Smooth hippity drum beat layered with trumpet solo and ahhs in counterpoint

Cold Sweat

Blues Muse 2-03-2023

I wanted to make a song for St Patricks Day. 

About a month ago, I had recorded a small lick in A minor on the piano with just 4 chords, forgot about it. Reopened it this week to make this the basis of the song. I made the first set of bars into a piano loop but then stitched the recorded ending. 

When you listen to the piano part and the vocals, you get an Irish ballad vibe. 

The cello, which is big part of song, is just a series of stock Am instrument loops that came from Studio One. I placed about 6 of them onto S1 - rearranged them, used into and outro fader, spliced some loops, reversed a few, then ordered them together to make the melodic line you hear. It’s similar to collage work, but instead of pasting on photos, print, and other memorabilia, you get to stitch together a song so icdnjff he using a finite set of stock l

On the other loops - towards the end of song, I heavily incorporated tape echo FX, reverb with distortion to make a modern, dissonant ending 

The lyrics are mostly and afterthought- the melody was in place so once i got a phrase or two to match the sonic character of the vocal melody, I landed on the idea of a homeless drunkard making peace with his fate, but too proud for home life.

Ballad of a Homeless Irishman.mp3

Composer/artist living in Massachusetts. Inspired by various styles ranging from classical to pop, folk, and electronic. 

Latest work, 2023-24, is a collection of piano-centered (or keyboard) centered pop and rocks songs and a few classical pieces.

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Older streamed music was stored on Acidplanet under this name, but the platform was discontinued in 2018. Restored songs placed here are either transferred from The Lost Acid-planet (archive site) or from tracks in my personal storage.

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