Blown Away. In the OLD days we used to put on an album and really listen...over and over again. And decades later still listening. IMO "Today" a lot of people only have time to listen here and there. Sound bites, social media clips. Is the attention span different today? I still listen to Paul Butterfield 1st 2 albums and deeply listen to Mike Bloomfield almost every day . I had my decades of Zappa and OF COURSE Holdsworth. Shawn Lane, just Wow. And now (among MANY others) Matteo Mancuso. Tory's works deserve the FULL listening experience. Meaning you listen until you "know" the tunes, the melodies. "Lay back and Groooove (Jimi Hendrix). Truly remarkable, Tory, not just the chops, which are way beyond my playing ability; it's the CONCEPTS, the Arrangements, the Production. "Guitar Playing" has gone from "playing your ass off", picking to Hammering and Sweeping and Shredding and SO much of the time the melodic sense is just not there, no feel, no soul. I still would rather listen to Albert King than so many zippity do dah - break the speed of sound players. Tori has TASTE and FINESSE. Ok, it sounds like I'm kissing her ass, hey maybe I am, but I meant all of it. I will attempt to realllllly listen to this "album" as us Oldsters call it. And THEN try to absorb and discuss it. Thank you Tori for all your TH-cam Deep Dives.
One of the reasons I love your music is because I don't/can't (as a musician) play jazz or jazz fusion BUT as a listener, it's like visiting another country that, while not *my* home, it's an absolutely amazing place to visit.
Thanks, yeah, ... The influence of all of the NYC musicians and various scenes has kind of changed my stuff over the years towards a slightly more avant-garde thing, maybe really technical but also like edgy in various ways...
Wonderful! I can’t wait to get the album. Great production on the excerpts with the balance leaving the ear to latch in on the melodies.Excellent work!
On a scale of 1 to 10, this album gets an 11 from me. As much as the volume knob in my modified guitar amplifier. I guess the little pinch of spice that made it happen is the album's melodiousness. But that's an understatement. This is simply cosmic level of music with wonderful compositions and even better arrangement. This will be my favorite album
Tory- Thanks for your album release party, I am really impressed with all the tracks. I just bought it on BC. I hope all 16.8K of your subscribers buy it! A big fan, John
This album is really special. Not just the sound but you sharing your thoughts on it with us makes it like another Tory's college of musical knowledge. Hope people catch on and fully realize what you're doing. Also, I love reading you saying this is done with the ability to be performed live. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✌️
Yeah, I would actually like to have like a touring quartet with a sax player, if possible... I think it is feasible with some of these people that I've been meeting on the west coast, I might end up touring with them, possibly, maybe that's a pipe dream, LOL. If that were the case then I would be assuming the role of the Sax player basically...
Sounds great and fresh Tory ! Happy to know you're releasing an 'Album', hope it goes well and more people discover your work ! Thank you for sharing !
13:40 Viridian ballad the bass is really filling the sound spectrum on this recording, it complements the drums, nicely. the timing on the lead guitar is like the phrasing of a vocalist. this could easily be played on WBGO jazz radio
Yeah I believe I did the bass on the synthesizer on this one.... Yeah, I can play like that, the lead.... I'm just kind of like, avant-garde sometimes, not trying to do the real obvious stuff all the time.... Basically pretentiousness and trying to pretend like I'm cool
@TorySlusher yes very cool, I am going to get a copy of "Slight Return" this seems like a focus on the production effort , sounds as good of not better than what's out there. the Manasuco guy is great and all but their music never changes key lol too cool for key changes
Hockett is my favorite. The blazing solo with the guitar--synthesized piano sound on here was amazing--with the bass and drum patterns--very cool. I also enjoyed Just a Tool. I'm not a musician so not good at describing too well., but overall very interesting and complex. Thanks for the preview.
VIRIDIAN Is a Masterpiece! It's a Dream! I'm Back in the 1980's Discovering all the Jazz Fusion Music that Was So abundant at the time' it's Beautiful it Brings Tears to My Eye😢 Bravo 👏
Yeah, this is definitely of the mindset of kind of the 1990s Fusion coming from the '80s kind of a thing, but not really consciously in my mind that's just a lot of the stuff that I was super into and I'm still into....
