Exclusive Goodness
I know I know. I have been really lax on my posting lately. I recommend using an RSS reader such as Bloglines, then you wont have to keep checking, yet you'll know when we post. I am here to redeem myself.
I just received a copy of some songs my friend Warren has been working on. Jacob who is recording the songs for Warren tells me they are a rough mix. The first song, Lie took over a month to record, though this was working in scattered evenings. Parts of the song have 30 different layers, to tickle your ears with. Though impressive the greatness of these songs do not lie in the layer count.
Warren has a voice like no other. Well more actually he has voices like no other, as he is singing all the various parts on each song. This is most impressive on the song Angst. I have a feeling it might be a love or hate type voice, because it is so unique, but I firmly fall on the love side!
I think you just need to listen to these songs now. Warren is currently looking for a label to release this and a variety of other songs, email me and I'll pass on his contact information.
Lie
Angst
I just received a copy of some songs my friend Warren has been working on. Jacob who is recording the songs for Warren tells me they are a rough mix. The first song, Lie took over a month to record, though this was working in scattered evenings. Parts of the song have 30 different layers, to tickle your ears with. Though impressive the greatness of these songs do not lie in the layer count.
Warren has a voice like no other. Well more actually he has voices like no other, as he is singing all the various parts on each song. This is most impressive on the song Angst. I have a feeling it might be a love or hate type voice, because it is so unique, but I firmly fall on the love side!
I think you just need to listen to these songs now. Warren is currently looking for a label to release this and a variety of other songs, email me and I'll pass on his contact information.
Lie
Angst
posted by Jay at 9:55 PM
3 Comments:
I'm really enjoying Lie (count me on the "like" side, as far as his voice is concerned). Thanks for this, I hope to hear more of his material in the future...
Hey Jay,
Thanks for posting this. I think this stuff really needs to be heard, and without (yet) a plan for release, it may be a bit of a wait before it will be available.
I thought I would give a bit more info on the man himself...
I met Warren G. Funk (yep, that's his real name!) in Nelson B.C., while studying music at Selkirk College. He had moved from Winnipeg, and this was demonstrated by an honest and down-home demeanor. We clicked immediately, and before long, he was playing bass with my wife and I. He'd been penning tunes off and on since high school, releasing cassettes with hand drawn covers, recorded on borrowed cassete 4-track recorders under his own name, and under the pseudonym Jake Scruggs.
After school was done, he moved back to the Okanagan with us, and we continued playing in a group together for about six months, but the pursuit of love drew him back to Nelson for a while, and the group was dissolved.
This spring, Warren came to live in Vancouver again, and it was during this time that he showed me some of his rough ideas that he had recorded in his bedroom. We decided that they should be re-recorded with more fully realized arrangements, and set to work on them, picking away here and there over the course of about 2 1/2 months. We managed to get four songs recorded before he went back to the Kootenays, again in pursuit of love.
He plans to release it somehow, but does not know when. There will be more songs when it's finally released under this project's proper name, The Dirty Beat.
I emplore anyone wishing to encourage this promising songwriter to send him an email at warrenfunk@hotmail.com
He doesn't even know I've given these songs to anybody, so it'll trip him right out...
Jacob,
Like! More people should post unreleased stuff by their friends, especially when it's this good. MP3 blogs are best for discovering cool obscurities.
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