Electric / Blues / Noise Collection
Newer tracks
Kickin (4:41)
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded January-February 2024
I had this funky rhythm guitar pattern come into my head one day (just Cmi13 and Db13). I kind of liked it, and then came up with a funky melodic A section (and I loved using the Bari Sax patch in Logic, even if the notes of the melody go below actual Bari range a couple times). I kind of got stuck there for a while, but one weekend just decided "OK, I need to just finish this", so I came up with a B section and worked out the form structure.
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded January-February 2024
I had this funky rhythm guitar pattern come into my head one day (just Cmi13 and Db13). I kind of liked it, and then came up with a funky melodic A section (and I loved using the Bari Sax patch in Logic, even if the notes of the melody go below actual Bari range a couple times). I kind of got stuck there for a while, but one weekend just decided "OK, I need to just finish this", so I came up with a B section and worked out the form structure.
While looking for a good horn patch in Logic, I came across "Vocal Shouts" which is a patch where each key of the keyboard triggers a different hip-hop-ish vocal thing. I found this so hilarious that I had to put a bunch of that in (and the the obligatory guitar solo).
Angelina (7:19)
Music by Fernando Arruda
Recorded February-April 2021
This fantastic piece was written by my Monday Night Band colleague Fernando Arruda. He brought this in for MNB in the Spring 2020 season, but unfortunately we got shut down by COVID and MNB never came back after that. So in early 2021, this was the 2nd pandemic isolation virtual band project!
Music by Fernando Arruda
Recorded February-April 2021
This fantastic piece was written by my Monday Night Band colleague Fernando Arruda. He brought this in for MNB in the Spring 2020 season, but unfortunately we got shut down by COVID and MNB never came back after that. So in early 2021, this was the 2nd pandemic isolation virtual band project!
This virtual band version was done by everyone recording their part at home to a click track, and then I put it all together, and Fernando Arruda did the final audio mixing and mastering. You can see the video on You Tube, just search for "Blursday Night Band"
Grown Folks (7:57)
Music by Michael League, Arrangement by Mark Basinski
Recorded January 2021
This was the first of 2 pandemic isolation virtual band projects I did in early 2021 with a bunch of my former SFJAZZ Monday Night Band colleagues. The tune is a Snarky Puppy tune (from their Culcha Vulcha album) that I had arranged for MNB, we played it in the 2018 Fall Season. Fun fact - in the very first rehearsal of that season, early September 2018, Michael League actually came to MNB rehearsal that night (he had played at SFJAZZ the night before with Bokanté) so the band got to sight-read the chart for the very first time in front of the guy who wrote it!
Music by Michael League, Arrangement by Mark Basinski
Recorded January 2021
This was the first of 2 pandemic isolation virtual band projects I did in early 2021 with a bunch of my former SFJAZZ Monday Night Band colleagues. The tune is a Snarky Puppy tune (from their Culcha Vulcha album) that I had arranged for MNB, we played it in the 2018 Fall Season. Fun fact - in the very first rehearsal of that season, early September 2018, Michael League actually came to MNB rehearsal that night (he had played at SFJAZZ the night before with Bokanté) so the band got to sight-read the chart for the very first time in front of the guy who wrote it!
This virtual band version was done by everyone recording their part at home to a click track, and then I put it all together, and Fernando Arruda did the final audio mixing and mastering. You can see the video on You Tube, just search for "Blursday Night Band"
Audience Participation (1:20)
Music by Bob Lanzetti, Guitar Solo by Mark Basinski
Recorded November 2020
This was a fun "pandemic isolation" thing! Bob Lanzetti (one of the guitarists for Snarky Puppy) posted link on Facebook to a tune he and his band had recently recorded, planned for an upcoming album, but just for fun, he decided to post the tune with the guitar solo section empty, i.e. ready for a solo to be over-dubbed.
Music by Bob Lanzetti, Guitar Solo by Mark Basinski
Recorded November 2020
This was a fun "pandemic isolation" thing! Bob Lanzetti (one of the guitarists for Snarky Puppy) posted link on Facebook to a tune he and his band had recently recorded, planned for an upcoming album, but just for fun, he decided to post the tune with the guitar solo section empty, i.e. ready for a solo to be over-dubbed.
