hello.music — King Hippo

hello.musicSo I have had no time in the last two weeks or so for any music. So this effort here is something I sort of crapped out last night and part of today. It needs some major work to the vocals (ie refining the melody and phrasing and harmony), the structure (adding space between chorus and verses), instrumentation (need some other instruments like real drums, bass, keys, etc), and overall volume editing, mixing and mastering have not even happened at all. I have some work ahead of me to add sections to the guitars and such without interrupting the flow and spontaneity of the song. Yay.

However there might be some potential to this little dark ditty. I like it because I have been wanting to play with recording my microphone through my distortion pedal for some time and I really like how it came out. Sort of gritty and overdriven sounding. Reminds me of Tom Waits or Sparklehorse for sure. Not sure what the words mean but it reminds me of one of those dark murder ballads told by some drunken outlaw anti-hero. You know, just like me. hmmm…..

King Hippo” version 1a.

[audio:https://hellocomein.com/soundbox/hellomusic_mike/KingHippo_v1a.mp3]

Thoughts?