Description : Track 13 of my album. You can download the full set of songs for free here: http://mrwolf14.bandcamp.com .........
This song has been inspired by a wonderful acappella from Antranita: she has a beautiful voice and she built a good vocal line. I just have followed her voice and tried to give her justice. As usual, all instruments played/programmed by your humble MrWolf.
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This is a super groovy and ear pleasing track, my friend!
Obviously, the vocals will stand out in a song like this, partly because of your gentle treatment of them in the mix - However, I think your instrumental efforts are the real star! You have shown your multi-instrumental prowess, and the ability to DIY a band. I love to hear that in a song or album!
I also always enjoy hearing organ work in a song, and this seems like a comfortable home for an organ. I found the comment about crucethus have a B3 in his pocket quite entertaining. As someone who has pushed a Lowery console spinet home on the ice, I know how ironically funny this is!
The bass and guitar work is top notch, most especially for a bluesy, rock and pop influenced piece. They are mixed with style, and also stand out, each to be appreciated.
OK, no professional bass model used by you so now I will see your real face (and bass) when I read your track reviews and listen to your tracks.
Yes, store that bass praising sentence away if you like. I think I generally applaud your bass playing. My main criticism of it would be that you seem not to come up with that many memorable "hooks" or lines that I can remember after listening to the track. It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff. Or maybe you do have some distinctive riffs but bury them in the mix (or just play them once). I'm not sure.
I like to do all sorts of playing around a chord sequence but am always looking for the best, coolest parts that I can bring out and emphasise. I do a lot of chopping up and moving around of my recorded audio parts. My guess would be that you don't. So, when I hear your bass playing for two minutes, that's probably what you played, without any edits. But I could be wrong.
I'm sure I've said to you before that I mostly make music by jamming around an 8 or 16 bar loop for a good few minutes (my record is a 17 minute take; I did an 11 minute one recently on guitar for my track Emperor Tritone), trying out a few different pre-prepared ideas and then, once I think I've played them well enough a few times, I do whatever come to mind - usually something completely unpredictable. That's how I sometimes get some of my strangest and most interesting stuff. And then I spend ages carefully taking the best bits and joining sections together. Real cheating compared with someone who really knows what they're doing and just plays it all in one go, with no edits.
I have no idea how many people work the way I do but maybe you could try out my technique and see if you come up with some unusual, unexpected things.
I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman (if they're good, why not use them yourself) but if I wanted to, I could easily make thousands and thousands of good loops.
Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp. Perhaps I slightly worry that if I put stuff up for download, very few people will care about it so why bother. I know that's quite a defeatist attitude but I am a bit like that in general. I guess I just have higher ambitions for my music but these days making recorded music seems to be no big deal and nothing special or even interesting to most people. So, it's hard to get any interest from people, even if you're good. We can blame cheap music technology for all of this. But, without it, I could not do what I do.
Sorry for no other comment on your track but I thought you might be interested in a few words about other music-related things.
Hi MrNomad,
Thanks for the interesting comment... lots of points worth discussing.
"It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff"
You are right, this is what I do on most the stuff I have uploaded here. The main reason is on this type of music (chill-out-ish/jazzy-ish) I see the bass more as an "harmonic" than a "melodic" instrument. Of course, this is my vision.
I prefer to let the "theme" be played by other instruments.
And you are also right on the working approach I used: all the bass lines are done in one take (or few takes joined together). Why? Not sure ... I think it has a lot to do with the effect I wanted to achieve.
Was it good? don't know... but I wanted to try it.
And this was also the reason for me to "release" these 14 tracks as an album: I wanted to "close" this phase and move to something different.
As soon as I find some time, I will start experimenting with your approach: it sounds really intriguing.
"I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman"
In my case, I have uploaded only few loops but I hope I will upload more in the future.
The main reason for giving them away for free is that I don't know how to use them.
