Fun with GarageBand part 1

Recently I received about a million GarageBand loops from my buddy Marcin and I've been messing around with them to get the feel of the program. Normally I record on ProTools but I like the software instruments and loops on Apple's GarageBand. A few of my new songs require some complex sounds that I can only do with in GarageBand so I decided to screw around with it for a while. This is one I threw together last night. I played no instruments. It's only loops and midi. Check it:

MandoCoustics

We're On YouTube

We're always looking for the best ways to spread the word about the new music. This time around we decided to throw it out on YouTube. It's really the easiest way for people to tell their friends about it. Just send them on over to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebJs5vW-jI to hear the song with a shot of the single art, and please send people over to YouTube check it out.

On Deck Circle

Now that the first single "Love Shaped Hole" has been released it's time to focus our direction on what's next. Currently there are many songs fighting their way on and off the album. Every song is going through a transition and if any song can't support the dramatic dynamic feel of the album then it will get left off. We know that the next single is "Alive Like You," but what's next?

Here is a list of songs that have solidified their spot on the album:

Voodoo Crimes: A dark rocker that flirts Led Zeppelin with Muse

Questions Of: A soft acoustic guitar/ piano driven electronic rock ballad. This is actually the first guitar riff I ever wrote. 11 years later and it's finally going to be finished.

Me and The Lord Are Gonna Have Words: A fast rocking, crunchy guitar driven blues shuffle.

Love To Me: A dark, loveless, soul searching ballad with hints of eastern musical dynamics.

If you've been following for a while you may have seen this previous post regarding a stripped acoustic album. Well fear not... most of the songs revealed there will appear in some form or another on "The Diaries of Cam DeBarcho"



To hold you over while you wait for the next single I present my podcast listeners with a demo of "Alive Like You"

Enjoy!!

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Love Shaped Hole

***IT'S HERE!***

Chad Macomber returns in a big way after a few years on hiatus with other bands and working on other peoples' albums. "Love Shaped Hole" is the first new original release by Chad since 2007/2008's double A side "On the Run"/"False Starts and Broken Hearts." This is the first release from the forthcoming album titled "The Diaries of Mr. Cam DeBarcho." 

In the song the main character stands at the intersection of two universes: one with his lover and one without. The dynamics of the music separate the two worlds which battle back and forth into a dreamy state. The lyrics find the character realizing what a world would be like had things turned out differently (not unlike Jimmy Stewart in Miracle on 34th Street). 

Macomber calls on his musical influences and multi-instrumental talent to provide a dynamic atmosphere to the song. Without further ado we at Ashes to Embers provide you with Chad Macomber's new single....

 "Love Shaped Hole"

a love shaped thank you to Duncan, Kuc and Corley

free download here

Love Shaped Art

Accompanying artwork for the single "Love Shaped Hole"

A Page from the Diary

With the new single "Love Shaped Hole" looming I present to you a page from Cam's diary. This is actually two separate poems that I grabbed from his diary and combined into one song. The chorus is a poem titled "Alive Like You," and the last 3 quatrains (and I use that term loosely since there are 5 lines not 4) is titled "Prison Skin." You can read both of them on his blog. I actually wrote the first quatrain in the lyrics to flesh out the song. There is a bit of idolatry in the chorus, and it seems to be religious in nature. However, in the verse (the poem "Prison Skin") Cam is speaking of putting a different face forward and trapping yourself within that skin. I really liked the idea of this, so I ran with it. He writes of masks and protection and self imprisonment which to me says that he has put this guise up in order to protect a fragile ego. When I combined the poem "Alive Like You," with "Prison Skin" I was taking this ideal a step further. Here the character puts this psuedo-self forward to hide the timid fragile ego and ends up being consumed by this personality. The true self becomes dangerously obsessed with this new skin and desires to become this person. Essentially this is a story about inner personal struggle of one's self awareness. Did I get too philisophical on you?

Love Shaped Hole

Cam has just uploaded the poem he wrote on his blog that I am using for the new single. Navigate  your way on over there for a sneak peak of the song.