Name: The Rambo Song by TIZZY NOXA
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: i watched every rambo movie back to back and wrote this....

Night Falls Fast

Izzy Skinner - Violin/Vocals/Bass/Guitar/Composer
Rob. C. Bundle - Lyricist/Poet
Gustavo Moreno - Drums
Gary Ward - Mixing
Lloyd Barrett/Pat Telfer - Sound Engineers

Myriad

The Child That Rings the Bell

Together

I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

S-Late Rabbit

The Ambient Saxophone

Sax Machina 1 (Early Mix)

Picture

This is a super upbeat love song. Heads up, it isn't a deep, meaningful look at beliefs or believing, although the title may suggest that.... the impetus for the lyrics (and title) was my partner asking me what it means to believe. Well to be exact, I asked him for a song theme to write on, and that's the question he gave for it.

You ask me
What it means to believe
But all I ever give you is poetry
A sighing heart
A yearning glance at the view

I give you my endless words
All my walks, talks 
And over-blown thoughts
And you ask me
Do I believe in you

Something strong as the day it was made
The one that gets an instant yes
Senses alive and the joy that you find
Oh do I believe in you
Timeless time
And zero distance
A deity's word that binds us in it
All these things and non-things
I believe in you

You ask me what it means to believe
I paint pictures
From the things we feel
With these words
I'll make something for you to see

First you harken to the silence
Give a chord to a dying flame
Just as though we're starting over
A song brings us home

Only Watching Clouds

What it means to believe

What it Means to Believe

Boomskiboomboom

i watched every rambo movie back to back and wrote this....

The Rambo Song

© HAZMAT STUDIO 2018  all made with Cool edit
ITS ALL RAW.. Very little PRODUCTION VALUE. Max 6 tracks 
I DO NOT ASSEMBLE MY MUSIC.... I PLAY IT.
YOU WILL HEAR LITTLE MISTAKES.... IT'S PLAYED ALL THE WAY THROUGH.... NOT BLOCKS OF  8 OR 16 BEATS OF PRE-SAMPLED MUSIC ASSEMBLED BY SOFTWARE... I HAVE ELEC/ACOUS GUITARS..... ELEC/ACOUS BASS..... THE DRUMS ARE PLAYED THE WAY YOU WOULD PLAY PIANO..... ON MY KEYBOARD... ITS NOT BAD AT SOUNDING REAL...  I GUESS.. BUT I CAN PHYSICALLY PLAY BEATS.. NOT USE MUSIC SOFTWARE..CUZ I DON'T HAVE A DRUMSET.... JUST GET ME BEHIND ONE ..... I PLAY IT ALL FROM START TO FINISH... NO CUT/PASTE BULLSHIT..... I ATE ALL THE PASTE....  MY COMPUTER JUST RECORDS WHAT I PLAY.  AND I MIGHT EQ IT A BIT SO THE INSTRUMENTS BLEND TOGETHER..   ONE FULL TRACK/INS. START TO FINISH..  MOST ARE 4 OR 5 TRACKS.   ENJOY 
ROCKnROLL 
p.s im not trying to put down or talk shit about dj guys or elec. guys... i get it...i prefer to do it like this cuz its a more physical representation of what i have in my head....   i know it sounds weak ass...i wish i could record these tunes with a band....it would sound so much better and there would be more then just me playing...  other peoples musical talent shin'n through.

The Rambo Song

TIZZY NOXA

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