Tag Archive | Songs from Society’s Underbelly

About Songs from Society’s Underbelly

This past Thursday the 24th, I released my first full length studio album titled Songs from Society’s Underbelly. Songs from Society’s Underbelly covers several genres including, Bluegrass, Hip Hop, Folk, and Eastern Indian Classical music. It was recorded and mixed at The Pad home studio using Ableton Live, and it was mastered in Logic. It […]

Tu B.I.G.

Today’s update is brought to you by José Myerchin, Producer and Engineer. He is kind enough to write about his experience producing Tu B.I.G., a funky hip-hop ballad about two tragic and unsolved murders. ~The toughest thing about producing for someone else who comes to you with a project is keeping in mind their vision, […]

Annabel…

… is the leading track on Songs from Society’s Underbelly. It is instrumentally simple, featuring only a doubled guitar part and a lead vocal. This song is interesting because of the breakdown, and the long delays and reverbs that fill out the simple rhythm. The vocals are first being sent through a short reverb followed […]

The Motions

This song is unique on the album because it features the Sitar and Tambura. Creating an ambient bed with space for a heavily syncopated bass line was the largest challenge of this song. Affecting return tracks is one way to easily maintain balanced levels when it comes to ambiance. Thanks everyone for reading, any feed […]

The poetic side story…

Tonight I have finished a rough copy of the short poetry book that will be included with all physical copies of #SFSU. Each of the 9 poems relate to each other linearly, and tell a day-in-the-life story of a tortured man. I’ve never attempted a writing this complex before. The hardest thing about the writing […]

It’s Time

For the past two days I have been tracking and mixing a song called It’s Time. This is an older song (that I never play out in public) written as a present for my ex-girl friend. Here is what it looks like in Ableton’s session view: Each vocal take brought me a step closer to […]

WHaaaaaaaaaT?

To follow up the release of my EP, I am planning a full length album release by the end of February titled Songs from Society’s Underbelly. The songs that make up the album were all written during the previous phase of my life which was full of drug abuse, low self esteem, and lower expectations.  […]