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KharBevNor:
I'm currently working on a folk noir/post-industrial musical project, but am basically being constantly frustrated by my inability to sing very well. Even if I  take lessons and quit smoking, I very much doubt that my voice will be up to what I want for a lot of my tracks.

To this end, I have worked up a short demo. Yes, I know it's crap, but it gives an idea of what I'm doing:


Ill Met By Moonlight - Something Withered This Way Comes

Of these tracks, The Loving Hand of Time is the only one I'm really happy with. Northern Ocean needs better guitar tone, and the others need better vocals.

To that end, does anyone want to be the main vocalist of my project? or maybe just do a couple of songs? Provisos:

1: I write all the lyrics, or choose which songs will be interpreted/covered.
2: I write the music.
3: You've got to be cool with singing religiously pagan stuff, or possibly covering anti-christian bands such as Sol Invictus.

So, basically, I get most of the creative input. The kickback from this is that, if I ever manage to sell anything by the project, you get a cut.

As a secondary thing, if anyone wants to guest or anything...?

And yeah, I KNOW it's crap. And I know it sucks asking on the internet. Believe me, I would love to put this group together as a live concern and get a more earthy feel to it with percussion and whatnot (though I am thinking of redoing Twa Corbies with bodhran), but everyone I know sucks.

Misereatur:
Godamnit, why are'nt there any guys like you here?
I'd love to help out, but there's a continent between us. Anything I can do over the interbutt?

KharBevNor:
If you've got a microphone, yes...

It's all a mish-mash of stuff. I have a decent microphone (Pro Sound YU37 Cardiod) and amp (Marshall MG), and the only track that's really finished is, as I said, 'The Loving Hand of Time'. It's a shitty demo. Problems affecting the other tracks:

1: As far as I remember, the guitar track on Northern Ocean was recorded when I was having awful bad ground problems, so I basically just had to turn up overdrive until it drowned it out.
2: I've made about eight different attempts to record Twa Corbies, none of them satisfactory. In order to round out the demo, I took the best guitar track I could find and tried to fudge some vocals and recorder over that. That's the track that most needs decent vocal attention though.
3: I actually had a really nice version of Sir Patrick Spense that sat well next to Loving Hand, however Audacity crashed because I was basically using too many layers, the bastard thing. That version I recorded this morning. My guitar is probably slightly out of tune, and I did the vocals all in two takes straight through.

For recording really decent versions, I probably need to hook up my dads Ovation's contact mike into my multi-effects and comp and then record it that way.

What I really want to do is get a still rough, but decent sounding demo of about six tracks worked up (all up to Loving Hand, or better), then either get signed to a small post-industrial label or hawk it as an EP, and use the resulting cash to buy proper studio time. Please remember, though, that I'm not going for a crystal, pristine sound in these songs anyway. I want it kinda dirty. But ideally, I want some beauty in there as well, which is what I'm currently really lacking.

öde:
I don't know if I can sing. I can certainly make noises, so I'll send you my noises and you can see if you like them.

Also, there's only a few miles between us, so we could possibly record something live if you want to.

KharBevNor:
I want either soft female/choirboy, or raw folky vocals, but, well, less raw than mine.

Or at least less flat.

I suppose a widely known example would be Bob Dylan, but I more mean this sort of thing:

Sol Invictus - Sheath and Knife

The whole point of making and posting the demo was to show what sort of feel I wanted, as well as show that I actually had some stuff worked up.

@ Ode: Noises would be good, but I would prefer singing...if anyones really interested, what I was thinking was I could send you the guitar track from and the words to Twa Corbies for you to try out with. As for live...well, that would be cool, but kinda pointless without studio time. I can barely fit my own instruments in my bedroom.

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