Z Media Worldwide Podcast and Music

Notes from The Phaige http://soundcloud.com/ThePhaige

Sense Offence - An Ambient Abstract Fusion

Zeph Daniel: Bass, Drums, Synth. Voice & Production

ThePhaige: Guitar, Synth, Vocals

******************************

This was like the boys night out Jam session groove...haha

I had this small snippet of a tune I sent over to Zeph to see

if he wanted to build on it and he came back with this really

cool ambient vibe with a wicked bass section and he kicked

back to me to play guitar and add around what he had and it

was a blast to play. I was using a new tool (guitar) on this one

to break it in and I really like the tone of this PRS Tremonti SE.

Thanks Zeph for the inside on that :) I just really had a great time with this and although.

Jaime sat this one out as we were very much thinking of her as we jammed it up:)

Zeph really did some amazing work on this piece from the drum design to the bass instrumentation and the arrangement from the bit he had to start with, and the mix is one of his best

I think. He was going for a real dimensional experience and I feel he achieved it. I couldn't be happier ... Jam on!!

and

It Matters! :)

Ambient FusionInstrumentalFusionAmbientZeph DanielGuitarBassExperimentalAbstractCollab

MICHELE ARCHER - ORIGINAL POEM "WELCOME TO THE PUPPET SHOW"

ZEPH DANIEL - RECITAL, INSTRUMENTS, MIX

Welcome to the Puppet Show

Life in tatters

Blood on the floor

Voices scream, “Nothin’ Matters!”

Death screams for more.

Confusion by the box load

Dumped on every one

Deafened by the noise

ya never see us come …

It’s just another show.

Yeah, welcome to the puppet show

Strings yanked every day.

Listen to the puppet leader;

He’ll show you how to play.

When his string is yanked

Everybody do the same!

Throw your hands above your head!

C’mon, it’s just a game!

When they open up his mouth

Your mouth opens, too.

And when they leave him in a pile

That means, ‘Die on cue.’

But most often

The shifty puppetteer,

The only one you see…

Listens to your questions

On your life he’ll try to feed.

So you never saw us coming,

but one day you will learn

When the puppet’s strings are gone

And his soul we finally burn…

We’ll turn our eyes on you.

We lust to have you see

the face of true damnation

And how loud your screams can be.

You think that sounds terrible?

You think that sounds, cruel?

Don’t look at me, you let me rule.

You had a way out

but you bought the fake.

Now I’m here, your soul to take.

Still confused? Let me be clear.

Your eternal death lies

in a full length mirror.

Soundboard Tinkerers' Johns sent me a track and asked me to have a go at it. He had heard some of my tracks and thought it was a good match. I heard the track and thought, wow, now there's a hook if I ever heard one, but knew right away I wanted to rearrange for impact, and Johns gave me that approval, so off I went into Soundboard Tinkerers land!

I added a number of drum bits and syncopated effects as well as a vocal rearrangement. I played synths throughout as well.

I believe Soundboard Tinkerers released the track as "Looking Into It" so I'm releasing it here as a new track based on the same track. It's really a remix and rearrangement.

This is a very clever hook and groove that Johns has going, and believe this should be on radio, in clubs, etc etc.. a crowd pleaser. Hope I helped in that regard.

Mix, added production and mastering by Zeph.

WHAT WAS THAT ???? by The Zeph Daniel Experience

Capturing the mood in this kind of synthphonic piece. I really crush the drums and make them reverberate unnaturally. I guess I feel it's eerie like a horror movie right now, the outside world that is. Sometimes I feel words are unnecessary. So there are no words here.

The vibe is: Trying to find the exit but wanting to be hopeful too. Criss cross feelings yet inconclusive. Again.

I play:

2 Synths and One Multi synth where I took the Giant and studio strings in Kontakt and blended.

Addictive Drums

Battery 4 Drums

The track is just snap of my feeling.

GLIB MACHINA

Mess around I don’t think so

You thought you knew the way

but you lied

When you go I will be glad

You will be sad

We only want what’s right

We only want what’s right

Look at you now!

(Chorus)

Look at them run around

Look at them up and down

Look at them, climbs all around

Look at them find a way

Look at them in your head

Look at them try to tear it all down now!

We find a way back home

We find a way back….

Into the light

where you cannot hide

We only want what’s ours

Now you know what you want

but you can’t have it

(Chorus)

Look at them run around

Look at them play the clown

Look at them running’ all over town

Look at them in your face

Look at them all the rage

Look at them getting everything for themselves!

