Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Angie, I'm Brian, and we're Love Spirals. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Shona Love Sparals Episode WHA for? What is it?
Speaker 1: December thirty, thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Craziness. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be like a jam packed episode, I believe, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of news.
Speaker 2: I will try not to make this too long, guys, because,
Speaker 2: for one.
Speaker 1: Thing, we did skip doing the podcast last month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: November was a little different. Yeah, we didn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: put out a new love Spiral song last month. We
Speaker 1: just ended up putting I ended up putting up a
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine recording of Ryan and Suzanne doing a
Speaker 1: little drummer boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, never got a proper digital release.
Speaker 1: It never did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Strangely, Yeah, now that we're working with this new service,
Speaker 1: I thought I would, you know, try to get out
Speaker 1: with those guys. But unfortunately my rollout was borked because
Speaker 1: I wanted to give proper credit to the original lyric writer,
Speaker 1: which happened way back in nineteen fifty one, And so
Speaker 1: the song came out as if it was written in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, and nobody found it.
Speaker 2: It's dated. It's fifty one. So no one finds it
Speaker 2: as a new release anyway. It's out there, so it's.
Speaker 1: A Spotify, yeah, Amazon, and I don't know, like two
Speaker 1: to three hundred people.
Speaker 2: I've heard that. Another reason why we didn't release our
Speaker 2: main song last month the Thanksgiving holiday competition with that,
Speaker 2: so we just said, let's just wait till December, and
Speaker 2: there was a band Camp Friday in early December, and
Speaker 2: also December fifth worked out perfectly. Just wait for the
Speaker 2: holidays to be done. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had this whole thing about trying to chase
Speaker 1: the band Camp Friday's a little too late, but this
Speaker 1: time we were right on time, so we had a
Speaker 1: lot of time to get this song rolled out, which
Speaker 1: is another thing we've talked about a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, child Love Smarls.
Speaker 1: And so Drift Begins was scheduled too and came out
Speaker 1: on December fifth, twenty twenty five. The last song of
Speaker 1: the year for us for sure.
Speaker 2: So if you haven't heard Drift Begins jat it's out
Speaker 2: on all major music streaming platforms, you know, Spotify, Apple, Title, Amazon,
Speaker 2: YouTube Music and so on. And speaking of YouTube, you
Speaker 2: can watch our YouTube video on our YouTube channel. So
Speaker 2: we'll put link to that.
Speaker 1: Yes, another lyrics visualizer video by Yours truly with photography
Speaker 1: by his truly is that thing you can say. You know,
Speaker 1: I did have one stupid problem with this roll out
Speaker 1: though I don't know why, but the song did not show.
Speaker 2: Up on Instagram, like make a video with it in there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're like usually, you know, nowadays they're like,
Speaker 1: well when you post a photo that you should put
Speaker 1: music because you get more like engagement obviously as a band,
Speaker 1: like that's the kind of engage we want. And even
Speaker 1: someone else tried to share the song on their Instagram
Speaker 1: account and then having to put like city mood in
Speaker 1: the background, just telling people to go listen to our song.
Speaker 2: So you contacted them. See what happens It.
Speaker 1: Is with both with both of the Thanksgiving you know
Speaker 1: roll out on the pre Crystal Stroll, they had already
Speaker 1: warned us in advance that the end of the year
Speaker 1: it's hard to get stuff out and there could be delayed.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to be all chill and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is a delay, but I waited
Speaker 1: like a whole week. I'm like, that's it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to write now.
Speaker 2: We learned next time, just write them right away. We
Speaker 2: just wat the whole week.
Speaker 1: There, I know. So anyways, Uh so I don't think
Speaker 1: as many people heard that the song was out as
Speaker 1: maybe you could.
Speaker 2: Have anyway people on Meadow.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but you know so it's like we said,
Speaker 1: it did come out on YouTube and as well as
Speaker 1: band camp. But I want to thank those of you
Speaker 1: who did buy it on band camp, Like you guys
Speaker 1: are always the boss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but can I.
Speaker 1: Ask one little favor? What if you guys could write
Speaker 1: a little tiny review on band camp?
Speaker 2: Oh for all, especially if you were one of our
Speaker 2: band camp people. Yeah, like you're buying it on band camp?
Speaker 2: Yeah please? Yeah, we need someone comments and feedback there,
Speaker 2: and for sure we read comments here too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, I've got some comments. Should we do?
Speaker 1: You want to talk about the song first before we
Speaker 1: get into comments.
