"Blue Bits" by Nowhere Near (electro-acoustic Blues Rock Electronica music video)
One Media® presents "Blue Bits" by Nowhere Near (electro-acoustic Blues Rock Electronica music video)
"Blue Bits"
Almost all Greatest Hits have some Blue Bits...
One Media® humbly offers Blue Bits for a Steemit Music League #smlchallenge season two, round eleven (S2:R11) entry in the theme of Greatest Hits...
Recorded April 28, 2018, Blue Bits features an electro-acoustic blues rock tune arranged with Rhodes, a hollow body with sustain, some fiddle, and bits of electronica.
In all honesty, One Media® perceives the term, 'Greatest Hits' as somewhat alien, perhaps a self-limiting belief, but certainly a commitment to pursuing the esoteric. Expressly seeking novelty over popularity in the music videos they produce, One Media® artists seem oblivious to popular trends, and clearly tend to rely on intuition more than marketing statistics when it comes to aesthetic judgement. However, always eager to expand musical horizons and win the hearts and minds of new audiences, the prompt of 'Greatest Hits' in a Steemit Music League #smlchallenge inspired Nowhere Near to make this simple musical statement: for the past century, the majority of tunes that have garnered the status of 'Greatest Hits' tend to have roots in the music style we call, The Blues.
Of course we could have been pragmatic and just re-posted the music video that has enjoyed the most views which would qualify as a viable metric for 'greatest hit' qualities, considering more ears have likely taken in that tune compared to 'units sold' (notwithstanding all the promotional discs given away) of all previous efforts pressed or taped. Anyway, those were albums, not 'singles' further obfuscating the 'Greatest Hits' goal, as no one single tune in all the releases seemed quite appropriate for this present contest. Furthermore, that aforementioned 'greatest hit' music video tune by Nowhere Near has deeply esoteric, meditative qualities, and more likely evokes mystical experience than experiencing an 'upbeat' feeling of a 'crowd pleaser'. All things considered, we sought the optimal compromise between rehashing popular cliché and blazing a trail that only a few dare traverse.
So the tune opens with a twelve bar head with a fairly typical Chicago Blues bass line and a somewhat novel turnaround, then an eight bar solo section in an alluring uptempo 6/8 time signature. Using major ninths and thirteenths in the melody line gives a novel, modernist Jazz era feel, and in the solo section, serendipitous hints at one of Cole Porter's greatest hits, 'Love For Sale'. With the Rhodes and sustained hollow body patches giving the tune an overall cool jazz instrumental arrangement, fiddle was added as sweetener and suggestive of folk and country music, which along with blues, fairly much defined the direction in which popular music took throughout the twentieth century. Of course a bit of electronica was needed to bring the tune into the twenty first century where, a few bits of electronica, eight bits in this present sample to be precise, appears to be predominating the sensibilities of how popular music must sound these days.
Happy listening!
Zig
This is such a great piece of fusion music @onemedia I'm listening to it again and loving every segment of it, it has a very original approach and a great gradual syncopation of the instruments, everything is everywhere but in unison at the same time, and I love how you incorporated a violin and blue notes, great work, keep on making what you love
I greatly appreciate your encouragement here, Ivan, it means a lot. Of course I am rather impressed by your work, also. I think we both have something in our inner ear, that can perceive what others merely aren't tuned to. I look forward to hearing and engaging more with you through steemit and discord/SMA Radio ... You are certainly among the musicians I'd love to work with in the future...
Same here @onemedia I greatly appreciate you thoughts and would love to work on something, I'm sure we can work on something that could incorporate me. In example it crossed my mind that we could maybe do something in style of Sun Araw or Panda Bear, I'm sure you will appreciate this genres :)
Fascinating ... Both seem to have a Polynesian/Hawaiian vocal sound. Sun Araw has a definite Surf Music feel, Panda Bear has an electronica undercurrent beneath the island vocals ... I'm amazed how both of these have a huge following and I never heard of either!
Exotic/World/Island Downtempo Electronica ... those are the words I could describe these, and yes, I do appreciate these genres!
Sure, I am open to this and quite enthused to dig into this!
Yeah, however which way you would like to proceed ... Start off with your first and foremost inclination ...
Most welcome sir..
@onemedia Yeah Panda Bear (Animal Collective) and Sun Araw are quite popular with the psychedelic audience. Yes I would love to collab on something similar, this were just an examples, you go on and create something you feel and pass it along to me to make some vocals, I'm sure you will create something awesome (no pressure). Just make structure and don't scatter so much, so it is suitable for vocals, but still be you, cause I am really anticipating what will become out of two of us collaborating :)
Alright! Something perhaps downtempo psychedelic... and yes, not too busy or crowded, to give room for, and an intuitive place to fit in the vocals, unless you have something else specific in mind ... Do you have a key in which your voice works best?
@onemedia My voice tends to sound best in B and B#
yes downtempo psychedelic works for me, just do whatever you feel ATM of making it
Yes!!! Alright then, flow of the moment ... I'll definitely pull something out for you before Friday ...
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love the visual, so dope, like glitch art or something doe
Thank you, my friend! I just recently heard the term 'glitch' applied to art and music ... I'm sure the term comes from its origin in digital tools for art and music, though that could still cover a wide array of genres ... 'glitch' in music from my understanding has also been called '8 bit' or 'nintendo' or 'chiptune' inspired largely on sounds similar from old video/computer games ... and there actually is some of that in here, some sounds generated by the Sound Interface Device 'SID' from the Commodore 64.
I would certainly welcome any other examples of 'glitch' you may know of, as it seems to be a 'new' revival of sorts ...
Danggggggggg what an epic crossroads of an entry.
Ideally combining different elements to maximize the theme.
Love the incredible artwork and bright colors you intertwined in the video. What a way to grab and hold attention.
Absolutley love that bassline o myyyyyy does it hit the soul. And love how you layer and create such an unique arrangement in this one.
Much love and respect for creating this Greatest Hits entry. And love your flowing written part of your post. Love reading your insights; gives such a fresh perspective.
Thank you, my friend! The joy of participating, growing, strengthening, and deepening the bonds with my fellow musical steemians has been remarkable and actually quite unprecedented ... After years on some other leading brand of social media platform , the sense of community there still seems tenuous compared to the firm and deep bonds here ... must be that shared Decentralization Ideal and the sense of progress one gets in building a crypto portfolio while doing what one loves, that deepens our bond ...