To quote Snagglepuss "Heavens to Murgatroid" Great job Girl. Top shelf playing right here. Oh and THX for the inspiration getting me to push the boundaries even further in my own endeavors in this crazy World i like to call Musick. Lol.
Congratulations on the new release !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That EBow part is amazing !!!!💛 You might want to go search out music made on the Dilruba and Taus…. They are bowed drone instruments that have a melody set of strings and drone strings….. think sitar with EBow. Everyone says Holdsworth(I get it), but why does no one hear Joaquin Lievano in there ?!?!?!?
Time for me to walk the walk instead of just talking about your excellent talent so I’m ready to drop some $$ and obtain what sounds like an incredible recording. It has all the elements I love. I’m going to turn on my friends too. Congratulations on a what sounds like a very successful recording…just waiting for the release.👍❤️🎸
🖐️☺️ thanks a bunch, it'll be released relatively soon, I just wanted to get a little bit of the hype train rolling... Although I don't really think it's that much hype because it does sound pretty great, and I'm pretty critical of things, usually...
Well, I have to say I'm kind of floored! This album seems to have a really strong combination of elements, with a lot of originality and a great sound. Also, surprising in a good way. EDIT: I listened to the whole thing this morning. WOW!! What an album! It's totally great.
🖐️☺️ ... It's pretty much what happens when I have a dedicated guitar synthesizer for a while... The stuff I've been doing has been tending more towards a trio type of aesthetic, given that I would actually be able to do that live and sound similar... This stuff was definitely conceived of as quartet music...
Well, I was definitely influenced by Jimi ... Another one of those players that I was super into alongside Clapton and Page etc as well as Van Halen, LOL.
Thank you for sharing your new album - congratulations! Very cool to get your insights into the process of making it. This is heavy music that soars in the upper reaches of compositional and technical possibility!
Thanks, I've said somewhere else, maybe in the liner notes on band camp, this is the type of album that basically would be an excellent vinyl pressing...
Thanks. I spent a lot of time pouring over every little detail with these things, and just thinking about it critically and specifically writing for a quartet etc... it's kind of nice when you almost forget most of what you did or what you were thinking and then you check it out later, you're listening to yourself but you're also third person.... To some degree
Villa Cosmos! I have loved this track since your Jive Monkey Cartel days. It gets me every time I hear it. So glad to see that you have included it in your new album. Best wishes, John.
Thanks, I've actually never really listened to that band only for like a few minutes or something like a couple minutes of a documentary or something on TH-cam the stream.... I kind of feel like there is a definitive weather report influence going on here, with this record
Fantastic album! Liked especially that funny midi piano in Hockett and all your guitar solos & drumming! I think it's quite extraordinary album, Good Luck!
Well the general idea was to play something that was rather, technical but extremely loose and just harmonically out there also with all of these fast crazy rhythms and then the sustain pedal.... Giving in a sort of harp like quality, but creepier
@@TorySlusher Once i found on the street broken cheapo Yamaha keyboard, I opened it and pulled the electronics out and stick it to the table. Then i covered my finger tips with aluminum foil and so they could shorten the keys contacts. That provided an ability to play with incredible speed. I have a plan to make an instrument based on that principle. I put a video playing it on my TH-cam channel named Yamaha PSR 253 - experimental jazz. Your tune reminded me of that experiment...
WOO HOO! I listened to this video last night while driving, great tease! sounds awesome, you're such a great player! I'm looking forward to the albumn dropping! Thanks!
