New Free EP : Tsinam's "Chasing Ghosts"

It's out there!

Who's Tsinam? Well, it'll be a side-project with female vocals only (high time I shut my mouth, right?).

Mademoiselle Roxanne beautifully sung these four lush, intricate pop songs, and couldn't have done a better job at it.

The sound here is vintage as always, ripe with warm analog synth sounds, Rhodes, post-psychedelic guitars and Mellotron.

It's 4 songs and 1 instrumental coda.

1 - The Farewell Song

2 - The Great Lost Sorrow Tune

3 - End of Words

4 - Ghosts of my Enemies

5 - Opium Spider

Many thanks to Lowlifi for playing lap steel guitar on track 2, and Sohcahtoa playing Rhodes on track 3.

You may download it HERE, complete with printable CD artwork, lyrics and iPod icon.

Also available in streaming form at archive.org : Tsinam-Chasing-Ghosts

And of course, www.myspace.com/tsinam.

What Did you Do?

The blog has been quiet these days, but this cat ain't lazy, I've been working on the upcoming Police EP, with a nice, smooth rendition of "Walking on the Moon" in the box, along with a smashing (yes, smashing) version of the lesser known "Darkness" (from the brooding 1981 "Ghost in the Machine" album, check it out). I also recorded "Invisible Sun" but I'm not sure about the result, I'll redo that later on.

On other projects, I've got 5 outside musicians to contribute acoustic instruments for the "Hollow Lands" folk-blues EP (cello, harmonium, etc...) which is quite exciting.

And I've launched a myspace for the Tsinam/"Chasing Ghosts" side-project : www.myspace.com/tsinam

Not sure it will actually be ready for november 1st, but stay tuned.

This week, I'll try to add a record to the Listening Mode section, and possibly a Roland D-50 review.

Chasing Ghosts Preview : Juno Time

Final synth selection from the work-in-progress "Chasing Ghosts" EP, some Roland Juno-1 multitracking extracted from the closing song.

End of Words (Roland Juno1)

Chasing Ghosts Preview : Prophet Time

Yet another synth demo extracted from the upcoming "Chasing Ghosts" EP, this time a selection of Prophet 08 and Korg Poly-800 tracks from the the third song.

Ghosts of my Enemies (Prophet 08 and Poly800)

Chasing Ghosts Preview : Korg Time

Another work-in-progress selection from the upcoming "Chasing Ghosts" EP, this time a combination of Korg Poly-800 and Gforce Virtual String Machine.

The Great Lost Sorrow Tune (Korg Poly-800 and Gforce VSM

Chasing Ghosts Preview : Moog Time

Still working on the upcoming "Chasing Ghosts" side-project, starring Miss Roxanne as lead singer.

Here's the opening song's artwork, and a selection of Moog Little Phatty parts extracted from the complete mix.

The Farewell Song (Moog multitracking)