Speaker 2: We're in comments right now. Let's do some comment.
Speaker 1: Okay, please scroll up to my comments. Let's see what
Speaker 1: do we got?
Speaker 2: Okay, So here we go for drift begins.
Speaker 1: Drift begins, Okay. Christopher Maynard said beautiful vocals and incredible
Speaker 1: guitar work. Ryan, oh cool, And let's see Ron said
Speaker 1: so sweet, so smooth a deep piece of work. Don't
Speaker 1: stop what you're doing, keep it coming.
Speaker 2: Wow, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 1: We absolutely will. Yeah, we have a couple other songs
Speaker 1: on the work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one so I have up on my other computer screen.
Speaker 1: I had to, I had to really try to get
Speaker 1: them to stop working on a new song so that
Speaker 1: you know, we could get in here and do this
Speaker 1: for you guys. So don't worry, Ron, we got you
Speaker 1: covered for twenty twenty six. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got new ones right, we have tube or
Speaker 2: in mid production.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nuts. So else since thee oh the Violet Baker,
Speaker 1: I liked this one. So beautiful, carries me away at
Speaker 1: a time I need it. This is so poetic, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can relate to that as a music listener.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the holiday season can be roughs. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: which actually this flows right into Tom Lady. He actually
Speaker 1: responded to follow up on what Violet Baker said. It
Speaker 1: actually reminds me to listen to Happy Holidays, a song
Speaker 1: that helped me a lot on a particularly bad Christmas time.
Speaker 1: I guess your music has a good influence on many
Speaker 1: of us. Cool.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Tom, I'm glad that's cool because yeah, we know
Speaker 2: how I know firsthand how music has helped me out
Speaker 2: through some dark times, you know, and you know, rough times,
Speaker 2: and you know, it doesn't make the problems go away,
Speaker 2: but it makes them a little more easier to deal
Speaker 2: with sort of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And sometimes I think, you know, lyrics, lyrics may
Speaker 1: resonate in a way that makes you feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not the only person in the world.
Speaker 2: It feels like, yeah, it's kind of it's the word
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, encouraging, but I feel bad. Other
Speaker 2: people feeling bad too. But it's just like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're not alone, like you know, it's like it's a
Speaker 2: human thing exactly.
Speaker 1: And then what you're feeling is normal. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: not the It's like it's so easy, especially when you're
Speaker 1: like looking on social media, like it seems like everyone's
Speaker 1: having an incredible time. The holidays are amazing. They're not
Speaker 1: always not amazing, you know, or in the case of
Speaker 1: the Happy Holiday song that I wrote, you may not
Speaker 1: always be in touch with the person that's on your mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So speaking of which, that's a perfect time.
Speaker 1: But it's a perfect plug. Thank you so much, Tom Lady.
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays goes way back to like twenty twelve, yeah,
Speaker 1: on a Project Records a compilation called Ornamental CD. I
Speaker 1: think you can listen to it digitally on the streamers,
Speaker 1: but I think Project actually might have a couple of
Speaker 1: CDs left and stock too, if you like. You know,
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people are getting back into
Speaker 1: physical media, so you checked out.
Speaker 2: I'm just disgusting. I don't know how serious we were
Speaker 2: the other day about just getting in contact with Project
Speaker 2: just to buy the rights back to that song so
Speaker 2: we can use it ourselves. We'll see if he's open
Speaker 2: to it, because I don't think he does much with it,
Speaker 2: you know, but we.
Speaker 1: Sure had to do a lot with it, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: because it's so many songs.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, we have only so many holiday songs, so
Speaker 2: you know, we might as well to see if we
Speaker 2: can like get it back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's our only original.
Speaker 2: I guess it be open to it. Just might be
Speaker 2: kind of tricky just telling the distributor what's going. I
Speaker 2: don't know how it works out.
Speaker 1: And like there's another version of Happy Holidays that we've
Speaker 1: recorded together years before that in a totally different style
Speaker 1: and release it as anti pee. Yeah, so that's the
Speaker 1: one that I've actually been using on videos lately, which
Speaker 1: makes me think, Yeah, Sam did Sam Sam Resent? All
Speaker 1: Project Records did not get our original Happy Holidays by
Speaker 1: Love Sprowls up on Meta and that, so I can't
Speaker 1: make reels with that either.
Speaker 2: If we can get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking like we could do a slightly
Speaker 1: different mix. Yeah, we have been if we can find
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's me tough, but twenty twelve it's in the ballpark.
