singemonkey wrote:
Haha. That's cool Tamla, but that driven guitar sound is truly, shockingly, awful ?
But in a way that's cool. Just like, and I hope I'm not being a dick here, but your friend's fiddle is playing flat most of the time. But the effect is some crazy psychedelia. It reminds me of the incredible string band. If I had the chops I'd remix this with some crazy sound effects and some near-random percussion.
Sorry to get to this party so late. I liked the guitar sound early on - almost a sitar effect (there's one of those fab old electric sitars hanging in Music Connection right now - they had this weird bridge that was MEANT to buzz). Tamla, with a drone that guitar part would have been really effective - I often hear middle-eastern and east European flavours in your playing and drones will be very effective with that.
RE the ISB, Singe is luring you into the dizzying highest heights of pyschedelia. At first glance/listen they may seem like embarrassing tie-dyed, joss-stick reeking 60s cliches, but there was massive inventiveness and originality there and an uninhibited spirit that few bands have got close to. If you want to explore this path (and I will not dissuade you) then go for the early albums - they ran out of steam fairly quickly, but the early albums like
5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion are dazzling, dizzying, eccentric master pieces. They didn't use much actual violin - Robin Williamson played a North African instrument the gimbri which is a sort of like a bowed ud and was the predecessor of the violin.
