If you want to help out and have your voice to be heard on my new album, listen up…
Mixdowns for my new album, American Chipfunk, are nearly complete, but when I listened to it, I felt like it needed a sketch to break the songs up. I remembered an old screenplay I’d written that was mostly dialogue between four survivors of a zombie epidemic. You know I love zombies. If you don’t know how much I love zombies, have a listen to an older song about how much I literally love zombies:
I turned my old screenplay into a radio play. Y’know, like the old-time radio show adventures from the 40’s like The Shadow. The sketch it includes my favorite part of any zombie soundscape, the ever-present Zombie Moan ™.
I’m not gonna lie. It’s a pretty scary sounding horde. But it could be scarier. That’s where you come in. If you are reading this, you are invited to be part of the horde. Just record yourself doing two minutes of your best zombie moan and send it as an attachment to [email protected]. In return, you’ll get a credit on the album and the satisfaction of knowing you were part of the best zombie moan of all-time. Don’t forget to include the name you want credited. Send them in by 11:59 pm on April 18th, 2010, or you’re just another shambling zombie with no direction.
Before you do, let me give a couple of tips on being a good zombie:
- 1. The most important thing you can do as a zombie is lose all inhibition. A laughing zombie is not a scary zombie.
- 2. Make it a *.wav, *.mp3 or *.aif in the highest quality setting you can.
- 3. It takes all kinds of zombies, moaners, gurglers, coughers, hackers, wheezers, bleeders, chokers and garblers to make up a horde, mix it up!
- 4. Don’t move around. Don’t get that into it. That messes up the recording, and it’s weird.
- 5. Decide whether or not you want people to think you’re crazy. I didn’t warn my roommates, I just set up the mic and went. I do that kind of thing a lot though, so they probably just thought my singing sounded worse than usual.
- 6. Try not to sound like Ludo from Labyrinth. We already have that covered.
Don't sound like Ludo, or he'll come beat his royalties out of you.
That just about covers it. Now get busy moaning!
