Part 2.

An Instrumental.

 

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To quote the wikipedia:

A juggernaut is a term used to describe a force regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.

The word is derived from the Sanskrit Jagannātha (meaning “Lord of the universe”) which is one of the many names of Krishna from the ancient Vedic scriptures of India.

Obviously (at least to those who’ve listened to some of my previous works like the classic unicorn) I’m not using it in the religious sense. I’m more using it for the meaning it has obtained in the English version.

The song itself is drawing on musical influences from Hindu music, or at least my widely limited musical experiences of such music. It is an instrumental, mainly because when I grow up I want to be Joe Satriani (or at least play on the G3 tour). Plus the song is weird enough without me adding any lyrics….

 

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So, I have a new guitar, an Ibanez RG-1570. One of their Prestige guitars, made in Japan, totally designed to shred…. but also able to pull some nice slow bluesy licks.

This song was recorded with that guitar. Hence, it is a guitar driven instrumental, and hence I tried out various sounds and styles….

Not much more to say than that.

 

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So…. I recorded a song for this week, but Garageband decided to crash instead of saving my work…. which led to my blue Jackson Kelly being rendered unusable.

Instead of rerecording that song, I decided to write an instrumental to purge some of the bad emotions…. and this is that song. It has a nice bluesy feel - probably from the combo of the A pentatonic blues scale, a cheap strat knockoff thru a class A amp (although its only a model) and the cheesy organ…. Of course, it wouldn’t be a song of mine if it didn’t have some weird noises, heavy riffs and over-the-top shred (which even includes some of that two handed tapping)

The title refers to the broken guitar, but is also a tip of the hat to Merlin Mann (aka hotdogsladies) and the You Look Nice Today podcast. Of course…. if those guys hear this and mention me…. My cunning plan will have worked….

 

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Another instrumental…. with the emphasis on the mental. I decided to have a play with lots of synths, a sample, my guitar and the Hungarian Gypsy scale. This was the result.

I like it…. but it’d be great if you could leave a comment and tell me how y’all feel about it.

 

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12 bar instrumental blues + my insanity = this song.

That is all.

 

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This is what happens when you take me and lock me away from my guitars. I get crazy ideas to use nothing but the sounds generated by my macbook to make “music”. I’d call it instrumental, but there are no instruments.

It ended up in a place that could be described as industrial…. or maybe as just completely batfuck crazy chaos. Which is just how I like it.

 

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Yes…. This song is being posted slightly late.

Yes…. This song is another instrumental.

I wrote the song after watching the episode of the Training of O staring Devi Lynne. The show is meant to be 4 days of bdsm training, but Devi washed out on Day 2. The fact that she felt like she failed at something she considered to be of primary importance really resonated.

As always…. questions, comments and the like to my email.

 

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This is a post-modern meta-fable. It is a tale that has been told at many times and in many ways. At least I’ve told it many times and in many ways.

It is timeless because the meaning can be applied to any era, it is wordless because my legal team recommended that it should be.

If you want to know more, off the record where the laws of libel and slander can’t be applied, email me.

And…. beware of the Brittle Clincher.

 

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Matthew 7:26-27 (ESV) - “And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

 

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