Joel Allard Profile Page
Joel Allard

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Description:

A mixture of organic rock and electronic sounds, melodic and dynamic.

I play in the band After School Special with fellow RPM-er Dave VanderWall. We did the challenge as a group last year. We're still a band, but this year's RPM is a solo project.

 

Tech notes:

My studio consists of a Mac Pro & Digidesign 002R running Pro Tools 7.x and Reason 4, with a pair of Mackie HR824's for monitors.

Primary guitars: a '72 Les Paul Custom and a late 80's Ibanez RG series guitar, with a POD 2.0 going direct.

My synths, pianos and most drums come from Reason. I also use the Discrete Drums Series One drum library. In addition, I have a second PowerMac G4 with a Korg OASYS PCI card, which i use for synth/piano sounds, and reverbs and delays.

(And I still have a Fostex E-16 1/2" 16-track ATR that I use to warm things up, but i didn't end up using it on this project)

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music, etc
RPM demos, works-in-progress, or tracks-finished-early... a musical sketchbook. This is just a sampler -- complete and finished albums will be uploaded into the real jukebox in March!




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Last 10 Blog Entries

 
DateTitle
Saturday, 01 March 2008Italian Job Moment!
Saturday, 01 March 2008Post-mortem
Saturday, 01 March 2008Reflection (cuz I already used "Post-mortem" in another post)

Connections

OFFLINE Idiom Lull
OFFLINE the substars
OFFLINE Unnameable Mourning
OFFLINE After School Special
OFFLINE Ryan Sutter
OFFLINE The Dave VanderWall Band
 

Location

Latitude: 44.8825
Longitude: -93.2645
City: Minneapolis
State or Country: MN
Zip: 55423

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2008 RPM Album Info

Date mailed or hand-delivered: 02/29/2008
Date Received: 03/03/2008
Genre: Rock
Album Name: Falling Away
Album Description: This album ranges between rock, synth-pop, ambient, and even a bit goth rock at moments.
Tracks (w/numbers): 1 - One Thousand Pictures
2 - Falling Away
3 - Fly
4 - Spare Part
5 - Lucid Dream
6 - Soon Be Over
7 - Solitude
8 - Again
9 - Spare Part (Reprise)
10 - For You
Preferred Track: 1 - One Thousand Pictures
Band Bio: Joel Allard is a musician and audio engineer in the Twin Cities, MN. He has played in rock bands since the late 80's including metal, alternative, electronic/industrial, and currently an 80's pop cover band.
This album represents some of Joel's songwriting over the last few years, and he considers it a work in progress toward a more formal album release.
Band Members & Instruments Played: Joel Allard - all instruments & vocals except:
"Again" - Drums by Greg Morrow courtesy of Discrete Drums, Inc., all other instruments & vocals by Joel Allard

All songs written by Joel Allard except:
"Falling Away" - lyrics & melody by Kai Esbensen, music by Joel Allard
"One Thousand Pictures" - lyrics by Joel Allard and Kai Esbensen, music by Joel Allard
Band Location (city, state or province, and country): Minneapolis, MN
 
   
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