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

[info at bandshed.net]

Hi Will!

So nice to hear from you, thanks a lot for taking time to listen and
comment, we really appreciate it.

Take Care, Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Godfrey" <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk>
To:<linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Cc:
Sent:Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:09:41 +0000
Subject:Re: [LAU] Music Made with Linux: Rated Blue-Turnabout Album

 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.
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