Choosing a title /piece here is impossible/hard. 1. Villa Cosmos: delicate tone with mesmerising harmonic structure (tone), delicate and finely recorded/mixed guitar touch. 2. Ultra Premium Deluxe : super 'hot', precise arrangement and structure, exciting to listen to ! 3. Supermurgitoid: love the aesthetics and the variety of interventions, phrasings and tones ('second degree', wittiness of the piece's mood) 4. Viridian : serious things ! the theme's exposition and buildup/variations it announces and the length of it are mind capture devices, depiction of journeys Love the phrasing and its breath, very vocal. 5. Just a Tool : flows so naturally, kind of a balance between the complex 'intellectual' side and the groovy, more intuitive/'embodied' rhytmic side. also : Killer licks. (speaks to melodists and guitar lead players) 6. Peace Force : starts 'liquid', with a 'noir' feeling. (I think this one requires more listening/complete ones to be understood, due to the arrangement being more complex maybe ?) 7. Hockett : pretty mesmerizing, a melody in disguises always bringing the listener to 'patch holes', rebuild or understand each variation, love the 'how to modify structures without losing its meaning' angle. (first bars are also super tastefully arranged !) 8. Al Dente : --- (suspense) 9. Way of the Dodo : --- (suspense continued) 10. Downtown Trip : the sample starts with face melting legato (Shawne Lane comes to mind of course) but then bifurcate into more funky and syncopated lines...curious to hear the full thing ...curious to hear the full thing ! lots of variety it seems, which makes sense if you collected pieces from your archives... all the best for the release and thank you for the listening party and explanations !
A next step forward - no "easy" stuff for me (my favorite track still is "Nighttime") - but for sure i need to download this new album from Bandcamp...💞🎸🦈🖖
ha you could play out with a band in a club and record it and put that on you tube. that would be great... i know it would more work but it would be so much better to see you in that envirnment , playing out with other people, and i bet that would be more fun for you... ok thanks again ... !
The only way I'm doing all that stuff is if the people just sort of end up playing with me and it just happens because we're all into what we're doing... I'm not doing any more of this trying to force or beat people into getting into the stuff, they kind of just have to be wanting to do the project
@@TorySlusher I like you in a band or not but must get stiff... when its just you. for me I like it being with other people, because you dont know what is going to happen, a creative thing or two... and then I learn stuff from other people too. and also you look great Tory in that last video... ! I was doing DDP yoga and listening to a Tory video... !
I like the tracks on this release so far. The addition of guest players (sax & bass) makes a big difference for me. Seems to breathe a bit more maybe... also I like most of your guitar tones here more than on Electric Duality. I'll be brutally honest, I'm not as crazy about the keyboard tones, but that's just my own prejudice, I don't hardly like ANY electronic keyboardists, with the possible exception of Alan Pasqua (who is an alien). I'm not a big harmonica fan either LOL
The stuff like electric duality and Prius dementat.... That was visualized more of like, trying to get a trio sound... That way I could actually perform it more or less the same way live if I needed to... I tend not to just write an album with extra Melody parts on different instruments if I don't have the people around to play, it doesn't make sense....
How was the drums done in Hocket? hass a nice Heavy Weather-ish funk to it. Just a Tool has a nice Eddie Van Halen sound there at the beginning, good crunch and then going into maybe a Yellowjackets/Frank Gambale vibe with a little Zappa.
Okay, so this entire project what I did was I programmed everything, I think I might have even wrote the drums out in notation... Then I would take that midi file, and I would run it through another program that basically would humanize it, and then that would go into something like Reason.... where the drum sounds were then applied from samples... That was definitely a Zawinul influenced thing too. If I'm remembering correctly. I wanted something that had that kind of vibe, where when the main Melody hits I'm playing all of these kind of cluster chords on the synthesizer and then the saxophone is riding on top of that...
