music for apartments
another month of sundays has gone by. as always, we have been working furtively (under the cover of night) to produce new music for anyone who cares to dig it and listen. The writing process has been a little hampered by work and gigs and bills and life — but, like all things essential, its goes on. through sleepless nights and endless car rides, though it rains, though it shines: we bring you music.
this week’s post is a single track. a single track made, ostensibly, in a single day. for sometime we’ve been pushing around the idea of writing music with a purpose or intention. something kyle said we should call music for an apartment. so we took all our shit, put it in my van, brought it to kyle’s place, set it up, and started recording. the result was “the measure.” while it is a departure from the straight acoustic sound, its all coming from the same place. the acoustic thing is definitely still going on (we’re bringing it to Colby College on the 27th of October) but music for an apartment is more about what we can do with some of the instruments we have laying around the house as well as the usual stuff. there’s more of this coming, many ideas in the working, and with any luck a complete statement before year’s end. if you do dig it, let us know, or let SOMEBODY know. send this shit around. give it as a gift. be a jerk — keep it for yourself. play it in your apartment. i mean, that’s what its for.
that’s it for this sunday, ya’ll. word and peace.
akie
Solkem wrote:
I dig it. It’s a bit Trip-Hop like.
Apartment music indeed.
It’s the kind of song I’d play in my dim-litted apartment. Houses are too big. Maybe in a small room in a house. Don’t know if I’d listen to it while walking on a busy sidewalk during the day or while sitting in a crowded, noisy subway car. Maybe while walking at night in a quiet neighborhood. Maybe.
Erykah Badu “Imma test this out right quick on yaw. Now, keep in mind that I’m a’ artist and I’m sensitive about my shit.”
With that in mind…
Can the music in the background be brought out a bit more? Until I put on my headphones I couldn’t really hear it and even still. The words “fuller” and “more cohesive” come to mind.
Or do you want me to invest in better speakers? Is this “music for an apartment with better speakers than the ones you have, Solkem?”
Posted on 17-Oct-06 at 7:12 am | Permalink
Akie wrote:
nay, for a soulkhemist such as yourself, the speakers you are rocking are fine. but, dig this, alot of the background stuff is panned fairly hard or is constantly being panned throughout the track. so if you choose to listen on not so “superb” speakers your best bet (and remember this is the cat who ripped his CDs at a lower bit rate just to save a little space while listening to the the tracks on his NEC computer speakers from 1994) is to turn that shit up (to quote cornball rappers everywhere).
the real point of the apartment music is to fill the space within the space. so yeah: busy sidewalks and crowded subway cars may not be ideal. unless, of course, you wish to take that privacy, that compartmental cohesion, with you whereever you go – into the places, indeed. why then you’d have worked a true alchemy on the situation. makeing gold from lead — and stone from wood. yes. thanks for posting.
-akie
Posted on 17-Oct-06 at 7:40 am | Permalink
maikmidlooks wrote:
Good day!
Check out an excellent video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7jUnptjqZE
Regards
maik midlooks
Posted on 12-Sep-07 at 6:26 am | Permalink