We're hoping that we can keep our wetsuits on when we get into our various rockets, I think stylistically they'll still work and of course we've already got breathing apparatus. Anyway, we're hope you're all enjoying Superheroes of the Sea. I still can't get over the fact that Windy Old Weather was recorded across four different continents. Perhaps we could get some contributions from a functioning space station for our next album?
Monday, January 19, 2009
500 fathoms
At least 500 people have now fathomed the Superheroes of The Sea earning it a platinum cod. Incredible. And whilst people still discover it wallowing in the murky depths of the internet the Intercontinental Music Lab are converting their submarines into flying vessels for a journey into .. Space. Yes that's right space, the next album that we're going to put together is going to be called "Superheroes of Space". You can find out more about it on our new Superheroes of Space blog.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Superheroes of The Sea - The Album
Downloads
The audio
The artwork
The track listing
- How to Prove a Point [Thor Heyerdahl] (4:34)
Music: Tim Donderevo
Lyrics and Vocals: Jules Peters - Nemo of the Nautilus [Captain Nemo] (5:56)
Music: Joseph Ashley-Smith
Lyrics and Vocals: Barney Brown and Layla Vandenbergh - Sea City [Sea Cities] (3:47)
Music: Greg Dean and Rob Fisher
Lyrics: Eric Lebofsky
Vocals: Eric Lebofsky and Jenny Cohen - Molusco Hermoso [Hexabranchus Sanguineus (the Spanish Dancer)] (4:05)
Music: Jules Peters
Lyrics and Vocals: Kip Loades - Cunning Odysseus [Odysseus] (3:29)
Music: Eric Lebofsky
Lyrics and Vocals: Barney Brown, Oli Hayhurst and Tim Donderevo - For Fear of the Light [Abtu and Anet] (3:00)
Music: Dan Waldkirch
Lyrics and Vocals: Nick Osbourne
Backing Vocals: Madeleine Staples, Doug Stuart, Rob Fisher, Richard Yates - The Testimony of Oliver Deveau [The Mary Celeste] (4:27)
Music: Oli Hayhurst
Lyrics and Vocals: Joseph Ashley-Smith - Plankton [Plankton] (3:53)
Music: Rob Fisher
Lyrics: Tim Donderevo
Vocals: Kelly Hoglund and Tim Turton - King of Pirates [Edward Teach (Blackbeard)] (3:00)
Music: The Incredible Flight of Birdman
Lyrics: Dan Waldkirch
Vocals: Dan & Maria Waldkirch - The Love Song of the Mako Shark [The Mako Shark] (4:19)
Music: Dan Gresham
Lyrics and Vocals: Timothy S Marchand
Backing Vocals: Jules Peters - The Shelter of a Shanty Home [Flotsam] (3:14)
Music: Timothy S Marchand and Jules Peters
Lyrics: Rob Fisher
Vocals: Rob & Audrey Fisher - Oh Jeannie [Jeanne Bare] (4:47)
Music: Barney Brown
Lyrics and Vocals: Greg Dean
Glockenspiel: Don Schwartz - Windy Old Weather (Fish of the Sea) (4:09)
Music: Trad./Jules Peters, Greg Dean, Rob Fisher and Aya Saito
Lyrics: Trad./Kip Loades
Vocals: The IML
Produced by Barney Brown and Tim Donderevo
The lyrics
Coming soon.
Copyright
Copyright and Publishing Intercontinental Music Lab 2008
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Sunday, November 30, 2008
King of Plugins
Hello!
I have just posted my track to the MediaFire site. It's called "King of Pirates," and features a special guest, my sister Maria. She plays Mary Ormond, Blackbeard's teenage wife.
Obviously, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the song, but I'd also like any input on the mix and the technical side of things. There's plenty of time before the deadline and I'm sure I'll have time to remix it, unless that's against the rules.
As I said, there are a LOT of vocal tracks: 18 of them, although not always going at the same time (I think the most at once is 10). So, this thing was basically a nightmare to balance out...and mixing was never my strong point to begin with. My poor computer had to run close to 50 plugins for this song, and it was not very happy towards the end.
Overall though, I really like it, and I had an absolute blast recording it. There are some bum lyrics in there, but you can fix that in mastering, right Tim?
I have just posted my track to the MediaFire site. It's called "King of Pirates," and features a special guest, my sister Maria. She plays Mary Ormond, Blackbeard's teenage wife.