The challenge was for anyone who felt like it to download the track and overdub their own solo, and then share that online. Fun! My process for this was the usual: do one take, that sucked, delete it; do a 2nd take, it didn't suck, so - we're done!
Pinocchio (3:03)
Music by Wayne Shorter
Recorded January 17, 2016
I first heard this great Wayne Shorter tune on the 1978 Weather Report album "Mr. Gone". This is such a cool tune, and the melody seemed to me to be the musical equivalent of a Maurice Escher drawing of an stairway that goes up endlessly. I like the original version from the 1968 Miles Davis quintet album "Nefertiti" too.
Music by Wayne Shorter
Recorded January 17, 2016
I first heard this great Wayne Shorter tune on the 1978 Weather Report album "Mr. Gone". This is such a cool tune, and the melody seemed to me to be the musical equivalent of a Maurice Escher drawing of an stairway that goes up endlessly. I like the original version from the 1968 Miles Davis quintet album "Nefertiti" too.
I've been working on this for a bit, but the recording was very quick. About 15 minutes to figure out which drum loops from the Logic library would work, another 15 minutes to cut and paste them, about 30 minutes or so to put in the notes for the bass part (I had worked that out ahead of time), and then one take for the guitar melody part, and one take for the solo (what you hear is what you get, no editing here).
Los Furiosos Rumberos (2:17)
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded November 30, 2010
I seem to be trying to channel Carlos Santana here, or something. The title is just a phrase that amused me - in 1984 or 85, I was in Madrid and happened to see a performance (in an outdoor plaza) by "Grupo Belga y Sus Furiosos Rumberos". I loved that name (and they were a hot salsa band). I loved the confusion I felt over the word order: are they the furious party-guys? or the the partying furious-guys? I guess the latter. So I decided I wanted to be a furioso rumbero too. A few years later I shared that story with Jorge Hernandez and Danny Arias, my colleagues at UA, and we decided we would all be furiosos rumberos.
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded November 30, 2010
I seem to be trying to channel Carlos Santana here, or something. The title is just a phrase that amused me - in 1984 or 85, I was in Madrid and happened to see a performance (in an outdoor plaza) by "Grupo Belga y Sus Furiosos Rumberos". I loved that name (and they were a hot salsa band). I loved the confusion I felt over the word order: are they the furious party-guys? or the the partying furious-guys? I guess the latter. So I decided I wanted to be a furioso rumbero too. A few years later I shared that story with Jorge Hernandez and Danny Arias, my colleagues at UA, and we decided we would all be furiosos rumberos.
Speak (1:22)
Music by Miles Davis
Recorded March 13, 2010
In 1984, I was living in Alicante, Spain, studying classical guitar with José Tomás. There was a great music bar there (as opposed to the usual kind of Spanish bar with food, etc) called "La Naya". Remy, who ran the bar, had a HUGE and extremely hip record collection, which was one of the reasons all the music students hung out there. It was there that I first heard Miles Davis' early 80s record "Star People" and got totally addicted to "Speak" and the great guitar work on that track by John Scofield.
In an attempt to actually learn something, I've spent quite a bit of time transcribing Scofield's solo; here's my version of some of that!
Music by Miles Davis
Recorded March 13, 2010
In 1984, I was living in Alicante, Spain, studying classical guitar with José Tomás. There was a great music bar there (as opposed to the usual kind of Spanish bar with food, etc) called "La Naya". Remy, who ran the bar, had a HUGE and extremely hip record collection, which was one of the reasons all the music students hung out there. It was there that I first heard Miles Davis' early 80s record "Star People" and got totally addicted to "Speak" and the great guitar work on that track by John Scofield.
In an attempt to actually learn something, I've spent quite a bit of time transcribing Scofield's solo; here's my version of some of that!
Inside Out (2:52)
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded April 4, 2009
This is one of those things that just came out one night - three chords, and a solo that just unrolled and was a keeper. Some nights it's like that (not very often, but you have to keep trying).
This was also done in Logic; the lead track reverb is one of the Logic plug-ins, "Platinum Verb" I think.
