On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Aurelien
<tyranorl@free.fr> wrote:
Hi Dan,
I thought I already had answered, but it looks like not.
Yeah - I was wondering why the delayed response there. I just thought you were busy and forgot! :)
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:24:46PM +0000, Dan MacDonald wrote :
> Hi Aurelien!
>
> Great to see your new album get its digital liberation! I gave it a once
> over on the weekend and I thought Phial Shapes was the best track but I
> agree with Julien in rating Sabra y Shatila as another highlight. Sorry I
> can't comment more right now - I need to give it another listen at least.
Héhé! Nice already, thank you.
>
> Secret Chiefs 3 and ApaTt are / have just been doing a euro tour but mainly
> France - I was very tempted to cross the channel to see them again as its
> been a year now since I last had the pleasure. Did SC go watch SC3?
Unfortunately, we couldn't, though we're in contact with their booker.
Hope to catch them one day, for sure!
Oh no! Seriously, next time they're over here/there/Europe somewhere you must cancel anything you can get away with to see them! Sell everything you have if you must! :) I think I've seen many of the best bands ever that have existed during my lifetime but they're right up there with one of the best bands I've ever seen. Apatt are also an excellent live band - better than on record IMO and about as near as you get to a British equivalent to Mr Bungle, without sounding like them.
>
> Last month I went to watch Knifeworld, one of the current bands of
> latter-day Cardiacs guitarist Kavus Torabi (you like Cardiacs right?).
I just heard of them on a festival we were playing at and so did they,
but they finally had to cancel their tour (diseases, if I remind well).
I should take an ear, for sure (I'm going to do this just after this
mail).
Cardiacs were obviously a big influence on Mr Bungle as they predate them by almost a decade I think. They occupy a funny space in music history really as punk is always said to be what came in and killed prog but Cardiacs were a punk band who obviously loved Gentle Giant, KC, Soft Machine and early Split Enz etc. Pronk!
> I
> got talking to him, he's a really nice guy and he introduced me to a
> fantastic modern English prog band who are signed to his label called
> thumpermonkey - check 'em out! I'm sure Q and Julien would be impressed too
> - in fact anyone into virtuoso electric guitar should give 'em a listen.
Yeah, sure I will!
I've got another 5* recommendation for you guys thanks to Julien actually - have you heard the latest Anglagard album? Absolutely stunning! Its without doubt the album of the year for me and one of the best albums I've ever heard! Its an hour long without a single dull second - its really hard to stop it once you start playing it!
>
> I wholeheartedly share your opinion on Dreamtheatre - pretty appropriate
> name as that stuff just sends me to sleep!
Héhé!
>
> I'm recording an album with my new band currently which we expect to finish
> in the next month or two but its not prog.They've not yet had their Linux
> audio initiation yet although I have warned them its inevitable and they
> seem to be up for it :) Everything so far has been recorded on a Korg 16
> track.
Hey! Sure they will find Linux fine.
Once again, though several in here (and at other places) find GNU/Linux
a not-to-be-used solution, or not in "professionnal places", or not in
live, or not by non-geek users, I just think the exact opposite, and
what I'm doing right now in Sebkha-Chott or other AMMD projects wouldn't
be possible without jack (or perhaps with Live + Max MSP, but I really
prefer to use softwares build by people having application developpment
skills than crappy PD/Max MSP prototyping by musicians!).
See you.
Its going to be very interesting to see how my new band take to Linux audio. The bad news is they're not geeks, but thats also the good news as they have no expectations on how a DAW 'should' work other than comparing it to a decade old and hardly top rate hardware multitracker. I know my fave LA stack of apps beats it into a cocked hat in many respects, once they've got their head round a number of new concepts and the basics of Linux I think they'll like it and enjoy its flexibility and responsiveness.