My New Album Released Today

[Zensō]

Thanks for indulging me here (yet again).

My new album, Shibusa, was released today on Bandcamp and the major streaming services. Stylistically, it’s similar to my prior releases, with jazz-inspired melodic and percussive improvisations layered over ambient soundscapes. Thanks for taking a listen! —Alan

Shibusa, by Zensō

8 track album

zenso.bandcamp.com

 

[Hugo9000]

The 'headstage' is enormous on the first track, listening with my Sennheiser HD 660S headphones! (I love them, but none of the 6-series are known for soundstage/headstage haha! So it's surprising to me to get that effect here!)

I listen almost exclusively to 'classical' (Baroque and Romantic/Late Romantic eras actually, I generally dislike the actual Classical era haha) plus a bit of 1940s/50s jazz and a couple of pop/rock artists, but I always enjoy your music, so I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of this new album. Thanks again for sharing with us, and congrats on your newest art!

 

[Doodski]

Thanks for indulging me here (yet again).

My new album, Shibusa, was released today on Bandcamp and the major streaming services. Stylistically, it’s similar to my prior releases, with jazz-inspired melodic and percussive improvisations layered over ambient soundscapes. Thanks for taking a listen! —Alan

Shibusa, by Zensō

8 track album

zenso.bandcamp.com

I can only imagine the patience req'd to make this.

 

[Zensō]

The 'headstage' is enormous on the first track, listening with my Sennheiser HD 660S headphones! (I love them, but none of the 6-series are known for soundstage/headstage haha! So it's surprising to me to get that effect here!)

I listen almost exclusively to 'classical' (Baroque and Romantic/Late Romantic eras actually, I generally dislike the actual Classical era haha) plus a bit of 1940s/50s jazz and a couple of pop/rock artists, but I always enjoy your music, so I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of this new album. Thanks again for sharing with us, and congrats on your newest art!

Hey, thanks so very much. I appreciate your time and attention. I hope you enjoy the album!!

 

[Zensō]

I can only imagine the patience req'd to make this.

Ha! It does take a fair bit of time, this album represents about 6 months worth of daily work. One bite at a time, as they say. Thanks!

 

[Rednaxela]

Had a quick listen on Spotify, bookmarked it. Will get back to it for sure!

 

[DVDdoug]

Ha! It does take a fair bit of time, this album represents about 6 months worth of daily work. One bite at a time, as they say. Thanks!

The early Beatles recordings were basically one song in the morning and another in the afternoon with the '45 in the record store by the next week! And they might have written the song the night before.

(By the end of their career things were getting more complicated and they were allowed to use LOTs of studio time.)

Then I read something once arguing in favor of a real drummer over programmed MIDI drums. They said, "A drummer can play a 3-minute song in 3 minutes - How long does it take you to program the drums?" ...Not completely true if you include the set-up time and the time to learn the part and there might be multiple takes, but kinda' true and kinda' funny!

 

[Doodski]

The early Beatles recordings were basically one song in the morning and another in the afternoon with the '45 in the record store by the next week! And they might have written the song the night before.

(By the end of their career things were getting more complicated and they were allowed to use LOTs of studio time.)

Then I read something once arguing in favor of a real drummer over programmed MIDI drums. They said, "A drummer can play a 3-minute song in 3 minutes - How long does it take you to program the drums?" ...Not completely true if you include the set-up time and the time to learn the part and there might be multiple takes, but kinda' true and kinda' funny!

The Beatles are ~2 minute and 40 second wonders. Nearly all the old songs run ~2 minutes and 40 seconds. For that reason I grew tired of that. What @acbarn is doing is much more complicated and the production must be very time intensive. I sense lotsa skills in this venture.

 

[Zensō]

Then I read something once arguing in favor of a real drummer over programmed MIDI drums. They said, "A drummer can play a 3-minute song in 3 minutes - How long does it take you to program the drums?" ...Not completely true if you include the set-up time and the time to learn the part and there might be multiple takes, but kinda' true and kinda' funny!

Yeah, whoever said that never worked with real drummers in a recording studio. Most, other than the very top studio players, couldn’t play a track perfectly enough in one or two takes if their life depended upon it. An extreme example are some of the Steely Dan sessions in which even some of the best drummers in the world were required to play take after take, sometimes into the multiple dozens, to get one acceptable track.

 

[Zensō]

Had a quick listen on Spotify, bookmarked it. Will get back to it for sure!

Thank you!

 

[HammerSandwich]

The early Beatles recordings were basically one song in the morning and another in the afternoon with the '45 in the record store by the next week! And they might have written the song the night before.

Huh. I thought it was pretty clearly established that Paul wrote "The Night Before."

 

[Rednaxela]

Finally took the time to give it a good listen.

I love it. Especially the first and the last track.

 

[DonR]

Beautiful

 

[majingotan]

Beautifully well made and lifelike sounding out of my Dan Clark Aeon X Open (No EQ whatsoever)

 

[Zensō]

Thank you all!

 

[poxymoron]

Lovely music, well done. Listened to half of it in work on headphones using the link you shared, just favourited it on Tidal, I'll listen to it at home over the weekend on my speakers.

 

[JSmith]

jazz-inspired melodic and percussive improvisations layered over ambient soundscapes

Heiwa (Peace) is really nice... I haven't listened to all tracks yet, but so far that has stood out for me from 3 tracks. It's clear by listening that much effort has gone into this, so congrats on some great work.


JSmith

 

[killdozzer]

Great news!!! Congrats and the best of luck to you! I hope you're satisfied with how it turned out!

 

[Zensō]

Finally took the time to give it a good listen.

I love it. Especially the first and the last track.

Thanks for taking a listen. I very much appreciate it!

 

[Zensō]

Beautiful

Thank you.