James Ferrell (Mountainsize Audio + The Welcoming)

Been working on the studio website! Added a bunch of nice photos by Vitor Sá, a releases section, an FAQ page, and new audio samples. I'm available for both in studio and remote projects, so get in touch if you want your music to sound really good for not much money! mountainsizeaudio.com

And finally, track 10 on Loss Lines is 'Fin': 🎧 tinyurl.com/mr2w59vv Not a proper song, but I always throw in something short and/or weird at the end of an album. It's a signal it's over, but looking back at all 4 albums, it seems to be a fairly good mental health temperature check each time.

Anyone want some peppers?

You Can See Everything is easily the best thing I've seen in theaters all year. Nathan Fielder is an evil genius.

Fun fact: I used two different ring modulator instances on Lara’s chopped up vocal and blended between them with automation. I rarely use ring modulation because it flat out sounds weird, but that’s exactly why I used it to make one of many vocal layers sound less like a vocal.

Nearly there! Track 9 on Loss Lines is 'Hurts'. I like to stick an a cappella piece in where I can. It stops me complaining about not being able to hear the vocals. It's a heavy trauma dump of a song, which I have cunningly offset with this muppet gif. 🎧Listen on Bandcamp: tinyurl.com/2mn98x5c

how do we make political text messages illegal. i feel like i'm dealing with a toxic ex that understands harrassment laws.

Had a studio session on the books today but rescheduling to next month due to the weather. After a late night running live sound last night, I’m okay with taking the day off 😴

Still wanging on about Loss Lines, track by track? Yes I am. Track 8 is 'Leave me', and a prickly, sad thing it is, too. It's about experiencing a (temporary) intolerance of company, cheerfulness and attempted distraction in a time of loss ('don't laugh, don't smile'). tinyurl.com/3fsenwks

I should be paid a dollar every time an app or website pesters me to let it cram some superfluous A.I. feature down my throat, and five dollars if I've previously dismissed that nag prompt

Go to your local library, borrow their CDs and rip them to your laptop. Or hell, just hang out there and rip what you want and then go home. Your tax dollars already paid for it.

Update: my combined credit card balance is currently sitting at $0

Highly considering adding a substantial fee per song for anyone coming to me wanting to record AI generated music.

On to track 7 of Loss Lines, which is a cover of Ben Kweller's 'Problems'. This is my second cover of this song, so I hereby promise not to do a third one. This time it's got a full band sound and a 60s hand-clapping feel. 🎧 tinyurl.com/bdhesx69

That's baldist

Ey up. Track 6 on Loss Lines is 'It's coming back', a song about karmic retribution. A life lived entirely selfishly at the expense of those around you has gotta have consequences, right? Not always the case for certain powerful dick'eads, but we'll see 👀🍿 🎧 BC: tinyurl.com/2k7nwxcr

Greetings! Track 5 on Loss Lines is 'Standing in your own way', my poor mental health song. It's loosely about being in the grip of obsessive behaviours, which can intensify with age. If you know, you know... Listen on Bandcamp or pretty much anywhere else tinyurl.com/2dfmr5zt

Ran outdoor live sound for Brewstock music festival aaaallll day yesterday. My first festival FOH gig, sounded great and we kept everything on time somehow!? Helped that we had multiple stagehands and a dedicated monitor mix engineer. Just a bit easier than doing everything myself!

Learned and tracked two high energy hard rock/metalcore songs on drums today. Nothing toooo difficult but it takes time to learn the parts and energy to play convincingly, and always more of both than I expect.

Track 4 on Loss Lines is my favourite, but also a little hard to talk about 😬 Light-touch version incoming! 'Failure to progress' is a term describing a labour that isn't developing fast enough, or at all. It's bad enough to spend 5 days in this state without that label... tinyurl.com/2rnthbzt

Locked in and finished drum editing for 5 punk songs today. Cleaned up the same fill at least 30 times 😵‍💫

Track 3 on Loss Lines is 'The body says no', whose repetitive guitars attempt to replicate the plodding frustration of chronic illness. It was partly inspired by my reaction to Gabor Maté's 'When the Body Says No' and its links between life experience and physical illness. tinyurl.com/y9fe2p8f

Bonjour! Chaotic track 2 on Loss Lines is 'Funny bizarre'. This is a reflection on what it is to be a little girl who wants to grow up and then a big girl who kinda wants to grow back down. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3vsszcr2

certified dad moment me: these calamari rings are like crack dad: more like kraken

Dreamt that I played a show and left immediately after. Felt almost on par with those stress dreams where you're in school and realize you're naked 🙈

Morning! I'm going to start my usual rundown of each album track, this time for the newly released 'Loss Lines'. tinyurl.com/6j8abh97 Chaotic track 1 'He's got other problems' is about a bad boss. Office side eyes! Rude jokes! Bad tempers! And a huge personality clash. 🎧 here: tinyurl.com/4fxuw2zj

Laying down an album worth of punk drums this weekend!

Ran live sound yesterday and it was my first outdoor gig where the sun wasn’t beating down on me the entire time! Nice overcast weather made everything a lot more bearable.

You can now listen to Loss Lines wherever you get your music. YOU ARE WELCOME. Hope you find something to enjoy in among the 9 NTB songs and 1 Ben Kweller cover (sort of a cover of my own cover 🤷‍♀️) Audio clip is from track 4 'Failure to progress'. #BandcampFriday #MusicSky #DIYMusic #MusicianSky

I highly recommend James for drumming, editing, mixing, mastering. But mostly for cowbell 🐮🔔 I've chosen to keep torturing, I mean working with, James on an upcoming EP called Cowbell Riddims (just kidding). Do consider @mountainsize.bsky.social for your musical projects!

#JustListened (twice) The freshly released album by @neverthebridle.bsky.social is pretty awesome. Her ability to wrap seriously uncomfortable or even painful topics in a fun and rockin' sound is working so very well here. I'll have to get this tomorrow! 😁 Highly, highly recommended!

Had a blast working on this @neverthebridle.bsky.social album!

My new album Loss Lines is coming out in a few days because I've listened enough and now it's your turn! Here's a clip of the opening track: 'He's got other problems'. (He really does, trust me.) #MusicSky #MusicianSky

I have learned that pickles are very polarizing

The logical conclusion to taking excess garden veggies and giving them out at @thewelcoming.bsky.social shows Pickles by @heather-nicole-l.bsky.social

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