Re: [LAU] Finally, some prog rock for you!

2012/4/17 Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:37:26PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
> > On 04/16/2012 02:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > I am very happy to report that my old friend Bob has finally released
> a record that he's been working on for 21 years.
> > >
> > > And... it's prog-rock! Not my style of music, but one that I know is
> near and dear to the hearts of Linux Audio enthusiasts.
> > >
> > > So here it is at last:
> > >
> > > http://pronstar2.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-mind
> > >
> > > I played Linux keyboards on quite a few of the tracks. It's been a
> year or two since the sessions so I don't remember exactly what I played on
> what.
> > >
> > > I do recall doing some Beatrix, including a few heavily overdriven to
> get a Deep Purple kind of sound, some Specimen with Mellotron samples (it's
> prog rock, you GOTTA have Mellotron!), and also Fluidsynth with clav
> samples through a hellacious jack-rack of plugins.
> > >
> > > I can say with certainty that I think that many, if not most, people
> on this list will enjoy many, if not all, of the tracks.
> > >
> > > Enjoy the Linux keyboard lovin' too.
> > >
> >
> > NICE!!
> >
> > I hear shades of Gentle Giant and Atomic Rooster in the first track.
> >
>
> I'll pass along your kind words to Bob. He's been working on this record
> for pretty much his entire adult life. Perhaps nobody is more thrilled than
> me to see it FINALLY out in the open (I recorded the first demos of it for
> him on a 4-track in 1993).
>
> Also, you're like the third person who mentioned Gentle Giant. I'll pass
> that along too.
>
> By the way, the track "Menager I" has Beatrix all over it. I didn't
> originally realize how prominent the organ was going to be mixed, in both
> the slow part and the heavy metal part (distorted Beatrix), but it's
> definitely evident. The clav stuff I did on one of the other tracks appears
> not to have made it into the final mix, but a lot of Mellotron (using
> Specimen and JackRack with Fons' 4-band parametric EQ) did.
>
> -ken
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Good prog music, nice voices, interesting mixture of styles on the album...
and profesional instrument sounds using free software...
Congratulations.

Was it recorded and mixed digitally/Ardour?

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
  http://www.musix.es

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