One Night Stand draft

Yesterday, myself and my friend Mr. Juco finished writing a song which we are naming One Night Stand.

Due to my night not going the way it was meant to, I managed to complete a draft.

One Night Stand

I think I uploaded the first version in one of my previous posts, but this is the pitch we'll be singing it too.

Vocal recording next week! Oh joy.... (I hate recording vocals)

Might record another heavy song to alleviate this sex and love driven pop rock shit. uggh~

Photos on the move

I was rummaging through old photos in Lightroom and found these. I've always found myself to see the most beautiful things but in the worst situation; like these for example I was in a moving car.

I'm always one for conceptual photos; pretty colours and funny shapes even though the subject is uncertain

One of the prettiest sunsets I've seen ever. It's too bad we missed it, so I took it quickly while I was in the car.

Till next time,

Rafael

My Music History

I started playing guitar in 2005, which was actually kind of funny how it started. All my friends suddenly disappeared one day of the week and it turns out they were all having guitar lessons. So the way I started was simply by hanging with my mates.

Guitar was an on-and-off thing like all hobbies you take on. I took it seriously by Year 10 and decided to take it head on with HSC Music (I didn't do very well).

First year university, me and my friend Isaiah wrote our first draft. This is the audio from a video of us playing.

First song ever!!

I look back at it now and just feel embarrassed. Just horrible.

Six months went by. Not much happened. Me and Isaiah hadn't really wrote much and I was tired of it. I responded to an ad in the Drum Media and met a goth girl wanting to form a band, which was made up of the funniest people I know. I quite miss them now.

Mirrors

This is one of the best tracks we came up. The drummer, came up with the main riff and I built up the melody from there. By this time I was heavily influenced by Japanese Rock, particularly the Gazette.

Lost

I think this was the first song we wrote while I was there. The original track was this horrible rap thing, and I 'rockified' it I guess. As you can tell, we didn't have a bassist at the time.

This was our first gig. The Crash (first gig)

Mid way of second year university I started making my own band. I got Isaiah on board and we re-did our very first track.

The Chase

We originally had a male vocalist, but he's a chef, therefore busy, therefore no time. So I kicked him out and had a female vocalist try out. We even made a music video! But that was for a university project.

The Chase Music Video

Dear God there were so many issues with this. For one, our female vocalist was tone deaf (yeah I know), and she had timing issues. With this track, I autotuned her voice a whole note up. It's bad.

2012 I find myself forming a pop rock band with a friend from high school. He has potential, he's a good singer, sucks at guitar but he can work on that. Only thing is... it's pop rock. BLERGH! I try to make our stuff as 'metal' as possible.

One Nightstand (without vocals)

This is where I am in terms of 'band' at this moment. We'll see where it takes me. But I dream to be in a band where I can embrace my true interest. This is my most recent creation.

Synth and Heavy Variation

One day. One day...

Rafael

The thing I like about music is that it can be a form of raw expression.
Much more when you write it yourself.

This piece I started a year ago, still in progress, is one of the darkest compositions I've created.

Haters composition

I just called it 'haters' as a general indication of what it was, among all the other demos I have in my Dropbox.
I'd like to say here and now that this is all me; this is my style. You'll find my future audio posts to differ alot from each other because I find myself working with alot of people.

Enjoy Rafael at his purest.



Rafael

Brother Pat

The life of a priest is hidden behind the holy robes he wears. Beneath the gentle prayers and the resonant echoes of the congregation lies a busy man, just like any other. I've always thought that priests have it easy, all you need is good charisma and do a mass every so often, but it turns out they have it hard and it doesn't improve with age.

I interviewed my local priest, Brother Pat, and as happy and funny and he is, his job seemed very lonely. It's a little heartbreaking.

But he seems alright. He's never shown any signs of depression or loneliness or melancholy. Saying he's used to it would be wrong I think. More like he's grown within this mindset of dedication to God, growing and maturing with a different path of life to everyone else; a lone wolf perhaps? The lone wise elder? He's a sort of badass if you think about it like that!

In the end, I don't pity him nor do I envy him. He's on a totally different level. Priests in general I reckon. To be true to the Word, true to the Priesthood, that is indeed a thorny, rocky road, but somehow badass at the same time.