Amplify Week: Day 3 " Twilight "
04/29/2008
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(antiMusic) Continuing our policy of showcasing up and coming artists we proud to turn the focus this week on Brooklyn rockers Amplify. These indie rocker deliver some explosive music that encompasses a lot of different influences which makes them a really compelling list. this week they'll tell us about five of their favorite tracks from their recent release 'Beneath the Beauty Lies...Heaven to Burn'Here they are with today's song: Twilight- This song's subject matter deals with the lack of empathy and emotional numbness that sometimes threatens each of us as human beings living in this modern, so-called "civilized" society where political corruption, racism, wealth and upper-class entitlement threaten the working class. It's protagonist struggles with her feelings of anger, isolation and frailty through Sensual Gratification. From an instrumental standpoint, this particular track was exciting for Bobbie and myself to write because we decided to make this an opportunity to explore different textural dynamics within the passages. The initial writing began with Bobbie playing drums and me throwing riffs at him
.Bobbie sang his idea for the chorus
.once I transposed it on guitar we started piecing the parts together and were pleased with the results. One of my truly favorite studio memories of tracking was when session player/Chapman Stick master Tony Levin was laying his bass parts down and he turned to us and said, "
exactly how many parts do you have in this particular piece anyway? I guess I'll refer to this section as 'part h'
." - Check out some of the songs from the CD, learn more about the band and once they've won you over you can buy the CD here as well.
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