Cistern of the Down

Hi folks, welcome back to the blog that just keeps on giving....
Not much has been going on over here over the last few days, which is sort of good because I need some time to organise this little space of mine. The tidying up has been going well, the places looks half decent now that I've found a spot for most things.

As I have nothing new to post up of my material, I thought I would share a tune with you which I put together about 2 months ago. The idea for the song came to me as I was travelling home from a party for a Friend of mine who had moved bush some years back and was doing a week back on the Coast visiting friends and such. As I was travelling back from this party, the phrase 'Never leave a nugget in your sandbox' came to me. I love bemusing little lines like that one of favorites has to be 'Never butter your toast with a feather' but that's another song yet to be written.

I started thinking around this Nugget in the sandbox phrase, and surprisingly enough, the lyrics started to flow. as soon as I got home I wrote them down as I knew there was no was I was going to remember them the next morning.

It took me few days before i got back to the lyrics, and attempted to put some music to them, I had a basic idea of what I wanted, I knew the chorus would be a repetition of the inspired phrase, and I felt that the rest of the song deserved a hard hitting riff or anthem to keep it pumping. I sorted through my sample CD's for some metal crunching guitar sounds and hard hitting drum loops and before too long I came up good.

The vocals were recorded, and as always were mixed with a pitched octave down version. The chorus vocals were processed through a 4k filter to give a phone voice sound. I should also note that the amazing guitar solo was produced using liquid instruments VSTI (guitar library). In fact no live instruments were used to product this song other than my keys, a host of VSTi's and samples.

Download or stream the song from the link below, and Enjoy!

Cistern of the Down