Speaker 2: It's not like something from like the twenty tens, you know,
Speaker 2: the zeros whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousands, we're just barely over that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because now it's all on the same digital audio
Speaker 2: work station on Logic, So I think I might have
Speaker 2: the hard drive thrown in a drawer somewhere.
Speaker 1: We luckily we have all year to get that done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working on it in the spring.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyways, that was a fun aside. I think
Speaker 1: we had a few other Here was one I want
Speaker 1: you to is Misha Owen said love that we're still
Speaker 1: getting new Love Spirals phenomenally beautiful and haunting. Oh thank you,
Speaker 1: And she said them on the Love Spirals Downwards YouTube page.
Speaker 1: You guys, even though we have decided to re embrace
Speaker 1: Ryan's original band name, Love Sproles Dowards. There's still duplicates
Speaker 1: of everything online, there's still two accounts.
Speaker 2: It's gonna have to be that way for Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's so much work, but anyways, it's good to know
Speaker 1: that both groups of people are finding it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: That's that's all it really matters. Yeah, all right, so
Speaker 1: now let's start getting into like, what is drift beginnings.
Speaker 1: We've just kind of yeah, cast up, drift Against, went
Speaker 1: right into holiday music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, drift Against. I remember I was working on
Speaker 2: the song. I was feeling this kind of like nineties
Speaker 2: me vibe more so than like most other songs I've
Speaker 2: been working. I mean, sure, on every song I'm working on,
Speaker 2: I'm channeling every influence I have ever set, every part
Speaker 2: of my life and everything. On this one, I was
Speaker 2: really feeling it. I'm going huh So. One interesting thing
Speaker 2: I did once the song was kind of midway through
Speaker 2: is I pulled out my old drum machine from the nineties,
Speaker 2: the one I used on the one I used on that,
Speaker 2: like the first three low sparls downwards out in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Lisa's HR sixteen drum machine and it still works. So
Speaker 2: I just loaded it up, fired it up and just
Speaker 2: started hitting some of the pads into logic just to
Speaker 2: record all the pads and just cut out kicks and snares.
Speaker 2: Ended up using the kick, snare and high hat. I
Speaker 2: think I layered in another deeper, basier kick with the
Speaker 2: HR sixteen kick.
Speaker 1: I think you did say that, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it helped. I wasn't sure I was all going
Speaker 2: to work out with my new reverbs and stuff, but
Speaker 2: the snare it sounded great, So yeah, I left out
Speaker 2: all on there.
Speaker 1: That's so fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if it makes it sound more
Speaker 2: nineties or not, but yeah, yeah, you guys can tell
Speaker 2: us if you even filled more nineties with that or not.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this song is definitely hell in nineties like,
Speaker 1: but in another way, it's also kind of modern.
Speaker 2: It's more way more modern, way more now, but was
Speaker 2: a little more influenced from then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and lyrically, I was like, I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: what is I mentioned before? But you know I was
Speaker 1: doing music in the nineties two that's a lot less
Speaker 1: known the Ryans. In fact, I never got onto any
Speaker 1: digital services, but I was like, let me dig back
Speaker 1: into those nineties recesses and like, let's think like what
Speaker 1: kind of what kind of lyrical content was going on
Speaker 1: in the nineties, you know, like that kind of like
Speaker 1: mystical poetic, like you can't quite figure out what the
Speaker 1: meaning of it is. And that I tried to kind
Speaker 1: of go for that nineties vibe with my lyrics and
Speaker 1: vocal delivery as well, and I think we had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I really kind of like tried to
Speaker 1: stack various types of vocals. And here's where it kind
Speaker 1: of dips into like what the influence of K pop
Speaker 1: is on us. You know, we watch a lot of
Speaker 1: videos of the singers going into the booths and working
Speaker 1: with the you know, the directors and producers to lay
Speaker 1: down their vocals, and you know, I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I often have worried about having one really stable vocal
Speaker 1: that sounds like the same person all the way through
Speaker 1: a song. It's like I could just drop that, like
Speaker 1: I can bring up different tones of voice.
Speaker 2: And because they have like worry about they have like
Speaker 2: five eight singers in the band, all, yeah.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got a different vocal range and different style and stuff.
Speaker 1: So like I had fun with that, Like it doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily sound the same from the verse to the pre
Speaker 1: chorus to the chorus of the bridge, And so after
Speaker 1: the song was done, I realized, like, you know, I
Speaker 1: think in some parts of this, I was kind of
Speaker 1: channeling like a mid period Pink Floyd kind of thing,
Speaker 1: like the metal album or yeah, like those soundtracks, they.
