Spirit Level - a side project

[rayc]

This is a little side project I was invited to participate in via the BIAB User Showcase forum.
BIAB provides drums n organ on this one.
The singer and the guitarist are Canadian and occasionally collaborate on slightly psych stuff. They seemed to find BIAB bass a bit limiting so that was when/why they asked me to add some of my bass to a few of their songs.
This track is a three way collab. I came up with a draft progression and lyrics then the other chaps amended those as well as adding melody to make a song .
I played the rhythm guitars, bass, Mel9 and Mellotron samples.

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NjIUYy ... HyeBX6EdS0[/BBvideo]

[WhiskeyJack]

This is a little side project I was invited to participate in via the BIAB User Showcase forum.
BIAB provides drums n organ on this one.
The singer and the guitarist are Canadian and occasionally collaborate on slightly psych stuff. They seemed to find BIAB bass a bit limiting so that was when/why they asked me to add some of my bass to a few of their songs.
This track is a three way collab. I came up with a draft progression and lyrics then the other chaps amended those as well as adding melody to make a song .
I played the rhythm guitars, bass, Mel9 and Mellotron samples.

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NjIUYy ... HyeBX6EdS0[/BBvideo]

good stuff guys. Is he singing in half french and English in places? I assume this is pretty much got a fork in it but i find there is something really funky going on with the main vocal treatment. It's like it's popping in and out and all over the places? Like maybe some weird compression artifact or gating thing or something? Anyone else hear that? O kmaybe not ll overthe place but definitely in the first verse, It seemed to go away after halfway through?

the BIAB drums sound pretty good. All good sounds to my ears over here.

Oh yea! ....

[CrowsofFritz]

Interesting video effects!

[rayc]

Is he singing in half French and English in places? ... is something really funky going on with the main vocal treatment. It's like it's popping in and out and all over the places? Like maybe some weird compression artefact or gating thing or something? Anyone else hear that?

Shan,
Yes, the vocal is uneven.
I gather it was put through Waves Vocal Rider as well as other things...it may be mic technique but I do hear what you're hearing.
It's all English, perhaps it ought to cover two of the three official Canadian languages, but I think that impression is tied to the in n out.
I wrote the original lyric but did have to get Robert to amend the text as sung because I wasn't 100% sure of what I was hearing in some spots.
Singer is from Vancouver & the lead player from Alberta.

[rayc]

Interesting video effects!

Ta,
pretty simple Green Screen stuff really in a freebie version of fairly simple software.

[vomitHatSteve]

Is it "broken rhythm" or "broken rhyme"? The YT title is the former, but the in-video title says the latter.

I like the jumping/glitching of the video on the vocalist

[rayc]

Is it "broken rhythm" or "broken rhyme"? The YT title is the former, but the in-video title says the latter.

I like the jumping/glitching of the video on the vocalist

Originally it was neither...but the singer was enamoured of Broken Rhyme. Must be some passive aggressive resistance when I type.
The glitchy vocal vid came to me like that so I decided to run with it.

[musicturtle]

I like the video [mention]rayc[/mention], the vocal is kinda weird, but not bad. Song has a wandering feel to it, so it kinda fits.

[Greg_L]

I'm not a fan of that singer at all. The rest is pretty good though.

[rayc]

[mention]musicturtle[/mention] & [mention]Greg_L[/mention] ,
Yes,
the singer, Robert Cordrey, has a very "mannered", personalized, style but sounds much freer on this than on his own songs.