CRUISE CONTROL
#1. Cruise Control is the first of ten tracks being released on YouTube and Tumblr for the album, TUNE, by composer Myles Marlow. TUNE is the first album to be released completely, and solely, by means of Social Media only, with no physical, buy-able product. Every Monday for ten weeks, a subsequent track, including a new Scot Howard illustration, will be released here.
Cruise Control takes place in a beach town. Where muscle cars, antique vehicles and hand-built, dunebuggylike contraptions have a nightly parade down the Strip. The Strip is a noisy five blocks filled with bars, clubs, and live bands. People are milling about on the sidewalk and carelessly walking in the street.
They drift in and out of the various clubs. And as the club doors open and shut whatever music is inside blasts outside and mingles with all the music of the neighboring bars and car radios. Jazz on top of banjos on top of electronica.
This is how I thought of CRUISE CONTROL while composing: one tune that could chaotically encompass jazz bands, with electronica, with Motown horn lines, with banjos and with even, yes, tree frogs.
For a clickable tour, check out the Description section on YouTube, or pick one of these:
(0:30) where the bar band is joined by some nylon-string guitars
(1:18) where a processed harp meets the happy chorus of treefrogs
(1:30) where a bit of a Deliverance-styled banjo finds its way to the party
(1:57) where synths and electronica is muscling in, and
(2:13) where the Motown-style horn line takes charge , and
(2:53) when all the doors open, and everyone tries to play nice.
CRUISE CONTROL initially was the 3rd track of TUNE. But since it’s the closest to completion I made it the first for the Social Media release. And yes, it’s free for listening and sharing, but not for other media uses. TUNE currently only exists within the realm of Social Media.
If you enjoy it, please share it with your friends and put it on your web pages. I really appreciate the support. Here’s a link to cut and paste for the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK5HAU24csg
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All 10 tracks of TUNE will be released, in this format, — one per week, every Monday. The second track will be released next Monday. January 31, 2011.
Illustration by Scot Howard, The Digital Butterfly Project, DigitalButterfly.com
(c) 2011, Myles Marlow, All Rights Reserved
