SeeBeeOne
Our Potential Set
25th July 2008 We recorded this in a very militant fashion, just to prove that we had a collection of songs that are nearing ready for performance. It was again recorded on the internal mic on my laptop, but we’ve almost perfected the balances and room placement, etc. There’s also some vocals, but they’re fairly rough at the moment - singing with music all around your head, with no space for hearing the music in your head, is harder than it seems. Anyway, these are the most complete songs we’ve got so far, even if a couple of them need more work. There are mistakes and happy accidents along the way, but I think we’re going to attempt a more fluid style in playing the songs in public. Anything goes in our sessions - we never tell each other what to do, but come across some interesting sounds because of this. I love my band.
Campanology
Bring Your Face
Treading Water
Lunar Month
New Arsehole
Madcap
Tea Chest
Secret Drawer
Riding Roughshod
Matthew Olczak Says:
Campanology is a piece that sits so very nicely for me now. It is how I imagine you as a group and compare the other music you play. It feels natural and so gains that sense of simplicity. Its form disappears into emotion.
Bring Your Face starts and sounds like it could be a funk rock song – but then it gives much more intelligence. And again this is not found through unwanted details or flamboyance, it instead comes through mindful arrangements, changes and personality – that bit of what you couldn’t expect.
Treading Water. Deep, meaning piano. Clean yet weighted.
And I think the vocals work well. They add to this emotional, capturing, other place.
Lunar Month. And the tides are pulled in and out
New Arsehole. All belonging to one groove.
If I was to suggest anything that could add to this one –– I wondered what it would be like to play with/within that echo repeat more. It comes in delicately with its own sound and I thought what could you reach if it was used as a tool in there more.
Madcap. You guys write such odd and fresh riffs. Then you feed them well. But this one finished before I expected and feels a little undergrown compared to the works prior.
Tea Chest. I like how you are trying different relationships in these works between the tones of the Piano and the Guitar.
Secret Drawer. there is definitely a special, unique SeeBeeOne Sound building and flowing well into and through these various different works.
(A neat drummer. Those in-between rhythms are made so valuable)
Riding Roughshod. There is something grand. Maybe it is the heart that is heard.
You all listen