That was a possible title for the CD I am working on, but Faith No More used it in 1997. Anyhoo, been knuckling down and doing some recording and editing all the bits and pieces I’ve got to make this conflageration of awful sounds. The dreaded new CD (always feel a little pretentious when I start talking like this – ooooh, hark at ‘im, a right clever clogs and no mistake) is at the 38 minute stage. It started off as a kind of sequel to my Textures CD, which was a big piece of music made of lots of little 2 minute segments. There was a kind of theme running through this. This time around it is a more a patchwork of sound ideas rather than a suite or anything. I like what I am hearing and like the way it moves along, but I doubt anyone else will. It is too fragmented. Fragments was another possible title, but I am not too hot on it. Need a title and need it fast.

Anyway, did a bit of noodling yesterday and came up with the following fragment. The really great thing about my Godin XTSA guitar is that it is three guitars in one. How so, Darren? Well it is an electric guitar, a guitar synth controller and an acoustic guitar all rolled into one? How so, Darren? Well…it has a piezo pickup which makes it sound like an acoustic guitar. I wasn’t convinced at first, but by running the guitar through a Korg PX4A acoustic processor, it sings. It makes a sweet ol’ noise. This following noodle demonstrates that – it’s an improvised solo over a single guitar synth backing – recording in two passes, real time, no edits or overdubs. I even kept the mistakes in to keep it “real”.


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So I am 38 minutes in and I want to start going in a more electronic direction as most of the stuff I’ve been doing at the moment has been very guitar/ethnic orientated. Got to keep pushing those buttons, right.

Over at DGM Live, there’s a really great April Fool gag. It nearly got me, nearly…but it fulfills all the rules of an April Fool’s gag. It has enough believability and a few clues to shore it down as a gag. But it was well done…saved me the job on ProjeKction. 😉

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