Finished recording a song for the first time in a while - this one's a Fallout 2 fan-song, a post apocalyptic folk ballad entitled A Traveller's Song From Klamath. I hope you like it!
alcinnz
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Indie songwriting/producing dilemma
Is it better, do you think, to release the version you can produce with the resources you have today, or is it better to wait until you can make the version you hear in your head?
Indie songwriting/producing dilemma
Is it better, do you think, to release the version you can produce with the resources you have today, or is it better to wait until you can make the version you hear in your head?
It is apparently Fediverse #MusiciansDay for letting people know about your musical stuff.
I do music sometimes! I'm not very good at it, but there are a 81 recordings of folksy and bardic songs performed and in most cases written by me on one of the Exilian YT channels and if you'd enjoy that sort of thing please do go and give it a listen and a like or let me know what you think. Or throw virtual tomatoes at me if it was that bad.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9yQHHieLcCNBplhv5XO_ffvAp-KelCZw
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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My forthcoming record celebrates queerness, confronts US Christian nationalism and evangelical bigotry, and marks an attempt at a spirituality for resistance. It's nearly done, and I'm so glad to get to share it with you soon. Today I woke up with a sense of relief like I haven't felt in a long time. It's so good to be putting out a new album. 😊
#transJoy #exvangelical#transMusician #folk #songwriting#MusicProduction
My forthcoming record celebrates queerness, confronts US Christian nationalism and evangelical bigotry, and marks an attempt at a spirituality for resistance. It's nearly done, and I'm so glad to get to share it with you soon. Today I woke up with a sense of relief like I haven't felt in a long time. It's so good to be putting out a new album. 😊
#transJoy #exvangelical#transMusician #folk #songwriting#MusicProduction
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If you're making music that can even obliquely be considered "protest music," I'd love to help you get it out there by mixing and mastering for cheap (or even free, depending on your financial circumstances).
Art made by conscientious people is very good for the world.
I've already mixed and mastered one protest song from a mutual here on fedi. 😊 Allow me to help, if you need. Send me a DM or find my email from my website.
Woah, last weekend I presented two evenings of almost non-stop music in the Temple of Italian songwriting, the Club Tenco headquarters. It was incredible to introduce on-stage talented and marvellous human beings who performed awesome music.
Club Tenco is one of those sacred institutions with an incredible history that, unfortunately, are dying because of the lack of young participants.
Since 2017, I am one of the only five under-50 members of the association, and it’s saddening, but also it makes our involvement so special! I am glad the @scambi team (fourth picture) is joining the resistance. If it’s happening, it’s thanks to my wonderful friend Francesco Maccario, a grumpy yet committed Club Tenco member who valued our participation since we were 17, and who now still fights for our voice as young members to be heard.
This is the stuff I love.
Not caring about huge stages nor big crowds, fucking the capitalistic and empty music industry, resisting by still listening to the words in a song, by getting together despite everything and listening to/making/playing music. A bit like what @radiofreefedi and @musicbrainz represent in the digital domain.
Please read the alt text for more context about the pictures.
(I am sorry there are mostly pictures of me, but these are the only ones they sent me. I am egocentric, yes, but not that much 😬)
A photo of me on stage with other six members of the Scambi staff.
Me and my friend Francesco maccario on stage.
A picture of me on stage, and behind me framed pictures of some of the greatest Italian songwriters who ever lived (from the top-left clockwise): Roberto Vecchioni, Fabrizio De Andrè, Francesco Guccini, Franco Battiato, Paolo Conte, Francesco De Gregori.
A picture of me on stage with Tommy from the band “Filodiretto”
Fun story:
it is one of my greatest dreams to host the “Rassegna della Canzone d’Autore” one of the most renowned international prizes for songwriting, held at Ariston, the same theatre where the Festival di Sanremo (the Italian Eurovision) takes place. Antonio Silva, the current presenter who has been the only presenter Club Tenco has ever had since the first Rassegna in 1974, knows about my ambition, and he considers me his nemesis, but deep down we love each other.
Oh, this is not the story, actually It was just the premise. Here’s the story:
The first time he allowed me on stage with him, it was in a minor event of Club Tenco in la Pigna (where @scambi takes place), in 2018. I still remember vividly going on that stage under huge pressure, and introducing Enrico Nigiotti. While that was happening, the historical photographer of Club Tenco, my friend Mauro Vigorosi, shot the first picture you see in this post. It became my profile picture almost everywhere.
Last weekend, almost seven years after that picture, Mauro shot another one, the second one you see here.
Obviously, it totally has to become my new profile picture, now.
End of stori*es*.
#Sanremo#Festival#Sanremo2025#FestivalDiSanremo#Tenco#ClubTenco#Rassegna#Ariston #teatro #theater #music #musica #cantautorato #songwriting
A picture of me still presenting, but this time in the Club Tenco headquarters in Sanremo, Italy. Shot by Mauro Vigorosi.
A picture of me presenting Tenco Ascolta 2018 in La Pigna, Sanremo, Italy. Shot by Mauro Vigorosi.
If you're making music that can even obliquely be considered "protest music," I'd love to help you get it out there by mixing and mastering for cheap (or even free, depending on your financial circumstances).
Art made by conscientious people is very good for the world.
I've already mixed and mastered one protest song from a mutual here on fedi. 😊 Allow me to help, if you need. Send me a DM or find my email from my website.
does anyone have any good tips/resources for composing a violin part from existing chords and melody?