donderdag 9 augustus 2012

Ok, finally finished recording...now buy a christmas tree.

It's difficult for me to stop....but I have to. I'm ready to put these babies of mine out in the open. These past few weeks I've put the final touches on the tracks, listening to the little details over and over again. It was driving me crazy! It took a year, but it was worth it as I demanded it of myself.

So- when- will- the- album- come out?
I've found a new online distribution label: RouteNote. A few months back I tested it on two older albums (Giftshot [2005] and Volumed 10 [2007]) and it worked out fine. The album wil be on Spotify (stream!) and iTunes and other online shops in about two or three weeks. I hope so....
In the meantime I will put out a promovideo on Youtube. In total I've got four songs with each an different accompanying video. I still have to sort them out, so first things first.
And of course, if you´re patient, it will be available on the free online platforums like Jamendo and Bandcamp and finally on this blog. No, you dont have to wait that long. You will be able to sing these songs under the christmas tree. Cozy...

zondag 17 juni 2012

Albumtitle 2012: Art Decoy The Bluebeard Boy

Art?
Strange title?
      I like the arty farty sound of it....
Decoy?
Finally, here are the front/ back and innersleeves of the new collection of songs. Still trying to figure out some minor details though (mixing and a little smoothing up my vocals). In the near future I'll tell all the background stories behind them.
If you want to summarize it all: tears and joy, I guess, just like many of us, we go through different moods, from one to the other extreme. I'm just so glad I can express that all through my fingertips. Glad with all the feedback I have received on the music I've spread on all those helpful platforms.
Excited?
Bluebeard?
Boy?
Like a kid I am anyway....I'll spread the stuff in a few months (ha ha) or earlier. Distribution will follow (free platforms, spotify, iTunes, etc and of course along this blog). Tell it to your friends or enemies on facebook! Feedback is always welcome.
Next up: the process

maandag 23 april 2012

Songlist for the 2012 colllection

Hey all you good folks up there, hope you all have a laugh once in a while, a tear is not that far away.
heey, what does that string do here...
Once in a while I'm having one too- even with a total stranger- to keep my restless feet on the ground. But it's the music that 's giving me energy, blowing all the bullshit away.
Now, where were we?
Still trying to finish some songs lyricly, technically. Still trying to give the best that I have. Well that´s not that easy to do as to say. Hey Joost, just don´t dissapear again...

So here's what i have for you: the songlist for 2012:



So what will this new album be about? A different Orson Nietes?
Well the jokes are still there..

But please don´t compare me with the great Frank Zappa, that´s a different league. But still a big inspiration! Gone too soon. Another hero of mine, Levon Helm, just passed away. What an intense and sincere drummer and singer he was. Coincidentally I´ve been reading his wonderful humoreus biography, This Wheel´s On Fire, a must read.



So study those titles carefully and imagine the music behind them, Big exam up next blog.











woensdag 11 april 2012

The constant Spotify gardener...

JoosTVD's Fun Pop 'n Roll

In between sessions I like to be a "nature" boy.
The songs are really progressing now. I've got 20 new "Fun Pop'n Roll songs coming up, chosen from about 40. Still got a lot to do lyricly and technically, until I'm really satisfied. Until then... keep listening (spotify for example)!
I can't wait...in the meantime let's fun(k) up the summer!

zondag 22 januari 2012

Copy me..update

Heey, long time, not spoken. Well I'm still hanging on, creating some new stuff, I think it's very promising.
Ok, now let's do the 2012 shuffle: it's a very difficult time for people with or without money. It's a difficult time for people to be free to share some creative things or the truth. look at Wikileaks and now Megaupload. Innovations that won't be used to share, because of the copyrights that won't be protected. Well if I want to share my thoughts (= copyright on that) who do I call for permission?
Use the innovation, don't be scared...

By the way...I have updated all the albums in the grabbelton...no, no, there ain't a megauploadlink.

woensdag 23 november 2011

Wow, that Protool thing sure tickles me!

Yeaah, i love working on new songs, bits of them developing ito a bigger whole.
Energy: I hit the piano, strum a guitar, try to sing some nonsense, maybe something will stick!
And it does. The means to make it work are unmistakable: my new hardware (a self-assembled i7 Hexacore PC) and that powerful Protools interface.
I am a kid in a sound-drugstore!

maandag 24 oktober 2011

Roman emperor's new link

Just flew back from old Rome, sort of a late holiday. Great to walk through, lots of impressions of the old and the new. In the meantime, I forgot to write about  it- I brought pen and paper with me- but what the heck. Listened a lot to the new songs I've been working on, fellt like an emperor.....

Watch those guys...meanwhile listen to a few of my albums, still available, on the right- jukeboxes, grabbelton..yes the expanded version of Orson N.