@@TorySlusher Thanks for the reply. What was the program that humanized it, was throwing it slightly off grid? Also I don;t know if you say the recent Rick Beato : "Producer Reacts To Crazy Instagram Musicians" He has a fusion guitarist on there named Dan Jacob Wallace. He was running some scales and his lines didn't quite sound like anybody else to me. Do you know if he is using one particular scale a lot. I hear a little chromaticism, maybe some symmetrical scales. It all works well against the very tonal backing because the phrasing is so good. Also do you watch Dylan Reavy's channel? He plays fusion and a lot of exotic lines, some influences form Japanese video games. He has an interesting video called "Learning CRAZY MIDI On Guitar" where it shows how he learns new material. Also I would like to hear you do a video on tapping instruments. I notice you, Ichika and Stanley prefer mainly normal 6 string guitars. I'm always thinking "why do these great tappers prefer 6 string guitars where they have to keep one hand form interfering with the other when they could be playing double neck guitars?" Not tapping myself, I don't know why. Maybe its preference for a unified sound rather than sounding like two instruments? Then there is the Chapman stick. But I suppose when you want to switch back and forth to normal guitar sound you don;t get that. Also would like to hear your thoughts, maybe it could be a video, on the pros can cons of using midi to make guitar sound like a bass (or even a double bass) I suppose it's good in that situation for a guitarist to know how to play some slap guitar. I would like to hear you do something with a midi sitar and banjo sounds, that would be cool . On a double neck guitar a tapper could have one neck guitar and the other neck midi piano or anything else. I don;t hear anybody doing that. . Theres that new midi program for guitar where special hardware is not even needed, I'm not usre if you use that and optionaly and be used with a breath controller that works really well for violin sounds., shaping the notes
Yeah I know him, I do believe I was probably more kind of influenced by probably Steve Vai with that tune... But in kind of a ....meets weather report zawinul type way
Thanks.... Well, I kind of have been fairly recently, whenever that project is finally released I was talking about... It's not my record, what I'm referring to, I was just added as a lead player....
I love your inspiration full of different colors and sensibility!...❣
Blown Away. In the OLD days we used to put on an album and really listen...over and over again. And decades later still listening. IMO "Today" a lot of people only have time to listen here and there. Sound bites, social media clips. Is the attention span different today? I still listen to Paul Butterfield 1st 2 albums and deeply listen to Mike Bloomfield almost every day . I had my decades of Zappa and OF COURSE Holdsworth. Shawn Lane, just Wow. And now (among MANY others) Matteo Mancuso. Tory's works deserve the FULL listening experience. Meaning you listen until you "know" the tunes, the melodies. "Lay back and Groooove (Jimi Hendrix). Truly remarkable, Tory, not just the chops, which are way beyond my playing ability; it's the CONCEPTS, the Arrangements, the Production. "Guitar Playing" has gone from "playing your ass off", picking to Hammering and Sweeping and Shredding and SO much of the time the melodic sense is just not there, no feel, no soul. I still would rather listen to Albert King than so many zippity do dah - break the speed of sound players. Tori has TASTE and FINESSE. Ok, it sounds like I'm kissing her ass, hey maybe I am, but I meant all of it. I will attempt to realllllly listen to this "album" as us Oldsters call it. And THEN try to absorb and discuss it. Thank you Tori for all your TH-cam Deep Dives.
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One of the reasons I love your music is because I don't/can't (as a musician) play jazz or jazz fusion BUT as a listener, it's like visiting another country that, while not *my* home, it's an absolutely amazing place to visit.
Thanks, yeah, ... The influence of all of the NYC musicians and various scenes has kind of changed my stuff over the years towards a slightly more avant-garde thing, maybe really technical but also like edgy in various ways...
... you are The QUEEN of sounds ... ! And the EMPRESS of TAPPING !
You know it’s a guy…right?
@@armandom28 if so - so what ... ?
Wonderful! I can’t wait to get the album. Great production on the excerpts with the balance leaving the ear to latch in on the melodies.Excellent work!
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Tory you are simply amazing.
Beautiful playing Tory! Excellent work 👏
On a scale of 1 to 10, this album gets an 11 from me. As much as the volume knob in my modified guitar amplifier. I guess the little pinch of spice that made it happen is the album's melodiousness. But that's an understatement. This is simply cosmic level of music with wonderful compositions and even better arrangement. This will be my favorite album
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Tory- Thanks for your album release party, I am really impressed with all the tracks. I just bought it on BC. I hope all 16.8K of your subscribers buy it! A big fan, John
Thanks a bunch
Really nice to hear those heart felt bends. Heals my soul. 😊
You are very funny too Tory! 😂😂 Ultra Premium Deluxe 🤯🤯🤯
This album is really special. Not just the sound but you sharing your thoughts on it with us makes it like another Tory's college of musical knowledge. Hope people catch on and fully realize what you're doing. Also, I love reading you saying this is done with the ability to be performed live. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✌️
Yeah, I would actually like to have like a touring quartet with a sax player, if possible... I think it is feasible with some of these people that I've been meeting on the west coast, I might end up touring with them, possibly, maybe that's a pipe dream, LOL. If that were the case then I would be assuming the role of the Sax player basically...
