Solstice Live Experimental Playlist Week #2

As a band, our primary focus is the live performance; and with Two Rooms - EP, we aimed to create an honest portrayal of our music just as we play it. On a small budget, we committed ourselves to recording Two Rooms in two days at Big Orange Studio, and to tracking all of the songs live. 

Perhaps unconventional, the ten song EP is comprised of five improvised sketches (Chautauqua, Rhombus, Movements, and Two Rooms), one soundscape (Wild Senna), and four live-recorded songs (Scout, Riverburn, Amarillo and Headrush). Thus Two Rooms - EP paints a genuine picture. It is an introductory glimpse into both who we are and what we want to do together as musicians. 

Riley Engemoen, a great friend of ours and an incredible filmmaker, filmed us in the studio and made a video that premiered via Pop Press International (www.poppressinternational.com/2014/04/16/post-rock-band-chipper-jones-video-premiere-amarilloheadrush/) and can be viewed here: vimeo.com/91907041.
credits
released 17 April 2014 

recorded by Jake Moon at Big Orange Studio 

mixed and mastered by Jake Reading 
soundcloud.com/jakereadingrecording 
jakereadingrecording@yahoo.com

Riverburn (live)

Grady Baker - Guitar, Keys, Vocals 
Evan Reynolds - Bass, Keys, Vocals 
Carson Viglione - Drums, Percussion 

released 23 August 2014 

Produced by Toro Canyon 
Mixed by Evan Reynolds 
Mastered by Rob Murray


Golden Hour

Really excited to finally release this song for y'all. This future funk jam has been a staple in our live sets for some time now. It was one of the first tracks we made as a group, and one of our personal favorites to play live.

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Fresh Air

from 'process' - http://music.misternorman.com

produced by christopher norman
additional synth production by @buildingonfire
electric guitar by @adubsupreme

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process (intro)

messing around with some MIDI keyboard at work and came up with a fun song that reminded me of some Mother jam.

maybe it'll be a real chip song someday!

jellybean nebula

The new single off our upcoming album Unfolding to be released at The Mohawk on April 2nd, 2015! More info at modalatx.com

Lyrics:

Aint Got Love

Intro:
I’m from A.Texas where
Tequila and sess is
Used to remove and
Cool down our stresses
We party to guitar strings
But heartstrings get plucked too and we
Link up with lovers we
Swear that we loved too cuz
Sweet summer nights will
Serenade and sway you
Lone Star by the case with
Embrace and fade you
Years at university will
Shape and age you you’ll
Graduate one day with
30K to chain you
Maybe 20 with that
Aid they gave you but
Still too much for the
Wage they’ll pay you
Keep an eye out for a
Way to break through
Crack glass ceilings man we
Don’t just raise roofs
Cool style plus
Finesse and substance
We gonna make it and it
Aint from luck man
Every day got my
Full heart pumpin cuz if we
Aint got love then we
Ain’t got nothin

Pre Chorus:
Aint got love we
Aint got nothing’
A million wars goin on
I can hear the bones crunchin
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing
A million wars
Goin on my fam.

Chorus:
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing if we
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothin

Verse:
Third eye light stronger
Jedi knight conquer
Intuition supersedes your
Credit card number
In terms of value
They burnin out dude
We just getting started
Homies turnin out to
Show mad love
Throw hands up
This groove feels better than a
Slow back rub or
Tantric massage we
Rock it, my god
Cut our own way while they
Lost in the fog
Dazed and confused but we
Breakin the rules of
Constraints they produce so we
Make what we choose
Aint time to lose the
Flame is profuse when we
Blazin’ the booth so
Take out the fuse
Click. Boom!
Explosive percussion
Corrosive dysfunction’s
Eroded we’re bustin
Out the old ways
In to a new day
Usin’ the groovy and
Movin to truly
Make something for our
Sons and our daughters
Buns in the oven plus our
Mothers and our fathers
We’ve had enough of the
Guns and the martyrs so we
Won’t let them lead another
One to the slaugher

Pre Chorus:
If we aint got love then we
Aint got nothing’
A million wars goin on
I can hear the bones crunchin
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing
A million wars
Goin on my fam.

Chorus:
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing if we
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothin
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing if we
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing
If we aint got love then we
Aint got nothing if we
Aint got love then we
Aint got nothing


Bridge:
Today I set down my
Sword and my shield
Fears and frustrations
Constraints of the ego
Took a long look through the
Eye of the needle
When we pass on we see we’re
More than just people
Fear no man
Transcend good and evil
The universe is energy
The Devil is medieval
Need no authority
Let the cosmos teach you
Call out to the universe its
Frequencies will reach you
Hold your dream close
This planet needs you
Cut the old program
Find a way to reboot
Ayahuasca, psilocybin
Not the beer the feed you
Don’t condone a broken system
It can never please you
Master your thoughts
Find a way to pierce through
Meet the opposition with
Decisions and a fierce mood
Knowing your potential is
Essential to be fear proof
The body is all sparks
When the heart does clearly hear truth
It’s all in you from the
Anthills to the sun
Waiting for your consciousness to
Take the inner plunge
Inner oxytocin from the
Heart beat that we pump
Oxygen to third eye through
Intention and the lungs
DMT releases and we
See that all is one
Let us elevate to unity for
Peace instead of bombs
Cuz we could have the glory
And the gold and all the guns
But we still aint got nothing
If we aint got love

Outro
We aint got nothing
If we aint got love
We aint got nothin’
If we aint got love
We aint got nothing
If we aint got
Love
We aint got
Nothin
credits
released 06 March 2015
Nicolas Azlon (AKA Pojo The Idealist) - Vocals
Jack Van Norman - Piano
Samuel Howden - Trumpet, Synth, Vocals
John French - Bass
Alex Ogle - Drums 

Ain't Got Love

Reset (ft. Shantel Leitner)

Flash Flood

Such a blessing to perform in Studio 1A on KUTX 98.9! We so appreciate them having us! Download here and/or check us out on their website!!
http://kutx.org/musicarchive/modal-kutx-04-16-2015 

"Austin collective Modal delivers a combination of jazz, hip hop, and slow melodic rock with conviction and swagger.

Formed by childhood friends, Modal says they see their music as a way to “create the world we want to live in,” a feat they strived for on their self-titled debut album, a passionate call for compassion, understanding, and love with an improvisational heart. Just a year later the group is back with a new release titled Unfolding, their already signature jazz influenced key work and calmly delivered rhymes guiding a poetic and uplifting listen.

You can catch Modal’s live show at Holy Mountain on April 18th and you can stream their music live right here on KUTX."

MODAL Live On KUTX 4/16/15

A personal reinterpretation of Daft Punk’s Something About Us — rebuilt track by track using Ableton Live 12. A tribute to French Touch, analog warmth, and 80s nostalgia, from Paris to San Francisco.
https://thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreating-daft-punks-something-about-us/

Something About Us

Their tailor-made moniker, an elongated tweak on the ancient word “sloom” – to slumber or doze – aptly decribes the sound of Austin’s newest ambient pop duo. Slooom evokes the dream state: musically atmospheric, conceptually abstract, and tranquil in effect.

WATCH: https://vimeo.com/126746715
FOLLOW: http://on.fb.me/1BstV4i
DOWNLOAD: https://slooom.bandcamp.com/track/honey
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Art by TORY ELENA Art & Design and design by Enzo Loechel


Honey

2015
Austin, Texas
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