There was a period when I had some nice midi instruments, my traditional piano connected via midi and a minimal mindset. Soon I’ll release an Album called “Meet u in Bonn”, which is a collection of experiments on mild shrooms and attempting to merge acoustic and electronics.
I tend to love acoustic only tracks, building the tone and vibe I’m trying to describe, often with just an old classical guitar and vocal layering. So this adventure was fun and a direction I’d like to explore more.
The process was to find a drum sample or use a drum machine that I would then heavily mash through all sorts of compression, saturation, gates, distortion plugins. Some of favourites for this were from SoundToys and D16. Then I’d set about exploring minimal midi bass lines and vocals. Sprinkled with more distortion and yet more saturation,
This single release was just a very quick session, only meant to serve as a guiding idea for a complete song. Just like the thousand other demos I’ve never finished this one sat on the shelf for 2 years, only published to SoundCloud. But to my surprise the two fans I have just kept reposting it online, messaging me how much they love it. The lyrics repeat. You can hear clicking in the background. The guitars are meh… and so I’m challenged with the age old issue. Go back and try to “finish” the song or just release the damn thing. So in I go; editing, re-recording, remixing, version after version. There’s even a YouTube vid I published of one of these sessions, I think it’s a few hours long… the outcome? Worse than the demo.. In my opinion. Sure, there are elements that sound better. But like so often that happens for me – the original idea, the draft, the feeling in that moment – presented a once in a lifetime moment, a feeling, that no matter how hard I try, I just cannot feel again.
So here’s the draft, demo, idea that simply got released.
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