Speaker 2: Were even some of my work kind of sounds like
Speaker 2: David Gilmore is solo album on an Island, like the Yeah,
Speaker 2: the way I'm playing acoustic guitar, the tempo of the
Speaker 2: song and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's talk about the tempo for a second.
Speaker 2: It's one of the few that we've done in non
Speaker 2: four four. It's in three four or six', eight depending
Speaker 2: on how you look at, It SO i kind of
Speaker 2: look at it a six. Eight, yeah it's like the
Speaker 2: waltz one two three one two, Three and then you
Speaker 2: hear that a lot like in, blues you, know, rock
Speaker 2: and you know it's in the. Nineties, yeah it's a
Speaker 2: popular thing About cockta with twins like That Pink, Floyd,
Speaker 2: like it's just a really cool time signature and we
Speaker 2: haven't used it all that, much but, yeah it worked.
Speaker 2: Out it was that was the right one for this
Speaker 2: song for.
Speaker 1: SURE i wasn't trying to do, it but listening back to,
Speaker 1: IT i was, like my low voice kind of sounds
Speaker 1: like a, man and then with the man sounding voice
Speaker 1: and the woman SOUNDING.
Speaker 2: I put, IT i sounds Like neil And rachel Of Slow,
Speaker 2: dive harmonized and together kind of sparred me on or
Speaker 2: IF i should throw one in, there but, no you're
Speaker 2: just doing, great SO i don't want my scratchy voice out.
Speaker 1: There it's so. Funny so, yeah so it, was, yeah you,
Speaker 1: know we like to have fun. Here. YEAH i really
Speaker 1: think that putting out a single every, month it feels
Speaker 1: so much more freeing than when we're like working on
Speaker 1: an album like constrained, one like kind of thing.
Speaker 2: You're, doing and then it doesn't get out, forever at least.
Speaker 2: Forever at least this way we, work it gets, released
Speaker 2: we get some, feedback we talk about, it and we
Speaker 2: repeat that, cycle and it's just better than just having
Speaker 2: it all bottled up for like two years or something like,
Speaker 2: yeah really it's. Horrible so this is kind of. Cool
Speaker 2: this is one ADVANTAGE i like about the digital, age
Speaker 2: the kind of workflow and the release cycle That i've
Speaker 2: kind of preferred more, quick shorter. Releases in the back
Speaker 2: in the days of, CDs i was trying to, label
Speaker 2: ask your, label CAN i just do four SONG? EPs
Speaker 2: and they didn't want an.
Speaker 1: Album the production cost was pretty the.
Speaker 2: Same, YEAH i mean it costs the same to like
Speaker 2: print up A cd and market, it so it might
Speaker 2: as well sell it for. More that is a full length.
Speaker 2: Album now with those constraints, away it's mainly a digital world. Now,
Speaker 2: yeah it's cool we do it this, way, yeah And
Speaker 2: i'm happy with.
Speaker 1: It another thing that was great about it is, like you,
Speaker 1: know you have to do so much marketing when you
Speaker 1: have when you've just spent two years making an album
Speaker 1: and then this this piece of plastic comes out that
Speaker 1: you need to. Sell you have to keep marketing and
Speaker 1: marketing and marketing and marketing the same thing over and,
Speaker 1: over and it seems, like you, know then you have
Speaker 1: all this creativity bottled up because like how much just
Speaker 1: want to get back to. WORKING i don't want to.
Speaker 2: Keep it and the things. Too when your marketing and
Speaker 2: market it's the same, thing the same album this, time
Speaker 2: we're different songs every, time totally different. Vibes so it's
Speaker 2: like now we're not beating the same drum over and.
Speaker 1: Over it, works especially with your little Visual anything special
Speaker 1: about the solo this? Time we often talk about the.
Speaker 2: Solo, well two weird technical THINGS i did different on
Speaker 2: this song with the. Guitars for the acoustic, GUITAR i
Speaker 2: used a different. MICROPHONE i used your really nice vocal micro,
Speaker 2: microphone your bag vocal. Mic and then also stuck in
Speaker 2: front of the app and recorded the solo that way,
Speaker 2: too instead of going. DIRECT i wanted to sound a
Speaker 2: little more real rather than going through all my weird stereo.
Speaker 2: Stuff just one mono mic in front of a, speaker
Speaker 2: and then THEN i started spread out and you, know
Speaker 2: in the in logic Pro but that's. It this is
Speaker 2: the first TIME i recorded either of those elements in that.
