Yo La Tengo inspired, Tortoise influenced

Song17 (yo La)

flaming lips meets early genesis meets pink floyd


Latitude A Minor

Drowning Ophelia recording circa 1995.  Ala Cocteau Twins/Sundays...

Froof

Drowning Ophelia song recorded in 1995. 4track cassette. An adventure in poor tempo (no click), tragically performed drum machine, heavily distorted tracks (not always a bad thing), and when it came to recording the vocal, I had to recut the bass on the same track so when mixed the bass is getting the same amount of huge verb and delay as Lyrics's voice, which explains why the bass disappears and returns like a roaring b52 bomber.  And combining those two things on one track is unfortunate cause it would be great to remix this song with better drums.  Live and learn I guess.  I do really like the lead guitar bit at the climax of the song.  Extremely heavy for Drowning Ophelia.  I dont even remember performing this song live back in the day.  

Silence

15 years of futzn around with Pro Tools, an old Roland, a Kurzweil SP88, a Nord Stage 2, a Danelectro, Yamaha acoustic,  various controllers running Avid Xpand. Quite varied stuff, I had fun making a keyboard sound like a shredding lead guitar!  I can almost pair each influence with each song.....Pink Floyd, Pinback, Doves, Radiohead,  Jazz, World and Electronica influences, Peter Gabriel, Andy Summer, Fusion and Sigur Ros.

JB Songs Medley

02 Something Of You

07 The Mountain - Instrumental

Clan of Xymox coming outa my pores.  So specific a time in my life. The song doesn't stay in the moment but that verse part is all Xymox.  I like the crazy oscillator sound.

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