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Le Revenant

By Kedbreak136 on March 13, 2022 3:39 am

Quite a bizarre track. It started with a rock riff played on distorted guitar but it morphed into a contrabass version (which is the main bass line that leads the track). Other layers made their way into the track, not really expected. Midway, I wanted to add some poetry and went with Baudelaire's Le Revenant. After an aborted attempt to use Google TTS for this (it sounded like a newscaster reading the weather forecast), I decided to record it directly on the iphone and dump it into the track. Some more layers, chromatic piano, free jazz sax, some birds, lions and zebras, a merry go round, and here you go. A weird track overall, but i kinda like it.

It was bizarre, but still fun.  Kind of felt like being lost in a strange carnival or something/  I liked the whispering.

I like the sense of not knowing where the track will go. The addition of poetry is really cool; I felt like someone was whispering a secret into my ear.

I always think that my tracks need extra lions and zebra. 

Really like this track due it's subdued nature.  All fun and inviting.  That sax is wildly angular too!

Hit favorite by 00:35.  Several times over the next two minutes: "wtf did I just favorite?"  But I was right.

CosmicCairns wrote:

It was bizarre, but still fun.  Kind of felt like being lost in a strange carnival or something/  I liked the whispering.

Yes that would be an accurate description. A bizarre, slightly broken and unbalanced situation where something is really off. smile

hent03 wrote:

I like the sense of not knowing where the track will go. The addition of poetry is really cool; I felt like someone was whispering a secret into my ear.

Thank you for the comment. It was really intended as that. The poem Le Revenant is quite a dark poem, which to be fair is pretty usual for Baudelaire. It's about this probably unwanted love from an undead person. I felt the whispering might make it feel both creepier and it worked well with how these words from baudelaire roll off the tongue. He had a way with words that feel good saying.

rdomain wrote:

I always think that my tracks need extra lions and zebra. 

Really like this track due it's subdued nature.  All fun and inviting.  That sax is wildly angular too!

Agreed - we need more lions and zebras. I was surprised with the sound a zebra makes. It's this very small sound, even bird-like chirp.
Free jazz sax, always here to spice up a track!

ineff wrote:

Hit favorite by 00:35.  Several times over the next two minutes: "wtf did I just favorite?"  But I was right.

Wtf did you just favorite? That is a weird track, even when compared to my usual tracks. Thank you for listening! smile

Exceptional work -- even more soundtrack as usual: multiple rooms, simultaneous action, a comedy of situations, a tragedy of errors, a ballet of choreographed movement. Kind of associates with PLAY TIME (1967) -- the film, not its music.

such a jazzy juicy bass heavy track, c'est génial franchement bravo et le petit passage asmr est très intéressant aussi wink!

Bizarre, but I love it!

What a ride. Really nice use of space too.
Sounds like something I would hear in the anime, Durarara!.

Love your experimental and unorthodox way of creating a new genre of jazz music. well done.

La dark vibe est vraiment réussie. Bon travail.

Wild ride.

Love it. Weird is good, some fun jazz played at a club I want to be in right now. Awesome drum fills. Poetry is cool. Love the shout "hey"
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Blighters Rock is all nervous about playing a solo in a parallel minor key and you're over here playing all the notes on the piano at once lol. Definitely a disconcerting vibe enhanced by the layering of bizarre samples.

ilzxc wrote:

Exceptional work -- even more soundtrack as usual: multiple rooms, simultaneous action, a comedy of situations, a tragedy of errors, a ballet of choreographed movement. Kind of associates with PLAY TIME (1967) -- the film, not its music.

I have not watched this movie! I need to check it out. Thank you for the very nice feedback. smile

ScanianWolf wrote:

such a jazzy juicy bass heavy track, c'est génial franchement bravo et le petit passage asmr est très intéressant aussi wink!

Merci Scanian! J'aime le son de la contrebasse en general! smile

Mission Crossing wrote:

Bizarre, but I love it!

Bizarre indeed! smile

danju wrote:

What a ride. Really nice use of space too.
Sounds like something I would hear in the anime, Durarara!.

I was not familiar with Durara but not that I listened to a trailer, between the weird scales, the exotic vibe, the slightly off balance jazz music, I see what you meant! I need to check this anime, the music sounds really awesome!

Q-Rosh wrote:

Love your experimental and unorthodox way of creating a new genre of jazz music. well done.

