I’ve been recording a new song here and there for the past few days. Right now it’s a preliminary, instrumental bit, but if I can write decent lyrics (I’m having ideas already) and a vocal line, it’ll get that. I’ll probably add a short acoustic guitar outro.
That said, it’s a pretty complicated, burly song. I don’t really expected many people out there would be too into it. The first half is very organ-heavy – I had an idea a while back that I wanted to write something with a slow, brooding organ part floating on top of a distant maelstrom of blasting drums – something about the juxtaposition of vastly different speeds and tonal qualities appealed to me. I think I achieved close to what I was imagining.I also wanted to explore some heavy organ riffing – call it an experiment; those parts ended up sounding a little stoner-rocking.
The last half of it is an ambitious tribute to the jazzy math-rock I’ve been listening to lately. I wanted a more jazz-informed chord progression with tons of key modulation, changing but catchy time signatures, and tasteful tapped guitar parts.
The performances went pretty well, I think. The only glaring errors are in the drumming in the middle when the clicktrack was ramping up tempo. The guitar parts came together in only a few takes, and I wrote and recorded the final bass part in two hours. I’d like to point out that the tambourine took only one perfect take!
Anyways, here’s the song.
http://rapidshare.com/files/108144784/jeff_gist_-_your_favorite_moons.mp3.html