Speaker 1: Way. Wow, ever, yeah, AWESOME i guess that's one OF i,
Speaker 1: mean with your.
Speaker 2: Mic with your, MIC i recorded with your.
Speaker 1: MIC i guess that's one of the reasons why this
Speaker 1: song sounds less like a nineteen ninety one recording and
Speaker 1: a lot more like a twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Recording, yeah but you are going through a vintage mike,
Speaker 2: too so it brings some vintage in its like pre.
Speaker 2: NINETIES i won't say exactly what, decade but, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay uh should we Talk spotify a? Bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure all.
Speaker 1: Right first of, all let me just bring up quickly
Speaker 1: without you a single before. This, YEAH i had had
Speaker 1: to splice in like a little thing because there was
Speaker 1: some intel we didn't have on the day we, recorded
Speaker 1: and it was about how we had like this crazy
Speaker 1: spike in one, day in one, Day and it was
Speaker 1: funny because we were we were going TO dca that,
Speaker 1: day so we were, like we're like on the road
Speaker 1: and we're, busy and just kept seeing like we're just
Speaker 1: getting like thousands and thousands of streams on without. YOU
Speaker 1: i was. WORRIED i was, like oh my, god did
Speaker 1: we get placed on one of those like bought stream.
Speaker 2: Were taking Out we'll take us down for violating. Something but,
Speaker 2: no we found out it was all.
Speaker 1: Legit it was only it was just one, Day LIKE
Speaker 1: i don't know what what playlist or influence or whatever
Speaker 1: push it or for that day we got like fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand. Streams, yeah which is never happened on us in.
Speaker 2: A, DAY i don't. Think.
Speaker 1: So then it was kind of. Sad after, THAT i was, like,
Speaker 1: oh our spike went we're famous for a, day famous
Speaker 1: for a.
Speaker 2: Day we're Like Taylor swift orts for a.
Speaker 1: Day oh, man they'd probably get like a.
Speaker 2: MILLION i, like not even, close but it's kind of
Speaker 2: like to be like.
Speaker 1: That, yeah it's out of like over forty forty one thousand. Streams,
Speaker 1: ye doing, Well thanks you guys for liking and streaming.
Speaker 1: It So drift. BEGINS i think as of this morning
Speaker 1: was like OVER i don't, know seven, thousand two hundred
Speaker 1: streams something like. That and once again we're back to,
Speaker 1: that like forty nine percent of our streams are coming
Speaker 1: from the, profile forty seven percent from the, algorithm so
Speaker 1: we're not shadow bands on the algorithm. Anymore like that one. Release,
Speaker 1: yeah about twelve percent of it's coming from a listener
Speaker 1: plays playlist right. Now our top city for The brownie
Speaker 1: Song Drift begins Is, brooklyn and the second biggest Is
Speaker 1: New York. City, wow we're big In New. York.
Speaker 2: WOW i had no. IDEA i KNOW i have to go.
Speaker 1: THERE i guess how many streams we got In South?
Speaker 2: Korea is it in the teens bigger we're in the. Twenties,
Speaker 2: yeah oh, cool.
Speaker 1: Twenty four, Awesome.
Speaker 2: So silly again if you're In South korea right as
Speaker 2: we don't know who you guys.
Speaker 1: ARE i know these streams were. Getting oh, yeah And.
Speaker 1: Spotify Spotify wrapped is like the big thing that people
Speaker 1: talk about online at this time of. Year these, days
Speaker 1: people just complain about. It i've noticed they hate. It
Speaker 1: no blah blah. Blah like for one THING i saw
Speaker 1: people complain about this year is That spotify is added
Speaker 1: like like your listening, age and people are, like what
Speaker 1: it says something like seventy. THREE i was, like, well
Speaker 1: that's funnycause mine SAID i was twenty one and ALL
Speaker 1: i do and you can see it. Online it was
Speaker 1: like all love spalls downward songs That i've been uploading this.
Speaker 2: Year, yea you think you think you're sixty?
Speaker 1: Three? HERES i know, exactly so that was a. Surprise but,
Speaker 1: anyways the Band Spotify wrapped has some fun factoids And
Speaker 1: I'm i'm mostly sharing this That ryan can find. Out all,
Speaker 1: Right so we have had in twenty twenty five alone
Speaker 1: three point four million streams.
Speaker 2: Total, wow that's, awesome isn't all? That that's?
