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Moments of Bliss4/5/2020
Moments of bliss is a “relaxing, ambient, coming of age soundtrack” with inspiration from Film Composer “Harry Gregson-Williams” and contemporary pianist “Roy Todd”.
The concept of the EP is the realisation of nature’s intricate design and how it sometimes may be beyond comprehension. Looking at detail on the blueprints then taking a step back and observing the universe work in balance as an art of fractality at times can create euphoric “Moments of bliss”. Examples would be the first track “bioluminescence” relating to the emission of light from living organisms such as vertebrates, invertebrates, firefly’s and mushrooms. Another being phenomena such as Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio & Phi showing up in the process of phyllotaxis, spirals seen in clouds, tidal waves and many more on and beyond planet Earth in the cosmos. Recording and mixing: When making the songs without accompaniment (“Solar Plexus”, “Here and Now” and “Luna Tonight”) I recorded straight from my electric piano and routed a send to a plate reverb, which that return got sent into another plate reverb. I find that this layering effect works well on acoustic guitars and distorted bass and may potentially sound unique with experimentation on other melodic instruments as it creates an ethereal like subtle drone or pad which adds an ambient texture. I’d say it’s similar to that used on post-rock guitar tones and similar sounding to the effect that Strymon Big Sky & Blue Sky pedals have. Track 1 - “Bioluminescence” was recorded on an older, slightly out of tune upright Danemann piano at school before lockdown and mixed at home in Logic Pro X. In recording I used 2 condenser Rode NT2A microphones for the dry tracks and 2 dynamic Rode Podcasters for the wet tracks, both used as stereo pairs. Despite it being out of tune I really liked to the Danemann because of its resonance and warmth which I enhanced in mixing using the same technique but this time having 2 reverbs in series (both with 0% dry signal) parallel with the channel strip processing. Once I was happy with a really wet signal, I blended between the stereo dry and wet channels. Track 4 – “Luna Tonight” was all recorded at home only using 1 input source being my piano. The ethereal intro effect used throughout the song was made by creating a really wet piano track using reverb with no dry signal, converting its tempo (slowing it down) then speeding it back up again using the “Time and pitch machine” and then reversing the audio region. Link for anyone interested: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/abrahambamgbose/moments-of-bliss Abraham Bamgose, Year 13
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