@TorySlusher
I think the stars are going to line up for you if you keep doing what you're doing.
Sounds great and fresh Tory ! Happy to know you're releasing an 'Album', hope it goes well and more people discover your work ! Thank you for sharing !
This is number 7
@@TorySlusher Didn't knew it, will look it up ! Btw, I'm watching from the French Alps, Godesspeed!
Main reason to hear Tory? GUITAR! 🔥🔥
Your phrasing and tone on that song with the ebow gave me Jeff Beck vibes! 👍😀
The new album absolutely rocks. Definitely going to be one of the best albums of the year. Gives me Allan Holdsworth vibes!
13:40 Viridian ballad
the bass is really filling the sound spectrum on this recording, it complements the drums, nicely.
the timing on the lead guitar is like the phrasing of a vocalist. this could easily be played on WBGO jazz radio
Yeah I believe I did the bass on the synthesizer on this one.... Yeah, I can play like that, the lead.... I'm just kind of like, avant-garde sometimes, not trying to do the real obvious stuff all the time.... Basically pretentiousness and trying to pretend like I'm cool
@TorySlusher yes very cool, I am going to get a copy of "Slight Return" this seems like a focus on the production effort , sounds as good of not better than what's out there.
the Manasuco guy is great and all but their music never changes key lol too cool for key changes
you had me at Villa Cosmos...purchased!
Excellent work Tory, very impressive!
Hockett is my favorite. The blazing solo with the guitar--synthesized piano sound on here was amazing--with the bass and drum patterns--very cool. I also enjoyed Just a Tool. I'm not a musician so not good at describing too well., but overall very interesting and complex. Thanks for the preview.
It's going to be very cool when it's finally released, I promise
Sounds great! Reminds me so much of Holdsworth. Maybe not so much the stretchy legato but the notes. Cool.
Very nice work there Tori, I hope to catch you playing live someday.
VIRIDIAN Is a Masterpiece! It's a Dream! I'm Back in the 1980's Discovering all the Jazz Fusion Music that Was So abundant at the time' it's Beautiful it Brings Tears to My Eye😢 Bravo 👏
Yeah, this is definitely of the mindset of kind of the 1990s Fusion coming from the '80s kind of a thing, but not really consciously in my mind that's just a lot of the stuff that I was super into and I'm still into....
I agree. I love it. It would fit perfectly on Frank Gambale’s Robo Roo album.
Awesome! I also love the reference to Snagglepus in the third song title. Brings back childhood memories.
I can't remember what spurred calling it that anymore, LOL.. I'm sure it was something crazy
The only place I've ever heard it was in the Snaggle pus cartoons. He would say "Heavens to Murgitroid" instead of "Heavens to Betsy".
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Maybe from Parliament Funkadelic Heavens to Murgatroid?
To quote Snagglepuss "Heavens to Murgatroid" Great job Girl. Top shelf playing right here. Oh and THX for the inspiration getting me to push the boundaries even further in my own endeavors in this crazy World i like to call Musick. Lol.
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Congrats! Thanks for sharing the revelry of enjoying the fruits of your labors! Love it!!
Congratulations. Very cool indeed!
Great stuff👍👍... no surprise
Thank you congratulations love you love your music love your geekiness 🤘🏾🤯🙏🏾🔥
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Sweet!
Marvelous! So much fun
I really loved the opening, it's beautiful. Supermurgitroid is cool. Viridian too. Great album thank you for sharing👏👏👏👏
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Holy shit, I love sophisticated-aggressive very melodic (kind of,) jazz-rock fusion records!
