After a teaser last Christmas, we launched Raw Sessions, a new series of videos by us. The idea? To go back to the basics.
We've been noticing that lots of people, including ourselves, are harking back to older music content, or are nostalgic of days of old, where music, in it's imperfection, has FEEL and SOUL.
After searching through the reasons, we find this very simple reason: humans are not perfect. The music that we make, particularly live ones, are not perfect. There are little imperfections littered all over the track. That what makes old music sound soulful and musical - there is a human element to it.
Lots of covers on youtube, particularly acoustic ones, seek to regain this element via STRIPPING IT all DOWN. We instead seek to bring it to the next level...
Which is to strip all the inhuman elements altogether. We go backwards in time - we use modern equipment to record how we did it in the 70's and early 80's - no tempo correction, no pitch correction. Just take as many good takes as possible, then composite the best of all the takes into one clip, and that's your final output. In simple terms - do it RAW; do it LIVE.
And that is how we should appreciate music. It is the best way to appreciate music.
Sure, you get mistakes; missed notes, incorrect pitches, inconsistent tempos, glitches - but that is part of the experience. We sure are not perfect, but we will grow. We rely less on software tools to cover our imperfections, but rather improve via good old practice.
Back to basics - as the way to move forward. =)
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Updates:
This series is just a glimspe of the plans we have this year. After two years of gltiches and failed projects - we finally have settled the majority of our problems (skills and lack of proper equipment for one). And we will be moving forward.
Some of the projects that were delayed in the pipeline is in the process of being revived. We also have new projects currently in it's preproduction or planning stage. We actually are in the midst of shooting a cover and there will be a video late next week - but something out of the ordinary - we've been helping out in the floods that struck the eastcoast of Malaysia late last year, in collaboration with our friends at the car club Ace Of Spade.
We are currently working of a way around some issues in order to be able to release behind the scenes, to show you all the madness behind the scenes. That will take a while though...
All this to a eventful, and hopeful 2015. Glad you're with us!
