I Remember You - Progress Update

I have been working on this track this evening and laid down the drums, which sound quite powerful, which is unusual for me as I prefer a very subdued rhythm section! The bass synth has been recorded and that really does sound good with the drums.

If I get chance tomorrow I will record the main synth bits and start adding effects etc. I have a feeling that this is going to be a very good track with Gary Numan's influence all over it. With this track I now have 3 songs all influenced by early Gary Numan stuff. The other tracks are "Rewind To Zero" which is influenced by the opening track "Airlane" on Gary's album "The Pleasure Principle" and "I Once Was A Machine" which is inspired by the "Replicas" album. Both of these tracks have been very popular on a variety of Podcasts and well received on the Myspace community. The new track has a "Telekon" feel to it with a hint of his more up to date stuff ..... interesting!

You can listen to "Rewind To Zero" Via This Link

You can listen to "I Once Was A Machine" Via This Link

I suppose this could lead to a full album in the near future!

Gary

All things Numan!

Since last night I have made excellent progress with my Gary Numan influenced track. The song is called "I Remember You" and will be a vocal based track. I would describe it as a Numan ballad with a nice string arrangement melody. I need to do more rhythm as so far I have only layed down the bass & Snare drums. Most of the keyboard & synth parts are done. I have changed the arrangement of the song as we speak. For those interested these are the lyrics I have done for the song:

I remember you
with your painted eyes
with thoughts as cold as ice
you turned and walked away

Do you remember me?
with the cold grey smile
if i could see you now
we could forget the lies

I remember you
such a bright young thing
you let your dreams grow old
you could just fade away

Do you remember me?
with the cold grey smile
if i could see you now
we could forget the lies

I think the lyrics so far are also very Gary Numan.

Last night I finished recording the final bits of "A Moment With You" for the "Where Do We Go From Here?" album. The Gary Numan track is a side project to this album so tracks for that will hopefully get recorded inbetween recording songs for "Where Do We Go From Here?".

Gary

Instruments I Am Using

The instruments used so far on the 2 tracks I am currently working on include:

Roland Juno-D
Korg M1
Korg Wavestation
ReFX Vanguard VSTi
Absynth 3 VSTi

Gary

Work started on new album .... at last!

After spending 7 months recording numerous Kraftwerk tracks I have now begun work on my album "Where Do We Go From Here?". I have had various tracks posted on websites of demo's in different forms. Initially I was going to record a soundtrack type album as the original demo's were heading in that direction, however, I have been trying different ideas and the main album has taken more of an "Electronic Chillout" direction. I may well still do a soundtrack version but that will be put on hold until the main CD is complete. I am also do an analog edition of the album which will have totally different versions of the tracks recorded using analog synths. So far I have 5 songs recorded using the analog synths, they are, "Where Do We Go From Here?", "Quiet Splendour", "A Moment With You", "The Long Goodbye" and "Distant Glimmer".

For now I am going to concentrate on the main album which is now moving forward, albeit, quite slowly as I wanted to settle on a style before recording the songs. "Quite Splendour" has been recorded and is quite an upbeat track, nothing like the original ambient demo I recorded. Delighted with that track. I am currently working on "A Moment With You" which is getting there, this has an "Enigma" style rhythm running through the song. Both tracks have plenty of pad sounds, choir sounds and the odd sequencer part in them.

At some point I will be uploading the 2 songs, probably in the next week or so on the various web sites I have.

You can listen to the early demo's and the analog versions of tracks completed across the web pages I have. Below are the links:

www.myspace.com/garyhuntermusic

www.icompositions.com/artists/garyhunter

www.soundclick.com/garyhunter

I intend to do regular updates on this blog so you can see how things progress with my recordings so keep checking back often.

Finally to end on a music note I am currently learning Gary Numan's track "When The Machines Rock" which I hope to do a recording of and am also working on another "Numan" style track of my own, which incidently, I am going to work on tonight!

Gary