Music by Mark Basinski
Recorded April 4, 2009
This is one of those things that just came out one night - three chords, and a solo that just unrolled and was a keeper. Some nights it's like that (not very often, but you have to keep trying).
This was also done in Logic; the lead track reverb is one of the Logic plug-ins, "Platinum Verb" I think.
Guardian Angels (0:53)
Music by John McLaughlin
Recorded February 7, 2009
This was the the opening track of the 1978 album "Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs" by John McLaughlin and the One Truth Band, which was a late 70s return to electric guitar for McLaughlin (after the extended period playing strictly acoustic guitar with Shakti following the disbandment of the Mahavishnu Orchestra). This tune knocked me out when I first heard it back then, and I still think it is a stunning gem, one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, even if it is less than one minute long. For years I thought "I should transcribe that" but never did until a couple of years ago, and now finally an attempt to cover it.
Recorded at home on my G5 iMac using Logic Express. This was my first real project using Logic, which I've had and mucked about with for years, but finally decided to get serious about learning how to use it just recently. I started with a Software Instrument (midi) track to enter the acoustic guitar part, using Logic's "Classical Acoustic Guitar", dinking the notes in on keyboard and then cutting and pasting and tweaking to get it all right. Then I duplicated that track and moved some of the notes up an octave to simulate a 12-string (McLaughlin overlaid several guitar tracks for this part, one of which was 12-string). The 2 live tracks (doubling the acoustic track and laying down the lead) were each done in one take, i.e. the first take was ok (as usual, there are a couple clams, but that'll do for now). Gibson ES-355 through the POD, jazz chorus model (with heavy compression for the solo).
Music by John McLaughlin
Recorded February 7, 2009
This was the the opening track of the 1978 album "Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs" by John McLaughlin and the One Truth Band, which was a late 70s return to electric guitar for McLaughlin (after the extended period playing strictly acoustic guitar with Shakti following the disbandment of the Mahavishnu Orchestra). This tune knocked me out when I first heard it back then, and I still think it is a stunning gem, one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, even if it is less than one minute long. For years I thought "I should transcribe that" but never did until a couple of years ago, and now finally an attempt to cover it.
Recorded at home on my G5 iMac using Logic Express. This was my first real project using Logic, which I've had and mucked about with for years, but finally decided to get serious about learning how to use it just recently. I started with a Software Instrument (midi) track to enter the acoustic guitar part, using Logic's "Classical Acoustic Guitar", dinking the notes in on keyboard and then cutting and pasting and tweaking to get it all right. Then I duplicated that track and moved some of the notes up an octave to simulate a 12-string (McLaughlin overlaid several guitar tracks for this part, one of which was 12-string). The 2 live tracks (doubling the acoustic track and laying down the lead) were each done in one take, i.e. the first take was ok (as usual, there are a couple clams, but that'll do for now). Gibson ES-355 through the POD, jazz chorus model (with heavy compression for the solo).
Another One (2:51)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2006, all rights reserved)
Recorded January 31, 2006
Another one - jamming over some nice GarageBand loops, on my ES-355, with what I call the "fat 21st century jazz" sound.
Recorded at home on my G5 iMac using Garage Band
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2006, all rights reserved)
Recorded January 31, 2006
Another one - jamming over some nice GarageBand loops, on my ES-355, with what I call the "fat 21st century jazz" sound.
Recorded at home on my G5 iMac using Garage Band
Yet Again (0:37)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2004, all rights reserved)
Recorded October 24, 2004
Another brief burst of Apple loop silliness (especially at the end). I've been playing solos against an interesting "alternative acoustic" riff, with a groove drum beat and a synth track. This is just a brief snippet (I could go on and on...but eventually I'll make a bit more out of this than just extended jamming).
Recorded at home on my G4 using Garage Band digital audio software, also featuring my new (used) MOTU 828 firewire audio interface.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2004, all rights reserved)
Recorded October 24, 2004
Another brief burst of Apple loop silliness (especially at the end). I've been playing solos against an interesting "alternative acoustic" riff, with a groove drum beat and a synth track. This is just a brief snippet (I could go on and on...but eventually I'll make a bit more out of this than just extended jamming).
