic piece of music. I needed to come with a title for it. That’s the tricky thing with instrumentals is what you call them. And this one, there is a Ernest Hemingway quote, which I think I’m paraphrasing but basically says, life breaks most of us and some of us are stronger at the broken places, and I’ve always loved that quote, which I’m paraphrasing. And so I liked that as an introductory album title for the album because it does sort of emotionally set the tone for the rest of the record. 

The one regret I have about that first song is the original version is about 8 minutes long and just keeps repeating for 8 minutes. And I was kind of a sissy and I thought that having an 8 minutes repetitive introductory song in an album was just a little too much to expect anyone to get through. So I was a sissy and I edited it down to 3.5 minutes. If anyone wants the full 8 minutes version I am happy to send it to them. 


The Broken Places

‘The Low Hum’ was another broken down electronic, instrumental track and I gave it to my friend Emily Zuzik and what’s funny is, I didn’t even tell her what the album was about the theme of music for empty cities at two o’clock in the morning and she basically wrote these lyrics about being in a hotel room at two o’clock in the morning in an empty city. 

So maybe she is psychic. I don’t know but it’s a song without a chorus, which I like. And her voice has this quiet sort of disembodied quality to it, which was really hard for her because she is a big singer. If it was up to her, she would have sang it broadway style but I wanted it to be that sort of disconcerting, warm, womb like quality, where the vocals are almost like someone singing to themselves instead of projecting for all the world to hear, it’s sort of like someone in a bath tub, in a hotel next to the Stuttgart train station at three o’clock in the morning singing to yourself in the bath tub. So vocally I think that’s what I was trying to get her to do.

The Low Hum

Wanted to experiment with different time signatures. :)

Total production time: 5.5h

Jake Chudnow - Going Down (Luunn Remix)

“For Leah” by Jake Chudnow

I made the music for this beautiful Alice Dunseath short in collaboration with cellist Lucy Railton. 

Check it out and subscribe to her channel, super cool stuff: https://youtu.be/8qArY4tLf3A﻿

In her words:

Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world. 
New beginnings put an end to familiar patterns.
Do we shape as much as we are shaped?

You Could Sunbathe in this Storm // Video Link in Description

Forgotten Memories

Featuring Brian Fernandes-Halloran
From Short Stories (2007)
Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuReya7_zsY

Crunch Test

Hear/watch the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUdgfGppKlA

Full Sontag Shogun remix album coming soon. 

Follow them to be notified:
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Sontag Shogun - Musk Ox (Jake Chudnow Remix)

<p>From Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008)
Full album here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/sets/rainstorms-and-rainbows-2008/s-LKHNx">Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008) by jakechudnow</a>


Buildings and Bikes

SPOTIFY: https://goo.gl/4C6HxU
DOWNLOAD: windows96.bandcamp.com/album/nematophy

Badmorning

I OWN NO RIGHTS TO THIS SONG WHATSOEVER. All rights go to Jake Chudnow. Here is his youtube channel with his other great music: https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow

This theme is from VSauce's new YouTube Red series, Mind Field. It's very interesting and if you haven't already, I suggest you check it out.

Enjoy.

Jake Chudnow - Atlas (Theme From Mind Field)

Jake Chudnow - Dream Sequence

I uploaded this track after a bunch of people on a few of Valve News Network's video's tried to find this song on HOME's tumblr/soundcloud/spotify AND his side project, color shed, to no avail.

Of course, all rights to this song are held by HOME, I'm just putting it here because he didn't.

HOME - High Five

Brian Eno - An Ending

Live Forever

Moby & Mark Lanegan - The Lonely Night (Freescha remix)

IG: yuulman 
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moving the body and drawing on paper and skin 

The download limit is placed by Soundcloud, not me. Look for an album download link soon!

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