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Okay, so an endangered lynx escaped in Dartmoor a few days ago. There has been a certain amount of hysteria with the reported size of the animal ranging from 'a domestic cat' to 'a labrador', or the amazingly helpful 'bigger than a cat but smaller than a lion'.
...so I wrote this song. Here's hoping Flaviu gets back home safe.
Recording was done on tape using an Otari MX80 24-track recorder, with the more fiddly bits being recorded on a TASCAM TSR-8 first and then transferred using a synchronizer. Mixdown was done on a Studer A807 1/4" stereo machine.
Other equipment used included:
Sonar and Rosegarden sequencers
Soundcraft MFXi20 mixing desk
Manikin Memotron (M400 choir, strings, vibes)
Moog Minimoog Voyager
Hammond XM-1 organ module
Hammond SK-1 (Vox organ, Fender piano, pipe organ)
Raspberry Pi (Organ bass pedals)
Waldorf MicroWave Mk1
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic bass
Watkins Copicat tape echo
The organ section in the middle quotes from 'What if a day?' by Thomas Campion. Hopefully he won't rise from the vengeful dead because I arranged it into waltz-time.
The icon was sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. The original file can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euras....._lynx_-_03.jpg
Main headline, the story to see
A huge feline has just broken free
He's mean and vicious, and tall as a truck
And if he finds you, well you're out of luck
So get down on your knees and pray
'cause the little big cat got away
Shut windows and bolt all the doors
The big bad lynx is roaming the moors
But what's the shadow is he over there?
He's death on four legs (well, if you're a hare)
So come on Annie, get your noose
There's a little big cat on the loose
Most headlines are out of control
You'd think he could suck out your soul
He's small and nervous and they're on his track
And when he's hungry he'll likely come back
I guess he has to have his fun
There's a little big cat on the run
...so I wrote this song. Here's hoping Flaviu gets back home safe.
Recording was done on tape using an Otari MX80 24-track recorder, with the more fiddly bits being recorded on a TASCAM TSR-8 first and then transferred using a synchronizer. Mixdown was done on a Studer A807 1/4" stereo machine.
Other equipment used included:
Sonar and Rosegarden sequencers
Soundcraft MFXi20 mixing desk
Manikin Memotron (M400 choir, strings, vibes)
Moog Minimoog Voyager
Hammond XM-1 organ module
Hammond SK-1 (Vox organ, Fender piano, pipe organ)
Raspberry Pi (Organ bass pedals)
Waldorf MicroWave Mk1
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic bass
Watkins Copicat tape echo
The organ section in the middle quotes from 'What if a day?' by Thomas Campion. Hopefully he won't rise from the vengeful dead because I arranged it into waltz-time.
The icon was sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. The original file can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euras....._lynx_-_03.jpg
Main headline, the story to see
A huge feline has just broken free
He's mean and vicious, and tall as a truck
And if he finds you, well you're out of luck
So get down on your knees and pray
'cause the little big cat got away
Shut windows and bolt all the doors
The big bad lynx is roaming the moors
But what's the shadow is he over there?
He's death on four legs (well, if you're a hare)
So come on Annie, get your noose
There's a little big cat on the loose
Most headlines are out of control
You'd think he could suck out your soul
He's small and nervous and they're on his track
And when he's hungry he'll likely come back
I guess he has to have his fun
There's a little big cat on the run
Category Music / 70s
Species Lynx
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 6.77 MB
Listed in Folders
Hey! Saw you on the spotlight and felt like giving this song a further listen to. I love this song! It's really complex in how much it changes tone, rhythm, and just evolves. Fantastic work. Hope you don't mind if I lurk around your submissions and listen to some more works of yours.
Thanks. If you're interested, look at my journals - there's an entry for the album I released this year, and from there you can find most of my work.
Bandcamp doesn't have the complete back-catalogue yet, but it does have higher quality downloads than the free sites. And also the vinyl LP of one of the albums if you really get into it.
Bandcamp doesn't have the complete back-catalogue yet, but it does have higher quality downloads than the free sites. And also the vinyl LP of one of the albums if you really get into it.
