Still continuing my quest of producing music on my iPhone, which is its own nightmare in itself. Add to that working all day in an office and me moving to the new flat Saturday this weekend.

I always wanted to do a bit of acoustic psychedelic or at least acoustic garage (stuff like Ty Segall with Void or Wand on their latest album). I think I might try to expand on that genre this year.

My submission this week is called “the magician’s dance” but in the meaning of the farandole, a dance from Provence where I grew up. It’s a bit whimsical and funny, but I quite like it.

A few things are complicated obviously, so the verses are in 23 meters instead of a usual 4/4, which makes it double fun when programming a drum machine and trying to keep some odd beats without anything. The melody expands on the Hungarian minor scale I tried last week and that I basically used for all the parts.

But well, this one is probably my most ambitious project given the complexity of it (recording, mixing, tracks etc.). I even managed to crash 3 times GarageBand because of the 11 tracks running with WAV recording. Then, because I record things OUTSIDE of my iPhone, I need to synchronise the takes manually and I quote: “Eyeballing soundwaves synchronisation on the screen of an iPhone is some 9th circle of hell thing” (me to folks from my band).

I wanted to try also to have some compression on beats, but that’s not feasible with GarageBand, so I opted with an 808 in the background that has more bass to “kick” sometime the mix. This is actually pretty good given the circumstances and the limitations.

Next week I’m going for something simpler. Can’t do that much again.

Tags: acoustic garage, dance, farandole, french, iphone, magic, week 13 2026, View by:LeCroqueMonsieur