what is nightingales?

well that’s not how you should ask it. probably should be “what are nightingales?”

they’re one of those rare things that are still called roughly what they were called in old english. we actually don’t have a lot of words that remain from old english, so nightingales have been on our minds for a long time.

“nightingale” comes from the old english word “nihtegale,” which means “night songstress.” we’ve learned since then that only the males sing their songs, but what got them the name was their propensity for singing both during the night and the day. during the day, their his may be drowned some by the other calls around him, but at night his song stands alone.

for centuries, artists have been obsessed with the nightingale. his song is enchanting and forlorn. percey shelley wrote of the nightingale,

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

no, like the ep.

oh right uh right now (at the moment of writing this) it’s just kind of an idea floating around in my head. but hopefully at some point in the future, it’s an EP i wrote and tracked full demos for in my kitchen in one week.

did you make it with AI?

zero percent of the process was done, and ever will be done, with the assistance of a clanker. if it sucks it’s cause i did it, not some rustback.

so like you played the violin and drums and stuff?

oh no, i don’t know how to do either of those things. i used plugins for the stuff i don’t know how to play.

so you have to spend a ton of money to make something in your kitchen?

not at all, and this is kind of part of the point. the vast majority of what you’re hearing is done with stock logic plugins that come with the base program. all of the channel effects (with the exception of one phaser that i stuck on the [stock logic] vocoder) are just straight out of the box.

now, that said, i have a number of native instruments VSTs and stuff that make what i do a LOT easier. for instance, i could just learn Alchemy (Logic’s VERY powerful stock synth), but i learned MassiveX a while ago and it’s what i know how to use.

unfortunately, i don’t know exactly what all i’ll be using, since i haven’t written the EP yet. but i will be extremely transparent about which instruments i’m using, and i’ll make all of the project files available after i release these demos.

wait they’re just demos???

yes bro i’m writing and recording an EP in a week. i’m not going to spend the amount of time i’d love to spend making everything like record-quality. trust me, it’ll be fine.

or maybe it won’t be. who cares.

are crows in the stone age?

yes.

is that what this EP is about

no.

then what is it about

wouldn’t you like to know

um, yes? that’s why i asked?

stop asking me so many questions omg

this is literally the FAQ page though???

tHiS iS lItErAlLy ThE fAq PaGe ThOuGh??/?/?????
that’s you. that’s what you sound like.

dude just tell me

tell you what

hamilton.

yes?

it’s not funny anymore. i don’t think it ever was tbh.

that’s like three things in a row that isn’t a question.

how do you have any friends at all

genuinely i have no idea.