Reflection - Sound waves this time around.
Updated - 26 august 2006, 10:30 (GMT+01:00)
Hiya All,
Yesterday I set Dianas and my new poem, "Reflection", to music (for the lyric see my last entry below). So as to not forget the rythm and the melody I did a hasty recording of it (just a sketch yet, the very first, uh, quite pristine stuff, udder fare, honeymilk). I didn't have all that much space left on my harddrive, I only had room for this one take. So. That's it. Tell me what you think.
Click the link to listen: Reflection.
Title: Reflection
Artist: Juri Aidas
Location: Living room venue
Date: 24 August 2006
Format: mp3 (5.11 MB)
Time: 5:36
I know, I know. The changes and rythms in this song are not dead set yet, it usually takes me a day or two, weeks at times, to define what the moment of inspiration really brought (I'll have to get this piece into notation as soon as time allows, then everything will be distinct), but I do think there's an emotional resonance herein that carries through an thus renders it meaningful to present this very first take of Dianas and my ambition.
I had but worked for a few minutes with the structures of the song, the span of a few first moments of indecision (as that indecision itself was rattled by gusts of inspiration all attempting their momentums), when I realized I had tapped into a lode, yeah, those precious moments (I can lose a song if I'm distracted at that point) before I actually decided to go with the flow. Yeah. Then I worked, say three quarters of an hour, till Diana showed up. So. I just headed for the microphones - one take, and that was it.
I'd been playing Bob Dylans "Moonlight" just before this inspiration struck, getting stuck with a strange chord seemingly unavailable to my memory, got sidetracked while fiddling about, and then suddenly I had a sense of the slow long tones Pink Floyd will do at times and started hanging on that first 'O' (in that 'O', a whole universe), "O Star, and you ...", the rest just happened, the verse endings made me think of a song, "The Parting Glass" by Scottish bard Robin Williamson, from his album "Songs of Love and Parting", 1981, a wonderful album.
Enjoy,
Sandrian / Albatross / Alby Sands
Hiya All,
Yesterday I set Dianas and my new poem, "Reflection", to music (for the lyric see my last entry below). So as to not forget the rythm and the melody I did a hasty recording of it (just a sketch yet, the very first, uh, quite pristine stuff, udder fare, honeymilk). I didn't have all that much space left on my harddrive, I only had room for this one take. So. That's it. Tell me what you think.
Click the link to listen: Reflection.
Title: Reflection
Artist: Juri Aidas
Location: Living room venue
Date: 24 August 2006
Format: mp3 (5.11 MB)
Time: 5:36
I know, I know. The changes and rythms in this song are not dead set yet, it usually takes me a day or two, weeks at times, to define what the moment of inspiration really brought (I'll have to get this piece into notation as soon as time allows, then everything will be distinct), but I do think there's an emotional resonance herein that carries through an thus renders it meaningful to present this very first take of Dianas and my ambition.
I had but worked for a few minutes with the structures of the song, the span of a few first moments of indecision (as that indecision itself was rattled by gusts of inspiration all attempting their momentums), when I realized I had tapped into a lode, yeah, those precious moments (I can lose a song if I'm distracted at that point) before I actually decided to go with the flow. Yeah. Then I worked, say three quarters of an hour, till Diana showed up. So. I just headed for the microphones - one take, and that was it.
I'd been playing Bob Dylans "Moonlight" just before this inspiration struck, getting stuck with a strange chord seemingly unavailable to my memory, got sidetracked while fiddling about, and then suddenly I had a sense of the slow long tones Pink Floyd will do at times and started hanging on that first 'O' (in that 'O', a whole universe), "O Star, and you ...", the rest just happened, the verse endings made me think of a song, "The Parting Glass" by Scottish bard Robin Williamson, from his album "Songs of Love and Parting", 1981, a wonderful album.
Enjoy,
Sandrian / Albatross / Alby Sands