PA Songwriters'/Composers' Association

HolyMoly wrote: Polymorphia wrote: HolyMoly wrote: The Pessimist wrote: Yay, another plugging opportunity!  Three of my compositions are here... https://soundcloud.com/zeitgeist-band Wow, this is really nice stuff.  I'm not much of a jazz guy but I could really get into this. I am a bit surprised you're not a jazz fan. It strikes me as something you'd like— at least the post-bop and free varieties do. I do like it occasionally, especially of the more experimental (e.g. Green Room, Sun City Girls), non-Western-oriented (e.g. Embryo, Oregon),  and/or electric (e.g Miles Davis fusion stuff, Terje Rypdal) kind of jazz, but I generally don't reach for it very often.  When it comes time to pick horns or guitars, I almost always go with guitars.  Or keyboards, they're good too.  You know what I mean.  I'm not Crazy about jazz, with a capital C, dig?

I getcha. I almost always avoid guitar in jazz, though. The horns and rhythm section are what do it for me. Jazz guitar, to my ears, is vapid and doesn't have much sonic versatility. I've only recently got into jazz, too, which is weird because my dad and my brothers are all jazz musicians. I would recommend to you "Sahara" by McCoy Tyner. Its pretty intense and crazy and uses koto and other instruments non-traditional to jazz, but doesn't require as much focus as, say, the second great Miles Davis Quartet. It doesn't have guitar, though.

I live in NYC.

I should check dat

Has anyone ever tried recording additional parts for other people's tracks and using those parts for his own material?

Here's my latest EP (originally released in June) with remastered (actually "first-time-mastered" ;D) audio!

http://kanoi.bandcamp.com/album/basque-for-barrel-ep

The mastering was done by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering - I think he also did the mastering for a release by the band Battle Stations (who are on PA as well)!
If you'd like a free copy for reviewing purposes just drop me a line and I'll gladly send it to you via WeTransfer :)

Enjoy!

HolyMoly wrote: Polymorphia wrote: I would recommend to you "Sahara" by McCoy Tyner. Its pretty intense and crazy and uses koto and other instruments non-traditional to jazz, but doesn't require as much focus as, say, the second great Miles Davis Quartet. It doesn't have guitar, though. I'm familiar with that album, I like it.

Have you checked out Coltrane's post-bop or free stuff, then? "A Love Supreme" and "Om" are my favorites.

Also, Mustard Sea, I've sampled your music and I plan to give it a full listen soon. Stay tuned for a small review.

Anyone ever wrote preachy lyrics?

 ... No, I mean lyrics in which you give moral advice ... as in ... .

I try to avoid being preachy. Really, any time I try to make a point or express an opinion or moral in a song, it sounds pretentious, and I aim to be very unpretentious, especially with the kind of music I make. Instead I usually try to make abstract, unimportant lyrics that are only there to add to the sound. Stuff like this:

Space and time
Start to collide
Acid boats
Run thru out me
I killed rabbits
Inside my mind
Killed the pope
Sent a letter

My old dog
Killed my lizard
I smoked dope
And ate the leftovers
He Smiled
And said well done
It smelled weird
I ran for my life

I LOATH THE OCEAN
I remember Dark


Edited by smartpatrol - September 07 2013 at 23:49

^ Then that means that you won't be straightforward. Can you write meaningful lyrics without them being complex?

Made some progress on this thing I'm working on.