Wow Trackie! I really like that! The music part could be more varied (a cross bassline or some contrary drums, or something - neither of which is the technical term), but I do like it. How weird, I never like anything, and suddenly this week I've heard all this good music.
They do sound Mac-ish.
I saw KT Tunstall (Cancer) on T.V., too.
I had heard a couple of her songs all over the radio all the time, and liked them fairly well, but had never seen her perform. She must be old hat to you (Trackie), she being Scottish and having so many England gigs and all -
The thing that was really rad was that...She...recorded parts right as she was onstage. She did a rhythm thing (she tapped her foot on the ground to make rhythm!), then a vocal harmony thing...I thought she was just starting her song - but then those elements were subsequently
in the song as she continued the performance alone onstage.
I tguess the recorder was at her foot. I didn't know what she was doing at first, but then I started noticing that what she was just singing as she messed with something by her foot was now a backing track - she was the only one onstage. (Brill, right?
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She made all the noises herself. I really like that. Because, you know, it's just how you do at home, only with less talent.
She didn't just have a harmony, there was a harmony/percussion that she did with her foot. And by that I mean that the harmony vocal she was singing
also turned out to be part of the percussion/rhythm as the song progressed!
I was more impressed with her weird skills than her song, but I liked the song anyways, and I'm disproportionately impressed with the weird skills because that is actually evocative of what I do all the time at home (less well, der) - and I can't believe that this particular brand of my dorky self expression
could actually work in some context. Ie, I was paying more attention to that.
And subsequently, I can't believe she was also a Cancer.
It makes super sense, but I've not really seen it manifested so well, except for Debbie Harry (musically). And maybe Beck. It's the skill of blending all things you ever thought of or heard, to pleasing effect, with all the musical knowledge/style/instruments/sounds you have ever gleaned.
It's the first validation I've ever seen of the totally pointless "practicing" or "my favorite useless thing to do" that I love to do. And you all know how awesome that is.
Suddenly, my favorite useless thing was put to use.
And if that means you have to play/sing all the instruments/parts yourself, so be it!
I feel like singing backup for her, I'll sing the guitar part, and later I will sing the drum part - I can tap my feet, and maybe even play cowbell!
We will record that rhythm, then I'm freed up to sing harmonies
during the actual performance! We'll practice and just make all kinds of weird noises for songs! It will be very pretty and strange.
In short, she was her own percussionist and harmonist. Playing guitar. And she did that live. Without others.
Predictably she grew up without a T.V., too, and her fake dad was a physicist.