Instru-mental!

[imomus]

Comments

[anonymous]

So when you 'perform', it's basically a karaoke act? No doubt you'll think it horribly rockist of me to prefer people actually playing instruments, but I do think it adds something 'textural'.

[intergalactim]

I love karaoke acts! Even Chicks on Speed rocked it for me.

Anyway, as a "sound-artist" myself who doesn't know a thing about how to make a song with all those Momusy things like beats and choruses and notes and stuff, I love the idea of bands doing recordings of Momus tracks, and using them.

I'm thinking Maher Shalal Hash Baz naive style, but if anyone is a Primary School music teacher, can you please teach your class to play them & then record it!!! Like the Langley Schools Music Project cd...

I could just about mangle a midi file, if there are any of those floating around???

[charleshatcher]

Yes, you'll be lucky to find 'texture' in a multitrack recording.

[rhodri]

Good idea. I will take great pleasure in constructing a magnificently smooth, Hall & Oates-esque AOR version of "Islington John", and slightly less pleasure in having it rejected immediately by the imomus board of directors.

[desant012]

Here's what the album cover should look like: http://static.grupthink.com/answer/5/5e5526f6d3b8ce5f1c1cf36ec4449b85

[sarmoung]

Curiously, I was thinking only a few days ago about something along these lines as I've been planning to further woo my girlfriend (and just conceivably win over her rabbi father) with a performance of Space Jews and was thinking I may as well record an arrangement of it. It'll be in a relaxed Okinawan treatment with sanshin and (just maybe) Yiddish eisa-style yelping/hayashi...

[charleshatcher]

You may remember an arrangement of I Can See Japan I sent to you back in 2001 (recorded at a time when I still hadn't figured out how to pan tracks). I found a copy lying at the bottom of a folder, so feel free to abuse:

I Can See Japan Cover

[charleshatcher]

Yes, that track could do with being panned

[charleshatcher]

Oooooh, you are a bitch!

[anonymous]

O how i wish Stephin Merritt could offer something similar with his early material.

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[anonymous]

Also, of course, this will become an archive of backing tracks people can use to stage their own unauthorised Momus concerts, anywhere in the world. All you need is an instrumental, a mic and an eyepatch. The possibilities are dizzying! Instru-mental!

So you expect free arrangements and a global franchise do you?

[theorems]

anonymous is certainly on a roll today, isn't he!

[anonymous]

anonymous is certainly on a roll today, isn't he!
what makes you think she's a he?