27-12-2015, 07:41
Jerome Wrote:Found this - http://www.progressiveears.org/forum/sho...Scrap-Book) Listened to this piece. Drummer's timing is questionable in places. At times he's in sync and then other times he's off-tempo.
We do all the recordings direct onto analog tape machines, the old way. There are some reasons for it. It does demand more from the musicians in that there is no fixing things. We look for a passionate or emotional take before something more sterile. This was all recorded live, and it's a complex piece of music.
It might be that you are hearing the drummer playing in several odd meter time signatures. The ending jam out is in 22/8 meter. A lot of the song is in 5/4 and some in 7/8. There is no click track used either, so it would wander around to some degree.
I agree that live performance is the only thing left, and we try to make sure that any recordings we produce will be an accurate representation of the band that one would go out to seeâ¦. for better or for worse I suppose.
We have some free form jazz stuff with Bindi's Wild Adventure, another band that only plays live "Art Rock Ensemble" and a few other projects in the works like this one.
It does seem to work in that there might be a refreshing feeling to present music in a more human or natural way as opposed to how much of the music today is being heavily manipulated by computer programs etc. Of course everyone has differing tastes that suit them. We just lean more to the natural organic performances, but certainly not simple music exclusively.
