There’s a new track posted- Live To Rock, from the early Urban Fiction work with Jenn last spring, remixed with a rewritten bass line. I went for a live club feel on this mix, not overdoing things based on what four people could do live on stage (though, really, it’s either five people or Jenn would have been singing and playing rhythm guitar at the same time). The energy and groove of the track is pretty cool, even with just four players.
This is the first piece using the reconstructed Fender 5-string jazz bass (on the left in the linked image), with a little crisper sound than the p-bass. Jenn’s vocals were recorded in my loft using an AT 4033a large-diaphragm cardioid mic, into Digital Performer at 24-bit. Didier played and recorded his lead guitar work separately and uploaded his audio; I later dropped it all into Logic Pro 8 for the rhythm section work, mixing, and mastering.
Credits: Vocals- Jenn Flaa. Lead guitar- Didier Bouvet. Bass, rhythm programming- Slate. Lyrics- Jenn. Music- Jenn & Slate. Arrangement & production- Slate.
[...] Live To Rock Here’s a blast from the past. The first song we ever wrote (not counting the little dittys I scat about all the time) is up and living in the webverse. Didier of course has a tasty guitar part, Slates bass line is fun and I’m singing lower that I usually do. We performed this live in SF awhile back. Check it out: Live To Rock [...]
Pingback by Live To Rock « Urban Fiction’s Blog — Sat, 3 January 2009 @ 10:15 pm
Nice job Slate! The new bass sounds great. Thanks for finishing this one up!
Jenn
Comment by jflaa1@gmail.com — Sat, 3 January 2009 @ 10:15 pm