DOD are Darmin De'flern Lance Olsen and Paul DeSmidt the letters of our surnames make the band name. This is track four and the Album is called A Space Anthology. Do or Die lyrics came easily to me, the difficulty was exactly how to fit them into the structure of the song. Unusually I speak over part of what would be the lead on the bridge the reason for this is that the lead was very discordant and I felt that the action part of the vocals fit in with it and added tension to a part of the track that was supposed to be dramatic and action filled. Just love the low end on this one with driving drums and the bass that Lance came up with. Vocals and lyrics were interesting as parts of the track are story parts characters issuing orders I aimed to try to get a different feel for those parts. Lance suggested creating an concept album around a sci fi theme and we decided the album would be 10 songs long. As we created the tracks the following criteria were nailed down to give us guide lines: Sci FI themes Combination of keyboards/synths, guitar and drums. Any vocals were to be spoken word though this does almost morph to Rap at times. The original inspiration for the vocals was Ginger Baker as suggested by Lance The album was a collection of short stories but were to be from the same universe. Tracks were to be from any genre but had to have that sci fi flavor most of the tracks have a heavy progressive sub genre attached. (for example Funk prog or jazz prog etc.) Whilst it was not set out at the beginning A Space Anthology has a heavy use of AI art. There is just not that much usable stock video of space available and the AI could be used to craft a narrative to enhance the music. At the end we felt that the Video is just as much part of the album as the music. In general Lance Olsen was the main producer as he did the mixing and mastering of all the tracks, whilst some production work wa done by Darmin De'flern. Lance Olsen was the lead guitarist, and did acoustic and bass guitars on several of the tracks. Lance Olsen also added the fx and extra percussion to the tracks. Paul DeSmidt did all the drums on these tracks. Darmin De'flern did the Vocals on the tracks along with some bass and rhythm guitar, keyboards. Darmin De'flern wrote the lyrics with some of them spinning off from Titles suggested by Lance Olsen. Darmin De'flern did all the video editing and minor video music mastering, videos where taken from www.pexels.com and the AI pictures were created on www.playgroundai.com. T
DOD are Darmin De'flern Lance Olsen and Paul DeSmidt the letters of our surnames make the band name.
This is track four and the Album is called A Space Anthology. Do or Die lyrics came easily to me, the difficulty was exactly how to fit them into the structure of the song. Unusually I speak over part of what would be the lead on the bridge the reason for this is that the lead was very discordant and I felt that the action part of the vocals fit in with it and added tension to a part of the track that was supposed to be dramatic and action filled. Just love the low end on this one with driving drums and the bass that Lance came up with. Vocals and lyrics were interesting as parts of the track are story parts characters issuing orders I aimed to try to get a different feel for those parts.
Lance suggested creating an concept album around a sci fi theme and we decided the album would be 10 songs long.
As we created the tracks the following criteria were nailed down to give us guide lines:
Sci FI themes
Combination of keyboards/synths, guitar and drums.
Any vocals were to be spoken word though this does almost morph to Rap at times.
The original inspiration for the vocals was Ginger Baker as suggested by Lance
The album was a collection of short stories but were to be from the same universe.
Tracks were to be from any genre but had to have that sci fi flavor most of the tracks have a heavy progressive sub genre attached. (for example Funk prog or jazz prog etc.)
Whilst it was not set out at the beginning A Space Anthology has a heavy use of AI art. There is just not that much usable stock video of space available and the AI could be used to craft a narrative to enhance the music. At the end we felt that the Video is just as much part of the album as the music.
In general Lance Olsen was the main producer as he did the mixing and mastering of all the tracks, whilst some production work wa done by Darmin De'flern.
Lance Olsen was the lead guitarist, and did acoustic and bass guitars on several of the tracks.
Lance Olsen also added the fx and extra percussion to the tracks.
Paul DeSmidt did all the drums on these tracks.
Darmin De'flern did the Vocals on the tracks along with some bass and rhythm guitar, keyboards.
Darmin De'flern wrote the lyrics with some of them spinning off from Titles suggested by Lance Olsen.
Darmin De'flern did all the video editing and minor video music mastering, videos where taken from www.pexels.com and the AI pictures were created on www.playgroundai.com.
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