SummerInTheLofi

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#1

SummerInTheLofi (replaced PureLofi with Augmented Mallets)
Lousy weather in north eastern America
A little hope. I haven’t touched my sax for six months. Gotta practice.

Bass: Jup-8000, Euro Contretemps
Vibe: Augmented Mallets, Dreamy Vibraphone
Drums: DrumBrute
Sax: Yamaha tenor YTS-62
Eq-Sitral, Delay infinity, Lx-rev, BusPeak

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#2

Hey @francoise
Now THAT is an interesting take on a classic standard! :sunglasses:
Pleasantly surprised actually, i still love Miles’ version though… :wink:

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#3

francoise,
Thank you for the song review! OK, I guess you’re located in North Eastern USA. Your song is pleasant. My favorite part of your song is your (apparently real) nice sax playing. I briefly played in a rock band where a sax player showed up to play sax on an INXS song, which was cool. But he only knew one of our songs. And then the rock band fizzled out after 3 practices, which is not unusual in Southern California. That’s why I am primarily a one man band home studio project.

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#4

The four recordings by Miles with Gil Evans (conductor) are classics, Summertime is from Porgy and Bess. I like the fourth one, less known, Quiet Nights, a bossa album with an uneasiness feeling, remote from muzak bossa…

I’m alone in my salon (my saloon) with synths, guitar and a sax not played for many mouths. I tried to use new Arturia instruments (Jup, Augmented Mallets). It’s not easy to record a sax in my living room. It’s not a studio.

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#5

Thank you, Aaron,

I used to play sax (alto, tenor) a lot more. It’s real and not satisfying.
I played guitar in amateur jazz quartet and it fizzled out after four years. I’m now playing alone with my VSTs. For jazz, I use Addictive Drums, Amplesound Upright and Pianoteq. I wanted to involve new Arturia instruments.

I guess if you’re from California, you don’t don’t know how lousy this spring has been for us, lucky you!

On the sound “review”, I just felt it reminded me of the punk ear (probably quite wrong) and it it reminded me of this recent opinion in the NYT on the need fot a punk attitude.

#6

Yes, i have Their Columbia Recording of Porgy & Bess and it is SUPERB!
I actually prefer it as an instrumental.

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