So, DIVERSION here is kinda three note-thingy, those three being the ones you hear in the beginning and throughout the whole tune. That’s about it. Therefore…

Top Ten of Top Tens (not in any particular order):

– Nicest Lovecraftian Monsters
– Tarantino Movies Without Any Swearing
– Renowed Contemporary Artists Who Doesn’t Deserve To Be Cancelled
– Stenches
– Honest Politicians Of The 20th Century
– Guns ‘n Roses Albums
– Neighbours
– Times Your Wisdom Teeth Were Removed
– Commodore 64 Games With Both Words “Impossible” And “Mission” In Its Title

Top 10 times I’ll be making & posting Top Tens.

Then some classical guitar stuff: FOR YOUR TEARS ONLY.

Ok, it’s not classical in the most classicalest sense of the word… It’s not Bach or Tárrega or even Barrega or anything.

It’s classical like “Waltz for Zizi” is.

So, it’s pickless playing of an electric-free guitar with nylon strings. Sad song to make it better.

On the surface level SNARK is very simple & fun kind of pop piece. However, there is some hidden complexity in it. I mean, it’s not “Rite of Spring” or “Echidna’s Arf” or anything, but still.

For instance, the short ascending bit you hear multiple times during the tune, and which you first hear at 0.23, actually comes in three variations. The result is poppy for sure, but also Clever & Smart. Simplicity in complexity.

Neat.

No one has ever asked me, what’s the best chord in life. But if someone would, my answer on 8,7% certainty would be: Overtone. Meaning 9b5.

You can hear the chord in question in the key of Ab at 1.59.

Very tasty.

Yes, we rock!

I don’t have a lot to say about SIT AND BURN. It rocks pretty hard and there’s a lot of tom-tom. The big one.

Distorted Stratocaster sound is… well, there’s just something about it. Sometimes it may sound a bit weak, but on some occasions, like now, it just fits the like a donut in a piggy bank – meaning splendidly!

The main riff may not be the most original riff ever. It sort of resembles about 14000 other songs, but hey… Every one of those 14000 songs took great inspiration from a song “Grmph” Ugnu the Caveman made some 140000 years ago.

So yeah. Rock!

… I contacted the synthesizers dev.

The guy responded very quickly via email. He was very polite and keen to help me fix the issue, and after a few messages back and forth he found a solution. Wanna know what it was?

“Check this box.”

Then, my favourite software synth back online, I thought: I might as well make another version of the tune, with the original soundset & vision. And so I did, and here it is: NOIDANKUKKA classic. The word classic refers to the retro synthesizers in use. Otherwise the song is exactly the same as our previous tune.

(Oh yeah, there’s the french horn which was also featured in the last weeks tune, it being the only real instrument there… Although it’s not “real” in the truest sense of the word, because it’s just 1’s and 0’s in a box… I don’t even have a french horn and in fact it happens to be one of the intruments I’ve never played in my life, the others being kazoo, heckelphone and left-handed guitar)

Anyway, that’s it for now. Coming up: Very rock!

So, a while ago I started produding stuff with crystal clear vision. It was one of those times, when I jokingly said to myself “hey, it’s almost done”, when in fact I was only booting up my recording software. Everything was coming up Milhouse.

Problems only occurred when I was exporting the recently finished song: The software synthesizers – which was almost the only instrument in use – somehow “went down” on several points of the track, creating unwanted silences to the tune. I had never experienced anything like this, and I’ve used the synth in question multiple times before. I tried my best to fix the issue – I’m not gonna bore you with details – but nothing seemed to work.

Determined to finish the song the same day, I then took a alternative route: I switched to another synthesizer and essentially changed the whole soundset I was using. The result was NOIDANKUKKA (= witches flower), and despite all the extra trouble, I was quite pleased with result.

After a good nights sleep, I started investigating the issue again, because the pest of a synth was, and still is one of my favourites. I tried this & that, but whatever I did do, the problem persisted. A little frustrated, I did the only possible thing I could think…

To be continued.

Something we, or me and my site were desperately lacking: More latin!

Ager plenus anguillarum!

Heh, a little joke there. Seriously, latinic music time it is:

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE is jolly and it has many, many elements that might be from caribbean or south- or central-america… In fact all the other americas except the northern one… Or maybe our little song here has some qualities that can be heard in some parts of Miami, and most parts of Texas, Arizona, California & New Mexico. (Or is now called New America?)

But, Canadian this is not, nay I say. And most definitely not Alaskian… Alaskan… Old Russian-American, and Sicilian this is no more than pianos fly in the spring!

I neededn’t sayeth no more!

Sometimes it’s fun just to play. Wander around aimlessly.

“Juoksentelisinkohan”. Yes, that is a word in finnish. It’s english translation is hilarious. I won’t spoil it. Try g00gl3, not translate.

So, LAZY JAKE is me playing around on a synthesizer and, you know, there’s some background stuff as well, in fact a whole song!

The keyboard part is somewhat jazzy, but I decided to put this in the RnB-category. After all, there’s the new jack swingish beat and everything.

Next week: No jazziness at all!

With this one, my influences were clear:

I was thinking of the Thelonius Monk composition “Evidence” from 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1964. (Personally I prefer the 1963 Japan version)

Fear not, nothing is being plagiarized here!

So, LOSE THE EVIDENCE, although more suitable title would be “Lose to Evidence”, ‘cos comparing these two works is like comparing the whole western literature to a big mac Dave bought last week. You can decide which is which.

Anyway, my piece also has melody with jerky rhythm, and a chord structure, which only little by little starts to make any sense.

Now that I do some rare and actual thinking… The Monk in Japan “Evidence” was probably among the very first videos I ever watched on uTub… Also Coltrane live… And Cecil Taylor in gray sweatpants playing some crazy-butt solo piano stuff…

Off to the internets!

There’s Spotlight Kid. It’s an English band. Apparently they play shoegaze music, which is like the funniest and most sincere musical genre word there is.

Then there’s The Spotlight Kid, a 1972 album by everone’s favourite captain, Captain Beefheart. It’s definitely not his most bestest album eva, but it isn’t his worst either, because our good Captain doesn’t have worst albums.

And I guess I should mention Spotlight Kid, Rainbow song from 1981. It’s a fun one. The main riff is a blast to play on the guitar. Hard on your thumb though.

Finally we got SPOTLIGHT KIDS, my humble contribution. Poppy-pop yeah.

Why using a title that’s already there?

Because it sounds fun, I like it and my tune there wanted to be called like that.