25 August, 2009

[Caravan Ray]

Today was meant to be the Taranaki release date for my new CD. I am playing at the local songwriters night tonight and I wanted to flog my merch. But apparantly a printer broke down in Auckland, and my CDs are still "in production". Bugger.

Anyway, as I sort out how I will get these things on the internet, I read a useful thing on the CD Bay website:
http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2009/07/i ... -any-fans/

about how it is important to have a good description of your music. I find that very hard to do.

I have had a crack at it here:

Sleeper by Caravan Ray
A bit like TMBG but not as nerdy. A bit like the Magnetic Fields, but not as gay. A bit like the Hoodoo Gurus, but less paisley. And a bit like Rolf Harris, but without the beard. Caravan Ray's debut release features 11 foot-tapping tales of self-loathing, drunkedness and sexual perversion. The perfect party starter for any occaision.

Problem is though - if Songfight has taught me anything - I suspect that what I think I sound like is often very different to what other people think I sound like....

QotD: What do YOU sound like?

[Denyer]

It is too bad about Auckland's printer breaking down. I suppose the next closest one would be in Wellington?

[Caravan Ray]

You wanna know how to get a party started?

Get a middle-aged, overweight man in a "Sonic Youth" Tshirt gyrating around on stage to his own home-made karaoke mix of a song about a Russian Czarina having sex with a horse.

Got Taranaki going tonight - damn, I wish I had CDs to sell.

I went off like a frog in a sock tonight. this should be in h efdrink thread

[Caravan Ray]

It is too bad about Auckland's printer breaking down. I suppose the next closest one would be in Wellington?

I don't think they have a printer in Welly yet. We have to wait for the Dorkland one to be fixed

[signboy]

qotd: I sound like yo momma, but with more rawk. 8)

[Spud]

From our CD Baby pages:

Information Overload
High-energy first offering explores styles from rock to rap with bizarre, disturbing results.

It's a Shame
Pushing the boundaries of both rock and rap, leaving nothing in between undisturbed.

Beer and Salad Days
Avant-Jazz Loungecore at its finest, spiced with both rock and rap and toasted well.

It's a little off, because we don't rap. Much.

SPUD

[fluffy]

I've been trying to figure out what I sound like for a while, because I'm well aware of the problem of saying "I like experimenting in lots of different genres" meaning people don't check me out at all. I think my music sounds like Thom Yorke and Bjork had a baby which they dropped on its head and so it had to take the short bus to school.

(It is okay for me to say that because I took the short bus to school.)

[rone rivendale]

As shown on my music myspace I sound like:
"Techno beats mixed with the guitar of a metal wannabe and vocals that sound somewhere between Trent Reznor(NiN) and Darren Hayes(Savage Garden)."

[Caravan Ray]

I think my music sounds like Thom Yorke and Bjork had a baby which they dropped on its head and so it had to take the short bus to school.

I like this one. It does conjure up an instant image of what you might sound like, and may leas one to investigate further.

Likewise, Rone's isn't bad - perhaps needs a bit more work.

I think the Octothorpe descriptions are a bit vague though. For me anyway - I think it is good to refer to some known act, just a point of reference. Perhaps something along the lines of...Octothorpe sounds a bit like Tom Waits' and Shane McGowan's experimental Bavarian death-metal oompah band project


I am still trying to tweak my own. Now trying:
...the musical eqivalent of spending 2 weeks stuck in a kombi with the Magnetic Fields, the Monkees, Rolf Harris and Silvio Berlusconi.

[JonPorobil]

From my Myspace page:

Sometimes, Jon Eric sounds like comedy music without the jokes. Sometimes, he sounds like Jonathan Coulton. Sometimes, he sounds like a pensive singer-songwriter, struggling to be heard over the conversation in the café. Sometimes, he talks about himself in the third person.

Probably still needs some work.

[Ross]

First draft:

Mixes classic folk aesthetics with a modern sensibility to bring intensityy to a thoughtful and clever songwriting approach.

[Caravan Ray]

First draft:

Mixes classic folk aesthetics with a modern sensibility to bring intensityy to a thoughtful and clever songwriting approach.

Your typo first made me read that as:
Mixes classic folk aesthetics with a modern sensibility to bring insensitivity to a thoughtful and clever songwriting approach.

which is not what you meant - but it certainly sounds interesting

[Paco Del Stinko]

I guess I would be something like : cartoonish goon rocker attempting to do more than he can or should. Extra cheese for yesterday's generation.

[Lord of Oats]

I'm very mysterious, and I like it that way. It enables me to go up to girls and be like "I'm very mysterious."

My stuff can speak for itself. If I speak about it, the mystery could be lost.

And yeah, that third person stuff is weird. I'm probably much better suited to describing other people. Which I was gonna do, I think, but then I forgot.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Paco said it best: Urban cartoon music

To which I'd pro'lly add: ; Bakshi and Wain, with King Features, Gorey and Chas. Addams waiting in the wings.