Some Ambient

Today I was inspired to do a little ambient bit for 2 or 3 minutes.

I started with a drone on the microkorg 2. Then I played some far away piano MIDI notes over top. I copied these notes to another track and applied a sampled choir singing the same notes as the piano.

Then I added 2 more bubbly drones from the microkorg 2.

After this was all set, I applied the “around your head” speaker phasing effect to each track but varied the phasing amount and speed on each track so all the sounds seem to be moving around your head at varying depths and speed. The objective was to make the tracks constantly dance around the ears.

THIS IS AMAZING IN HEADPHONES!!! Give it a go and tell me what you think. I love doing stuff like this.

11th Hozpitality Album-After Hours

FINALLY, the 11th Hozpitality album is now live and available for haves (see?)…

The reason this album is titled “After Hours” is because a lot of it was put together with various talented and creative people who stumbled over to the living room after the bars closed to make crazy attempts at making music.

There are many characters involved in this Hozpitality initiative on this album. They are as follows:

  • CeMeGo (myself, Hozpitality founder, voices, drums, keys, bass, talent wrangling, etc.)
  • Bitchin Bob (Hozpitality founder, voices, drums, keys)
  • Denise/MsNeeBo (Hozpitality founder, samples)
  • Danish (drums, keys)
  • James Cooper (fretted and fretless bass)
  • Dirty Dave (samples, bass, drums and random noises)
  • Tuggy (bass)
  • Mike Ortiz (sample and arrangement inspiration)
  • Richard (production, keys, drums, arrangements)
  • maybe other people… I have to think about this a little and maybe update the list later. After posting all of this to youtube and writing this post, my eyeballs are drying up.

Many devices and instruments were used in the creation of this album. There are too many to list. Ableton version 9 and, later version 12, were used to arrange and record everything.

The reason this album has 23 tracks is because I have been compiling and editing down very long winded jam sessions (some 2 or 3 hours long) for years to remove the corn out of the poop/find the diamonds in the rough. Some of these tracks were recorded as far back as 2020.

The album can be streamed from my youtube home page in the playlist section.

OR you can just jump right to the album’s playlist itself with this link.