Melophon Fusion Jazz

Hello everyone, and welcome to my Jamendo blog.

I’ve just uploaded my recording “Takes at the Gate” – a record from 2006, featuring funk shuffle drum loops, my stratocaster guitar and a lot of fender rhodes and organ. I played the base lines using keys or pitched guitar. I’d like to say a few words about the individual songs…

The first song of the album, “Classical Illusion”, features a theme from Bach, as well as some smooth arpeggios. It is a rather rocking tune, quite straight forward. (The guitar solo used to be my ring tone by the way…)

The next track, “Grool”, is influenced by Johnny “Guitar” Watson, in particular in terms of the guitar solo (featuring his typical bending).

The song “Retour” is a rather straight forward blues track with a quickly moving base line and a lot of funk guitar. The synth I play at the end of the track is a Logic ES2. Note I experimented a lot with delay effects here, grab your head phones.

“Still Working” is kind of karaoke since it is not meant to be an instrumental track. I wasn’t able to properly sing the lead voice, hence I removed the vocals.

The best produced song of the album, from my point of view, is “No Business”, referring to my leaving the company that I’ve founded in late 2001. It’s a rather sad song, with a lot of ambiguity expressed through the chasing guitar lines.

As with most of the tracks on this album, I wasn’t very creative when it comes to naming the tracks. “Taxes” is probably the least exciting track on the album, alongside “Sad News”, referring to the track called the same by “Tab Two”. The guitar solo in that track might be interesting.

The saddest song in my eyes is “Relax”. In particular due to the sound, it comes very gloomy and depressing. The hook, meant to support the verse, even puts more tension in it. The beat is mostly the same at all times. You should check out the key solo at around ~3:20. The ending is a bit pathetic…

As implied by its name, the next song, “Experiment”, is a rather tricky and meant-to-be jazz/rock/fusion track, it features a lot of unisono passages and a blues line played by the guitar.

The last track “Sequel” is a reprise of the album and features an XPhraze synthie.

For those who don’t have enough time to listen to the whole album: check out “No Business” and “Classical Illusion”.