Speaker 1: GREAT i, know and that is let's a thirteen million
Speaker 1: minutes of.
Speaker 2: Streaming, wow it's a lot of minutes and, yeah a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 1: Ears twenty four. Years in, fact they added that up.
Speaker 2: For years of.
Speaker 1: Time, Wow City moon is still your number one most known. Track,
Speaker 1: Yeah city moun has had it had nine hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty six thousand streams this year. Wow. Yeah Not myself
Speaker 1: is number two with two hundred and eighty four thousand.
Speaker 1: Streams cool just last year yea, yeah and then.
Speaker 2: It's yeah it's from this.
Speaker 1: Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool so that's, cool old and new both kicking.
Speaker 1: Ass oh. Yeah there's a weird thing that they put
Speaker 1: on there that, says like what club you and your listener?
Speaker 2: FORM i can't. Imagine it was.
Speaker 1: FUNNY i wish you could see the. Graphic i'll have
Speaker 1: to put it up on the screen for. Them so
Speaker 1: it says that the club that we and the listeners
Speaker 1: belong to is The Cosmic stereo.
Speaker 2: Club Cosmic stereo under with that entail.
Speaker 1: Crossing terrestrial barriers with. Music only three percent of global
Speaker 1: listeners are in this.
Speaker 2: Club, wow the music is kind of. Elite, yeah, Yeah
Speaker 2: My Beautiful sadness forms an elite.
Speaker 1: Club to some other great facts is that our listeners
Speaker 1: are up by ninety four percent On spotify that's.
Speaker 2: Crazy. Wow good.
Speaker 1: Year, yeah and our streams are up by seventy three.
Speaker 1: Percent good.
Speaker 2: Year, Awesome thanks, Guys thanks for everyone who's listening To.
Speaker 1: Yeah let's. See and then they have this other thing
Speaker 1: where they kind of they tried to figure out like
Speaker 1: what time and what time of the day and of
Speaker 1: the week or whatever the people most like most listen
Speaker 1: to your. Songs, yeah so they said that misunderstood like
Speaker 1: our already all Always Love you was the party, darter
Speaker 1: that it tended to kick off people's. Weekends, WOW i.
Speaker 1: Know and Then Without you was for the early. Risers
Speaker 1: they tended to listen to it first thing in the.
Speaker 1: MORNING i never.
Speaker 2: Listened our music in the. MORNING i never listened to
Speaker 2: music in the.
Speaker 1: Morning, really, YEAH i do when i'm, like you, know getting,
Speaker 1: ready stuff like. That and it's always funny when one
Speaker 1: of our songs comes. On so it'll be like like
Speaker 1: Some korean, songs some trap songs and Boot boss. Mode you.
Speaker 1: KNOW i Mentioned The Little Drummer boy to. You but
Speaker 1: one THING i didn't mention is that not only is
Speaker 1: it now finally on all the streaming platforms for years,
Speaker 1: now it's been on band camp and there's two versions on,
Speaker 1: there the vocal version With suzanne singing like those original,
Speaker 1: lyrics and then there's the version that you first started
Speaker 1: putting together where you sampled like an.
Speaker 2: Old christmas, record like from the.
Speaker 1: FIFTIES i Think i'm calling that the, demo and the
Speaker 1: two of them are packaged together as a single over
Speaker 1: on band. Camp so if you were looking for like
Speaker 1: a digital download For christmas, tunes you can grab that over,
Speaker 1: there two of THEM a, yeah that's SPLs downward stop
Speaker 1: bandcamp dot, Com and On lovesparles dot bandcamp dot com
Speaker 1: you could pick up a free copy of our cover
Speaker 1: of As Being glow By John, denver which is the
Speaker 1: first song we ever did together that was on a project.
Speaker 2: Record you look at all the, decades you, Know i've
Speaker 2: done a Few christmas.
Speaker 1: Songs, yeah exactly What i've, mentioned three or, Four, yeah
Speaker 1: like one a decade or.
Speaker 2: SO i guess we have to make one this.
Speaker 1: Decade, Maybe, yeah it's been a long. Yeah and THEN
Speaker 1: i have one other little piece of. News it's crazy
Speaker 1: a collaboration That ryan AND i were working on back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three has finally seen the light of.
Speaker 1: Day like way before all of, this like kind of
Speaker 1: like reinvention of ourselves and embracing the streaming and all that.
Speaker 1: Stuff but this GUY'S i don't think he's that well.