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Congratulations on the new release !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That EBow part is amazing !!!!💛
You might want to go search out music made on the Dilruba and Taus…. They are bowed drone instruments that have a melody set of strings and drone strings….. think sitar with EBow.
Everyone says Holdsworth(I get it), but why does no one hear Joaquin Lievano in there ?!?!?!?
Having morning coffee in my studio,,listening! She's a beauty!! ;-)! lov the walk thru! ;-)!
🖐️☺️ I'm curious to see what kind of splash it will make
Bravo!
Frank Zappa would smile. Outstanding!
No kidding. He'd promote her.
Amazing playing, you are really great.
One minute in and this really really fantastic.
A few tracks in Wow.
Bravo!
Its great watching your reactions.
I might do the same thing with another album that I already have uploaded
Awesome stuff, Tory!
Time for me to walk the walk instead of just talking about your excellent talent so I’m ready to drop some $$ and obtain what sounds like an incredible recording. It has all the elements I love. I’m going to turn on my friends too. Congratulations on a what sounds like a very successful recording…just waiting for the release.👍❤️🎸
🖐️☺️ thanks a bunch, it'll be released relatively soon, I just wanted to get a little bit of the hype train rolling... Although I don't really think it's that much hype because it does sound pretty great, and I'm pretty critical of things, usually...
Well, I have to say I'm kind of floored! This album seems to have a really strong combination of elements, with a lot of originality and a great sound. Also, surprising in a good way. EDIT: I listened to the whole thing this morning. WOW!! What an album! It's totally great.
🖐️☺️ ... It's pretty much what happens when I have a dedicated guitar synthesizer for a while... The stuff I've been doing has been tending more towards a trio type of aesthetic, given that I would actually be able to do that live and sound similar... This stuff was definitely conceived of as quartet music...
Tory, I think Jimi would be very proud of you.
Well, I was definitely influenced by Jimi ... Another one of those players that I was super into alongside Clapton and Page etc as well as Van Halen, LOL.
Thank you for sharing your new album - congratulations! Very cool to get your insights into the process of making it. This is heavy music that soars in the upper reaches of compositional and technical possibility!
Thanks, I've said somewhere else, maybe in the liner notes on band camp, this is the type of album that basically would be an excellent vinyl pressing...
Congrats on your impending releaase!!! Sounds fanatastic... so much talent!
Can't wait to share it
very cool - loves it!
You're a great artist.
PS - I love seeing how you enjoy listening to your own music! You're appreciating the (your) art for it's own sake, and not for any kind of egotism!
Thanks. I spent a lot of time pouring over every little detail with these things, and just thinking about it critically and specifically writing for a quartet etc... it's kind of nice when you almost forget most of what you did or what you were thinking and then you check it out later, you're listening to yourself but you're also third person.... To some degree
@@TorySlusher great process for a self produced artist IMO. Loving this album!!!!!
Villa Cosmos! I have loved this track since your Jive Monkey Cartel days. It gets me every time I hear it. So glad to see that you have included it in your new album. Best wishes, John.
Hey, how's it going? Yeah, I totally forgotten about it until I started digging around...
Jive Monkey Cartel? Guess I gotta do some history digging to check that out!
Can't wait to buy it Tory
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So many different Artists represented with your own 'special twist'. Even heard a line from Casiopea.
Thanks, I've actually never really listened to that band only for like a few minutes or something like a couple minutes of a documentary or something on TH-cam the stream.... I kind of feel like there is a definitive weather report influence going on here, with this record
Poincaré Return 😭😭❤❤
Tks!
About 6 bars into Supermurgitroid my Boogie 1x12 cab levitated and turned into a toaster. You’re a genius.
Sounds killer
Fantastic album! Liked especially that funny midi piano in Hockett and all your guitar solos & drumming! I think it's quite extraordinary album, Good Luck!
