LP + Prophet 08, well a whole EP this time

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:48 am

It's called "Broken Sails (Life in a Sinking Ship)" and the whole zip with complete CD artwork is here : http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wdi1rjy2jnb

Thematically, "Broken Sails" is about XIXth sea travel... not really a concept album, but it's subtitled "Life in a sinking ship" because that's pretty much what the songs are all about... a dark, intense trip to India, set on a broken ship...

It was essentially done with the Prophet 08 for the pads, and the Moog, well, whenever you hear bass and leads, that's the Moog Little Phatty...
(The strings on "The Fortune Song" are Gforce Virtual String Machine and there's some Roland Alpha Juno-1 as well on the instrumental parts for this track. The opening chords on "Empty the Boat" are Korg Wavestation.)

Give me feedback if you liked it!

fidooda · Post by **fidooda** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:10 pm

i like your material. sounds really good, i like your voice too

i don't know why, you music makes me think a little about a fellow Montréalais...Leonard Cohen.

thanks for sharing!

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:32 pm

Ha, thank you, I'm a big big Cohen fan, especially the Various positions album

HB3 · Post by **HB3** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:51 pm

I've tried downloading a couple times from this site, and can't get it to work....

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:02 pm

That's odd, I just tried, and it worked
Probably a temporary bug

Airlock · Post by **Airlock** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:53 pm

Wow, good stuff, you just made my ipod!

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:30 am

Excellent, thank you!

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:36 am

Very nice work!

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:18 am

I really liked the theme in the content and the artwork. Very nice conception/production.

Are you a leonard cohen fan?

Great stuff!

Eric

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:22 am

Thanks guys
Indeed I am a long time Cohen fan... actually I use a lot of synthesizers but my roots are really classical... Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Beatles, Kinks, and then Peter Gabriel, Bowie, etc...
I had a big drum and bass/electronica obsession in the late 90's, early 00's, but synth-wise, I prefer old timey cheezy 70's stuff
Last record I've bought is Dylan's "Tell tale signs" outtakes album
That's how in touch I am with current trends

djghostdogg · Post by **djghostdogg** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:28 pm

really good. what did you use for the drums on those songs? it is subtle but i like it.

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:48 pm

Thanks
Drums Overkill
http://www.inspirationsounds.co.uk/acat ... rkill.html
It's a huge Kontakt-powered database, with numerous old drum machines, but also good realistic samples and built-in effects
On this EP, I'm purposedly using very simple, 70's-like drum beats, with little variation

djghostdogg · Post by **djghostdogg** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:32 pm

I'm purposedly using very simple, 70's-like drum beats, with little variation

yeah.. it works well.

Khoral · Post by **Khoral** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:17 pm

Thanks a lot
Name rings a bell, but I don't think I've heard their music, I'll check that