One thing you will know

Saddle up and see it grow

What once was lost is found

See it in the ground

See it in outer space

You were lied to about the human race

There’s protection beyond the spheres

But you’re filled with years of fears

I won’t play your way

I’m not going to be a slave

(Chorus)

How 'bout run around

Why do you see a clown--

Why don’t you stick it up your ass instead

Don’t you dictate to me

I won’t listen

I won’t do what you tell me

Why don’t you look,

Go up to your logo,

have sex and blow your mind!

Why don’t you go to school

Why don’t you look up

Can’t see your own two hands

tied behind your back

Criss cross those fingers…….

(the weirdest track for DCP evah)

But wanting to share. Rich Keltron Keltner (the other half of DCP) sent me this track with a lead bass and strange ambient sounds and prominent drums in get this: 9/8 TIME.

So being a drummer I naturally had to get with that! Anyway, I had the Disney thing in my head for some strange reason, perhaps it's because I saw Cinderella on TV and they played it their meme with the Disney logo. Why I watched Cinderella? I haven't the foggiest. I liked it though--such a sweet girl who only aims to please being put in slavery in her own house... so it's maybe to her I don't know.

(And because the movie made me feel really guilty for killing mice.)

Then the next thing you know it became a DCP track.

Rich Keltron Keltner - composition, guitars, drums, bass, ambient synths

Zeph Daniel: voices, mixing, mastering, harmonica

All I really want to do... so silly.

DCP (Death Camp Parade):

Richard Keltron Keltner and Zeph Daniel

Rich produced the original instrumental track, I loaded up the stems and about 10 minutes later this thing was knocking the doors off the place, so I felt like a disco in Miami for some reason during Halloween. If you ask me what it's about I really don't know. I just jammed with 2 mics.

A Death Camp Parade track

Rich Keltron Keltner: Composition, synths, drum programming

Zeph Daniel: Vocals, Percussion, Melody, Extended Arrangement, Mix

DESERT FLYER

Lyrics by Zeph Daniel

I remember you

from the beginning

You left the city

and wandered to the sand

to the ends of the earth

the beginning of birth

I wanna fly to the sun

I scream at no one

dare to dream

Skeletons dancin’

Reminders of my desolation

No shame, no one to blame

It’s all the same

The mind is open

the sea of tranquility

where I dream

The infinite question,

the infinite dimension

are we more than just gravity?

I see the souls wandering

Harmony of angels

the water of life

there is no strife

No conclusion

Just an illusion

A piece of fiction

I want to fly to the sun

The water burns like a star

the cool sun soothes

like the sound of cactus flowers

The mind is open

The sea of tranquility

in the desert where I dream

Skeletons dancin’

reminders of my desolation

there is no shame

no one to blame

it’s all the same

The infinite question

Are we more than just gravity?

It’s soooooooooooo insane

a sea of fools

Soooooooo insane

a sea of fools

The sun rises, the sun sets

I see the souls dancin’ on their graves

What do you do?

It’s soooooooo insane

a sea of fools

I wanna fly to the sun……..

(rebel yell: yeahhhh ay hay ay yay

yeah—ee-yeah ee-yeah ee-yeah)

I’m free

I’m free yeah

I’m freeeeee yeah

I’m free now

where I belong

I’m free

where I belong

I’m free

where I belong

Where are you goin’ why’re you runnin' away

where you gonna go what’s you gonna say now

what’s you gonna say to everybody now

where you gonna go, whatcha gonna do now

whatcha gonna do for money

whatcha gonna do for a life

whatcha gonna do with all your kids and

whatcha gonna do with your wife?

whatcha gonna do now run run away

whatcha gonna do now irresponsible loser, loser, idiot, laughing stock?

You gotta go back and face the music

can’t just run out to the desert and fail

you might run outta water

you might run out of sand

you might run out of space

you might run out of land

I remember you

I wanna fly to the sun

but I dare to dream

Dare to dream!

Chorus (for the duration)

I wanna fly….

I wanna fly…

I wanna fly…

No shame, no shame

We’re not all the same!

You can’t catch me now

and I’m gone

I’m gonna fly

I’m gonna leave

Way out west

West is the best!

There you see…

I’m not gonna be like you

and you’re not gonna be like me

Don Quixote was sane

You’re insane

You’re a slave

A slave to the big machine

You’re never gonna get out

Chorus

The infinite question?

Are we…?

Are we more than just gravity?

It’s so insane (refrain)….

Imprisoned souls trying to escape their fate!

I wanna fly, I wanna fly, I wanna fly now!

I wanna fly to the sun

Gonna fly now

I’m gonna fly now

Gonna fly hey...

A momentary inspiration....