So, either they are not "good enough" (too bad for the people downloading then) or just I have not seen their potential (and this what I hope).
"Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp"
Thanks, but it is no big deal to me: I know that nowadays it is very hard to attract people's interest.
Commercial music must be "easy": the song has less than 10 seconds to hook the listener. Sad.
And to make things worse, I have made the music downloadable only as a "full album".
This is because I believe that this music works as a "flow" ... at least this is how I have seen it.
This reflects also my way of listening to music. And it may be one of the reasons why your tracks resonate so well to me: each of your tracks is a kind of "mini-album" on its own.
"We can blame cheap music technology"
No we will not.
As you write, it is simply wonderful to have access to all these toys for little money.
I got Logic Pro for less than 200euro ... I bought a very good audio interface for 350euro ... and the quality of these stuff is incredible!
I still remember the "good old days" when I started using Cubase on a 486 PC, with a crappy sound-blaster: the audio card was not able to work in "duplex". So I used a cassette recorder for the takes while listening to the existing tracks on the pc and then I acquired the take in a second step. Awful!
OK... I will now stop with this "flow of memories".
Thanks again for your words.
Sincerely yours,
Domenico
This has such a cool 70's classic rock sound, almost reminds me of Peter Frampton in some weird way!:) The keys, big reverb vocals and cool funky blues feel to it just brings me back to a very cool time where r n b, rock, blues, soul, funk were all experimenting with each others sound. Very well put together, love the guitar, great wah and some nice clean rhythm played. Well done Domineco, great track!
More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve
More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve
"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
Thanks for the nice comment.
It would be great to have the possibility to jam with you: from time to time I go in our rehearsal room with the drummer and we spend a good time just jamming together.
I know that this is not more likely to happen than having Joe Strummer singing on one of your song (as you pointed out already: zero, null, zilch!) ... but if you ever happen to be around with a B3 in your pocket, just let me know! :-)
Take care.
Domenico
This is a very fine track you have created. Always some wonderful bass coming from you. Not sure if you are interested in a critique, so if not, please forgive, but I was wondering if your vocal pella had as much reverb or was it added. On my end it seems like a tad much, but again, just my sound system and taste. A great track, nonetheless.
Hi Scott,
Hope everything is well.
Thanks for the nice words, and even a bigger thank for the "critique": the main reason for me to post songs here on looperman is to hear the opinions of the great musicians we are honored to have on this site. The comments on my tracks have helped me a lot to improve.
Coming on the "reverb": unfortunately this is a bit out of my control, since I have not access to the dry pella.
I can try to see if I can improve things working on the wet one, but I am not sure I can do this without ruining the effect she had in mind.
Once more: thanks for the comment!
Ciao, Domenico
Fantastic piece of live music here with your humble instrumentalism...bass play is more than brilliant...like that you put the rhythm guitars left and right dides...it gives superb retro feeling for it...
Don't talk too much about these vocs...simply amazing...very much like and 10 points that you didn't take or get yourself in front...this song is about the vocs our humble Mr. Wolf...
This is that kinda 'blues' what I could sing for hours...not that typical one...you know, what I mean...this is pop-blues...
Thanks a lot Danke.
Your words mean a lot to me: my first objective as a musician is always to give the song what the song needs. Not more than that.
Ciao, Domenico
Greetings. I had a look at your Bandcamp page and now I have seen what you look like! And you bass guitar. Unless perhaps it's not you and you instead hired a professional "bass guitar model" for publicity shots.
I'm not that keen on the first bit of wah playing. Not sure why - maybe just too much wah in there. I use it quite often as well though sometimes I don't like the sound of it in my tracks but the playing was good (and I couldn't remember how to replay it) so I kept it anyway.
Vocals are clearly the star here. She does have a good tone to her voice. Maybe too much reverb on the vocals though it's not really a big problem.
Your usual good bass sound and playing. And no doubt Rhodes too.
