3 Dec
2012
3 Dec
'12
9:57 a.m.
Hi Julien,
My answers are following in the mail body.
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 02:56:20PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote :
Salut Aurélien!
This is an overwhelming album. It's not exactly my stle of music
throughout. It's too weird, too avantgard for me. But there are a
few pieces I like very much, Your Soul - already known partly, due
to your live video posted I don't remember when, and Sabra Y
Shatila. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the sax. :-)
Hey hey cool. Klezmer things ;)
While listening to it, I thought something like:
John Petrucci's
arf....
evil brother
ok, then! :p
on some very illegal substance, consulting
Stockhausen
on producing a concept album. They invite the insane free-jazz sax
player and let it all out.
yes, this could be. Though we listen much more to Zappa, Patton, Magma
than Stockhausen!! And never Dream Theater, oh non !!!
It sounds like a colossal effort,
esepcially seeing, that you can perform all of this live. I liked it
especially, when there was some melody in a more conventional sense
or when the screaming/growling metal influences pushed through.
The production is interesting and very characteristic. To begin
with I wasn't a fan on the drum production, but now I start to get
it. It's certainly so distinct, that I can pick it out from a mile
away. :-)
Hey cool! The best compilment you could do to us! Thanks a lot.
And it really does work. Partly the same ghoes for
the
electric guitars. It doesn't sound like the obvious solution and at
first, I had the impression, tat it sounded muddy. But having
listened to a few pieces now, it starts to grow on me.
My Name is Mud!!!
One question, of personal interest: how did you
create the synth
bass sound for Your Soul? The pumping, bubbling sound in the
beginning. I was very attracted to it, already, when I heard it in
the video.
It's an Alsa Modular Synth patch (in attachment), there are several
presets depending on the instant you're listening to, but basically,
there 4 oscillators (one or more being a bit detune), a VCF whos FM
Expression is linked to an envelop, and it's monophonic.
It's a derivation of the bass.ams which is in the demos.
Thank you for sharing this album freely as well as
releasing it
commercially. And then at such high quality. OK, it took me almost 7
hours to download, but now I can enjoy it to the fullest extent. :-)
Wow! 7 hours??? .. archive.org is not that quick sometimes!
All the best.
--
Aurélien