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RE: SPOKEN WORD MUSIC - a late night improvisation
Cool. Now i'm curious. I'm a hip hop producer (I use Reason, Cubase and FL studio :P. Ableton scares me). Anyway I'm interested because this spoken word over music sits in a bit of a grey area for me. I'm aware of rap (obviously) and I've also had a few poets come to my studio to record their poetry as an accapella. This feels like a bit of an in between as it wouldn't fit under conventional rap yet there is a "backing track" of sorts to support and even enhance what is being said. Thanks for the insight and I'll look you up on soundcloud.
Yeah, you're kind of right. I don't really know if this kind of music has an actual name.. I just call it spoken word music because I'm not really singing but I'm not just reciting either and I'm not sure if this track would work without this kind of vocals or with a normal singing vocal. I'm also not sure if the vocal could stand alone. I'm not into hip-hop or rap but I know some performers and I just used the reference because it makes it easier to explain what I wanted to say... I guess this is a gre area, something like what Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen used to sometimes do... Spoken word music or not, I don't have a better name for it :)
No stress. I find it interesting nonetheless.