Archive for January, 2012

02 ‘Lump Sum’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  • vox harmonies intro
  • ac gtr, and kik come in, quite fast
  • pause, filled with pigeon cooing loop texture
  • restart with vox falsetto harmonising
  • bvs in the chorus, heavy verb
  • snr/hats join (snr rolling like a train, hats accent in place of the snr on the 2 and 4)
  • end: drops out except ac gtr and snr

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. pause, filled with pigeon cooing loop texture
  2. snr/hats join (snr rolling like a train, hats accent in place of the snr on the 2 and 4)

01 ‘Flume’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  • fret hand muted strum intro
  • ac gtr, harmonised falsetto vox
  • fret buzz, single note ac gtr melody
  • chiming ac gtr melody harmonic (lightly touching but not fretting)
    low volume acoustics as high volume surface detail
  • middle: verbed, ambient chord, acoustic gtr knocking
  • verbed, keys or vox harmonies as background

KEY IDEAS to plunder

low volume acoustics as high volume surface detail

  1. fret buzz, single note ac gtr melody
  2. chiming ac gtr melody harmonic (lightly touching but not fretting)

For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  • solo album, singer songwriter acoustic gtr
  • lonely, desolate, breakup album
  • self made, multi-tracked, multi- part harmonies

01 ‘Flume’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  1. fret buzz, single note ac gtr melody
  2. chiming ac gtr melody harmonic (lightly touching but not fretting)

02 ‘Lump Sum’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  1. pause, filled with pigeon cooing loop texture
  2. snr/hats join (snr rolling like a train, hats accent in place of the snr on the 2 and 4)

03 ‘Skinny Love’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  1. double every part
  2. vox – switching from falsetto and full voice
  1. single gtr strums, on chord changes, on beat for chorus
  2. ‘what might have been lost’
    ‘don’t bother me’
    complex overlap of 2 lines of melody/vox

05 ‘Blindsided’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  1. loops of backwards notes and plinky gtr: start and end
  2. middle: ‘would you really rush out’
    strum/beat stops
    call & response: ‘for me now’

06 ‘Creature Fear’ – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  1. begin with vox harmonies, wordless, verbed
  2. ends suddenly – sort of – remainder is labelled a new track
    next track continues performances, and harmonic content
  1. snr doubled loosely; phasing? delayed to drift in and out of time?
  2. whistling, doubled
  1. horns and monophonic elc gtr lines etc. providing chordal harmony
  2. bvs – falsetto/full voice double, hard panned. response; ‘running on, running on’
  1. structure: chord holds between vox lines in the verse, builds expectation
    ‘This my excavation and to – [hold] day is Kumran’
    ‘I keep throwing it down two [hold] hundred at a time’
  2. structure: verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, verse 3
    stops just as expected 3rd chorus should come

For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) – Bon Iver

  • solo album, singer songwriter acoustic gtr
  • lonely, desolate, breakup album
  • self made, multi-tracked, multi- part harmonies

12 ‘Side of the Road’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck

  • ac gtrs – two parts, hard panned, doubling and then deviating
  • bass, minimal drums (kik, floor tom, toms)
  • elc keys (rhodes) – reminds me of dan lanois’ sling blade soundtrack
  • synth – ends on synth shimmer

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. ac gtrs – two parts, hard panned, doubling and then deviating
  2. elc keys (rhodes) – reminds me of dan lanois’ sling blade soundtrack
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