this song is super sick Tom! Reminds me of a mixture of QOTSA and Incubus (ACLOTM era). The middle 8 is super beautiful and its nice how the whole mix opens up a bit in that section (the guitar leads have a bit of Smashing Pumpkins in that bit). Great work!

this little middle 8 is phenomenal! it could be a tune in itself

Somewhere In Between

From A Deep Time

WATCH THE LIVE VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HokF8Gr_Q

In 2019 we crowdfunded our debut album. One of the rewards we offered for backers was a request-a-cover type affair. One of our fans came up with the idea of us covering this song and organised a group of people to buy the reward and here we are! We feel really grateful to our fans for getting us to do this. It was a daunting task at first but we're really happy with the results and hope you will be too.

We are big Shpongle fans. This song, even within the Shpongle catalogue, is something really special. We've put a lot of heart and soul into our arrangement, trying to capture the emotional journey of the original but using our own musical vocabulary to express a different side of the experience. We really hope that you'll recognise some of the twists and turns of the original, as well as enjoying a fresh perspective on it. Please share it with anyone you think will like it!

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Tom Le Cocq (AMB Bassist)

Divine Moments Of Truth - Shpongle Cover

My remix of psychedelic Phlegm by the amazing Jehst.

Listen to the original here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs55n5_-2Vg

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Jehst has been my favourite rapper for a very long time. I was pretty stoked to find the acapella online and have the chance to hear his vocals on a production of mine!

[REMIX] Psychedelic Phlegm by Jehst

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Quarantin3 by Ask My Bull:
Oh God don’t call it that! Well, just FYI we named this song well before the word ‘quarantine’ struck terror into the hearts of populous. The main riff for this track was written and committed to voice-memo way back in 2018 by our bassist Tom. That handy voice memo was, for some idiosyncratic reason known only by Tom's iPhone, auto-titled as Quarantine3. So the name was born. 

This track is our first as a four-piece; the line-up on this release is a heavy-grooving rhythm section of Harry on drums and Tom on bass plus Dual-Sax-Terror from Molly and Elliot. The majority of the writing was done online with each member recording their own parts and sending them over to Tom for arranging and mixing.

Quarantin3

For Christmas this year, I am giving musical compositions instead of bought gifts. All written and recorded in the last 2 weeks before Christmas, according to briefs from the recipients.

Away In A Stranger aka Manger Things - for Kathryn and Lydia - instructions were 'stranger things'.

Talking Picture - for Mum -  based on a painting of hers.

A Fern in Amber - for Amber - an Alcest-ish song of the heart

Walking Falling - for Richard - to a scene from the book he is writing. Descending a cliff towards a beach where your dead brother washed up days ago, falling, looking up at the stars.

Justice & Hot Air Balloons - for Dad - instructions were to be a bit regal, steampunk and mystical... though it ended up a bit more like the score to a film where those things might feature.

Lyrudii the Keeper - for James - a theme for a character from a book he is writing. Night. Stars. Builder. Knowledge. Secrets. Ghost. Hidden.

Crossing - for Ruth - you just said that you'd love to hear some of my music, so here is a song I wrote a few months ago, just for the love of writing.

Oh, Cats & Oh, Dogs - for Jake and Rebekah - neither of you told me what you wanted, so you got this. I hope you're pleased with yourselves

Born Free - for Grandma - a cover of a song by Matt Monro. I found the singing a challenge on this, but I've tried to do it in my own way.

Lyrudii the Keeper

For Christmas this year, I am giving musical compositions instead of bought gifts. All written and recorded in the last 2 weeks before Christmas, according to briefs from the recipients.

Weirder Items - for Kathryn and Lydia - instructions were 'stranger things'.

Talking Picture - for Mum -  based on a painting of hers.

A Fern in Amber - for Amber - an Alcest-ish song of the heart

Walking Falling - for Richard - to a scene from the book he is writing. Descending a cliff towards a beach where your dead brother washed up days ago, falling, looking up at the stars.

Justice & Hot Air Balloons - for Dad - instructions were to be a bit regal, steampunk and mystical... though it ended up a bit more like the score to a film where those things might feature.

Lyrudii the Keeper - for James - a theme for a character from a book he is writing. Night. Stars. Builder. Knowledge. Secrets. Ghost. Hidden.

Crossing - for Ruth - you just said that you'd love to hear some of my music, so here is a song I wrote a few months ago, just for the love of writing.

Oh, Cats & Oh, Dogs - for Jake and Rebekah - neither of you told me what you wanted, so you got this. I hope you're pleased with yourselves

Born Free - for Grandma - a cover of a song by Matt Monro. I found the singing a challenge on this, but I've tried to do it in my own way.

Weirder Items

Something simple and close to my heart, to kick off the year in compositional comfort. When left to my own devices, I write a lot of this kind of thing. I decided to spice things up a little by adding some synth layers in the verse and chorus and playing the verse countermelody on synth too. 

The music was written and recorded in one day, but the lyrics and vocals took me most of the rest of 2 weeks. I really struggle with lyrics. Here I am going for a voice that is at once a bit abstract and poetic, but also quite rough and ready. I often aim for this kind of lyric, but I haven't yet put in the practice to really nail it. The vocal delivery was also challenging - I have had very little reason to sing in heavier styles since Luna Marada finished a few years ago. Another thing to work on this year.

Cracking!

This one started with some input from Joao Meirinhos, including the thumbnail picture...

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What does the sun sound like?

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
- Philip K. Dick

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Camus
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I definitely took this as somewhere to launch off from rather than trying to create a clear musical interpretation. Though the quote above is from Camus, the piece is more than a little Nauseous. My method for this track was to create material without constraint and gradually form it into a full piece over time. You could say that it coagulated.

Soul(sic)

This is an experiment for me. I am exploring distorted textures; trying to find the edge point where it is almost too distorted to be beautiful. It is also an exercise in attention and willpower; trying to find the sonic place where you can still focus on the world behind the noise, but you can be under no illusions about effort involved in this task. Everyone has a different limit for this, but I believe it is a skill worth developing.

Gently

Recently, I have been trying to turn music making into something more like how painting is for me - less planned, not trying to understand everything, more based on process, function and adapting to what comes. I thought it would be interesting to overemphasise these aspects of music making for a while, as I have spent most of the last 6 or 7 years developing ways of working that are more structured, planned, deliberate etc...

Cracking!

Tom Le Cocq

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