Favourite albums of 2011
31, Dec, 2011I enjoyed these albums greatly, but this may be an indicator of my limited listening rather than anything else!
In no particular order:
Sand Snowman - The World’s Not Worth It
Eat Lights Become Lights - Autopia
Faust - Something Dirty
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Bass Communion - Cenotaph
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Tonefloat - tf100
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Opeth - Heritage
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“In Sleep And Waking Dreams”
20, Nov, 2011
in sleep and waking dreams
as a thank you to everyone who has supported me this year, either by buying CDs or downloads, coming to see TRA, “liking” things on Facebook, retweeting status updates or just by saying nice things…
this is for you.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD (ZIP FILE, 32.3 MB)
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Atay Ilgün & Daniel Vincent - Fragments of Sound
12, Nov, 2011Those of you who have followed mrs.vee recordings over the years will recognise Atay as the leading light behind Svefn Plural and Treefingers.
Just like me, he’s always tinkering with some recordings and playing around with ideas.
A few weeks ago, I asked Atay over to the studio to chat about the projects he is working on, and whether there’s something we could work on together at some point. I was also considering creating an ambient/drone track for Freddy Palmer’s new tape-only label Tape Your Mouth, thinking that Atay would be a great collaborator.
When Atay arrived, I quickly introduced him to the equipment I had set up - Microkorg and Kawai K4 synths, Boss Phase Shifter, Akai Headrush delay unit and my beloved WEM Copicat - and we set to work making noise.
After a few minutes of confused drones and associated noise, we restarted, adding a Android drum machine app called Silicon Oxide to provide us with some kind of focal point.
The result was an interesting take on the mid-70s electronic/kosmische scene. Atay layered effects and sweeps with the Microkorg and pedals whilst I played a few chords and simple runs on the K4…
Leaving the electronic equipment for a while, we set up a microphone to record Atay’s acoustic guitar and plugged my electric guitar into the phase shifter and Headrush delay. The following recording captures Atay simply improvising whilst I attempt to provide some kind of ambient soundscape in the background…
We stopped for a break and recorded another improv returning to the drum machine which gave the recording a different musical personality… we were now being propelled by the gentle thud of a sampled bass drum into a strange place in space…
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mit Flug - Konferenz
5, Nov, 2011Sometimes, it’s just easy…
Recorded in a 2-hour session, one evening, then mixed the following morning.
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Daniel Vincent - Relate
29, Oct, 2011On the subject of that solo venture…
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