For those who are curious, Flaviu is finally back where he should be:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan.....devon-36935424
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan.....devon-36935424
Waaaait a sec. It all clicks. You're the musician, DOUG the Eagle. You're also the Project Future bloke, yet *also* the It-He Anti-Walkthroughs author?
Wow. Talk about a serendipitous discovery! As abnormal as this might be to profess, that anti-walkthrough of Deus Ex remains an annual read for me, yielding bountiful laughter and entertainment as it meticulously unravels what is staunchly my favorite all-time video game. At one point, I was even considering submitting to you an unreal glitch I encountered at the second visit to the 'Ton Hotel - a humdinger I've since been unable to replicate. Would ever it resurface...
Anyhow, I've taken a passing interest in your music from time to time - at that, this track's urban-baroque vibe spoke a tad to me, recently. (Baroque stylings in general mesh well with a plethora of genres.) Came to realize all that above about the webcomic and the website. Man, it really is a small Internet somehow.
(Here's hoping you can tear apart System Shock 3 in the future)
Wow. Talk about a serendipitous discovery! As abnormal as this might be to profess, that anti-walkthrough of Deus Ex remains an annual read for me, yielding bountiful laughter and entertainment as it meticulously unravels what is staunchly my favorite all-time video game. At one point, I was even considering submitting to you an unreal glitch I encountered at the second visit to the 'Ton Hotel - a humdinger I've since been unable to replicate. Would ever it resurface...
Anyhow, I've taken a passing interest in your music from time to time - at that, this track's urban-baroque vibe spoke a tad to me, recently. (Baroque stylings in general mesh well with a plethora of genres.) Came to realize all that above about the webcomic and the website. Man, it really is a small Internet somehow.
(Here's hoping you can tear apart System Shock 3 in the future)
Thanks. If you ever do manage to reproduce the 'Ton glitch, do let me know :3
I'm replaying Thief 2 at the moment, after that it'll probably be Mankind Divided, though just playing a game doesn't automatically mean there will be an anti-walkthrough for it, and it is getting harder to break things as the QA seems to have improved a lot lately.
I also have Wolfenstein: New Order on my list because a friend showed me the game, and the plot was such utter bollocks that I could scarcely believe it.
"In the cellar you can steal Anja's grandfather's gold and then interrogate the Nazi guy with a chainsaw that doesn't start. BJB does something totally moronic and threatens to decapitate the guy if he doesn't give an answer that he likes.
"Supposedly the Nazis are keeping the resistance members in a prison, which makes me suspect that the writing team has also been in a coma for 15 years with heads full of scrambled eggs. A more plausible explanation is the guy is giving BJB an answer that he'll LIKE, even though it isn't true. This is one of the reasons torture doesn't really work. Obviously, with the guy beheaded, BJB won't be able to come back for more questions if it turned out that the guy was lying, because he's dead."
As for System Shock 3, I gave Windows the push after the catastrophic mess it made playing Fallout 3. So it'll have to wait until there's a Linux port or the Windows emulation is able to play it...
I'm replaying Thief 2 at the moment, after that it'll probably be Mankind Divided, though just playing a game doesn't automatically mean there will be an anti-walkthrough for it, and it is getting harder to break things as the QA seems to have improved a lot lately.
I also have Wolfenstein: New Order on my list because a friend showed me the game, and the plot was such utter bollocks that I could scarcely believe it.
"In the cellar you can steal Anja's grandfather's gold and then interrogate the Nazi guy with a chainsaw that doesn't start. BJB does something totally moronic and threatens to decapitate the guy if he doesn't give an answer that he likes.
"Supposedly the Nazis are keeping the resistance members in a prison, which makes me suspect that the writing team has also been in a coma for 15 years with heads full of scrambled eggs. A more plausible explanation is the guy is giving BJB an answer that he'll LIKE, even though it isn't true. This is one of the reasons torture doesn't really work. Obviously, with the guy beheaded, BJB won't be able to come back for more questions if it turned out that the guy was lying, because he's dead."
As for System Shock 3, I gave Windows the push after the catastrophic mess it made playing Fallout 3. So it'll have to wait until there's a Linux port or the Windows emulation is able to play it...
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