Thank you! "unorthodox" may be the best way to describe it haha.

djippy wrote:

La dark vibe est vraiment réussie. Bon travail.

Merci beaucoup!

blighters_rock wrote:

Wild ride.

Thank you, off all the way to lalaland.

miraclemiles wrote:

Love it. Weird is good, some fun jazz played at a club I want to be in right now. Awesome drum fills. Poetry is cool. Love the shout "hey"
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Weird is good! smile

ViridianLoom wrote:

Blighters Rock is all nervous about playing a solo in a parallel minor key and you're over here playing all the notes on the piano at once lol. Definitely a disconcerting vibe enhanced by the layering of bizarre samples.

Haha i was thinking the same thing! There are all those notes on a piano, isn't it a shame to not use them all? AT THE SAME TIME? More seriously, i have always loved Thelonius Monk's piano playing and the way his chords are all weird, with so much tension, and objectively most likely out of the key, scale, and probably known universe. BUT they work sooooo well, he plays them with so much authority that i always felt that "if I feel it sounds off, it means there's something off with me". Not saying my piano lines are anything like the great Monk's, but just saying that his RPG-ing the standard rules of music one chord at a time are such an inspiration.

This IS a strange fish of a track. Surreal and jazzy at the same time.  The sharp jabs of cheers in the background are so awesome!.  Also the playful freeform piano and dark carnival diversions. The description of the process and TTS experience made me laugh from experience. Love it!

This track is so fresh, love the collage of sounds, I imagine some twisted travelling circus going from one small town to another

Love the chromatic piano bits.  I can't even begin to process how you came up with this but love the sound of it.  Especially those loud brassy parts that I wasn't sure if it was an actual instrument or a wild animal yikes   Also Thank you so much for your support!!!  So much appreciated!

NWSPR wrote:

This IS a strange fish of a track. Surreal and jazzy at the same time.  The sharp jabs of cheers in the background are so awesome!.  Also the playful freeform piano and dark carnival diversions. The description of the process and TTS experience made me laugh from experience. Love it!

Haha yes, TTS sometimes struggles to live to our expectations. I am glad you enjoyed the weird surreal vibe of this track. smile

Jason Nijjer wrote:

This track is so fresh, love the collage of sounds, I imagine some twisted travelling circus going from one small town to another

I think that works, there is something definitely unbalanced, cheeky, and outside of society in this track. smile

Tone Matrix wrote:

Love the chromatic piano bits.  I can't even begin to process how you came up with this but love the sound of it.  Especially those loud brassy parts that I wasn't sure if it was an actual instrument or a wild animal yikes   Also Thank you so much for your support!!!  So much appreciated!

Actually I think there is only one brass and it's the free jazz solo after the poem section. So the loud brass parts might really be animal screams. smile Your album is really really good. I was listening to it while taking a walk in the bamboo grove behind my house, and then the track Maudlin Lane came. It gave me goosebumps. It is so delicate, so subtle. What a beautiful beautiful masterpiece. It's a crime you don't get more recognition, this is pro level music!


Kedbreak136 wrote:


Tone Matrix wrote:

Love the chromatic piano bits.  I can't even begin to process how you came up with this but love the sound of it.  Especially those loud brassy parts that I wasn't sure if it was an actual instrument or a wild animal yikes   Also Thank you so much for your support!!!  So much appreciated!

Actually I think there is only one brass and it's the free jazz solo after the poem section. So the loud brass parts might really be animal screams. smile Your album is really really good. I was listening to it while taking a walk in the bamboo grove behind my house, and then the track Maudlin Lane came. It gave me goosebumps. It is so delicate, so subtle. What a beautiful beautiful masterpiece. It's a crime you don't get more recognition, this is pro level music!


Ooooh then I def enjoyed the animal screams lol.  Thank you so much for checking out the album.  I was totally floored when I saw your email pop up so thank you!  That's awesome to hear how you're listening to the album too.  Thank you again for these awesome comments.  It's so nice to read because I tend to beat myself up for trivial reasons.  I don't feel pro-level but I'll take that compliment any day! smile

This was a wild ride! Thanks for making this.

This really shocks me but it doesn't upset me.  You are really good pushing me almost to the brink of total disorientation, but then it's like, hey, don't worry, we're all having fun!

ilzxc wrote:

Kind of associates with PLAY TIME (1967) -- the film, not its music.

Wow, that's on my watch list!!

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