Well the general idea was to play something that was rather, technical but extremely loose and just harmonically out there also with all of these fast crazy rhythms and then the sustain pedal.... Giving in a sort of harp like quality, but creepier
@@TorySlusher Once i found on the street broken cheapo Yamaha keyboard, I opened it and pulled the electronics out and stick it to the table. Then i covered my finger tips with aluminum foil and so they could shorten the keys contacts. That provided an ability to play with incredible speed. I have a plan to make an instrument based on that principle. I put a video playing it on my TH-cam channel named Yamaha PSR 253 - experimental jazz. Your tune reminded me of that experiment...
Great job on the mix, bass and drums upfront. Good separation
WOO HOO! I listened to this video last night while driving, great tease! sounds awesome, you're such a great player! I'm looking forward to the albumn dropping! Thanks!
AMAZING ! Merci , Je t aime !
I love it!
AOTY 2025! Nothing else will even come close. Amazing work!
booooom!💥
Love the tunes ... ( but next preview session, please, do a fade out before stopping the themes .... 'The unexpected cut', hurts the soul ) 😅
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it's not that big of a deal.
@ Yep, Not big deal 'the fade out thing' ... just a detail for Neurotic perfectionists ...
Sounds great Tory! Looking forward to hearing the finished product😎
Congratulations Tory, Most impressive .It's definitely you, very unique.
All killer no filler - Boom 🗯
Nice!
Choosing a title /piece here is impossible/hard.
1. Villa Cosmos: delicate tone with mesmerising harmonic structure (tone), delicate and finely recorded/mixed guitar touch.
2. Ultra Premium Deluxe : super 'hot', precise arrangement and structure, exciting to listen to !
3. Supermurgitoid: love the aesthetics and the variety of interventions, phrasings and tones ('second degree', wittiness of the piece's mood)
4. Viridian : serious things ! the theme's exposition and buildup/variations it announces and the length of it are mind capture devices, depiction of journeys Love the phrasing and its breath, very vocal.
5. Just a Tool : flows so naturally, kind of a balance between the complex 'intellectual' side and the groovy, more intuitive/'embodied' rhytmic side. also : Killer licks. (speaks to melodists and guitar lead players)
6. Peace Force : starts 'liquid', with a 'noir' feeling. (I think this one requires more listening/complete ones to be understood, due to the arrangement being more complex maybe ?)
7. Hockett : pretty mesmerizing, a melody in disguises always bringing the listener to 'patch holes', rebuild or understand each variation, love the 'how to modify structures without losing its meaning' angle. (first bars are also super tastefully arranged !)
8. Al Dente : --- (suspense)
9. Way of the Dodo : --- (suspense continued)
10. Downtown Trip : the sample starts with face melting legato (Shawne Lane comes to mind of course) but then bifurcate into more funky and syncopated lines...curious to hear the full thing
...curious to hear the full thing ! lots of variety it seems, which makes sense if you collected pieces from your archives... all the best for the release and thank you for the listening party and explanations !
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Viridian sounds like a Frank Gambale tune to me. Great tracks all round!
Huh, never really thought about that, but I guess it does in hindsight...thnx.
yep
A next step forward - no "easy" stuff for me (my favorite track still is "Nighttime") - but for sure i need to download this new album from Bandcamp...💞🎸🦈🖖
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@@TorySlusher My favorites so far: Peace Force and Downtown Trip 💞🎸🦈🖖
Stupidly good!
awesome \m/
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Just a Tool is a really good
ha you could play out with a band in a club and record it and put that on you tube. that would be great... i know it would more work but it would be so much better to see you in that envirnment , playing out with other people, and i bet that would be more fun for you... ok thanks again ... !
The only way I'm doing all that stuff is if the people just sort of end up playing with me and it just happens because we're all into what we're doing... I'm not doing any more of this trying to force or beat people into getting into the stuff, they kind of just have to be wanting to do the project
@@TorySlusher I like you in a band or not but must get stiff... when its just you. for me I like it being with other people, because you dont know what is going to happen, a creative thing or two... and then I learn stuff from other people too. and also you look great Tory in that last video... ! I was doing DDP yoga and listening to a Tory video... !
