New track: A Man Named Morotto, by Hovmod and Marc JX8P

[Marc JX8P]

For your listening pleasure, Hovmod and I would like to present to you all a track we did called A Man Named Morotto. Let us know what you think of it!

Guitars & bass: Hovmod
Synths & mixing: Marc JX8P.

Bonus points btw. for the first person to guess the origins of the title!

[Hovmod]

Look! Bottom of the page and no comments!

[jakob]

listening now... first thought: while the synths create a nice spacey atmosphere, hearing them "soar" in and out again and again (and again) is a bit tiring to my ears. I like both the guitar and synth inserts. Ah, now it's developing nicely. Yeah, I like it. Cool sound-effects. Overall, well done synth-improvisation piece.

[metalifuxx]

How were the guitars recorded? Ampsim used? Definetely sounds like a Strat.

[Boulotaur2024]

A nice mix between good 'ol demo scene music and Mike Oldfield. I like it a lot, thank you.

Extreme attention to details like drums, pads... The guitar's so sweet, I like its "spaceyness" (sp ?)

[Laguna Rising]

Nice ! this is a kind of "atmospheric-rock" thing. Excellent choice of synth sounds.
I like the guitar phrasing here.
Well done

Hmm, I can't guess the origin of that name...

Cheers

[kara]

Excellent , i've enjoyed it.
Some Pink Floyd influence in it ?

[Marc JX8P]

Thanks for the comments, people! This track took quite some finishing although the basic structures came about relatively quickly around some basic chord progressions I had done and some great guitar soloing by Hovmod (I'll leave it to him to talk about the technical aspects of his guitar recordings). After that there was a long process of adding other parts and trying to find the right mix. It was very fun to do, though. There's not meant to be a real specific influence in it, aside from the music we both like. Considering the synthy/atmospheric qualities of the track with the solo guitar I agree there's some Oldfield/Floyd sound to it but it wasn't intended that way.

About that name... think 80s.

[TotcProductions]

Sounds like porn music to me folks. Love it though, really nice atmosphere.

hehe, I'll play it at the bar tonight and see if anyone takes there clothes off.

[Hybernation]

Nice track Marc, thanks for sharing. Love the sound used on that first synth solo!

[Hovmod]

Haha - porn music! (:idea: looking for the yellow pages: ...p...p...p...)

Thanks for listening guys.
The guitar is a PRS with two humbuckers, so any strat-ness must come from either me or the PODxt I used for the sound. It's the "citrus" amp that's supposed to be modelled on an Orange. One of my favourite POD amps, that. Very expressive and dynamic, for a sim - not that my playing is that subtle...

Oldfield and Floyd again? I don't complain about the references, but one day I'm gonna play a solo that doesn't get a single Oldfield or Gilmour comment.



(I'm not REALLY having a tantrum for being mentioned with those guys, that's just to seem cool about it)

Pics or stfu, totc!

The name cracks me up today too.
[mock bad guy voice]"A man named Morotto..."[/mock bad guy voice]

[Klemperer]

Well, Monsieurs, to my ears this is no Gilmour-influence, but the tone of the (marvellous) guitar playing is a tiny bit like Oldfield (which I think of as a big compliment, I still love the first records by Oldfield much, and after all, Tubular Bells, not 138, but 1 , was compared to Sibelius).
Very nice synths, very nice guitar, a really nice song.

[mellotronaut]

Mmmmm, the Floyd-influence isn't in the guitar, it's in Marc's synths, but i can assure you, your song is much better than the 80's/90's-Floyd-stuff and has it's own rights beyond the influences. An outstanding instrumental...put it on my new mix-cd this afternoon!

Thank you very spacey!

christia melli

[Marc JX8P]

Thanks very much! To be compared to Pink Floyd and Mike Oldfield... wow...

Our next one will be more original though - we already have a name: 'The Tubular Side Of The Moon'!

[mellotronaut]

What about 'A shadow on the wall of division's balls'?