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New York: Rebranded Reimagined

New York, New Venice

Do I have the opportunity of a lifetime! Get in now while it’s still affordable. Demand is already higher than expected. This community is going to be the best, most premiere development since Beverly Hills. Named New Venice, we’ve planned for everything, and you need to move quick if you want in. We anticipate the current residents will evacuate the remaining units will become available for development right after the next hurricane very soon.

Experience these premium amenities steps from your door

• Every unit comes with underwater first floor Boat launch

• Gondola rides

• Shopping

• Flooded streets Canal water ways

• Mold and mildew Luxury dinning

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the new, New York!

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New York, The Song:

Ok, So the heart of the song, I love New York. It’s my favorite city. So much action, great music, lots of people everywhere you turn. If you can hustle, New York’s the best. I remember a couple years ago when a hurricane came through and flooded parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. I had friends that lived there and were freaking out, for good reason. They didn’t know if their first floor apartments were going to be under water or not.

As the years past, predictions of the ice caps melting grew and there are areas down in Florida that are losing buildable waterfront land. I heard of some cases where the state is buying land back from people so they can condemn the land since it’s no longer buildable. I’m sure someone can fact check that….

So I had the idea that at some point in time, lower manhattan is going to flood for good. But New Yorkers being New Yorkers, I’d imagine they wouldn’t just walk away, and some guy would figure out a way to take flooded real-estate in NYC and and turn it into waterfront property. I’d image the development would be canal streets, like in Amsterdam or Venice, with gondola’s and guys wearing stripped shirts paddling people around. The fist floors apartments, that will be underwater, become boat storage.  And, before all this, while they’re waiting for “the big one” to come and flood the streets, I can just see the guy with a sign that says “waterfront listing coming soon,” Of course, since it’s a new community, it needs a shitty name like New Venice, because then it’s desirable and cultured. I wanted to give the tune a vintage 60’s movie vibe, like something that would have been filmed in Europe for the intellectual crowds back then—the guys who wore all black and turtle necks…

Photo by: ian dooley @sadswim

Listen to the more new music from the Ghosts EP here:

Sergio wrote a Christmas song! A nod to the classic melancholy Christmas/holiday music of the golden age, with a touch of modern indie rock. Official release date is 12/4/2020. Take a listen now on the link below.

Ghosts Pre-release and Detroit Grit

photo by Emily Orlando @eorl17_eo

A Detroit Contradiction

How does a song that tries to capture the grit and tone of circa 1998 Detroit end up with a James Bond-ish Spanish vibe? That’s a story I’ll share later, but for now, enjoy the song and make sure to pre-order the ep.

New Music and the recording process

Gang,

It’s been two years since I released new music and I couldn’t be more excited to share the new songs with you. Over the next month or so, I’ll go into the details on the song writing process, how we recorded the tunes, inspiration for them and other rambling stories that may or may not be relevant to the music.

One More Time

If you order the pre-sale now, you can get the song, One More Time as an early download. This song has gone through a number of iterations before I landed on lyrics etc. that I thought we good enough to share. The main theme of the song is a last dance, a moment of clarity when a relationship that consumes you, drives you wild, needs to end or your future you will be ruined. In this story, our character sets him or herself u for a final goodbye, but of course is overcome by magnet that pulled him or her there to begin with and can’t ever leave. As the tune evolved, the idea of consumption isn’t a person per se, pop’s it’s into the story line as well.

The Dance

I really dig how the tremolo guitars pair with the synthesizers as I keep falling back on that sound. We replaced the drum machines from North Coast Electric with live drums from Rick Beamon on the ep, and he really kills it (though we did keep a little vintage Roland 707 on this track if you can pick it out). Also, we replaced the synth bass with real bass in the performance by Takashi Iio, my long-time friend.

Mike List performs percussion and handclaps, bringing that Spanish vibe full circle- especially during the guitar solo.

I couldn’t be more happier with how this one turned out.

Well, got cut this one short. Thanks for listening (or reading the right word? either way..)

Till next time-

-SG

King of Anything - Driving Montage Music

King of Anything

an 80’s driving montage theme

King of Anything

Simple fact: Sonic Youth kicks ass. As the definition of the word fact states, this is not an opinion. It’s the reality of the how the world works and how things are. I have no shame in admitting I definitely had Sonic Youth in mind when I was first writing the song, King of Anything. This influence will most likely show up again.  As the song developed, David Bowie somehow worked his into the track as well - I think I was listening to Let’s Dance on repeat during this period. So I had this Sonic Youth/Bowie influenced song and originally wanted horns on the track, but due to lack of budget and a decent horn sample, I used a synth to place-hold some parts, which was really the beginning of my new found love for synthesizers. For years I hated them and fought against using them in any capacity. I guess this is how drug habits start as well…use them once and see how awesome they are, you don’t want to stop.

I had every intention to NOT use distortion guitar on this album. I wanted to focus on clean tone Jaguar with heavy reverb for a cohesive sound through out the album. The way this song came together, I realized there was no other solution, the ending needed to shred as this wall of sound came together. While recording, the guitar solo just screamed 1980’s driving montage scene, you know, like in Rock I, II, II and IV. Then I took a page from Black Sabbath, and thought, when one guitar solo is cool, two is better. So I layered two guitar solos on top of each other and really got something, I think, is fairly interesting. 

Speaking of the 80’s and driving montages, I really thought the solo really captured the final scene of the story I was trying to tell. King of Anything, is story about attending extremely formal events, and then doing the only logical thing, which is to get really, really drunk at them. As some point in the evening, some form of drama ensues, which can only lead to the next logical thing, a driving montage. I’m willing to bet (not actual money of course) If you’re the type of person to actually read this article, then the likelihood of this scenario playing out in your life is pretty high. And let’s be honest on one more point, at least the formal events I attend, people are pretty bombed at the end of  the night at these things. I watched enough 80’s movies to know that was a common occurrence back then as well so in my mind it all tied together.

Not sure how I got Sonic Youth, Davide Bowie and a Rocky montage to make sense for a song, but it does to me, so there you have it. So fire up your favorite 80’s sports car, pop on King of Anything and take a late night cruise. I think you’ll enjoy the vibe. Just try to be sober when you do it.

One last thing, check out this Spotify playlist I put together for your best montages and you can read my other rambling thoughts here. And finally a stripped down live performance here.

Best driving music for all of your 80's movie montages