Part of an experimental project I've been working on. The concept is to write, record and perform tracks in a a single sitting.

The first four tracks were all recorded early in the morning before the rest of the house got up. It's too dark and cold in the mornings for that now, so the second batch of tracks will be done in the afternoon!

Each track takes a couple of hours. The workflow is to write and record some samples (using electric and acoustic guitars, piano and occasionally synths), then build a track by looping them, adding beats and effects.

I'm using Bandlab, Loopy Pro, Other Desert Cities, Dubstation 2, Bleass filters and Replicator.

In terms of genre, SubmitHub tells me this track is:

Experimental Electronic (41%)
Gothic / Dark Wave (40%)
Witch House (27%)
Shoegaze (25%)
Ambient (23%)

So something for everyone then :)

btw wtf is Witch House?

Hope you enjoy, please let me know what you think.

This has been a really fun project. Sometimes working with restrictions is a great way of sparking creativity.

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Shoegaze, indie, post rock and electronica from Manchester, UK
tomleonard_uk@protonmail.com

🎸We are a five-piece studio band mixing different genres and influences into our own sound.
Members:
Tom (vocals, occasional keys/guitar)
Mary (guitar, backing vocals)
Mauro (keyboards, piano, synths, winds)
Davide (bass, synth bass)
Valerio (drums, percussion)

The band has existed since 2015, but we only started publishing on SoundCloud and other platforms in 2024. Many of the songs we’ve released so far are reboots of tracks we wrote years ago, in case you were wondering how we managed to release over 100 tracks in one year. Before 2024 we only published on our own blog (which is now gone, replaced by a new one we barely use), so our audience was limited to a few hundred friends and acquaintances.
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Tom Leonard