On 2010-12-13 04:03, Paul Davis wrote:
I must say that I preferred the opening, which really had a fantastic tone to it in every way. I very much like the use of the (presumably) delay-enriched keyboard figure - it provides the same sort of quality that The Edge does in U2's Joshua Tree or more recently The Temper Trap can be heard using, though with much subtlety.
I agree that it hints of U2, especially in the EP figure that's buried in the chorus.
But even if I didn't love the drums arriving, the production quality (given the genre) is really great. I'd love to hear a longer, moody and dark piece that develops the opening without the drums and/or a different version that uses more organic sounding percussion in place of the syndrums. Djembes, shakers, maybe some dumbek, that kind of thing. The somewhat restrained keyboard solo toward the end also offered hints of something bigger, much, much bigger.
Maybe the problem is that the intro suggests something that's not coming. I tried to build up to a surprise, but it might be that the surprise is in fact (at least to some ears) is actually a disappointment. I thought about revealing more of the actual tune in the intro (thereby spoiling the surprise, but avoiding the disappointment), for instance by having the full chorus without vocals going as intro. But that makes it a little too much with both 1st and 2nd verse going sparse...
Always good to hear talent at work.
Thanks! -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
