may contest - GOSSIP

[Kajiki]

Hey thanks for the feedback utm. No, repetitive feeling is just a result of my laziness; I didn't develop the left hand part before I played the song.
I have a friend who's boyfriend is a Russian. She once said, "There's an alcoholism in the blood of Russians." I think that's true.
Thanks again. I'll write you my feedback if I find time.

Yeah, I'm aware of that link.

[wilkoryte]

Willkoyte - Je deviens agressif
Nice composition and vocals. The mix is much too dry and flat and need some reverb on vocals and percussion. GREAT guitar playing. I like the guitar tone.

thank you for your review
there are effects on snare and vocals but maybe not enough
mixing is not an easy art

[Sepheritoh]

thank you for your review
there are effects on snare and vocals but maybe not enough mixing is not an easy art

Don't worry. I have no idea on mixing on vocals as well as I have never done it Everybody must start somewhere.

[mystahr]

My very first KvR comp entry!!

pfft!!

Wow!

Actually, It's Tristeza's

[fitch]

My very first KvR comp entry!!

pfft!!

Wow!

Actually, It's Tristeza's

i just read this and had the same thoughts

yaaaay pao has got the bug too

will love to hear it as well though.. me love tristeza tunes too

[Wopelka]

"Flyaway" Wopelka
I think I already gave you my two cents.You probably wont want to talk to me anymore since I compared you to Terry Jacks!

fortunately, i don't see who's Terry Jacks

thanks a lot for your comment, especially as you noticed my request about the lyrics. i should have worked the singing more than that, that's for sure.

just a question: what would have been the "right arrangement" that would give the surreal touch you are talking about?

cheers

[Emerald Tablet]

"Witchcraft" Emerald Tablet
Nice reverb. I have a few old Hafler Trio albums with that song on them

thank you
that song ? you mean A song about the subject

. You sang this so differently than I would have. Well, number 1) I wouldn't attempt to sing and number 2) I don't have the compunction to do songs about witchcraft or lovey-dovey stuff.

oh yes you have

But I will say you can pull it off. It's actually a bit medieval microtonal sounding when you finally start singing near the end. Do you mind if I share my corrupted version of your lyric for the rest of the gang?

please do so
and everyone who is commenting
thank you all so much

[Wopelka]

10. Wopelka – fly away – you always have such happy little songs. I could totally see you singing this song in a children’s show – that’s not meant to be an insult either. Liked the distorted, almost guitar sounding synth. Vocals weren’t perfect, but that’s what made it cool.

thanks mate

the fake guitar at the end is made of a z3ta passing through the Qfx overdrive-doubler. i find the sound could have been higher in the final mix.

[wilkoryte]

here are some comments about some tunes...

FITCH cell

difficult not to appriciate a well played real instrument

WOPELKA Fly Away

it's a waltz(cool)
repetitive but it is a style and a well done song

KAJIKI Наталия

there is emotion in this track

SASON le klee vst

it sounds retro(for me) but enjoyable
great bass playing

GLOOPER Distant Love

a real song, good rythm, good geetars
bravo

TANCOS Don McClane Threnody16

(Horribly) Good
I am a fan

SEPHERITOH Pleased to meet you

a bit strange but maybe not enough
I prefered your previous tunes

IXOX Those Days

your accent is **** and "je sais de quoi j'cause"
nice melody specially at the end

BEARDEDONE Solaz

I hate jazz otherwise I would probably find it great

T-WILLY Far Away

what's that
heavy rock please
big geetars please

[You™]

fortunately, i don't see who's Terry Jacks

Good. Let's forget I mentioned it. "Seasons in the Sun" was basically a Jacques Brel cover that was played incessantly on every radio station in the States in 1974. Kind of wistful, sentimental music that polarizes an audience. I was a little kid so I didn't have a choice but to listen to the song over and over but at school the children had another way of singing it:

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the cops had guns
And they shot us in the buns.

just a question: what would have been the "right arrangement" that would give the surreal touch you are talking about?

