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    Posted: May 17 2010 at 21:35
LOL, did you really think I've actually made a masterpiece? Not quite.
 
Have a listen anyways, you might get a laugh or two.
 
Thanks to Joel for getting this crap on the internet. With song titles like 'This Is MY Piano Song' and 'Colostomy Bag In A Mosh Pit' you know you can't go wrong. Wink
 
Winner of best/funniest review gets a song written about them in my next album!
 
Please try to enjoy!
 
-Conor Fynes
 
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2010 at 02:28
That cover looks promising, so i'll check it out. Took me a while to find the download button on that site though. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2010 at 23:33
I took an entire 20 minutes to draw the online copy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 04:10
OK, let's give it a chance.
There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 08:42
OK listening to it now and not sure what to review yet except the acoustic stuff on Bloodhawks is interesting. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 08:46

The Overturd is funny for about 10 seconds.......... LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 09:34
Recordungs (the feature length masterpiece):
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b1b3h71/n/Recordungs_-_Conor_Fynes.zip
 

 

My review - * *

And now for something completely different, along comes “Recordungs” by Conor Fynes. This mish mash album comes complete with hand drawn cover with unmentionable imagery concerning an octopus and what looks like the five toed female from Sesame St. The first track is an overture in multi layered speech an “Overturd” you might say – a mixture between on overture and a piece of turd, an apt description. Humorous but worthy of playing in the toilet for any who need a laxative to avoid constipation. Next track please.

“Cloudstained Horizon” is an acoustic piece with beautiful harmonics and some interesting scratches, due to bad production, but it somehow works. Don’t ask me how. The guy can actually play as is evident listening to this intriguing instrumental. At 3:18 it even gets into a Spanish flavour. It is repetitious after a while but quite pleasant as background music over a nice kiante and some fava beans FFFFFFFFFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH.

And now from the sublime to the ridiculous we have “The Ghosty Groove”. The weird caterwauling and fart noises perhaps sum this thankfully short piece up. Perhaps Magma influenced.

 

“Bloodhawks” is an acoustic instrumental with some nice time sigs if you can call them that, it is all over the place literally but I like that so no complaints here. The echo acoustic refrains are admirably executed. I like this one a lot. There are once again many harmonics and Spanish flourishes.

“This is My Piano Song” is a return to the high strangeness of, which leaves me speechless. Parts of it sound like a drugged up chipmunk, other parts might be mistaken for The Residents at their most bizarre. In any case it is not much of a piano song. One listen is one too much. The scream at the end made my wife jump out of her chair. I just laughed.

“Forever” is another acoustic instrumental with a lot of beauty, it is strange how a hyper strange track is always followed by a serious well played acoustic track. After this I was expecting to be jolted out of my brains again with another blast of bizarre bulls dust.

With “Haunted Stars” I was pleasantly surprised as the acoustic time sig is very proggy. Well played guitar riffing with a lot of picking and Spanish strumming and a passage of sliding up the neck for no reason. I liked the echo effects added, making this sound rather eerie. A highlight from the album.

“Welcome to my Spaceship” the alien voice drones, and we return to the bizarre mind of Mr Fynes, a world I would not dare to enter without a search light to get me out again. This one has a chaotic time sig and then it finishes without fanfare. It could have been improved with spacey effects.    

“Crushed by a Hundred Ton Anvil” features a Twilight Zone acoustic style and a frenetic piano running up the keys. Short but it wakes you up.

“Colostomy Bag at a Mosh Pit” features a man losing his flatulence and emptying his bowels while a grungy band plays. More out of place than an eskimo in the Sahara. The less said about this sick trash the better. No laughs from this reviewer.

“Punks Don’t Like Paying the Taxes” is a punkified load of bollocks, worse than the Sex Pistols. Horrible is too good a word for this puerile nonsense.

“I am a Pirate Ship, I am a Corper” has a strong piano staccato motif that has no structure or time sig, and very high falsetto vocals, but I like the way the melody is off kilter and improvised. At least I hope its improvised.

“Rory’s Trumpet Time” is a trumpet instrumental and the instrument is played improv style for a short blast of fun.

“Cats in a Telephone” sounds like a group of mewing cats, made by multi layered processed voice effects. There is no music and once again very short, so the gimmick is not overdone.