Obviously, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the song, but I'd also like any input on the mix and the technical side of things. There's plenty of time before the deadline and I'm sure I'll have time to remix it, unless that's against the rules.
As I said, there are a LOT of vocal tracks: 18 of them, although not always going at the same time (I think the most at once is 10). So, this thing was basically a nightmare to balance out...and mixing was never my strong point to begin with. My poor computer had to run close to 50 plugins for this song, and it was not very happy towards the end.
Overall though, I really like it, and I had an absolute blast recording it. There are some bum lyrics in there, but you can fix that in mastering, right Tim?
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I Dream of Jeannie (Baré)
Just posted my completed Oh Jeannie up to the folder. So far, opinion is split - my 6 year old says it's horrible, my 4 year old likes it and my wife was too busy watching Come Dine With Me. Anyway, had great fun doing it with the legendary Don Schwartz at the controls. Thanks Don for popping in with that glockenspiel and bringing the chorus back to life!
Ashanti
Excitement is building faster than a series of strictly come lancing.We have all music tracks submitted, 12 in total. I am going to sing over Tim M's track (created with the aid of legendary producer and j-rap star juicy p) which will be about flotsam and how it forms the shanty towns of the ocean. Tim M in turn is going to sing over Dan G's 80s masterpiece. What's more exciting is that all vocals should be done in a week and half (just in time for the immaculate conception) and the whole shebang done and dusted before santa starts wriggling down sooty chimney stacks.
And most exciting of all, a shanty. No, I'm not talking of RnB stars, nor of ethnic peoples in modern day Ghana. I'm talking a dirty, rough, bristley, haggard, weather-beaten, salty old sea song. Many of, if not all of, perhaps even some from outside of, the IML will come together in digital union to render a version of the age old "Windy Old Weather". Hopefully we'll have all sorts of instruments on there and some interesting voicings. It's a new style of composition for the IML and it will be the perfect finishing touch to our album.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Oh Jeannie
Sure has been busy in here. Sounds like the album is (ship)shaping up into something special already. From the feel of the backing tracks there appears to be more of a sonic consistency this time around. Good theme Cap'n Bob. I finished writing my track 2 days after receiving it from Barn - very different to last time around when it took a whole month of editing lyrics and melody. I wonder if others found it different this time around?
My track is on Jeanne Bare, the first woman to sail around the world (while dressed as a man). By that I don't mean the first woman to sail around the world dressed as a man (although she was), but the first woman to sail around the world, and she also happened to be disguised as a man. By that I mean.... . Oh well, the lyrics flowed easier than the blog.
The track is called Oh Jeannie. I thought the other day that this had a pang of familiarity and so typed it into google. No song of this name there. Phew. Then I typed it into Youtube (which I'm reliably informed is now bigger than the web itself) and there it was... a clip entitled Oh Jeannie by some band called U2.
No!!!!!!!!!!!
I played the clip, nervously expecting confirmation that I had simply re-written a famous song (c'mon, we've all done it) and had simply confused subconscious memory with musical originality (again). Anyway, turns out this U2 band are shit. The clip consisted of a ponytailed twat on an aeroplane (called Boner I think - the twat, not the aeroplane) improvising a crap blues about a flight attendant called Jeannie who had just served him some eggs. The grainy footage kept panning to his friend (called 'The Hedge'!) who was constantly giggling. Knobs, but I doubt we'll be hearing from them again.
My track is on Jeanne Bare, the first woman to sail around the world (while dressed as a man). By that I don't mean the first woman to sail around the world dressed as a man (although she was), but the first woman to sail around the world, and she also happened to be disguised as a man. By that I mean.... . Oh well, the lyrics flowed easier than the blog.
The track is called Oh Jeannie. I thought the other day that this had a pang of familiarity and so typed it into google. No song of this name there. Phew. Then I typed it into Youtube (which I'm reliably informed is now bigger than the web itself) and there it was... a clip entitled Oh Jeannie by some band called U2.
No!!!!!!!!!!!
I played the clip, nervously expecting confirmation that I had simply re-written a famous song (c'mon, we've all done it) and had simply confused subconscious memory with musical originality (again). Anyway, turns out this U2 band are shit. The clip consisted of a ponytailed twat on an aeroplane (called Boner I think - the twat, not the aeroplane) improvising a crap blues about a flight attendant called Jeannie who had just served him some eggs. The grainy footage kept panning to his friend (called 'The Hedge'!) who was constantly giggling. Knobs, but I doubt we'll be hearing from them again.
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