I definitely don't hear this as being blues. More sort of easy listening pop-funk-rock.
You're good at composing around vocals nd you usually make the vocal the main thing and just play complementary parts underneath. As well as having a few guitar breaks, as you do here.
As I've said many times on this site, I generally dislike fadeout enddings but this one is pretty good. Probably because it's quite a long fade so seems to make sense.
Good luck with your album. Have you had many downloads/feedback yet? I guess not many people know that it exists...
Hi MrNomad,
Thanks for taking the time to comment this and to check-out the bandcamp page.
And yes: you have now seen my face. I didn't invested the money to hire a professional model.
"Your usual good bass sound and playing"
Wow! You know how much I appreciate and respect your work, so I will store this sentence for the "bad days" and I will read it to improve my morale.
"I definitely don't hear this as being blues"
I usually don't spend too much time trying to figure out which genre my tracks are.
I am sorry (not too much indeed) for the trouble I cause to the occasional listeners.
"I generally dislike fadeout endings but this one is pretty good"
I also don't like fade-outs but in this case it seemed the most natural way of ending the whole.
Glad it doesn't sound too bad.
"Have you had many downloads/feedback yet?"
I think I still have zero downloads on the album, but I am not expecting much anyway: I think bandcamp gives a max of 200 free downloads (per month?) for free music. I am sure that this will be more than enough for my music.
Now... you *must* feel the urge to put your music on bandcamp as well: you are the one who planted this idea in my brain (you mentioned it in one of your comments I think).
So, hurry up with this jazz-metal thing and then start working on putting together your songs in an album ... possibly more than one.
I am not sure how "evil" bandcamp is, but the platform seems to be well done.
Thanks again for the kind comment.
Ciao, Domenico
UPDATE: you made me curious and I had to check the bandcamp stats... still zero downloads and only 9 "partial" plays. This is a nice feature: bandcamp tells you how many people listened to the track in its entirety. (nobody did in my case)
Wow you've outdone yourself here brother wolf.
Your guitar solo's is outstanding and the whole track feels well balanced.
Love the vocal work too and the effects used and the fade out in the end was a good choice.
Blesings to you man. - Dragon
Thanks a lot Billy: I am not a "real" guitar player so I feel always a bit strange when I have to play a solo.
I am glad it was not "too bad".
The credit for the song goes to Antranita: she did a very good job. I just tried to put the icing on the cake.
Peace, Domenico
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Obviously, the vocals will stand out in a song like this, partly because of your gentle treatment of them in the mix - However, I think your instrumental efforts are the real star! You have shown your multi-instrumental prowess, and the ability to DIY a band. I love to hear that in a song or album!
I also always enjoy hearing organ work in a song, and this seems like a comfortable home for an organ. I found the comment about crucethus have a B3 in his pocket quite entertaining. As someone who has pushed a Lowery console spinet home on the ice, I know how ironically funny this is!
The bass and guitar work is top notch, most especially for a bluesy, rock and pop influenced piece. They are mixed with style, and also stand out, each to be appreciated.
Very excellent work! Fave!
Yes, store that bass praising sentence away if you like. I think I generally applaud your bass playing. My main criticism of it would be that you seem not to come up with that many memorable "hooks" or lines that I can remember after listening to the track. It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff. Or maybe you do have some distinctive riffs but bury them in the mix (or just play them once). I'm not sure.
I like to do all sorts of playing around a chord sequence but am always looking for the best, coolest parts that I can bring out and emphasise. I do a lot of chopping up and moving around of my recorded audio parts. My guess would be that you don't. So, when I hear your bass playing for two minutes, that's probably what you played, without any edits. But I could be wrong.
