July Contest: GOSSIP

[mellotronaut]

Even better: The Maxls have a special liquor-formula. This drink is quite amazing


Mellooooooni'x'x'x

I cannot think of a greater pleasure right now (well, there are a coupla things, like winning a zillion dollars and stuff) than to meet up with you two in the Canaries and sample some of that "Formulae Especial"

I am convinced we'd have an incredibly enjoyable time!

Cheers,
Alex 'x'x'x -- urp...

Thank's's hick'x a...ahh lo't, Alex!

Max is right.....when I was young, I fell into a big beer-barrell and my mother could hardly convince me to come out again . It was while the Munich-'Oktoberfest' was happening. From then on only the smell of alc could make me high....But I like Maxi's liqih.. ah..liquor a lot.
Max is a good smoker too, but it smells different sometimes

Hear ya!

Mellohomepage

[mellotronaut]

Has anyone successfully retrieved goldbaker's "Dies Irae - Day of Wrath". That fileden link just isn't working for me.

- m

Yeah, I got it....he's the Rick Wakeman of our contest (or his midi-files )

[xander]

These days I am good for about two small glasses of red wine and I'm history (on my second one right now) urp... and then to bed here in a minute.

..and just wot sort of tobacco is in that Max's cigarette when it smells different? Did you notice any weird, otherwise useless-looking plants growing around his newly-poured concrete garden there lately?

[mellotronaut]

Exactly!

Good night, Alex.....

[Max el Belga]

I don't have the slightest idea what you blokes are talking about. Holly Superskunk.
All I smoke is a pipe of tobacco with some banana skin in it. It's good for a headache.

Oh, wait a minute, Mr. Hello and Mr. James, are you both laughing with my stinkfeet ? My ingenious, never failing, self-defense system !


Good night, Alex... and you too, Mellocrèpe,

Maxsmell... .. .

[mellotronaut]

You go to sleep now, Max?
What kind of cheese is it....and where's Fido?

Arf Arf

Melloskunkhunter

[liqih]

thanks for the informatve story, cool,

you don't mean confusion = jazz, right?, <grin>

small batch of reviews:

06-07-freeztar&xander-Samba_Country.mp3

fun and style, I hear Tom Waits - David Bowie - and others,
just the verse is a bit confused, refrain is great

Thanks for the words liqih

The 'Brazilian Country Music' lyrics might have been less confusing if I had written them in Portuguese eh?

no, <grin>, sorry I meant the arrangment of the verse not the lyrics

Oh I see..

Indeed I suppose it does. I'd like to propose two reasons for that:

1. It's a very difficult task to meld one's style to that of a quirky genius like Freezey, but I certainly did enjoy trying

2. Since the above is merely a nonsense excuse that I made up (except for Freezey's genius), the truth is that, if you listen to any song I have ever written and posted to KVR (and 99% of those I have never posted to KVR), none of them follow the standard verse pattern, and I do that on purpose because I am adverse to the standard verse pattern (dumb pun). Sometimes it works, and other times...



For this song though, it just 'felt' right to me.

I thank you sincerely much for the observation though -- you are indeed exactly spot on about it and I thought about it a lot before I settled on that pattern as being better than the others I had tried. But I can blame this mainly on my prog-rock & jazz background also.

Also, because of the amount of attention I tried to pay to doing a true-to-form cross-genre addition to Freezey's original tune, I am listening to all the other songs much more deeply than I would have in the past in trying to discern the differences and mixes of genre -- some of them being quite subtle -- and when listened to in that frame of mind, turn out to be excellently and thoughtfully contrived.

So, in effect, what I thought was going to turn out to be more of a humourous exercise than anything else, I am hearing some very well done & professionally considered attempts at a real cross-genre product. Cool eh? Hard to believe the talent in this place sometimes

Cheers,
Alex

[freeztar]

thanks for the informatve story, cool,

you don't mean confusion = jazz, right?, <grin>

small batch of reviews:

06-07-freeztar&xander-Samba_Country.mp3

fun and style, I hear Tom Waits - David Bowie - and others,
just the verse is a bit confused, refrain is great

Thanks for the words liqih

The 'Brazilian Country Music' lyrics might have been less confusing if I had written them in Portuguese eh?

no, <grin>, sorry I meant the arrangment of the verse not the lyrics

Oh I see..

Indeed I suppose it does. I'd like to propose two reasons for that:

1. It's a very difficult task to meld one's style to that of a quirky genius like Freezey, but I certainly did enjoy trying

2. Since the above is merely a nonsense excuse that I made up (except for Freezey's genius), the truth is that, if you listen to any song I have ever written and posted to KVR (and 99% of those I have never posted to KVR), none of them follow the standard verse pattern, and I do that on purpose because I am adverse to the standard verse pattern (dumb pun). Sometimes it works, and other times...



