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Tag: Music

Album Cover: Attack Time- Turkey in the Raw

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This album cover was commissioned by Chicago band “Attack Time” as a part of the Gig Grabbing Game: it seems these days sounding great is only the start of the process.

Band leader Marshall Hong wanted the artwork to follow an American Civil War subject in order to suit the band’s folk rock blend… while the logo was……

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Animation: Cloudcharger- Satirical Interlude

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Adobe got tired of their clients not buying the new version of their “Creative Suite” every year, so they recently instituted a monthly rental to keep the money rolling in. Their idea that the customer exists for the business rather than the business for the customer left me feeling like spooks wuz in th’ house…….

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Animation: Feels Like Time – Breezy Thought Provoker

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This was the second excursion into animation and a return to recording.
It became a favourite of many and addressed nigh all of the  existential issues facing a modern personage. This tune featured some real vintage fender rhodes and as a result sounds like a cross between the them from Taxi and some sort of……

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Animation: Spinach Can, Spinach can. This is where it all began!

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This isn’t the raciest of animations, but it was B&N’s first. Entirely experimental, funny as custard, atmospherically enhanced.

AND the music composed for the exercise is AN ABSOLUTE BLAST! Dig, and I mean DIG into the frenetic Hammond solo near the end.

While the piano was a virtual instrument activated by midi, everything else was analogue. All……

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