Speaker 1: Known his name Is John. Zorco he does a project
Speaker 1: Called Falling. YOU i first came Across Following you WHEN
Speaker 1: i was doing college radio AT. kCi he and his
Speaker 1: girlfriend put out A cd AND i would play it
Speaker 1: sometimes on my, show and then like many years, LATER
Speaker 1: i ended up doing a song Called blessed on one
Speaker 1: of his. ALBUMS i don't even remember what year that.
Speaker 1: Was and THEN i did another one with him a
Speaker 1: couple years after, that and then, yeah he reached out
Speaker 1: to us in twenty twenty, three sent me this crazy,
Speaker 1: long like nine minute instrumental. Track at, FIRST i was, Like,
Speaker 1: wow what AM i gonna do with? This it took
Speaker 1: me a long time to come up. With, plus he
Speaker 1: had a really specific thing that he wanted the lyrics
Speaker 1: to be. About he had this like. Theme it was,
Speaker 1: like so the album is Called, metaanoia and so he
Speaker 1: wanted it to be like a mythical. Story SO i
Speaker 1: ended up writing a song Called filhemina about that That greek.
Speaker 1: Myth we recorded a version of it and like send
Speaker 1: it over to him and it just had like one
Speaker 1: one human vocal and Then ryan at the time was
Speaker 1: playing around this effect called like ultra.
Speaker 2: Boy no, no, no it was no ultra, boys like
Speaker 2: a foremanche. Shifter, no that's Just scott or to make
Speaker 2: you something like a like an old soul male singer
Speaker 2: or something like.
Speaker 1: That, well so what was.
Speaker 2: IT i don't have the name of the plugging off the,
Speaker 2: top some waves vocal harmony plugin or something like. That,
Speaker 2: yeah SO i generated some harmonies with. That oh it
Speaker 2: sounds kind of. Interesting we left it on.
Speaker 1: There, yeah, YEAH i think some parts of it came
Speaker 1: out kind of, cool and the parts are not to my.
Speaker 1: Liking all these sound a little too robotic and like
Speaker 1: a little Too. Traviscott so, anyways we sent we Sent
Speaker 1: John zorco that and he liked, it and then we
Speaker 1: actually started working on another song on the album for
Speaker 1: him with someone that we both knew way back in
Speaker 1: the early. Nineties True alien From This ascension back in
Speaker 1: the nineties was From This ascension back in the. Nineties. True.
Speaker 1: Yeah so, yeah LIKE i had interviewed her for my
Speaker 1: fancy substitution way back in the.
Speaker 2: Day, yeah he wanted us to. Help he said he
Speaker 2: just couldn't get the vocal level. RIGHT i was trying
Speaker 2: to just yeah craft it in, there and then we
Speaker 2: found ways to just like just make her vocal just
Speaker 2: bloom and be more lovely because it's some really difficult
Speaker 2: multi part. Harmonies it sounds like she was so, cool
Speaker 2: very kind of or something like, that you, know but
Speaker 2: it's really. Cool we crafted it In andrew AND i
Speaker 2: both she did a lot of production as a vocalist and,
Speaker 2: producer and, YEAH i was really proud of how that
Speaker 2: all came out.
Speaker 1: COOL i took some a little part of, like, yeah
Speaker 1: something like. THAT i. THINK i looked it up and there's, YEAH.
Speaker 2: I thought it Was italian as my, guess but you
Speaker 2: know that's. Nice that could be. WRONG i was pronounced.
Speaker 1: Soe how she's saying it yea. SOONERS i even TOOK
Speaker 1: i even like sampled some of the VOCALS i thought were,
Speaker 1: cool AND i added into this like weird breakdown part
Speaker 1: at the, end WHICH i guess he hadn't even expected
Speaker 1: there to be vocals, There so we go check that out.
Speaker 1: Again it came out so, cool like the facts chain and. Everything, yeah,
Speaker 1: YEAH i think then there was even some talk about
Speaker 1: trying to get us to do some more, songs and
Speaker 1: it was like we got.
Speaker 2: To get back our stuff she had mentioned on your.
Speaker 2: SONG i did contribute guitar as.
Speaker 1: Well, YEAH i didn't even finish talking about.
Speaker 2: It, yeah threw a solo down the blues.
Speaker 1: Solo it's kind of.
Speaker 2: A mix between like it sounds kind of Like David
Speaker 2: gilmour a little, BIT i, guess, yeah without all the
Speaker 2: big muffy, sustain but it's a stainy and THEN i
Speaker 2: even put on a little acoustic guitar in the. Background.
