This weeks track wraps up the winter collection of music which will be bundled together to download soon. I wanted to send off the winter with a completely acoustic tune so I sat in front of a fire with an acoustic guitar and wrote Camberwell Beauty. It’s different to my usual stuff and I hope you guys enjoy it:
Every year in either February or March I will hear an album that should have appeared in last years album of the year list and this year its Inform-Educate-Entertain By Public Service broadcasting.
Another gem heard on NPR’s SXSW Playlist. Everest like all of Public Service Broadcastings work adds a musical accompaniment to samples of documentary narrations to create really wonderful music. Everest is only the tip of the mountainous talent that the their first full album demonstrates. Every track being feeling part of the whole whilst having its own voice a fantastic work:
This track is inspired in part by video game music from the RPG’s of the 16bit, 32bit and Playstation era. I have been a fan of video game composers especially Nobuo Uematsu for a long time.
Their work ethic puts my one track a week project to shame, In later iterations of Final Fantasy for the Playstation hundreds of tracks were produced for a single game with a limited pallet of sounds and a short timeframe, yet the quality of the composition still shines through.
On Wail to the Moon I tried to replicate some of those sounds but add a bit more modern production to the piece. Listen to it by following the link below and tell me what you think:
This week I want to bring attention to not only this track but also the fantastic sampler NPR are offering on their site which it features on. SXSW is on and to celebrate NPR music have gathered together a collection of 100 of their favourite tracks from the bands playing the festival and can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/28/283974226/the-austin-100-a-sxsw-2014-mix
All of the tracks are worth listening to and have given me inspiration for several weeks of TOTW. I will start with the Hundred Waters track Down From the Rafters. This track starts in the realms of traditional celtic folk but at the 2:30 mark were treated to an overlaying structure modern production on top of its traditional routes creating something unique and exiting:
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This Track was heavily influenced by my Train commute. Building a rhythmic train like sound in percussion and using field recordings of my commute as a bed running throughout the track.
Give Newton a listen Here:
I’m shocked that in searching through my track of the week history. No work by Telefon Tel Aviv has been mentioned, especially the track fahrenheit fair enough.
To call this a track of the week feels more of a copout then what this track deserves. For me It’s up there as one of my favourite tracks of all time, Its Jazz Chords collide with some of the finest glitch percussion ever processed and create a track that I haven’t got tired of for the past ten years. A truly remarkable piece of work:
In this track I layer many evolving pad textures to try to create something that will take many repeat listens to get your head arround its nuance.
Give it a listen below by clicking the link below and tell me what you think:
This Track Is my entrance into Novations Music competition every sound is made from the free novation sample library available currently on their site.
I used a total of 16 Drum samples and 5 other samples to make the entire tune. Changing the processing of these samples Every 16 bars to alter the tone of the track. The aim was to try to make something slightly ominous which gets more oppressive as the track shifts forward.
You can hear the track below:
Week sevens piece was a little rushed as I ran out of time making the track I aimed to do. I had to improvise by performing an old piece live, recording and then releasing is straight to weekly beats.
The Piece was created as part of a soundtrack for the film El Eco del Dolor de Mucha Gente, which I composed. Although it was my favourite piece it didn’t find a place in the film and has been on the shelf since. Maybe with some more time I will arrange it for more instruments but currently it will stay on piano.
You can here the track for week 7 below:
I’ve just realised my complacency when looking at my site. I have only posted the tracks I have been making up to week 5. I’m Now at week 9 so need to step up my game and make you aware of them all which I will do over this week.
The track for week 6 is a slower more insular ambient piece of music made on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 which was then mixed down with ableton live:
Listen to the track here: