The first music completed during the Coronavirus lockdown chez Heda turned into an intense mix of loud guitars with a ten-voice choir taking over the coda: https://soundcloud.com/hedaband/tick
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Tag Archives: indie
Hot riffing
Fresh for October:
Finally finished in September, this has been simmering a while.
I think I was quite fussy about the production and the energy levels.
Inspired by Elvira Madigan, Oscar Wilde, David Hockney and my mate Daniel!
Big earworm riff which isn’t really a riff…
Rock Pop
First time on Soundcloud for a personal favourite.
Heda in full effect…
New song
The latest track by Heda released on SoundCloud. Listen for free:
Positively optimistic (?)
A slight change of pace for this new song:
Not a ballad. Not a love song. Not about a girl.
Autumn
Latest posting on Soundcloud before Winter sets in…
Approximately 50% of this song is an E7 chord! Oh, the inspiration of the greats like R. D. D. !
New Sounds
I always liked the Mellotron flute in this track. It must remind me of those sixties psychedelic songs that combine lightness and heaviness in unique ways. It would have been a little too gloomy without it, I think, and it weaves beautifully round the guitar.
The Audio Page is here: http://heda.org.uk/?page_id=35 with complete lyrics.
Bus Stop
There are well-written songs and there are great-sounding tracks. I’m obsessed with the idea of aiming for both at once. This is one of the more traditional recent songs in the sense that it is about as close to a ballad as I really want to go. Lyrically it’s a little melancholy existentialist scenario rather than a narrative but it has a classic verse/chorus/middle-eight song structure. This one’s in Em if you want to play along.
New Music
I’ve settled on the final masters for the new tracks. I’m using Soundcloud to make streams of songs available and hopefully get some feedback. The songs will be on rotation with a few available at a time. To get going and blow the cobwebs away, the first track is the awesome in-your-face Parasite which is a sort of abstracted protest song.
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214831190″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
The audio page: http://heda.org.uk/?page_id=35
Digital art and graphics
New series of digital collages, possibly for use as music graphics, but mostly for their own sake while I dodge builder/decorators and try to mix and master new songs.