Just finishing my new tune: www.emvg.net/esa/shesnotahumanbeing.ogg and here's a copy from my blog from MySpace: My new song should have been a love song for my wife. Unfortunately she annoyed me for now forgotten reason (once again) and I wrote a song for our cat. Of course the lyrics in the chorus: "she's not a human being, she doesn't like Jeff Lynne, she's hairy all over the place" could be a perfect insult for my wife! This song has been recorded in many sessions, first ones many months ago in our bedroom. Drums were made with absolutely great software Hydrogen and I played the bass & few guitars through Behringer Tube Ultragain MIC200 -preamp/di and added some distortion & simulated cab "feel" with great CAPS plugins. Keyboards were played with Yamaha PSR-273 which was brought by Santa Claus for my kids. They are still wondering where the hell their keyboards are. The keyboard solo inspired heavily by Rick Wakeman was played through MIDI & astounding soft synth, ALSA Modular Synth. Right now I have fell in love with Bristol, another open source soft synth for Linux. Then some guitars were played with Behringer V-Tone Guitar GDI21 - a cheap but great sounding modelling preamp/DI. And then there were the vocals. I did millions of takes and it sounded everytime like shit. Finally decided to add "some" tube distortion from MIC200, and now I am mostly happy with it. I noticed too that mastering and mixing the whole damn thing should be done by professionals. I am on my holiday, sun in shining, sixpacks of cold beer is calling for my name and I sweat in my garage studio for trying to make my song sound like Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Well, I didn't manage to do that. The mix you hear is in-your-face mix, with everything cranked up so that you can say bye bye for dynamics. But I am proud for the song, and want you to know that all of this wouldn't been possible without: Linux & Mandriva Linux 2006 Jack (jackit.sf.net) Ardour Alsa Modular Synth Hydrogen Audacity Jamin LADSPA plugins like TAP, CAPS and some more red wine Fosters Wojak Okocim Burgen Pils Grafen Walder Carlsberg bratwurst potato salad mushrooms (for eating, you fools!) and here's the lyrics (I know, they are bad - but purposely) She came to my life one august day and didn't like the songs I played She ran and runs away from me Far far away to maple tree She's not a human being She doesn't like Jeff Lynne She's hairy all over the place It's not a pretty thing to watch you eat those poor little birds and their raw meat

Just finishing my new tune: www.emvg.net/esa/shesnotahumanbeing.ogg