[LAU] Music Made with Linux: Rated Blue-Turnabout Album

[Will Godfrey]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:03 -0800
info at bandshed.net wrote:

> Hi fellow LAU's!
> 
> This is a kind of a small pre-release announcement of our new Album
> "Turnabout", in the next week it will be available in retail outlets
> and announced elsewhere but it's already on Soundcloud so I thought
> I'd post it here on LAU...
> This was recorded and produced on Ardour 5 and utilizes a variety of
> FLOSS and Commercial plugins including Ardour Team, Harrison Consoles,
> linuxDSP/OverToneDSP, Guitarix, Calf, U-he + SWH, CAPS, TAP, Furse
> Ladspa's. We also did a lot of work with mic placements and ambient
> stairwell miking as well as simple line-delays for natural reverbs.
> 
> *ALBUM NOTES*
> 
> 	"Turnabout" is our second Rated Blue album release following 2015's
> "Three Walls Down". Where "Three Walls Down" was initially a
> collection of songs for posterity "Turnabout" is a more cohesive
> collection influenced and written against the backdrop of the 2016 US
> Presidential Election (no we're not American but when the neighbor's
> house is on fire you pay attention!!). Our core musical inspiration
> remains the gut-level immediacy of the Blues within the collaborative
> interactivity of a guitar trio but stylistically and sonically
> Turnabout roams much farther afield than it's predecessor and is
> probably best summed up as 'Alt-Blues'.
> 
> 	Turnabout opens with "Straight Up" a funky inspired plea for the
> media to cut to the chase. "The Second Sister" touches on gender and
> sexual equality. "When You Got a Name" leans heavily toward Prog and
> examines lives left behind by the cult of celebrity . The latin
> influenced title track "Turnabout" traces the insidious rise of
> Reality TV and it's troubling consequences. "Unsteady" surf-rocks out
> and rips on the unreliable nature of mavericks and "You" questions a
> seeming lack of world leadership. "Man On a Wire" closes the album
> with a collection of vignettes ending on an unresolved chord.
> 
> 	If you are a Blues or Rock fan becoming weary of well-worn Blues
> cliches and tiring of flashy virtuosity we invite you to give this new
> release a listen and hope you'll find our 'songs-first' mentality an
> appealing alternative within the Blues/Roots genre. Thanks for reading
> (and listening). 
> 
> 	Glen, Connor and Pete - Rated Blue
> 
> 	*ALBUM Link: https://soundcloud.com/rated-blue/sets/turnabout

Really enjoyed these tracks. I didn't notice any 'issues' at all, but then I
was just listening to the music rather than examining it :)

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.