Recorded at home on my G4 using Garage Band digital audio software, also featuring my new (used) MOTU 828 firewire audio interface.
Hot Ice (4:01)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2004, all rights reserved)
Recorded October 10, 2004
Another experiment with Apple loops in Garage Band. These are some "cool jazz" drum and walking bass loops from the new Jam Pack 3, with one guitar track laid down on top - one take (sorry about the clams, it was late Sunday night). This is using my 335 with the front pickup, tone dialed back all the way, and then hi and mid freqs cut back in the mixer EQ. The POD amp setting is a modified "Roland Jazz Chorus". I'm trying to get a really fat sound.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Garage Band digital audio software, using an eMagic A62M as the audio interface.
The name came about in a roundabout way: at work I've been involved in a large project, drafting product requirement documents, and someone asked me to come up with a project name - the usual practice is to have some cool project name that has nothing in particular to do with the actual project. I'm terrible at coming up with these names (not a natural marketing dude, I guess). Anyway, I somehow got the idea to use ICE (coming from "IOS Configuration Enhancements), and after finding that things like "dry ice" were already taken, came up with "hot ice"...then after a bunch of folks asking what that meant (answer: nothing in particular), somebody did a google search and came up with this fascinating info:
Hot Ice
1 oz Absolut Peppar
1/2 oz blue curacao
1/2 oz pineapple juice
3/4 oz 7-Up
Serve over ice in a highball glass
Source: Heavenly Ski Resort, South Lake Tahoe
anyway, after recording this tune (not thinking about work at all), it seemed to me a bit like a lounge lizard thing, cool jazz hot blues.... and next thing you know I decided to call it "Hot Ice"....
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2004, all rights reserved)
Recorded October 10, 2004
Another experiment with Apple loops in Garage Band. These are some "cool jazz" drum and walking bass loops from the new Jam Pack 3, with one guitar track laid down on top - one take (sorry about the clams, it was late Sunday night). This is using my 335 with the front pickup, tone dialed back all the way, and then hi and mid freqs cut back in the mixer EQ. The POD amp setting is a modified "Roland Jazz Chorus". I'm trying to get a really fat sound.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Garage Band digital audio software, using an eMagic A62M as the audio interface.
The name came about in a roundabout way: at work I've been involved in a large project, drafting product requirement documents, and someone asked me to come up with a project name - the usual practice is to have some cool project name that has nothing in particular to do with the actual project. I'm terrible at coming up with these names (not a natural marketing dude, I guess). Anyway, I somehow got the idea to use ICE (coming from "IOS Configuration Enhancements), and after finding that things like "dry ice" were already taken, came up with "hot ice"...then after a bunch of folks asking what that meant (answer: nothing in particular), somebody did a google search and came up with this fascinating info:
Hot Ice
1 oz Absolut Peppar
1/2 oz blue curacao
1/2 oz pineapple juice
3/4 oz 7-Up
Serve over ice in a highball glass
Source: Heavenly Ski Resort, South Lake Tahoe
anyway, after recording this tune (not thinking about work at all), it seemed to me a bit like a lounge lizard thing, cool jazz hot blues.... and next thing you know I decided to call it "Hot Ice"....
Back To Work (1:48)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 6, 2003
The title came from the fact that I'd been on vacation for 2 weeks, and then suddenly it was Saturday and I would have to go back to work on Monday....
I started with a drum track that I "captured" (read "ripped off") from the MP3 demo page of the "Drumkit From Hell" links (DFH is a set of sampled drum sounds). Added a keyboard track (Reason Rhodes), bass, and a couple of guitar tracks. This is also a first recording of my Strat after getting it back from Torres Engineering with new hand-wound Torres pickups - check it out!
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 6, 2003
The title came from the fact that I'd been on vacation for 2 weeks, and then suddenly it was Saturday and I would have to go back to work on Monday....
I started with a drum track that I "captured" (read "ripped off") from the MP3 demo page of the "Drumkit From Hell" links (DFH is a set of sampled drum sounds). Added a keyboard track (Reason Rhodes), bass, and a couple of guitar tracks. This is also a first recording of my Strat after getting it back from Torres Engineering with new hand-wound Torres pickups - check it out!
