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Da Bruise (collaboration with Svetlovska)
Based on Svetlovska's 'Da Blues', this is my take on it. I thought it was somewhat combative, hence the title.
Gave her a preview earlier today, and she described it as someone trying to recall the blues with a damaged brain.
Essentially it is two versions of her track with different treatments, with live slide dobro, harmonica, and piano with a large dollop of FSU plugins.
Comments
This sounds sick. In a very good way. Reminds me a bit of Paris, Texas with a dose of a psych ward thrown in. The sort of think you don't want to hear when walking through a deserted sanitarium at night.
I like it! Lot of brilliant authentic sounding Blues snippets on slide and harmonica hiding in there and @Svetlovska 's description is quite apt - as is @Ailerom 's because as a whole it is rather spooky!
Cool! Nice mix of tradition and experimentation!
At this rate we’re going to need a ‘Svetlovska’ category! Page 1 has been well and truly owned lol 🔥
This is not bad at all. Weird blues track (btw great playing there ; you’re good on harp , keys and on slide , impressive) but it is very inspiring to see how genres can be blended.
I don’t know if I can match svetlovskas ability to make textural ambience though. Like it’s weird because it works, where you don’t hear why but your brain is just saying “keep listening”
It’s making me think less about my new experimental path I’ve taken as a slight detour rather than divergence , nice job
That's a great take. You definitely took it somewhere very different ! All that small glitches make me feel like witnessing a flow of electric impulses going the wrong way inside a neural network, associating unrelated memories into a new one. Not sure it makes sense 😄
Very nice piece, impossible to stop it once you started!
Great playing! I should use my dobro a lot more ! What is yours?
I have a Gretsch G9241 that I keep tuned to open D.
It sounds great ! Mine is a National Resophonic Delphi, heavy beast!
Who did the final mixing and mastering?
Surreal stuff. Great!
I did. I mixed it in Ableton Live (where I chopped it up and applied the various Audio Damage and Eventide effects), and mastered it in iZotope Ozone.
I actually recorded the 3 live instruments on my iPhone while listening to playback on headphones. Figured it would give the instruments more of a lo-fi feel. However I did do some sound shaping after the recording.
Well my hat off to you. Really great job
To be honest it is one of the things I wish I had considered before I bought it, as mine is on the light side. I don’t string it too heavily, but have thought about adding slightly beefier top strings next time.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
I think your dobro sounds great with your current string gauge ! I had the chance to try a few of the Gretsch, and each of these were great both feel and sound wise and for very decent price.
From my understanding, single cone usually don't require high gauge to shine as opposed to tricone or spider
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with the sound of it, I’d just like to be able to use a heavier touch on the high strings, and I think it will balance the volume better too.
I think you’re right about gauge and cone type, but I think the biscuit type single cone always sound more metallic for a wood bodied guitar, where spider or tricone focus more on retaining a rich tone. Also, I play with a copper slide, so that tends to add to the sound too (I usually play with glass slides only if I’m playing electric).
Most disturbing (meant in a good way if that’s possible). I agree with the above descriptions, especially brain damaged blues walking through a deserted sanitarium. Playing is all good, but your harmonica sound is gorgeous!
Thanks!
The harmonica is probably a combination of 3 things - a good quality harmonica, hand positioning, and playing it through a guitar amp. I also cut some of the low end and mids when I mixed it.
Such a creative take, and I love those fragmentary snatches of the iconic blues instruments, the dobro, the harmonica, the bar room piano… I may need to add at least the harmonica to the list of instruments I can’t play
Yeah, I really didn’t think that playing it straight was going to work, so the cut up technique and some further digital cut up was what made sense to me.
As I said in my DM, I originally thought of using an electric guitar, and had in mind some wild, loose playing with fuzz, but as others had already done electric so well I switched things up. I had also thought about playing drums over it, but to be honest I’m glad I went for adding random elements rather than the stop/start and loud/quiet idea I had for guitar and drums.
However, I’m really surprised that the harmonica has elicited most comments and the piano almost none, as I had sort of aimed to make them equals.
From my point of view, the harmonica stands out because it is so immediately, humanly expressive. The piano tone is great, I did like it, it certainly earns it’s keep, but no one can program a harp like you played it.
Thank you. I think the problem most people have with playing harmonica is not spending the time on getting it to sound good, but it does pay off to learn to play the same note in a dozen different ways. Really simple stuff on harmonica impresses me much more than fast playing as it can be so expressive.
I wouldn’t even know where to begin with programming that kind of expressive instrument.
Loved the mix of instruments, the playing and the overall feel on this one, possibly my favourite of the ‘Da Blues’ collaborations.
I find Irena’s starting point just a bit too disconcerting (just my personal view) when it’s more prominent in the mix as it seems to be on the other versions, so this one suits me more.
As I say that’s just my personal taste, no disrespect to @Svetlovska 😊
Actually having just listen to the @JanKun version I now have two favourites 🤨
Glad you like it!
I kind of felt that the backing would benefit from building up gradually (and it also allowed me more scope for building on different backing, so it’s actually two versions of her backing - one with the volume lowered and a low pass filter that plays throughout, and one with a high pass filter and the volume automated to start at silence and reach maximum volume after 3 minutes.