Ceremony

Super choppy and not the complete track. To be honest, I'm not happy with this the way it is, but I felt I had to put SOMEthing up! 
Still getting used to the software/hardware.

Sorry, headphone users - I'm not a producer! 

As of October of 2020, I don't have sufficient knowledge of how to balance recordings all that well (especially if they have distorted features).  Oh well.  I've always dug this tune, but I've never liked my voice as lead vocal on its verses. I always come off as brit-poppy or gospel when I want to be dark and progressive. 

Also, the guitar solos were just some silly wankage. I don't know if I mean for them to stay, lol

Diss, Engage

There are some parts of the song which are omitted, but that's just for the sake brevity. It's just another extension of the verse that serves to intensify the latter half. 

Speaking of the latter half: I left this largely 'blank' for other ideas. Maybe less is more, but a lot of this part of the song is also squeezed together so you just get the gist of the parts. There may not even be a vocal crescendo in the final.

Oblivion

Shout out to my good pal Heather, who originally came up with the awesome two-note verse melody in a jam way back in 20XX, and after whom the song is titled! 

This is just an instrumental mess-around of an original mess-around. B)

At this point I haven't been putting any real percussion in my recordings, so it might seem like the tempo is off in a couple parts of this song, but it really isn't like you might think - some of the heavier parts are actually playing a quarter beat early to give the whole headbanger section a little bounce. Unfortunately, since there are no solid percussive elements to weigh it down, it might come off as - well - off (if you're hearing it a way it wasn't intended, anyway). But this project isn't about perfection! I'll don't think I'll ever stop beating that horse, haha

H-Bomb+

I originally wasn't going to upload this one, since it felt to me a lot like "Ceremony" in its experimental quality and straight 8th-note melody. It's also a bit of a mess in terms of production. I didn't want to re-record certain parts, so there are some abrupt fadeouts and fade-ins at some points. 

It's based on a musical idea I had way back in 2009, when I was introduced to the idea of crossing time signatures. As written, the overlapping pulses here are two bars of 7/4 & 5/4, then four bars of 3/4 & three bars of 4/4, respectively. As played, it's more like the '7' is accented over the '5'.

Rainshadow Circus

Again - I really had to convince myself not to try to add or do too much to this track.  Nothing much to say, except that this was the track that made me really want to hunker to down and get other recording equipment for other instruments besides just the guitar/vocals, since it was mostly improvised.

Also, I really need to rasp up my voice - it sounds too baby-ish to me at points. Any suggestions?

The Animals

It's been a string of 'gray weather' days, so I've been terribly unmotivated and haven't recorded anything that's (in my view) worth posting. But, here's a warmer track for contrast.

It does have lyrics, but I thought it might make for a 'nicer' guitar instrumental. There's no piano recording equipment at this time!

O, Setting Sun

Here's a weird and screechy one to perhaps sigh at. With my limited production know-how, my heavier ones always seem to come out awkward, lol 

Nothing much else to say, except it's sort of a taste of what my heavier sound might be. Once I get more set up, I'll be able to elaborate more on the parts (and make them sound much better)!

Electric & Muscle

As in the band, pronounced however you want it to be.

Oh yeah: please ignore 0:48 and 0:59, haha.

MGMT

Upon listening back to this, I couldn't sleep until I fixed some of the glaring bugs. 

It's much more palatable now! B)

LwD/MwTH ["Loudmouth"]

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