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Prelude (5:23)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 4, 2003
We visited Santa Barbara last May, and I took my classical (nylon string) guitar along, and in just sitting around playing and fooling around came up a number of "themes", which I've had bouncing around in my head since then and continued to play with. At first there was a kind of samba, then a slower thing, based on the same chords, and eventually I decided I should try to put together a suite of 4 movements (slow, fast, slow, fast), modeled on the baroque sonata da chiesa structure.
So, this is intended as the first movement (of what I call a "Santa Barbara Suite"), a prelude. Classical guitar lays down the constant motion of the background, and then there are a couple of electric guitar tracks on top, plus some "shaker" percussion. This is just a first cut, and needs to have a bit more work (as well as the other 3 movements).
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 4, 2003
We visited Santa Barbara last May, and I took my classical (nylon string) guitar along, and in just sitting around playing and fooling around came up a number of "themes", which I've had bouncing around in my head since then and continued to play with. At first there was a kind of samba, then a slower thing, based on the same chords, and eventually I decided I should try to put together a suite of 4 movements (slow, fast, slow, fast), modeled on the baroque sonata da chiesa structure.
So, this is intended as the first movement (of what I call a "Santa Barbara Suite"), a prelude. Classical guitar lays down the constant motion of the background, and then there are a couple of electric guitar tracks on top, plus some "shaker" percussion. This is just a first cut, and needs to have a bit more work (as well as the other 3 movements).
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Rocket (4:59) - Rough cut
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded March 29, 2003
This is just a first take of this, just playing with the ideas - all recorded in about 2 hours on a Saturday night. Deb's comment was "you are so stuck in the 70s!" OK, guilty as charged in this case. Yet another screamy guitar-babble track from yours truly.
This tune started with a MIDI drum loop I worked out, laid down a riff and 2 lead guitar tracks, played on my Gibson ES-335 Studio into my Line6 POD, using a way turned up rectified model, then a bass track, followed up by a keyboard track. Everything was pretty much one take, that's it, on to the next track.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2003, all rights reserved)
Recorded March 29, 2003
This is just a first take of this, just playing with the ideas - all recorded in about 2 hours on a Saturday night. Deb's comment was "you are so stuck in the 70s!" OK, guilty as charged in this case. Yet another screamy guitar-babble track from yours truly.
This tune started with a MIDI drum loop I worked out, laid down a riff and 2 lead guitar tracks, played on my Gibson ES-335 Studio into my Line6 POD, using a way turned up rectified model, then a bass track, followed up by a keyboard track. Everything was pretty much one take, that's it, on to the next track.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software, and Propellerheads Reason softsynth.
Barcarola (5:19)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded December 29, 2002
A barcarola is literally a "boat song" (barca = boat, related to barque, barge, etc). The idea is the gently rocking rhythm gives the feeling of being on the water. I was trying to evoke some kind of reminiscence of Alicante (a port on the Spanish Mediterranean where I once lived).
This tune is built with various guitar tracks - a basic chord pattern played on classical guitar (Michael Thames, 1991), a bass track, and several melody and lead guitar tracks, played on my Gibson ES-335 Studio.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded December 29, 2002
A barcarola is literally a "boat song" (barca = boat, related to barque, barge, etc). The idea is the gently rocking rhythm gives the feeling of being on the water. I was trying to evoke some kind of reminiscence of Alicante (a port on the Spanish Mediterranean where I once lived).
This tune is built with various guitar tracks - a basic chord pattern played on classical guitar (Michael Thames, 1991), a bass track, and several melody and lead guitar tracks, played on my Gibson ES-335 Studio.
Recorded at home on my G4 using Digidesign's MBOX and Pro Tools LE digital audio software.
2062 (3:24)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded December 21, 2002
2062 is inspired by (and the name taken from) my brother Billy's creative workshop MMLXII (Music and Media Laboratories and Unknown Industries, Inc). This is a meditative and dreamlike piece, an "exordium" if you like.
Recorded at home on my G4, using Propellerhead's Reason 2.0 softsynth/audio-workstation package, and Digidesign's Pro Tools LE digital audio software and the MBOX for audio/digital conversion.
