Description: A car passed by. The driver was listening to a muslim prayer. At the same time jazzy blues was heard from the beerjoint near by... I tryed to re-create that special ambience/cultural fusion on my Cubase. The voice of prayer was pitched to match the bluesy bass. The title? The song was made in the summer of 2006, when bombs fell on Beirut. And they are still fighting...
--- The music: I bought this nice bass and matching drums at MI7 (great services at low cost) and mixed it with samples, concrete sounds, Cubase, Virtual Guitarist, analog guitars and voices made by my self.
In two weeks the song was given these awards on GrageBend.Com: Track of the Day on 27Jan2007 in Blues
Best Drums in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Best Bass in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Best Programming in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Best Production in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Best Production in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Best Mood in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Best Mood in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Most Original overall, week of 5Feb2007
Most Original in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Most Original in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Chill-Out Track overall, week of 29Jan2007
Chill-Out Track in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Potential Soundtrack overall, week of 5Feb2007
Potential Soundtrack in Blues, week of 5Feb2007
Best Elevator Song in Blues, week of 29Jan2007
Title: Fidel - ring a Bell?
Description: At the end of the day you'll have to recognize Fidel Castro as an ikon for millions of people. This song it not ment only as a tribute to the great cuban, though. The reason for the hardships, that the cuban people has been going through, could be more than what meets the eye. Is communisme to blame, or do we all have a share?
--- The music: Band-in-a-box, samples, Cubase and Virtual Guitar 2
Title: Smoke da Waterpipe
Description: The Story:
A terrible mistake. 25.000 reggae fans, 205 rastafari and 10 bands from Jamaica were lost in translation an moved to India, where they expected to find The River Ganja...
The Lyrics:
We gotta go to The River Ganja. We gotta go where the water flow. We dont like snow - it's an evil mantra. We gotta blow where the reefer grow
The music:
Tried to recreate the feeling of an old wornout vinylrecord. I made it with samples, downloads from MI7, Band-in-a-Box, Cubase, my Gibson 335, Virtual Guitar 2, a headset mike and a smile on my face...
A ME MAN...