::: Ominous Red presents SERIAL - A Concept Album :::
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:26 am
I go by the name Ominous Red. I am hitting up all the forums on my blog roll spreading the work about my independent project that I just finished. I just finished a concept album I have been working on for about a month now. You can preview all the songs through Youtube. The videos have the lyrics to all the songs. I produced all of the tracks myself so it is kinda rough but if you are a fan of Lodeck, Aesop Rock, Nas, Jay-Z or Gangstarr, then I think you will like this project.
106: Box of Pine
[youtube]B2gZCqsUxdk[/youtube]
107: Uniform
[youtube]XK1izyuNDlM[/youtube]
108: Anita Baker
[youtube]mPNeEYeCCjw[/youtube]
109: Common Ground
[youtube]ySdIPgEj7Wg[/youtube]
110: Cold Cases
[youtube]NuXXHtIJQQ0[/youtube]
111: One Man Army
[youtube]tSV0oYa_rVU[/youtube]
112: Killer's Killer
[youtube]wUC5GKCpsGQ[/youtube]
113: Believer
[youtube]EJ-1aZqlsLg[/youtube]
114: The Father
[youtube]IV8q9eukfO4[/youtube]
115: The Son
[youtube]B_FmPboYalU[/youtube]
116: The Ghost
[youtube]HjZ198EY8qA[/youtube]
117: Lack of Oxygen
[youtube]SWISznXkxvM[/youtube]
118: Red Handed
[youtube]wOdGh2qJlp0[/youtube]
119: Prestige
[youtube]iGobJIPEs4w[/youtube]
120: Be This Way
[youtube]pfGyFs2CdSU[/youtube]
It is available for download right now on Reverb and will be available on iTunes. If you want a physical disc, you get it directly from me. I would love some support if you guys are feeling the work.
http://www.reverbnation.com/ominousred
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ominous-Red-Present ... 335b4be142
The saving grace of the project is the concept. The audio, beats and vocal performance and treatment could have been way better. But I was fighting against cost and limited resources as far as equipment and conditions like not being able to use samples which ultimately sand bagged the project but I had to move forward no matter what.
Trust me... if I had the chance to just ghost write and clear samples, I would have been okay with putting this in the hands of people with more talent or who were better equipped than I am but that was not an option for me.
People will miss the concept because:
They aren't old enough to recognize what I am referencing lyrically.
They won't ever hear the concept because they don't like the music (sound & style)
And that is where the visuals of the lyrics come in. Everywhere you see text marked with blood or written in red is a nod to a particular artist. Most real heads can see what I was doing. I took their work and created something out of it which is the metaphor. A cop is tracking killers only to end up a killer. Just like we as fans, track our favorite emcees just to eventually become emcees ourselves. So this album was sort of like an explanation of what I like in Hip Hop as far as all the artists I pay tribute to.
When I finish my website, it will kinda explain it all a little better and hopefully enhance the experience of the music.
I got that idea from Aesop Rock. When he dropped Fast Cars, he included a book that had all his work in it so I could read a long and it helped me understand his work a little better because I could better digest what he was saying.
Even though I love this project, I am completely aware of the fact that it is not up to par as far as quality goes. There are not a lot of people who want to hear an audio book in the form of a rap album, which is basically what I did.
My next project will be completely different because it will not be restrained by the concept and I write songs with the focus on style and sound instead of being confined by the concept.
106: Box of Pine
[youtube]B2gZCqsUxdk[/youtube]
107: Uniform
[youtube]XK1izyuNDlM[/youtube]
108: Anita Baker
[youtube]mPNeEYeCCjw[/youtube]
109: Common Ground
[youtube]ySdIPgEj7Wg[/youtube]
110: Cold Cases
[youtube]NuXXHtIJQQ0[/youtube]
111: One Man Army
[youtube]tSV0oYa_rVU[/youtube]
112: Killer's Killer
[youtube]wUC5GKCpsGQ[/youtube]
113: Believer
[youtube]EJ-1aZqlsLg[/youtube]
114: The Father
[youtube]IV8q9eukfO4[/youtube]
115: The Son
[youtube]B_FmPboYalU[/youtube]
116: The Ghost
[youtube]HjZ198EY8qA[/youtube]
117: Lack of Oxygen
[youtube]SWISznXkxvM[/youtube]
118: Red Handed
[youtube]wOdGh2qJlp0[/youtube]
119: Prestige
[youtube]iGobJIPEs4w[/youtube]
120: Be This Way
[youtube]pfGyFs2CdSU[/youtube]
It is available for download right now on Reverb and will be available on iTunes. If you want a physical disc, you get it directly from me. I would love some support if you guys are feeling the work.
http://www.reverbnation.com/ominousred
http://cgi.ebay.com/Ominous-Red-Present ... 335b4be142
The saving grace of the project is the concept. The audio, beats and vocal performance and treatment could have been way better. But I was fighting against cost and limited resources as far as equipment and conditions like not being able to use samples which ultimately sand bagged the project but I had to move forward no matter what.
Trust me... if I had the chance to just ghost write and clear samples, I would have been okay with putting this in the hands of people with more talent or who were better equipped than I am but that was not an option for me.
People will miss the concept because:
They aren't old enough to recognize what I am referencing lyrically.
They won't ever hear the concept because they don't like the music (sound & style)
And that is where the visuals of the lyrics come in. Everywhere you see text marked with blood or written in red is a nod to a particular artist. Most real heads can see what I was doing. I took their work and created something out of it which is the metaphor. A cop is tracking killers only to end up a killer. Just like we as fans, track our favorite emcees just to eventually become emcees ourselves. So this album was sort of like an explanation of what I like in Hip Hop as far as all the artists I pay tribute to.
When I finish my website, it will kinda explain it all a little better and hopefully enhance the experience of the music.
I got that idea from Aesop Rock. When he dropped Fast Cars, he included a book that had all his work in it so I could read a long and it helped me understand his work a little better because I could better digest what he was saying.
Even though I love this project, I am completely aware of the fact that it is not up to par as far as quality goes. There are not a lot of people who want to hear an audio book in the form of a rap album, which is basically what I did.
My next project will be completely different because it will not be restrained by the concept and I write songs with the focus on style and sound instead of being confined by the concept.