The synth tracks were laid down in Reason; the rack setup is basically 2 NN19 samplers, going thru a pair of delay units and an additional reverb unit. Once the 2 synth tracks were there, I fired up Pro Tools, and set Reason to track PT as a slave (via midi sync), so I could record guitar tracks in PT and have Reason play along in sync.
I did just one guitar take, and liked the track, so that was a keeper (Strat front Seymour Duncan pickup, thru POD 2.0 to Mackie mixer, then into MBOX). After recording the track, a D-VERB plugin was applied to the track to give a bit more resonance.
Next step was to export the Reason audio to a stereo AIFF, and import that into Pro Tools. Then a fader was applied for a fadeout, and then I dumped the result to MP3. All in a night's work.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded December 21, 2002
2062 is inspired by (and the name taken from) my brother Billy's creative workshop MMLXII (Music and Media Laboratories and Unknown Industries, Inc). This is a meditative and dreamlike piece, an "exordium" if you like.
Recorded at home on my G4, using Propellerhead's Reason 2.0 softsynth/audio-workstation package, and Digidesign's Pro Tools LE digital audio software and the MBOX for audio/digital conversion.
The synth tracks were laid down in Reason; the rack setup is basically 2 NN19 samplers, going thru a pair of delay units and an additional reverb unit. Once the 2 synth tracks were there, I fired up Pro Tools, and set Reason to track PT as a slave (via midi sync), so I could record guitar tracks in PT and have Reason play along in sync.
I did just one guitar take, and liked the track, so that was a keeper (Strat front Seymour Duncan pickup, thru POD 2.0 to Mackie mixer, then into MBOX). After recording the track, a D-VERB plugin was applied to the track to give a bit more resonance.
Next step was to export the Reason audio to a stereo AIFF, and import that into Pro Tools. Then a fader was applied for a fadeout, and then I dumped the result to MP3. All in a night's work.
Toejam (3:57)
Music by Paul Nguyen (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Paul Nguyen, guitars, keyboards & drum arrangement; Mark Basinski, bass, slide guitar
Recorded June 4 2002
Here's another groovy tune from Paul Nguyen. I added a bass track (inaugural outing for my new Precision Bass) and slide on top (Strat).
Music by Paul Nguyen (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Paul Nguyen, guitars, keyboards & drum arrangement; Mark Basinski, bass, slide guitar
Recorded June 4 2002
Here's another groovy tune from Paul Nguyen. I added a bass track (inaugural outing for my new Precision Bass) and slide on top (Strat).
Never Said It's Easy (3:23)
Music and Lyrics by Paul Nguyen (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Paul Nguyen, vocals, guitars, drum arrangement; Mark Basinski, guitar
Recorded March 18 2002
My colleague at work, Paul Nguyen, is a talented musician, and put together this tune. He sent me a mix via MP3, and I added a lead track on top (echo-y wah guitar in the very upper regsiter).
Music and Lyrics by Paul Nguyen (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Paul Nguyen, vocals, guitars, drum arrangement; Mark Basinski, guitar
Recorded March 18 2002
My colleague at work, Paul Nguyen, is a talented musician, and put together this tune. He sent me a mix via MP3, and I added a lead track on top (echo-y wah guitar in the very upper regsiter).
The Bitter Fruit (3:20)
Music and Lyrics by Paul and Christine Della Maggiora (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Christine Della Maggiora, vocal; Paul Della Maggiora, guitar; Mark Basinski, slide guitar
Recorded January 2002
My friend Paul sent me an MP3 of this song that he and his wife Christine made, and I liked it a lot, and immediately decided to appropriate it and start mutilating it myself, i.e. try to add some guitar of my own to their song. I was able to import the stereo guitar and voice track they made into my system, and recorded a solo slide guitar track on top. I did try to mix the slide guitar down just a little, so as not to stomp on Christine's vocals quite so much, but perhaps another remix will be in order sooner or later.
At least I did send the result back to Paul and Christine (after all, at Cisco, Paul was the one who taught me the "ask forgiveness, not permission" philosophy), and they gave me their blessing to post this here.
