RPM09 - 2008/04/18 20:30Yeah, already. I guess that means I'm rested and E.
So....
Two ideas for next year;
One As suggested by Raymond from I Love Jenn! maybe a musique concrète. If so, I think you'd all agree that to get a good library of environmental sounds I better start now just by carrying a portable digital recorder around with me. Recording all those sounds wouldn't be "cheating" if I didn't actually start the work until Feb09. Right? ot sure I could complete this in only 28 days though.
Two Holophonic didj healing album. Yup a WHOLE album of didj healing songs but recorded holohonically for full effect. Long, slow didj healings AREN'T easy to play, contrary to popular belief, but this would be so cool to actually capture the movement of a didj healing. Very tribal in nature -- I'm wondering the reception it would get -- but hey this RPM -- here we do want WE want.
Maybe I could do both? Best of all in these two scenarios. No HOURS of that little tiny mandolin fretboard!!!!
Anybody else got some ideas already?
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 21:07Given the timing of the RPM, it makes sense for me to do another album of Drinking Songs. I will probably spend the year preparing for that. Hehe.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 21:14Mick, Spirits arrived at my door today, thanks! I'll be giving it a go this weekend on my new speakers.
Next year... ha, that's so damn far away. I just wrapped up the recording of new songs for the "official" version of my RPM album this week, and in May I'll start on the next project.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 21:22Hey, Jim, I'll help you practice! Are you planning on practicing in 16oz or 24oz time?
And, Joshua, hope you like Spirits HiFi. I just listened to your whole album yesterday twice over and anybody out there that still can should ask him for an swap. It is a better then you can imagine. This is exactly the sort sort of stuff I'd like for disk #8 this year for our "Selections from 2008" compilation. Better get them before he runs out.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 21:50Mick: Got your CD two days ago. Looks and sounds fantastic. It comes to us just as spring is starting to find its way into our yard, and this is the perfect soundtrack.
Joshua: I'll PM with swap info if you've got any CDs left.
Back on topic: I'd like to involve some traditional Irish instruments for next year's album. Anyone with talent in those areas, please keep me in mind.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 22:10mick wrote: This is exactly the sort sort of stuff I'd like for disk #8 this year for our "Selections from 2008" compilation. Better get them before he runs out.
Okay - I'll bite:
What the heck is Disk #8's theme?
And that also begs the question:
There's a Disk #7? And what the heck is that?
Curiously Yours,
kirk (& wendy) aka acl
P.S. Allow me to second Mick's recommendation for Joshua's disk - it hasn't left the car CD player, either. (Mick's is still there, as well as the Aged Machine & Alchemist Corspe Rite nifty disks.)
JW's disc is fine, fine listening... but only in the car, since MsKitty is still looking for Joshua. (And Mick.)
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 22:34#7 - the infamous rock compilation "The Last Refuge of Scoundrels" #8 - loosely titled "Genres? We don't need no stickin' genres!" Officially I like the album title "Other"
And though I'm all for it, I like #4 again as "Music for Meditation" is a do again as long as Zumatar will willing to help me dig out meditative stuff as he found about 30% of it last year.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/18 23:36mick wrote: Two Holophonic didj healing album. Yup a WHOLE album of didj healing songs but recorded holohonically for full effect. Long, slow didj healings AREN'T easy to play, contrary to popular belief, but this would be so cool to actually capture the movement of a didj healing. Very tribal in nature -- I'm wondering the reception it would get -- but hey this RPM -- here we do want WE want.
Yes Please!!
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If the powers that be find me worthy, I would like to design the album covers/jackets/what have you for your compilation project.
@others: I still do have a couple GMOVJ Flight Test albums on hand, so PM me. I'd say at least five are lurking the shadows of my stock shelves.
Speaking of "car disks", I found both Eri Chan's Fox Fire and the new Aged Machine disk to be great for driving. ACL's is perfect for a rainy-day drive.
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If the powers that be find me worthy, I would like to design the album covers/jackets/what have you for your compilation project.
Okay: this, if for no other reason, is a GREAT reason to own an RPM '08 compilation. (Be sure to sign us up for a set, please. )
ACL's is perfect for a rainy-day drive.
Yow... I never noticed this before - but there's four songs on the album that have some sort of water reference in their titles - so, umm, I guess that this year's disc was kinda all wet...
