Don't throw rocks at me

Here are the tracks, sorted in chronological order. The beautiful photo you can see above is used as a cover for the MP3 files. It’s a picture taken by my son Clément.

Don’t throw rocks at me (Ne me jetez pas de cailloux in french) became the title I gave to this set of tracks. I don’t think we can call this an album. It’s just a bunch of mp3 files. It doesn’t mean that I’m not happy with it. But for me, the word album implies a global project and studio-quality recording.

I spent an average of four hours per track. All included, composition, writing, recording, editing, etc. And that’s a number I’m pretty proud of. The composition experience I had so far involved weeks of work.

01. Lonely

My first attempt. I used a looper and I did this in 30min. But I thought the result was fun, so here you go.

I filmed the process. Here’s a little montage.

Inspired by Lonely from Imagine Dragons.

02. Friends and Lovers

Recorded in a catastrophic way with Audacity with the computer’s microphone, placed in my kitchen, whispering to not wake the boys. I added a little Piano after. For the rest, I did everything with mouth and taping on the table.

Inspired by Friends and Lovers from Incubus.

03. Stupeflip

Little tribute to Stupeflip. I did it my way. With my voice, Clément’s guitar, a pencil, my computer’s microphone and my little heart. For the first time I used Ardour (for a real multitrack).

Inspired by Stupeflip from Stupeflip and by C.R.O.U. from Stupeflip.

04. Karmacoma

In front of my computer with, for only instruments, scissors (which were on my desk) and a bottle of beer. And there you go.

For the first time, I use a real microphone and my old VoiceLive pedalboard as a sound card for the recording.

Inspired by Karmacoma from Massive Attack

05. Good Riddance

This one is a little weird (more than the others I mean). I just did this to have fun. I was hoping Clément would join me (because he has a very pretty voice). But finally it didn’t happen.

As usual, I did a lot of vocal tracks and I hit the table and the guitar!

Inspired by Good Riddance from Hades OST.

06. Dancing in the dark

This one was done with a public. I think it’s my favorite of them all.

Inspired by Dancing in the dark from Imagine Dragons.

07. I’m a fucking fraud

At the request of my loved ones, I made, for the first time, an original composition.

08. This is my life

Finally, I was inspired that weekend. I made this second original composition the day after the previous one.

09. Si j’étais moi

For once, I tried to do a piece very basically. Just guitar/voice without too many tracks. I put my naked voice at the front. I think the lyrics suit it very well.

Inspired by Si j’étais moi from Zazie

10. Petit Moineau

For the first time, I mixed guitar and piano in the same track. And I recorded the piano via the VoiceLive sound card. So it sound pretty good.

Another original composition.

11. Citron

I wanted some hardcore vibe ! For the first time I used a sample that I did not create myself.

Also an original composition (you bet 😅)

12. عدم ضبط النفس

(Unrestraint)

The kind of stuff I like to sing. I was already singing this kind of thing to Clement when he was a baby. So I had to record it, at least once.

13. What were the odds

A little bit of love…

Thank you 😘

Thank you for listening. Your feedbacks will be welcome. I’m already aware of a lot of problems (Sound quality, mixing, precision, off-key, odd and sometimes dissonant chords, etc.) Well, I just wanted to get this stuff out of my head without it getting boring. I don’t want to make money out of it. Just want to have fun 😊

If you prefere, thoses tracks are on SoundCloud.

Download all tracks (59.5MB - zip)

06/08/2023 No one threw me rocks, so I’m going on. You want some more ? Here it is 🎧 🎵🎶 🎹