Anyone here bashing skin, pulling strings, hitting the keyboard or singing?
I play guitar, have been for a while.
Played in a couple of bands when I still lived back in Sweden, mostly punk and stonerrock, but just before departing I played in a old school death metal sort of machinery;
http://www.myspace.com/blasphemusband/music
I currently have a kind of grunge-project, drummer still in Sweden, me in Oslo.
We do need someone to lay down some badass vocals on three tracks, so let me know if you're game.
If you do have a band, feel free to post a link to myspace/soundcloud/whatever you kids use today.
Nowadays I mostly sit around with my acoustic pretending I'm Bob Dylan or Pete Doherty, although without the necessery audience.
http://parisandthehiltons.bandcamp.com/album/the-recognitions-ep
This is my latest release.
I play guitar, bass, sing, and program a lot of drums.
Present, though I'll really have to search for any of my stuff online these days. Bout the only people I play for are my mother and nieces...well and the occasional girlfriend.
I'm stealing the album from the interwebz right now.
I got this kind of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds vibe from it.
Like an electro-drowsed and fucked up Cave.
Which is a really good thing. I like it.
I'm gonna give it a proper listen before going to bed.
Are you doing the vocals on that one aswell?
Yeah, that's all me on that EP. Sometimes I collaborate with a friend, like on our last full-length release (http://parisandthehiltons.bandcamp.com/album/reading-journals). Usually though I do it on my own. Takes less time...
I'm not all that talented, but I sing/play guitar in a couple D-List punk bands here in Cowtown. One link has music, one doesn't (yet) but we've got the myspace thing going still, though I don't think anyone still goes on there...
Fist Kitten (Ok, I cheated, this is the FB page, but our myspace is still sad and photo-less)
I liked and then commented. Enjoy
I just love the way Meat's and Phil's music can be placed at the reciprocal opposite far ends of the musical spectrum, and yet show some common ground of perception.
This is my music http://soundcloud.com/flaminiaklla or at least what I've been doing musically in the last years. Not much really. The most recent tracks is just me learning the software, while the oldest three belong to a demo project in electronic with fellow umbrian geeks which I think was pretty good. It's all downloadable material.
Now I'm starting a new IRL sounds project with a friend who carves drums. It's gonna be dub stuff. I'm kind of excited about it.
I play. I'm in a band (realmakersband.com) for the past 3 or 4 years? We have a record coming out that's taking waaaaaaayyyyyyy too fucking long. I play bass. The singtarist writes most of our material and lots of it is based off the 3 novels he's written. We're currently looking for a new drummer so it's been a bit of a hiatus since December.
I'm also playing a shitty guitar and singing at home working on a new project with a friend based on death folk ballads & the such. We've been exchanging ideas and just got together for the first time this past Sunday night.
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I've been playing drums, on and off, for almost twenty years. Working with a couple of singer/songwriters in NYC right now and will be cutting a demo on the 9th. Outside of that, just playing for fun but back in my high school days, I was all about marching band, jazz band, etc. Yep, I was one of those people.
I.... rap. But I don't know if it's fair to call me a musician. I'm just a lyricist who can keep a beat.
But mostly I just like to post videos of my raps on Litreactor.
A friend of mine makes most of our beats (neither of these, lazy sonofabitch has been out of town and I've been working with other producers)
Here, .mpfr33 produced this, but since it's mostly a Cream sample it's not that great.
@nkwilczy Don't let anybody tell you hip hop isn't music. Anybody who needs proof of this should pick up a Blackstar album or Nas' first record. Music is a collection of sounds and rythmns designed to evoke an emotional response. Rap is no different.
I understand, and I mean, if I were a producer I would probably not hesitate to call myself a musician, it isn't about the genre so much as it is the fact that I do vocals.
Vocals are pretty straightforward, just about anybody can do vocals to some extent, but I can't play the piano no matter how much time I spend trying (my absentee producer left his keyboards behind).
I also tried to learn guitar a couple of times, total disaster.
I think I've made 3 beats with my Cakewalk Sonar, and they really aren't anything special. Frustrates the hell out of me.
So I write.
Hey Nick, are you also into slam poetry? I never done anything like that, but it must be fun for a writer/rapper/musician.
I like the idea of slam poetry more than I actually like slam poetry.
@nkwilczy, I appreciate your honesty about it but my thing is to not sell yourself short because you're doing the vocals. You have to do those vocals in a rythmic way and saying that talent isn't musical is like saying drummers aren't musical because you can't drum chords. You could write the vocal rythmn in musical notation if you really wanted to. Nobody does because it's more about feel than strict musical training, but that doesn't make it any less of a skill.
Not trying to make it an issue or anything, I just naturally have your back when it comes to this issue, even if you choose not to call yourself a musician. That, and I'm pretty well versed in this debate as I've had this conversation with music majors.
The only thing I could find with my name on it is when I did a trance project with a friend of mine, I am Logik, he's Jrimm. Mostly I just get the ol guitar out and sing without going trance, but like I said, this is it for me online. It's meh...
Oh, yeah, that stuff.
What is really surprising is, our Reverb isn't bad, our Twitter is good (if underutilized), our frikken Myspace page is fine...
Our Facebook situation is a disaster. I haven't really understood facebook in years.
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I mean, I validate Perhaps 2 Klever by measurement of Twitter followers, so I believe that it is a real band, and therefore I am kind of a musician. But there is a very large music department at UNC-Greensboro, and I don't want to get into those arguments I would get into if I just went around casually referring to myself as a musician.
My only musical performance on the interwebs:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=183022001729633
I'm the drummer in the first band wearing a green shirt and looking like I swallowed a small child on the way to the taping.
The story of the above link would actually make for some entertaining Flash Fiction. Hmmmm....
Yeah, I am a musician. At the current moment, that pretty much means recording little bits and pieces out in my back shed, when the mood strikes.
The mood struck during WAR actually, and almost drove me nuts. Now that I have been knocked out, I had a bit of time to record something just the other day.
Now that that's out of my system, I can get back to writing ;)
Ok, I am a drummer since I was 14. But sometimes I get tired of bashing snares and cymbals and I write down songs. Here's my last band, Voice and lead guitar are my fault. The genre is sorta alternative-rock, with some punkrock, Get Up Kids, Mars Volta and stuff like that...
http://www.myspace.com/azaleamorse
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Wow lots of great musicians on here. I'm not surprised, music and writing occupy the same space in my brain. Unfortunately, like my writing, I start too many projects and finish too few.
I play guitar, bass, drums and keys (all pretty poorly, thought I've been playing for around 20 (!!) years), and I also really like playing with DAWs like FLStudio. I love garageband, but I can't get the right sound out of it, so I record on an old BR864.
I really need to finish recording some stuff. :(
Here is the start to one project I set up on bandcamp, but I just uploaded a couple of electronic skeletons to test it out: Maria Gambrelli is Innocent
Any, I'm really enjoying the stuff you guys posted!
I put up a new mix of my old stuff here, a few dancier tracks.
I played guitar in highschool until girls started paying attention to me. Then I put down the guitar and started playing with girls. Much easier on the fingers.
^Thanks, JGB! That stuff's all like 5-8 years old, but I still get a kick out of it now and then.
Play guitar but there's no good music scene round here and my friends are more into their metal or they don't play instruments so I started making electronic music; http://soundcloud.com/rainuk
JY's music hits all the gay clubs hard.
JY's music hits all the gay clubs hard.
I don't know what you think that means.
I do leftfield techno/electronic stuff as Little Nobody.