  “The Dissonant Variations” features nice piano played with staccato stabs in a jazz fusion style, triumphant trumpet played with a degree of spontaneous feeling and sporadic notes. There is at least a semblance of a time sig here but the main highlight is the frantic piano runs. I actually enjoyed this track. The trumpet is played with some strange notes, but the two instruments accompany one another well.  

 

So there you have it, a debut to be proud of, or perhaps not. The highlights are the more serious tracks, “The Dissonant Variations”, “Haunted Stars”, “Forever”, “Cloudstained Horizons”, and “Bloodhawks”. But it is unfathomable that the album contains all those short spurt of insanity that simply do not belong. The 5 mentioned tracks would make a terrific EP, but the rest of these tracks, particularly “Colostomy Bag at a Mosh Pit” should be flushed down the nearest sewer, and even then it would take days to get rid of the pungent stench. 2 stars.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 12:48
Conor Fynes - Recordungs * * * (three stars)

What do you get when you’ve just used LSD (or want to use, or think what it’s like, or whatever... I don’t know what Conor’s experiences are with unlocking doors that lead to previously undiscovered rooms, like the bathroom, for example). Of course, let’s write an album about dung and turds! All nonsense aside, I think Recordungs is quite a good album. It’s somewhat sh*tty at moments, but the album cover and title obviously suggest that the album is not the most serious music ever made. 

Conor Fynes is an excellent guitarist, which probably is the most clear thing heard on the album. Several pieces here, like “Cloudstained Horizon”, “Bloodhawks” and “Haunted Stars” are driven by Conor’s classical guitar playing, which is simply excellent. As these pieces are probably the most conventional things on the album, most of it is somewhat odd. Several tracks feature robotic vocals, silly voices, trumpet, dissonant piano, and fearsome sounds of colostomy bags that sound almost like someone is making weird noises with his lips. Most of this works out well, and I think Conor’s experimentation works out very well in several occasions, like the dissonant and jazzy album closer. Recordungs is far from being masterfeces though, as I feel some things sound a bit like they could have been much more interesting. For example, I like the idea of the silly a capella vocals in “Recordungs Overturd”, but unfortunately the turd never really gets out completely. Also, the production often is crappy and some effects used, like the robotic vocals, sound cheap and therefore a tad annoying. 

Perhaps the best way to describe Conor Fynes’ album is to say it’s a big turd that fails to completely make its way out but delivers some burning wounds. Perhaps some laxatives might get the turd out a bit more. Nevertheless, Redordungs is an interesting album and the majority of the music is really enjoyable. It’s free, so, why not give it a try?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 13:00
What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!

Needs more dungbell.

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(haven't listened yet, but my review stands)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 13:52
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA.
Aw man guys. Thank you so much for the reviews.
 
And for the record, only ONE song on this thing was written seriously, and before the actual fact of being in the studio- that is the guitar room in my school!
 
It's actually really cool to have a serious review from someone on something so silly.
 
By the way, 'Colostomy Bag' is considered by many to be the crowning acheivement of the album!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 13:58
But seriously, the acoustic guitar pieces are really good IMO, definitely Bloodhawks. I wonder why you didn't write a song about a garden gnome though. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 14:51

Theres alot of things I should have done. Actually, I was working on a completely acoustic, non-silly album but some goddamned cretin deleted the entire thing from the computer.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 15:14
That sucks, I hope it isn't going to stop you from making it anyway though.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 20:39
I'll definately do something once I have a program and good recorder; not to mention somewhere quiet and private to work!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2010 at 11:11
I was suitably entertained thats for sureLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2010 at 19:11
Alright, starting tommorow, I'm hoping to use the last few lunch periods I have to do something; it may be a total joke, it might be a noise EP or it might be acoustic wizardry. Not sure yet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 25 2010 at 11:24
I await with baited breath
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2010 at 13:59
SOMEONE BROKE THE RECORDING COMPUTER!!!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2010 at 21:43
First impression: You know how to hold a guitar the right way, I do not. You win. LOL

Seriously, very nice guitar playing. Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2010 at 22:07
Well that was something else.  Not quite what I expected but not quite what I didn't expect either.  Interesting stuff. Tongue
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