I'm sure I've said to you before that I mostly make music by jamming around an 8 or 16 bar loop for a good few minutes (my record is a 17 minute take; I did an 11 minute one recently on guitar for my track Emperor Tritone), trying out a few different pre-prepared ideas and then, once I think I've played them well enough a few times, I do whatever come to mind - usually something completely unpredictable. That's how I sometimes get some of my strangest and most interesting stuff. And then I spend ages carefully taking the best bits and joining sections together. Real cheating compared with someone who really knows what they're doing and just plays it all in one go, with no edits.
I have no idea how many people work the way I do but maybe you could try out my technique and see if you come up with some unusual, unexpected things.
I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman (if they're good, why not use them yourself) but if I wanted to, I could easily make thousands and thousands of good loops.
Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp. Perhaps I slightly worry that if I put stuff up for download, very few people will care about it so why bother. I know that's quite a defeatist attitude but I am a bit like that in general. I guess I just have higher ambitions for my music but these days making recorded music seems to be no big deal and nothing special or even interesting to most people. So, it's hard to get any interest from people, even if you're good. We can blame cheap music technology for all of this. But, without it, I could not do what I do.
Sorry for no other comment on your track but I thought you might be interested in a few words about other music-related things.
Wishing you well,
Mr Nomad
Thanks for the interesting comment... lots of points worth discussing.
"It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff"
You are right, this is what I do on most the stuff I have uploaded here. The main reason is on this type of music (chill-out-ish/jazzy-ish) I see the bass more as an "harmonic" than a "melodic" instrument. Of course, this is my vision.
I prefer to let the "theme" be played by other instruments.
And you are also right on the working approach I used: all the bass lines are done in one take (or few takes joined together). Why? Not sure ... I think it has a lot to do with the effect I wanted to achieve.
Was it good? don't know... but I wanted to try it.
And this was also the reason for me to "release" these 14 tracks as an album: I wanted to "close" this phase and move to something different.
As soon as I find some time, I will start experimenting with your approach: it sounds really intriguing.
"I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman"
In my case, I have uploaded only few loops but I hope I will upload more in the future.
The main reason for giving them away for free is that I don't know how to use them.
So, either they are not "good enough" (too bad for the people downloading then) or just I have not seen their potential (and this what I hope).
"Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp"
Thanks, but it is no big deal to me: I know that nowadays it is very hard to attract people's interest.
Commercial music must be "easy": the song has less than 10 seconds to hook the listener. Sad.
And to make things worse, I have made the music downloadable only as a "full album".
This is because I believe that this music works as a "flow" ... at least this is how I have seen it.
This reflects also my way of listening to music. And it may be one of the reasons why your tracks resonate so well to me: each of your tracks is a kind of "mini-album" on its own.
"We can blame cheap music technology"
No we will not.
As you write, it is simply wonderful to have access to all these toys for little money.
I got Logic Pro for less than 200euro ... I bought a very good audio interface for 350euro ... and the quality of these stuff is incredible!
I still remember the "good old days" when I started using Cubase on a 486 PC, with a crappy sound-blaster: the audio card was not able to work in "duplex". So I used a cassette recorder for the takes while listening to the existing tracks on the pc and then I acquired the take in a second step. Awful!
OK... I will now stop with this "flow of memories".
Thanks again for your words.
Sincerely yours,
Domenico
Ciao, Domenico
Wayne
You are always (too) kind with my work.
Ciao, Domenico
More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve
"I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this"
I am not that great at slapping, so thanks for your kind words! this is really encouraging me.
Ciao, Domenico
More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve
Thanks for the nice comment.
It would be great to have the possibility to jam with you: from time to time I go in our rehearsal room with the drummer and we spend a good time just jamming together.
I know that this is not more likely to happen than having Joe Strummer singing on one of your song (as you pointed out already: zero, null, zilch!) ... but if you ever happen to be around with a B3 in your pocket, just let me know! :-)
Take care.
Domenico
This is a very fine track you have created. Always some wonderful bass coming from you. Not sure if you are interested in a critique, so if not, please forgive, but I was wondering if your vocal pella had as much reverb or was it added. On my end it seems like a tad much, but again, just my sound system and taste. A great track, nonetheless.