Speaker 2: Yeah first he was kind of not. SURE i guess
Speaker 2: he's never had it, before but, YEAH i got it
Speaker 2: all to work.
Speaker 1: Out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah so IT'S i kind of love spirals ish
Speaker 2: interpretation or collaboration with him.
Speaker 1: Totally there's one THING i wanted to. SAY i won't
Speaker 1: belabor it too, much but so after working On drew's
Speaker 1: that had like four part harmonies.
Speaker 2: In all real, vocals no, electronically.
Speaker 1: And THEN i felt. BAD i was, like you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i really feel LIKE i just phoned it in Letting
Speaker 1: ryan mess around with that, effect LIKE i should sing
Speaker 1: my own, harmonies like after, all following you for a
Speaker 1: time where known as like the beauty of the female.
Speaker 1: VOICE i was, LIKE i feel like this robot voice
Speaker 1: is not like the spirit of following. You plus another
Speaker 1: song that he had sent our way on that he
Speaker 1: had wanted us to mix it also had a very human.
Speaker 1: VOICE i was just, LIKE i should go back in
Speaker 1: and sing my own high. Harmony SO i. DID i
Speaker 1: did that and it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of, time and we sent him that.
Speaker 1: Mix, yeah SO i got that.
Speaker 2: Perfect he said he was going to use. That even
Speaker 2: sent you like a preview of the, album he said,
Speaker 2: it and that was the version he sent.
Speaker 1: You. Yeah, yeah so like, yeah after he had he
Speaker 1: had our, mix our second mix Of, filamina our mix Of,
Speaker 1: alcon and then like several other tracks he started putting
Speaker 1: together like, oh this is how the album is so,
Speaker 1: far you, guys and he sent it out to all
Speaker 1: the all the vocalists are, involved like here's the album so.
Speaker 1: Far AND i was, like, okay, cool you know that
Speaker 1: was my new final version of the. Song and then
Speaker 1: all of a, sudden he's like the album is out.
Speaker 1: Here it is with mix one, Yeah AND i was,
Speaker 1: like why is it a mixed one on? There So i'm.
Speaker 1: Bummed i'm a little bummed BECAUSE i really liked the
Speaker 1: second version. Better but what are you gonna do electronic.
Speaker 2: Musician he's a synthesizer. DUDE i could imagine maybe he
Speaker 2: liked The he likes weird. CRAP i, mean he gets
Speaker 2: pleasure from not harmonically perfect things or, whatever just weird
Speaker 2: THINGS i wouldn't choose as a. Producer so that's probably.
Speaker 1: It drew On, facebook she was, like, well you guys
Speaker 1: are way too. Modest, ever we're gonna go listen To.
Speaker 1: Filmina it's like the chilliest of the chill kind of. Thing,
Speaker 1: okay it's. Cool so that's. That so that's our mixed
Speaker 1: bag of stuff at the. Ends lots of weird things. Happening, yeah,
Speaker 1: great something not as, great some a little. Confusing, yeah
Speaker 1: but it's been quite the, year and we're so happy
Speaker 1: that you guys have been on this journey with.
Speaker 2: Us yeah, yeah listen to, us growing with. Us so
Speaker 2: this is all. Cool and LIKE i, said we've got more.
Speaker 2: SONGS i got one just sitting right up here right.
Speaker 2: Now maybe record a guitar solo, today thank you. All
Speaker 2: that's the thing that the song just it, says solo
Speaker 2: right here and it just needs. One i'm SURPRISED i
Speaker 2: didn't do it because it's a song that we were
Speaker 2: working on earlier in the. Year then we got site
Speaker 2: tracked to other. Things, yeah we're way back in Like. March,
Speaker 2: yeah so it's it's pretty far. Along and then we
Speaker 2: have another one where we just track a lot of
Speaker 2: vocals and we need to go. Back so we have
Speaker 2: a couple that we are, yeah had deep and.
Speaker 1: Two or Three, yeah two or.
Speaker 2: Three so, yeah you'll get some new music twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six from, Us so stay, tuned stay. Listen so thanks
Speaker 2: for all your, listening thanks for all your, support and
Speaker 2: very can't we can't say thank you enough for us
Speaker 2: fifty eight year olds basically be making music still people
Speaker 2: listening to. It that means the world to.
Speaker 1: Us. Magical SO i guess Happy New. Year we will
Speaker 1: see you In, january and until, THEN i Guess i'll
Speaker 1: take you out with a little bit of drift against sure.
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