Brother Oak

Check this out. It seems to me that Beck and some mates (devendra bernhart, Nigel Godrich, Jeff Tweedy etc) do an ICS-ish remake of a favourite album. I particularly liked “That’s no way to say goodbye” and “Never tear us apart”

Ray x

All of which might seem rather pedantic and anal - except to point out that if this session is not counted as BL-34 then that will mean for the first time since the conception of the Burning Lodge, that a whole month has passed and not one of us was able to produce any music - which would be a terrible shame.

So anyway, any thoughts on the matter greatly appreciated.

As far as the session itself is concerned, I will let the music speak for itself. I’m enjoying playing the new Fender Strat a great deal, so that features a lot, as does Absynth 4.

Enjoy,

Brother Buffalo

I think I am gonna have to take a month out of ICS - my first gap in 12 months - as I just have too much else going down, what with graduating this weekend (Masters degree) and getting married next month. Come to think of it I probably won’t have time for an ICS session next month either.  All of which is a shame cos this last week in politics would be a great stimulus for an ICS ‘concept album in a day’ a la Brother Typewriter’s Economic-Collapse-themed session back in Autumn 2008.

I hope one of you out there gets to do a session this month - otherwise it will have been our first break in service since the inception of the Burning Lodge (I think).

Hope to catch up with you all soon

Brother Buffalo

Did a session yesterday. The concept this month was that I wanted to get back to those classic 70s vinyl records where you had one long track on each side - a bit like Tangerine Dream’s “Richochet” or Fripp and Eno’s “No Pussyfooting”. So, therefore, rather than trying to do 20 songs, all efforts were directed towards making 2 tracks, each of which would be about the length of a side of vinyl - say 18 minutes or so.

I also, for the most part, used instrumentation similar to that which would have been available in the vinyl era (or recreations thereof). I was originally going to use backing tapes of processed environmental recordings, but a visit to Mersea Island on the Essex coast yielded half an hour of the sound of a microphone being buffeted by wind - and nothing more - so I was forced to use environmental recordings I’d downloaded from the internet instead.

70s vinyl records were often quite meticulous about listing what equipment had been used on what track, so for the record, here it is:

Side 1 (in order of appearance):

Native Instruments ‘Deep Transformations’ (as processor); GMedia MTron Pro; Native Instruments B4; slide guitar through Native Instruments Guitar Rig; Dave Smith Evolver; Korg MS10; Yamaha AN1X; Gibson Les Paul; Elettronix delay looper.

Side 2:

Dave Smith Evolver: SEQ303 MIDI sequencer program; Elettronic delay looper.

I was going to process the stereo masters through the lo-fi “vinyl crackle” setting on the Zoom 1201 effects processor for added authenticity but then thought, “nah, that’s just sad.”

Thanks also to Xtranormal for robot voices.

Love ya,

Bro Typewriter x

Total time spent on this session - about 2 and a half hours.

I’m really liking the sounds I got out of Absynth - some good atmospheric soundtrack-type stuff in my opinion - hope you all enjoy. And really liking the feel of the new Strat too - just jammed out about 8 minutes of solo and have edited it down to a less tediously long piece.

Looking forward to hearing some stuff from anyone else who’s managed a session this month. Listening session at mine tomorrow night, although I think it’s going to be just myself and the Typewriter with a physical presence.

Brother Buffalo

I’m spreading the word about this game. BSM/plan-c did the audio design and music for this game. You may well recognise some of the tunes because all the music was written during ICS sessions. Check it out please!

BSM

Equipment used: Guitar, Danelectro Chorus Pedal, Dave Smith Evolver.

Tracks 2 and 3 are in fact just the Evolver - plus some “previous”.

It’s not that good, to be honest. But amusing.

Enjoy

The Typewriter

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