I like the tracks on this release so far. The addition of guest players (sax & bass) makes a big difference for me. Seems to breathe a bit more maybe... also I like most of your guitar tones here more than on Electric Duality. I'll be brutally honest, I'm not as crazy about the keyboard tones, but that's just my own prejudice, I don't hardly like ANY electronic keyboardists, with the possible exception of Alan Pasqua (who is an alien). I'm not a big harmonica fan either LOL
The stuff like electric duality and Prius dementat.... That was visualized more of like, trying to get a trio sound... That way I could actually perform it more or less the same way live if I needed to... I tend not to just write an album with extra Melody parts on different instruments if I don't have the people around to play, it doesn't make sense....
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If we got the budget, hire Bill Stewart ...
How was the drums done in Hocket? hass a nice Heavy Weather-ish funk to it. Just a Tool has a nice Eddie Van Halen sound there at the beginning, good crunch and then going into maybe a Yellowjackets/Frank Gambale vibe with a little Zappa.
Okay, so this entire project what I did was I programmed everything, I think I might have even wrote the drums out in notation... Then I would take that midi file, and I would run it through another program that basically would humanize it, and then that would go into something like Reason.... where the drum sounds were then applied from samples... That was definitely a Zawinul influenced thing too. If I'm remembering correctly. I wanted something that had that kind of vibe, where when the main Melody hits I'm playing all of these kind of cluster chords on the synthesizer and then the saxophone is riding on top of that...
@@TorySlusher Thanks for the reply. What was the program that humanized it, was throwing it slightly off grid? Also I don;t know if you say the recent Rick Beato : "Producer Reacts To Crazy Instagram Musicians" He has a fusion guitarist on there named Dan Jacob Wallace. He was running some scales and his lines didn't quite sound like anybody else to me. Do you know if he is using one particular scale a lot. I hear a little chromaticism, maybe some symmetrical scales. It all works well against the very tonal backing because the phrasing is so good. Also do you watch Dylan Reavy's channel? He plays fusion and a lot of exotic lines, some influences form Japanese video games. He has an interesting video called "Learning CRAZY MIDI On Guitar" where it shows how he learns new material. Also I would like to hear you do a video on tapping instruments. I notice you, Ichika and Stanley prefer mainly normal 6 string guitars. I'm always thinking "why do these great tappers prefer 6 string guitars where they have to keep one hand form interfering with the other when they could be playing double neck guitars?" Not tapping myself, I don't know why. Maybe its preference for a unified sound rather than sounding like two instruments? Then there is the Chapman stick. But I suppose when you want to switch back and forth to normal guitar sound you don;t get that. Also would like to hear your thoughts, maybe it could be a video, on the pros can cons of using midi to make guitar sound like a bass (or even a double bass) I suppose it's good in that situation for a guitarist to know how to play some slap guitar. I would like to hear you do something with a midi sitar and banjo sounds, that would be cool . On a double neck guitar a tapper could have one neck guitar and the other neck midi piano or anything else. I don;t hear anybody doing that. . Theres that new midi program for guitar where special hardware is not even needed, I'm not usre if you use that and optionaly and be used with a breath controller that works really well for violin sounds., shaping the notes
Viridian is just schnasty. It reminded me of the legends Steely Dan, Chaka Khan, Earth Wind and Fire, and Casiopea.
Yeah... It's definitely one of those types of things, I've always been a big steely Dan fan, of course
I liked Villa Cosmos. It's got a Terje Rypdal thing going on.
Yeah I know him, I do believe I was probably more kind of influenced by probably Steve Vai with that tune... But in kind of a ....meets weather report zawinul type way
You should be playing with the great players, specially drummers and bass players on your compositions.
Thanks.... Well, I kind of have been fairly recently, whenever that project is finally released I was talking about... It's not my record, what I'm referring to, I was just added as a lead player....
Sure wish you had CDs so I could take them in my car.
Ask a friend to burn it for you...😜
You can just get one of those things that connects to Bluetooth or the radio frequency or one of the cassetta adapters and plug it into your phone
We need to start spamming Rick Beato's "instagram guitar players" video and get the spotlight over here for a bit.😷
Thnx, that might work
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