Cheers,
Scott
Hope everything is well.
Thanks for the nice words, and even a bigger thank for the "critique": the main reason for me to post songs here on looperman is to hear the opinions of the great musicians we are honored to have on this site. The comments on my tracks have helped me a lot to improve.
Coming on the "reverb": unfortunately this is a bit out of my control, since I have not access to the dry pella.
I can try to see if I can improve things working on the wet one, but I am not sure I can do this without ruining the effect she had in mind.
Once more: thanks for the comment!
Ciao, Domenico
Fantastic piece of live music here with your humble instrumentalism...bass play is more than brilliant...like that you put the rhythm guitars left and right dides...it gives superb retro feeling for it...
Don't talk too much about these vocs...simply amazing...very much like and 10 points that you didn't take or get yourself in front...this song is about the vocs our humble Mr. Wolf...
This is that kinda 'blues' what I could sing for hours...not that typical one...you know, what I mean...this is pop-blues...
Congrats and handshake our humble Mr. Wolf!
Danke
Your words mean a lot to me: my first objective as a musician is always to give the song what the song needs. Not more than that.
Ciao, Domenico
I'm not that keen on the first bit of wah playing. Not sure why - maybe just too much wah in there. I use it quite often as well though sometimes I don't like the sound of it in my tracks but the playing was good (and I couldn't remember how to replay it) so I kept it anyway.
Vocals are clearly the star here. She does have a good tone to her voice. Maybe too much reverb on the vocals though it's not really a big problem.
Your usual good bass sound and playing. And no doubt Rhodes too.
I definitely don't hear this as being blues. More sort of easy listening pop-funk-rock.
You're good at composing around vocals nd you usually make the vocal the main thing and just play complementary parts underneath. As well as having a few guitar breaks, as you do here.
As I've said many times on this site, I generally dislike fadeout enddings but this one is pretty good. Probably because it's quite a long fade so seems to make sense.
Good luck with your album. Have you had many downloads/feedback yet? I guess not many people know that it exists...
Thanks for taking the time to comment this and to check-out the bandcamp page.
And yes: you have now seen my face. I didn't invested the money to hire a professional model.
"Your usual good bass sound and playing"
Wow! You know how much I appreciate and respect your work, so I will store this sentence for the "bad days" and I will read it to improve my morale.
"I definitely don't hear this as being blues"
I usually don't spend too much time trying to figure out which genre my tracks are.
I am sorry (not too much indeed) for the trouble I cause to the occasional listeners.
"I generally dislike fadeout endings but this one is pretty good"
I also don't like fade-outs but in this case it seemed the most natural way of ending the whole.
Glad it doesn't sound too bad.
"Have you had many downloads/feedback yet?"
I think I still have zero downloads on the album, but I am not expecting much anyway: I think bandcamp gives a max of 200 free downloads (per month?) for free music. I am sure that this will be more than enough for my music.
Now... you *must* feel the urge to put your music on bandcamp as well: you are the one who planted this idea in my brain (you mentioned it in one of your comments I think).
So, hurry up with this jazz-metal thing and then start working on putting together your songs in an album ... possibly more than one.
I am not sure how "evil" bandcamp is, but the platform seems to be well done.
Thanks again for the kind comment.
Ciao, Domenico
UPDATE: you made me curious and I had to check the bandcamp stats... still zero downloads and only 9 "partial" plays. This is a nice feature: bandcamp tells you how many people listened to the track in its entirety. (nobody did in my case)
Your guitar solo's is outstanding and the whole track feels well balanced.
Love the vocal work too and the effects used and the fade out in the end was a good choice.
Blesings to you man. - Dragon
I am glad it was not "too bad".
The credit for the song goes to Antranita: she did a very good job. I just tried to put the icing on the cake.
Peace, Domenico