OGNOY - new album(June 2020, NAACP fundraiser)

[ognoy]

Last weekend I released my first solo album. I've been thinking about doing for about 8 years now,
but been occupied with bands most of the time it always got delayed.
So last weekend I had a solo gig at this experimental music festival and 3-4 days prior to that I just decided "I'm gonna make a record and release it at the festival on saturday". So I went to our studio/rehearsal space, set up my gear, put up some mics, hit record and started playing.
So in the following days I mixed the album and made the cover art.

It is now available on Bandcamp, both digital and as CD-R with handmade cover.
DRod already got a CD on the way.

https://ognoy.bandcamp.com/releases

The album:


Setup used:

[ibarakishi]

this is great, and congratulations ! Love the packaging and photo too. I hope you release more work soon too

[JonnyAngle]

I'm kinda busy with the kids this morning but I listened to a few minutes quickly. Sounds good, will give a full listen later!

[Ugly Nora]

Listening now, sounds lovely.

[raj007]

Ordered a CD

[JonnyAngle]

I gave it the full listen.

BIG thumbs up!

[ognoy]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!
So awesome you bought the CD raj007! It will be sent tomorrow!

I have a lot of ideas for more albums, so will defenitely release more albums. But we're moving our studio very soon, so it won't happen untill after we're all set at the new place.

[raj007]

What is that guitar you're using?

And awesome! Can't wait.

[ognoy]

The guitar I used om the album is a Recording King Lapsteel.

[cantremember]

This is really good, Thanks for sharing!

[DRodriguez]

Just got my copy in, gonna give it a proper listen on my way to work tomorrow!

[ognoy]

Thanks again to everyone taking their time to listen, and comment!

Here is a video of the gig I released the record at!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkOmPoJHZvk&t=601s

Edit: I forgot how to embed YT-videos!

[ognoy]

So I made another album, finally!


Listen or download here: https://ognoy.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-1

Some info about the process:
Last Saturday a bandmate and I was talking about that we should record more music.
We have lots of recording gear and even a pretty decent studio, but we spend very little time actually recording our own music(I do record other bands and artist there though).
When I woke up on Sunday I just said to myself, "I'm gonna record a new album today".
Since I should stay inside, I decided to do it at home and not in the studio where my big amps are.
I've been thinking about doing some more "quiet" music for a while, and figured this was the moment.

So I grabbed my acoustic guitar and found a cool tuning in the "WHATS UR FAVOURITE TUNING..."-thread.
Played around with it for a couple of minutes and found some cool chords in there.
Went up to the attic of our building and set up my Zoom H4n as room mic and a EV PL80(also going into the Zoom) as a close mic for the guitar.
Recorded myself playing for about 25 minutes.

Put the recording into my DAW and then sent the close-mic channel through some of my pedals and did some loops and sound mangling in real-time while the track was playing.
Then I did some EQ, compression and volume-balancing and it was done.

Hope you enjoy it!

[Eivind August]

Just listened to it this morning, actually. Really enjoyed it, very soothing stuff i disse koronatider.

[Dowi]

hey nice work! just listened to it entirely and i really enjoyed it, i'm a sucker for open tunings and arpeggios over ambient sounds.
What tuning/guitar was it? i like how the lower strings resonate when you struck chords if the first part. Uh, cool hypnotic L/R panning overall too.

Anyway i have found the first good thing of this isolation: working from home means that i'm able to listen to whatever i want to with studio headphones instead of shitty pc speakers.