album: genre:Instrumental Rock streams:127 creation date:2010-03-11
Song Information
So the last attempt. After all that I realise it is an homage to Steve Miller and Ben Sidran. ftlpope
Read Full Song Info
So the last attempt. After all that I realise it is an homage to Steve Miller and Ben Sidran. ftlpope
03/14/10 04:19:11AM @000:
Yeah! Your recordings and mixes get better everytime. I am starting to hear more bass tones in this version. Totally original as always. Reminiscent of some of the improv jamz my brother and I used to do. Thanks...Love this piece
03/12/10 03:41:03PM @bigpete:
Beyond the great performances you put together here, the production is really great, it sound damn good man, amazing and no horns yet, lol. Really a great listen, original arrangements and performed so well, great one ftl.
03/11/10 01:31:15PM @farrell-jackson:
I read the homage info. and while I know Steve Miller's blues music quite well...Ben Sidran has escaped my ear. You've got some jazz mixed in with the blues so maybe that's where Ben Sadran comes in? Very easy and kicked backed riffing on the guitar which makes it a good listen. Also I do like this super clean recording and production. Nice!
Farrell
03/13/10 04:53:59AM @microjazz:
More good material from this theme. I blinked and now we have moved on several tens of million years ( Pentatonicus Erectus ). That Mellotron sound in the intro is great. I have loved the sound of Mellotrons ever since my older brother came home with "In the court of the crimson king" in 1969 and proceeded to blow my childhood mind.
Anyway I digress - the Trilogy of tracks this represents the final installment of, definately show a kind of interesting evolution. I say final installment but you probably have a "Future human Blues" in the pipeline as I write. Enjoyed it - good stuff.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Schule der Nacht is another element of the ftlpope conspiracy being fomented in Waterloo, London, England along with Seekers After Smooth Things, Monas and Sorrows of the Languedoc (see also their distant cousin Milagre dos Peixes) all on this site. The name should be School of Night but as names in English are often nabbed before one gets there, rendering them in a foreign language (here German) dodges the problem – for insights, see Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and references to Elizabethan secret societies (Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe etc).</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">More instrumental rock. The idea was to rediscover that ur-blues of some white 60’s and 70’s bands such as Led Zeppelin (first 2 albums), Allman Brothers Band, May Blitz (first album), Little Feat (first 4 albums) and ZZ Top in particular (first 3 albums) but then it all started drifting into The Meters, Funkadelic and more jazzy chord structures. Some of the material will be reproduced on Mixposure by another ftlpope band called Akademie des Tag (get it? Alternate to Schule der Nacht) who will do the same material on mainly acoustic or synthesized acoustic instruments.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Keep the faith and keep it secret – ftlpope.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">Click on the name to visit these other ftlpope incarnations:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/The_Sorrows_of_the_Languedoc/"><span style="color: #ffffff;">> The Sorrows of the Languedoc</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"> </span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Monas/"><span style="color: #ffffff;">> Monas</span></a></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Seekers_After_Smooth_Things/"><span style="color: #ffffff;">> Seekers After Smooth Things</span></a></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Milagre_dos_peixes/"><span style="color: #ffffff;">> Milagre dos Peixes</span></a></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ff9900;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Akademie_des_Tag/"><span style="color: #ffffff;">> Akadamie des Tag</span></a></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">all on Mixposure.</span></span></p>
Yeah! Your recordings and mixes get better everytime. I am starting to hear more bass tones in this version. Totally original as always. Reminiscent of some of the improv jamz my brother and I used to do. Thanks...Love this piece
Beyond the great performances you put together here, the production is really great, it sound damn good man, amazing and no horns yet, lol. Really a great listen, original arrangements and performed so well, great one ftl.
I read the homage info. and while I know Steve Miller's blues music quite well...Ben Sidran has escaped my ear. You've got some jazz mixed in with the blues so maybe that's where Ben Sadran comes in? Very easy and kicked backed riffing on the guitar which makes it a good listen. Also I do like this super clean recording and production. Nice!
Farrell
More good material from this theme. I blinked and now we have moved on several tens of million years ( Pentatonicus Erectus ). That Mellotron sound in the intro is great. I have loved the sound of Mellotrons ever since my older brother came home with "In the court of the crimson king" in 1969 and proceeded to blow my childhood mind.
Anyway I digress - the Trilogy of tracks this represents the final installment of, definately show a kind of interesting evolution. I say final installment but you probably have a "Future human Blues" in the pipeline as I write. Enjoyed it - good stuff.