Bands About Bands - The Turtle Project
I like The Turtle Project. The Turtle has a gentle maturity to his songwriting. Blending mellow production with a light almost spoken touch to his vocals The Turtle conjures up a sound that is reminiscent of mellow Nick Cave...
See The Beauty for example, mellow piano, melodic guitar mirroring the vocal combined with minimal drums, overlaid with a Mellotron style strings creates a warming atmosphere...
Little Blue Flame is a great tune, building up textures including fire crackling, mellow drums, minimal guitar, a light sprinkling of piano before the vocals. Mellow, simple flute lines add to the texture and give some pause...
I think what I like most is the combination of light, minimal layers combining to create a light, yet sometimes sombre or dark mood...
Here's Little Blue Flame on Dsound - https://dsound.audio/#!/@theturtleproject/20180501t145113067z-little-blue-flame
And here's his Musicoin - https://musicoin.org/artist/0x3e780ba73d3361cc53b255415f970ecb9e1c495f
And his Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/turtle-project
This post is written as part of the Bands About Bands Community Initiative run by @ftlob
Thank kinda rains on my plan to write about Mr Turtle this time around hehe :) and I am happy, Matthew, you bringing more light to The Turtle Project! Killar support and Bang-Bang musician :)
This is YouTube channel I was excited to find today. And this one example that besides Cave's, Mr Turtle carries vibe of Jack Johnson, so this song plays right between Wasting Time and Inaudible Melodies :)
Hi Sam, it seems The Turtle has a few fans on here! I'm sure he won't mind if you write something too!
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wow sam, i love jack johnson, thanks for the comparison mate :)
Great review all the way, for such a great musician and steemian, but i tend to disagree with Sam on Jack Johnson, turtle voice is more similar to Ben Harper, one of the greatest and also (friend to J Johnson).... so lets start a fight that can be put into steemit post challenge called ' reviewers fight about reviewed bands' we can introduce fight in the mud in later stages between naked dwarves...dsound listen to my idea is good enough to promote indies...
thanks so much for this @grizzle you have made my day, it's an honour you took the time to do this, thanks again buddy :)
Awesome review about an awesome Steemian. @theturtleproject is an example of engagement and superb community spirit. Well written and a great choice @grizzle! Thanks for submitting so early in the game :-)
so kind of you to say @ftlob :)
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