For this song though, it just 'felt' right to me.

I thank you sincerely much for the observation though -- you are indeed exactly spot on about it and I thought about it a lot before I settled on that pattern as being better than the others I had tried. But I can blame this mainly on my prog-rock & jazz background also.

Also, because of the amount of attention I tried to pay to doing a true-to-form cross-genre addition to Freezey's original tune, I am listening to all the other songs much more deeply than I would have in the past in trying to discern the differences and mixes of genre -- some of them being quite subtle -- and when listened to in that frame of mind, turn out to be excellently and thoughtfully contrived.

So, in effect, what I thought was going to turn out to be more of a humourous exercise than anything else, I am hearing some very well done & professionally considered attempts at a real cross-genre product. Cool eh? Hard to believe the talent in this place sometimes

Cheers,
Alex

I'm still confused about what all the confusion is about?

But seriously, liqih, do you mean it is confusing because there is too much going on (ie too many instruments, clash of rhythyms, etc.)?

[liqih]

But seriously, liqih, do you mean it is confusing because there is too much going on (ie too many instruments, clash of rhythyms, etc.)?

yes, just that, the refrain arrangment is more balanced IMHO

[freeztar]

Freeztar, listening to your entry.
Just a brief observation - reminds me of The Mavericks, but with Bowie on vocals after a few drinks

I'll have to give a listen to the Mavericks now as they've come up a few times recently. As far as the drunk Bowie goes....I blame xander.

I'm a big drunken Bowie fan anyways.

[freeztar]

But seriously, liqih, do you mean it is confusing because there is too much going on (ie too many instruments, clash of rhythyms, etc.)?

yes, just that, the refrain arrangment is more balanced IMHO

Hmmm...it sounds congealed to my ears, but of course, I'm biased.
Xander surprised me with how he arranged the vocals and lead guitar and at first I was thinking that's all wrong (because I had it in my head a certain way), but then after only the second listen I realized what he was doing and thought, heh..cool! Now, after my 79th listen I absolutely love it how it is and feel that xander brought a stylistic element to my beginnings that I could have never concieved.

Thanks for the review liqih!

[mellotronaut]

Some more songs:

Genovese_Syndrome: Quite good song: atmospheric, well structured, enigmatic feel. Complaints: needs a better mastering, the drum(s)(-machine) are not always well adjusted and a fade-out would have been better than a scissors' cut.

Think77: Mediaeval...more renaissance soft-trance-ambient-mix. Cool! The piano-sound.....Seeeehrrrr guuuuut, Herr Tycho Brahe!

Liqih: Perfect folk-song, well played, well instrumented, well structured and a fine melody-line. Another mountain-gem from the insects-modeling-kitchen-dancer!

Goldbaker: The classic conductor's choice: no quirky soloists required....a daw is cheaper than an orchestra...piano-roll-fun...but who played? Mr. Goldbaker, Rick Wakeman or the mighty sequencer? Anyway it's good fun!

Deep'n'Dark: What have you done to my radio, son? Furious beginning...Hoger Czuckay for the 21st century...driving theme...only complaint: more variation, please.....ah, sorry...I'm from the 20th century

Papatomany: Here comes...the reggae?....a tango?....allinone...very good bass/drum/percussion-works and Madame Viola...voilà....also a breathing mix...Alex, would you do 'The Waits' again for this elegantly quirky (in a good sense) wedding-gem?

Duncan Parsons: kaviar-elogium....these vocals are soo addictive and then a Tony Banks arp-soloistix, reminds me also a bit of Zappa, but only the weird atmo. Mix perfect, melody wonderful: verse-chorus and a quite good ending....It's Parsons...Al?... no! Duncan! My N°1 this month.

XTP: Holy Ghost! What a quirky grease charmer! You're a quite clever guy.....brilliant voice with brillantine and accordeon...how dare!...but these sounds in the background...damn...it works! Never thought, that I'd like it, but I like it....you, you!....you're an excellent vocalist:D

More than 40 tracks for a super mix-cd, but only ten votes.....

Mellolisten

[papatomany]

Hey, Mello -- Nice tasty reviews!

[mellotronaut]

Thanks Pa!

mellohappy

[xtp]

XTP: Holy Ghost! What a quirky grease charmer! You're a quite clever guy.....brilliant voice with brillantine and accordeon...how dare!...but these sounds in the background...damn...it works! Never thought, that I'd like it, but I like it....you, you!....you're an excellent vocalist:D

Cheers for the kind words dude. I have never used synth sounds before and that piece was quite a trial, especially when I compared it to the guitar+vocal living room demo I did when I wrote it (which is more what i am used to working with).

To express something in 2 mins is quite a challenge.


Excellant listening this month. Listened to the other entries last nite, Cool , Cool stuff.