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Anybody- I still need help on this one. Does Sound Leveling Permanently Alter the Digital music file.
I have had many of my Wave rips analyzed for sound leveling via the Media Source platform provided in the Soundblaster Audigy 2s soundcard. I no longer use this platform, having switched to Media Monkey, with a Dacmagic DAC. Is the sound leveling in the Media Source program a problem? Does sound leveling permanently change the digital file or does it merely alter it for playback on a specific playback platform?
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January 3, 2009
Music Review: <i>Everything That Happens Will Happen Today</i> - David Bryne & Brian Eno
The fab team of David Byrne and Brian Eno team up for the first time after 1981’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Byrne does the rich lyrics and vocals, while Eno produced the music. Although each has a stellar reputation in their own right, the duo were behind many of the excellent Talking Heads records in the 1970s, and seem to have lost little of their verve in the intervening years.
The opening track, “Home”, gives a multi-dimensional perspective to the common term, looking at it from a distance, remembering, yet appreciating - even the negative stuff
Home- where the wheels are turning
Home- why I keep returning
Home- where my world is breaking in two
Home- with the neighbors fighting
Home- always so exciting
Home- were my parents telling the truth?
Home- such a funny feeling
Home- no-one ever speaking
Home- with our bodies touching
Home- and the cam’ras watching
Home- will infect whatever you do
The vocals are rather unemotional, as one might expect from David Byrne. This is not to say the song is unemotional or shallow. Rather, the singer lets the lyrics and orchestration create the illusion of home, without layering it with the sentimentality a lesser singer might impart.
“My Big Nurse” seems a geriatric ode to life and to the things that protect and care. The song is deathly slow, creating a languid afternoon mood. The quest is for “all the possibilities/For dancing on this lazy afternoon”. This is something one might do, interestingly enough, “When he shakes the stars above/When we lose the ones we love/When the seasons lose their grip/When the tightrope walker slips”. The security one needs for this kind of carefree, Sufi-ish dancing is derived from being “In the comfort of the world/In the arms of my big nurse.” This is perhaps a song best appreciated in the evening, or even, afternoon, of one’s mortality.
There’s a whole lotta stuff going on in “I Feel My Stuff”. This is as much a vehicle for Eno’s masterful orchestration as for Byrne’s out-there imagery, combining Lebanese Sailors with Christian crimes and fast-paced fretwork with staccato electronica notes. Let the song wash over you, give into a ‘fatafat generation’ vibe and “stuff it, step it, pick it, going bye”.
The title track “Everything That Happens” might be just a build-up to the chorus. Then again, it seems to evoke a post-9/11 vibe, from the very beginning, with the ‘neighbor’s car explode’ on a ‘perfect highway’. There is hope, asking, “Oh my brother, I still wonder, are you alright?/And among the living, we are giving, all through the night”. The signature lyrics are perfectly apt for our times, “Everything that happens will happen today/& nothing has changed, but nothing’s the same/and ev’ry tomorrow could be yesterday/& ev’rything that happens will happen today”.
January 2, 2009
January 1, 2009
Porcupine Tree Deadwing Rock Music CD Review
Deadwing is the up-to-the-minute Rock cadmium set out by the extremely grouping Porcupine Tree and they have got once again delivered a superb aggregation of tracks. I’m confident Porcupine Tree fans, and Rock fans alike will be pleased with this one.
Unfortunately, it’s not mundane that I acquire a cadmium for reappraisal that I can just protrude in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t coerce myself to acquire through. Not at all the lawsuit with Deadwing. Every path is gratifying and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.
One of the refreshingly nice things about this cadmium is the manner all of the participating people look to be really enjoying themselves. Compound that with the overall presentation and you’ve got one of Porcupine Tree most impressive releases ever.
Overall Deadwing is an outstanding release. What I name must have got music. I give it two pollexes up and is most definitely a worthy improver to any Rock collection. Truly an outstanding Rock CD. One of those that is completely invalidate of any wasted time, arsenic each path is simply superb.
While this full cadmium is really very good the truly standout melodies are path 5 - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, path 8 - The Start Of Something Beautiful, and path 9 - Glass Arm Shattering.
My Bonus Pick, and the 1 that got Sensitive […as in “Stuck On REpeat”] is path 6 - Mellotron Sctatch. This is a great track!
Deadwing Release Notes:
Porcupine Tree originally released Deadwing on April 26, 2005 on the Lava Records label.
CD Path List Follows:
1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. The Start Of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arm Shattering
10. Shesmovedon - (Bonus Hidden Track)
Porcupine Tree: Steven Harriet Wilson (vocals, guitar, hammer dulcimer, piano, keyboards, bass instrument); Richard Barbieri (keyboards, synthesizer); Colin Edwin (bass guitar); Gavin Rex Harrison (drums, percussion).
December 31, 2008
Fan financing strikes another victory
Filed under: News, New Artists
Sellaband, a unique crowd sourcing site which allows emerging independent artists to take seed money from fans until they amass enough capital to record a full professional studio album, has announced its second fan funded breakthrough.
Less than four months ago Jacob Kongaika, performing under the artist name Cubworld, decided to take a chance and upload his music on SellaBand. “I saw this as a long term plan, I was thinking more in the lines of 5 or 10 years, before I would have reached my recording budget”, comments the artist. But soon after the first fans (Sellaband terms them, “Believers”) bought Parts in his future recordings, things took a different turn for Cubworld. He became one of the leading artists on SellaBand and a mere 150 days after signing up, he had acquired the full $50,000. “The last 24 hours have been really mad”, comments SellaBand Managing Director Johan Vosmeijer. “There were still 1,000 Parts left for Cubworld, which is a healthy $10,000, but they sold in less than 24 hours.”
Check out music from Cubworld, and congratulations to Jacob!
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Musical IPO’s? Sellaband offers fan financing a new twist
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