Well, song should be performed by a chamber ensemble at midnight wearing antique diving suits in the Yukon under an Aurora Borealis at the bottom of a shark-infested olympic pool topped with gasoline. Floating on the water is a styrofoam life preserver supporting a life-size sculpture of Charlemagne made entirely from animal fat. His hair is a nest of burning fuses and his eyes are lotus blossoms swarming with maggots.

But if you're simply concerned with the actual sound of the arrangement, I'm afraid I can't help you... I'm a visual thinker.

[Edited for clarity...]

[Sepheritoh]

wilkoryte thanks for the reviews. I will have something more traditional bloodhound type songs up soon.

[Sepheritoh]

Thanks a lot Mystahr, guitarcomputer, t-willy, & Sepheritoh (used to be xxxdog, right?) for taking time to write a feedback! I'll write you mine if I find time to do it.
...

Pleasure. Yeah that used to be me with a blues guitar and dabling into computers. I hope my new name fits better with the more sampled orchestration electronic synth film etc... style

[You™]

So here's my corrupted version of Emerald Tablet's song "It's Witchcraft." I had an advance copy of the original words Remco wrote and seriously considered submitting an entry with my wacked-out version of his lyric but I just couldn't sing it. Anyway here they are. If you compare them to his, you'll see they are closely matched by syllable and sound, mine just make more sense!

Four years ago you were OK you bitch, see
Your greatest charm, your warrior arms, made the switch hit
With me you unfold, play a round and then choke, Castor's bell is meat obscene
You're the veldt's pelt, you're Kissinger's hell, you're weary and now, walking to me

Europe's engraving his sleeve in the rain, calling fuses
'Hi' to the acquitted, buttons butter took it, in the time of twos
And beings in dismay, tall as Ice Capades, insist our holy
Myanmar's sold, but we have an old grill you and me

Ipswitch raft
A budget graph of
Orca's tea and
Adam's ass
on itchy grass.

It switched rafts
but which raft?
York raft team
And I'm after riches with graphs.

[PS: I think Remco omitted a few lines in the final.]

[Beardedone]

BEARDEDONE Solaz

I hate jazz otherwise I would probably find it great

That's cool. Jazz a broad category of music to dismiss. I certainly don't expect you to like my meanderings in the vein. It is ironic since a computer generated track is strickly speaking not Jazz as there is no interplay between living musicians. But I think it's is a shame that you dismiss an entire body of music though.

Can you tell me why you hate Jazz? If it is the extended harmonys, I might see why. This aspect may be an acquired taste. I would be surprised, though if it were the rhythymic elements - since most modern music including uses much of the drum styles developed in Jazz from way back to beginning. Jazz is huge and there may be some of it you'd enjoy. I can't recall where you preferences lie but I might be able to refer you to some "Jazz" that would surprise you. Then I would have fulfilled part of my duty as a "Musiciam"

Best,
Gordon

[Miro]

Some reviews...

Tristeza Orange - Always refreshing. This is calling out for some vox, no? 'If you could find the
words' then this could be greater!
Love the loon slow-down-effect.
It seemed to be building up to something then, but...oh, it finished

Wilkoryte - mais qu'est ce que c'est...heheheh
I would have preferred the drums to have been a little heavier/dirtier. Good rocking tune, though.
Well played! ER...now I better go and add a riff to my tune!

Duncan Parsons - Not too keen on the untreated strings, I have to say.
I found the fills a bit cheesy. Really liked the structure and the descending chord sequence.

Mr. Tunes - bastard! I hate that. You post a tune up and the tune following on from yours on the playlist
is a cracker, immediately banashing all memories of your tune from the listener's head.
Authentic-sounding synths and fills really bring this alive.

You™ - Enjoyed the raw doubled vocals. That snare could do taming a bit.Actually really enjoying this third time around.

Guitarcomputer - wicked talent. Good vox - nice to hear a bit of falsetto.
Great way to spend 2 mins.

t-willy - A bit more treatments on the vox would've been great and made them fitinto the synth backing better, I reckon. Great break at 1:10 caught me by
surprise and I can;'t make up my mind whether it fits or not.
Excellent effort!

AndreasEhrhardt - I preferred the more melodic second half to the first. Nicely programmed!
A little too rambling to stick in my mind, but that's just me being crap with unusual time signatures.
Abrupt ending!