Hi everybody! First of all just a little background. After everything went wrong in a working band in 2008 I decided to go the "my way" route on several music related aspects. First of all I concentrated some long musical frustration into BITTER MAMBO (with 2 of my former bandmantes, longtime brothers and magnificent guitarists), the band in which I play bass and sing (told TB in
THIS thread, back in MAY-2009). Back then, the artistical side of production was also mostly our work. We recorded it in our rehearsal space (if you didn't , take a listen, you'll be surprised) and spent the cash on a reputated producer working with us. But the guy happens to be a quite technical producer, an expert in sound layers and sound aesthetics, but not a musician nor an arranger so he rarely dealt with songs.
After that experience, feeling comfortable in the role of arranger, vocal arranger, "song maximizer", I decided to hunt for some modest production works. Coincidently a ska-core band hired me to play bass. I made friends with these guys and ended up producing their 4th. studio LP. Their previous work sounds something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHwZAWZrrM
(not me on bass, a different drummer & horn section, rather "generic" production in the very same -no cheap- studio we just recorded)
This is the new stuff...
Some ska tune A more funky mood More to the HxC side
The last comment. Ska-core is something that I never liked too much (mostly for the explicitly political/protest/backdated slogan/simplistic language stuff, just not that art-worthy for me -although it payed a portion of my bills for some years-) so I tried to push them towards more refined grounds. Altho' it's definitely better arranged/played/sounding in general than what they'd done before I just don't know if there's better songs. They imposed a deadline for recording which I don't consider very wise until one has super ("unskipable") songs to make up a record. They don't even gig that much to be forced to release material too often. Anyway, they did, the recording was done early this year and has recently been released thru a hard working independent label.
HERE.
I just started a new production, with a classic punk group, right from the composing stage. I find entering a studio to give orders is quite not my idea of art production in a record, I like being involved in the product (mind also these are low budget recordings so the bands can't afford any idle studio time).
So, I'd like your opinion. Also I'd like you to tell me how do bass lines and tone work in your savvy ears. Thanks so much!