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/19 00:30I'm still working on the tracks for "F" i have some ideas to go along with the words.
the "G" album is a work in my mind only and i'm still working on an accoustic show to record sometime i have been playing all my songs accoustically and i think for the medium they sound as good if not better than the electrified versions.
that would leave my next years CD somewhere around "I" i hope. we'll see.
since F & G are intended to be EPs you'd think they'd be the easier of the projects to complete. HA!
of course if i could drag myself away from WOW long enough to do it, i'd have finished it by now.
i am though looking forward to next years offering.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/19 01:17Joshua Wentz wrote: Mick, If the powers that be find me worthy, I would like to design the album covers/jackets/what have you for your compilation project.
The powers that be are us but much more so the powers of volunteering, so consider yourself signed up. Now we just have to come up with worthy music -- but hey, no problem in this crowd.
And, ACL aka K & R aka Unworthy Subjects of MsKitty, I love water music. Did some of those last year myself and "Saikafu" has lots of H2O in it.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/19 01:21Hey, fantastic... it would be my pleasure to do this, seeing as album art is one of my favorite things to design (it's half the reason I started my own label, after all).
Be sure to keep me in the loop
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/19 04:00Oh yea, last year's complimations are awesome! I'm in. Just let me know what I can do to help.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 06:16As my albums are radically different from last year to this year, I'm just gonbna let the next one flow organically from the first two... technobaroque maybe?
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 12:09Next year I'm going to do it on my own with just the acoustic guitar that I'm learning to play this year.
(1) I'll have total freedom over the product, as opposed to trying to build songs around other people's guitar samples - so my cd will reflect what's going on inside me, as opposed to a 'best I could do' effort. And I'll be able to concentrate on my vocals and song-writing as opposed to spending all my time trying to come with vocal melodies in pre-decided keys that frankly hurt my throat. Am hoping it'll be a very personal cd. The only song that felt personal this year was 'Ode to myself', which didn't really make any sense amongst the other songs about shagging-like-cats, fading-prostitutes and selling-his-collectables-on-eBay.
(2) Have really listened to some criticism this year, so I know what I need to work on. Have never really invited criticism before because I thought it would hurt, but actually it just confirms what you already knew - and people *do* notice all the things that you hope they won't.
(3) My cd will have just the one genre (that I love) and will make more sense as a complete product.
(4) I will produce a more professional, polished sounding cd based on Mick's advice this year.
Yep, I am very excited about next year!
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 13:17Next year I'm going to force Lyndsay to sing on my album. She didn't want to do it this year because she didn't want to sing on a bunch of half finished songs (which some were to be honest).
But since vocals are the weakest point of my 08 offering, as has been pointed out by various people, I'm going to tie her to the mic stand if she doesn't comply.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 15:23mparker wrote: Next year I'm going to force Lyndsay to sing on my album.
Nice one - and I really loved your cover of Angie Fights Crime, by the way! Your girl has a fab voice!
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1) Buy a bass guitar. (I'm tired of synthesized blips and bleeps. I want a solid rhythm track for a change.)
2) Find a female vocalist. (I'm bored with my own voice.)
3) Change all locks on my apartment, so Irving Finkelstein can't get in with his sock puppet army, looking to collaborate with me. (I may also have to dig a moat and stock it with some man-eating fish.)
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 21:06By next February, I want to have settled into one or two tunings on acoustic guitar, and learn to improvise in a more serious manner. I'm shooting for a kind of Ed Gerhard simplicity meets Pierre Bensusan improvisation, and then just go to town on improvs and see if I can make a completely improvised album. I wasn't happy with the quality of my last record, either, so I want to learn how to make it sound better as well. Sound-wise, I want to do something slow and thought-provoking, but not give myself any limits this time - if I want to throw in voice or bass or something, I will, and not limit it to solo acoustic guitar.
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/20 23:21NPMusic4 wrote: Sound-wise, I want to do something slow and thought-provoking, but not give myself any limits this time - if I want to throw in voice or bass or something, I will, and not limit it to solo acoustic guitar.
Nate
Sounds very cool - looking forward to hearing it!
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/21 00:22Next year, all G# all the time.
Nah, probably not. I haven't looked that far ahead yet.
I would kind of like to have an RPM 08 1/2 thing to do... like the antipode of RPM (which would be the month of September, right?) just to see if I could pull it off twice in one year.
It's not quite as much fun to do it solo, without all the great comments flying on the board and all the interesting stories.
Anyone else up for RPM 08 1/2?
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/21 00:28IronAngel Forge wrote: Anyone else up for RPM 08 1/2?
I think we're kind of doing it with our cover versions thread!
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Re:RPM09 - 2008/04/21 00:51I guess I'm one of those people who needs the ticking clock on the side of the screen to really push me... as it were several of our songs this time never got finished (some might even say never got started).
I'm going to have to find a few more to cover, I already have to do Kai Starr's "Down on the Brazos" as I can't seem to get that song out of my head.
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