How are your right brain and eardrums treatin’ ya?

I’m about to head down to the studio and attempt to lay down the vocal tracks for “Beef Ruined”, which is like a cross between Snoop Dogg and Radiohead.

Hopefully I’ll have enough time to do vocals for another song called “Just Another Nice Guy from the Orient 2010″, which has been a favorite of many voluntary mothers around the universe. This song has already been recorded twice on “I Love Your Right Brain” and “Voluntary Invasion”. But this new one is a more psychedelic take on this weird piece of aural entertainment.

After these songs, there will be a couple more vocal recordings, and then I’ll start laying down guitars. I’ll try to take some pictures or maybe videos of the recording process and put them up here.

So that’s what I’m up to. What’s going on in your world?

currenly playing: Kenny Burrell “Midnight Blue”

hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

A demo mix of “Anal Dungeon” – a song dedicated to the Buffalo weirdo band Anal Pudding – was created yesterday. I made it just to see how it’d go in the real mixing phase, and also to give this pudding to some folks.

Even though it was a pre-final version and a rough mix, it took me 3 whole days to mix and master. Looks like I underestimated the vast enormity of VME’s new songs, many of which are fully orchestrated (not necessarily in a classical sense) with tens of, hundreds of, thousands of, or maybe not that many but still many enough, different instruments.

Once I get done with the current vocal recording phase, I’ll replace the scratch guitar parts with final versions of them, then onto the real mixing and mastering phase. It’ll be awhile, since I’m the only one doing this and I can’t have multiple myselves which I wish I could.

I’m sending this rough mix of Anal Dungeon to a few folks in the press and also to a few of my friends around the globe just to let ‘em know I ain’t fuckin’ around and this new album will sound extra-bitchen. Stay tuned.

PS. Yesterday I attended a classical concert where my pianist friend Sachio Yoshida played. I used to hate opera singing, but I guess I’m growing old and somehow found myself starting to like it. The fact that the singer was a Baritone helped. I was deeply moved, moved to tears. Speaking of which, the aforementioned new album has parts that sound like a low-budget high school opera. Sure to make you have a good laugh.

Aigh, talk to ya lata.

hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

Hey there. How’s it rolling?

So, while taking my little “hay fever break” from the recording of a new VME album, I somehow managed to record a little something for you. Below is the detail of what this poop is and why you need to come listen now rather than later in your precious little life.

“Psychedelic Hibernation”, a psychedelic sequel to my previous psychedelic guitar solo work “Psychedelic Freakout”, was just released on VME’s Bandcamp page.

Recommended for those who like the guitar work of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, John Frusciante, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.

Also recommended for those who like bands like Acid Mother Temple, Hawkwind, and Mammatus.

If you liked the last one, you’ll like this one, too. If you haven’t heard the last one, come check this one out. It’s much shorter than the last one, thus much easier on your short attention span that’s getting shorter day in day out.

Soon you’ll have no attention span at all. And after a while we won’t have a word for ‘attention’ any longer, since there will be no such thing as attention any more. So come check this song out before we, the human race lose the very concept of attention, here.

Pretty soon people will stop saying “attention, please”. There will only be “shut the fuck up and listen to me now”, just like all the bands on MySpace. And sooner than you thought, the human kind will fail just like MySpace did. How sad.

So while you listen to this little tune, imagine yourself in psychedelia trying to hibernate in this sad new world. And you’ll get my secret message carefully encrypted in it. If you think you get it, let me know in the comment box below.

OK, go have fun now!

And always remember, Frank Zappa is the man.
Who else can release 100 albums of great music in only 20 years?

talk to ya soon.
hugs,

-Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth