This is one of two albums I made during the lockdown. It’s available on all the major streaming services.
Digital Blues by Blue Grey. The second one is out on Friday 19th November.
https://linktr.ee/bluegreymusic
I’ve done one!
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Well, that worked well didn’t it?
Bloody good stuff, @leffe-gin . Seriously. All I’ve done in lockdown is put on a stone and nearly had a nervous breakdown, which isn’t nearly as good to listen to (dept of faint praise)
Thanks!
I’d love to listen but I don’t do streaming.
Understandable, but, for someone with absolutely no fans, that nobody has ever heard of, physical media might be a bit of a stretch.
It’s on Soundcloud, which is a less evil form of streaming (I think?)…
https://soundcloud.com/bluegreymusic/sets/digital-blues?si=a132d4c43db04fecbbbfc00ef9d5334a
It is.
How about Bandcamp? It offers the choice of downloads (mp3, flac, wav or even hi-res). You can even sell “merch” (e.g. CDRs)
Yeah that’s a good thought. Haven’t looked at it yet, but I will.
How do you define it? Not that you have to. I had it down as Desert blues via The Blitz Kids.
P.S. I like it!
I really don’t know. I started working on it, and this is what came out. I suppose the title ‘Digital Blues’ is an attempt at some definition. In the past I’ve always tried to conform to some idea of a style, but this time, nope. Just went for it.
I suppose there are some diverse influences at work. My favourite music is soul/r&b plus Delta Blues and 50s Jazz. However it seems that other things were at play here:
SETI – the music was actually generated using AI techniques in Python. Then I just did some sound design. Maybe Eno is an influence here?
The Crawl – I did this after I heard Alan Hawkshaw had died. Weirdly it uses samples of one of the other tracks (Lateral Meridian) although you can’t really tell.
Cactus Juice – I did this after I heard Dusty Hill had died. I was trying to think of the feel of Eliminator but kept getting drawn back to Tejas, their most underrated album. There’s a Ry Cooder vibe of course, and the guitar is kind of based on Nobody’s Fault But Mine by Blind Willie McTell.
Always Moving Forwards – I listened to the Techno channel on Apple Music for about 4 hours, then distilled it into this.
Lateral Meridian – fairly obviously, Tangerine Dream’s Hyperborea album.
Intergalactic Supercrusher – no idea, just messing around.
Brinjal – another one partially AI-generated. The tabla part is an AI that improvises like a tabla player would. There is an influence here of the King Crimson ProjeKcts, especially a track called Hindu Fizz that comes up in some of their improvs.
Sweet Levee Moan – you would think that this is based on Moby, but actually it’s a revived idea from a demo I did more than 25 years ago, but done much faster. The samples come from the Blues in the Mississippi Night album.
Air Burst in Sector 27 – influenced by Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
Dovedale Plantation – Eno + Ry Cooder + Carlos Santana’s devotional stuff.
Blue Stone – much of the above, but a touch of Pink Floyd here.