On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:03 -0800 info@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