Kind of an interesting musical collaboration - they live in Raleigh, NC; I live in San Jose, Ca, and this recording was made without us actually getting together.
Music and Lyrics by Paul and Christine Della Maggiora (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Christine Della Maggiora, vocal; Paul Della Maggiora, guitar; Mark Basinski, slide guitar
Recorded January 2002
My friend Paul sent me an MP3 of this song that he and his wife Christine made, and I liked it a lot, and immediately decided to appropriate it and start mutilating it myself, i.e. try to add some guitar of my own to their song. I was able to import the stereo guitar and voice track they made into my system, and recorded a solo slide guitar track on top. I did try to mix the slide guitar down just a little, so as not to stomp on Christine's vocals quite so much, but perhaps another remix will be in order sooner or later.
At least I did send the result back to Paul and Christine (after all, at Cisco, Paul was the one who taught me the "ask forgiveness, not permission" philosophy), and they gave me their blessing to post this here.
Kind of an interesting musical collaboration - they live in Raleigh, NC; I live in San Jose, Ca, and this recording was made without us actually getting together.
Funky Loop (2:21)
Guitar solo by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 2001
Recorded at home on my Mac using Digidesign's Pro Tools Free digital audio software.
This track is based on a short loop, for a funky drums and bass track (from a big pile of sampled drum loops a friend at work gave me).
One take of guitar babble one top. Basically this was a test of the process (importing the wav file with the drum loop, dropping additional track, mastering to a stereo output track, exporting to AIFF, converting to MP3, etc.
Strat solo using the Seymor Duncan mini-humbucker (super hot 59 sound) in the bridge position, thru my Line 6 POD 2.0, using the Insane patch (ultra rectified shred-o-matic, yow).
Guitar solo by Mark Basinski (copyright 2002, all rights reserved)
Recorded September 2001
Recorded at home on my Mac using Digidesign's Pro Tools Free digital audio software.
This track is based on a short loop, for a funky drums and bass track (from a big pile of sampled drum loops a friend at work gave me).
One take of guitar babble one top. Basically this was a test of the process (importing the wav file with the drum loop, dropping additional track, mastering to a stereo output track, exporting to AIFF, converting to MP3, etc.
Strat solo using the Seymor Duncan mini-humbucker (super hot 59 sound) in the bridge position, thru my Line 6 POD 2.0, using the Insane patch (ultra rectified shred-o-matic, yow).
¡Qúe va! (3:05)
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 1996, all rights reserved)
Mark Basinski - electric guitars, bass, keyboards
Recorded September 1996, remixed January 2003
Recorded at home on a PowerMac 6100 (with a G3 processor dropped in) using Opcode's Vision MIDI/audio software.
This track is a short MIDI loop, just a quasi–standard latin groove, kind of like a tune Zappa did many years ago called "Variations on the Secret Chord Progression of Carlos Santana".
I played all instruments (if you call dinking the notes in via a MIDI keyboard playing, heh) – piano, bass, percussion. Sound being generated via E–Mu Sound Engine / Music Module, with 2 guitar tracks laid down on top of that, guitar babble at it's finest...
Remix Notes, January 2003:
Track pulled into Pro Tools LE on my G4, and a new bass track added (Fender P-Bass with some nice new flatwound strings), for a little added oomph in the low end.
Music by Mark Basinski (copyright 1996, all rights reserved)
Mark Basinski - electric guitars, bass, keyboards
Recorded September 1996, remixed January 2003
Recorded at home on a PowerMac 6100 (with a G3 processor dropped in) using Opcode's Vision MIDI/audio software.
This track is a short MIDI loop, just a quasi–standard latin groove, kind of like a tune Zappa did many years ago called "Variations on the Secret Chord Progression of Carlos Santana".
I played all instruments (if you call dinking the notes in via a MIDI keyboard playing, heh) – piano, bass, percussion. Sound being generated via E–Mu Sound Engine / Music Module, with 2 guitar tracks laid down on top of that, guitar babble at it's finest...
Remix Notes, January 2003:
Track pulled into Pro Tools LE on my G4, and a new bass track added (Fender P-Bass with some nice new flatwound strings), for a little added oomph in the low end.
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