[LAU] Finally, some prog rock for you!

[Carlos sanchiavedraz]

2012/5/17 Carlos sanchiavedraz <csanchezgs at gmail.com>

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> 2012/4/17 Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org>
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>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:37:26PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
>> > On 04/16/2012 02:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
>> > > I am very happy to report that my old friend Bob has finally released
>> a record that he's been working on for 21 years.
>> > >
>> > > And... it's prog-rock! Not my style of music, but one that I know is
>> near and dear to the hearts of Linux Audio enthusiasts.
>> > >
>> > > So here it is at last:
>> > >
>> > > http://pronstar2.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-mind
>> > >
>> > > I played Linux keyboards on quite a few of the tracks. It's been a
>> year or two since the sessions so I don't remember exactly what I played on
>> what.
>> > >
>> > > I do recall doing some Beatrix, including a few heavily overdriven to
>> get a Deep Purple kind of sound, some Specimen with Mellotron samples (it's
>> prog rock, you GOTTA have Mellotron!), and also Fluidsynth with clav
>> samples through a hellacious jack-rack of plugins.
>> > >
>> > > I can say with certainty that I think that many, if not most, people
>> on this list will enjoy many, if not all, of the tracks.
>> > >
>> > > Enjoy the Linux keyboard lovin' too.
>> > >
>> >
>> > NICE!!
>> >
>> > I hear shades of Gentle Giant and Atomic Rooster in the first track.
>> >
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>> I'll pass along your kind words to Bob. He's been working on this record
>> for pretty much his entire adult life. Perhaps nobody is more thrilled than
>> me to see it FINALLY out in the open (I recorded the first demos of it for
>> him on a 4-track in 1993).
>>
>> Also, you're like the third person who mentioned Gentle Giant. I'll pass
>> that along too.
>>
>> By the way, the track "Menager I" has Beatrix all over it. I didn't
>> originally realize how prominent the organ was going to be mixed, in both
>> the slow part and the heavy metal part (distorted Beatrix), but it's
>> definitely evident. The clav stuff I did on one of the other tracks appears
>> not to have made it into the final mix, but a lot of Mellotron (using
>> Specimen and JackRack with Fons' 4-band parametric EQ) did.
>>
>> -ken
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> Good prog music, nice voices, interesting mixture of styles on the
> album... and profesional instrument sounds using free software...
> Congratulations.
>
> Was it recorded and mixed digitally/Ardour?
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> --
> Carlos sanchiavedraz
> * Musix GNU+Linux
>   http://www.musix.es
>

BTW, your friend's voice reminds me quite a bit of King Crimson 3rd singer,
Gordon Haskell.

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
  http://www.musix.es
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