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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Hey guys, guess I HAVE been neglecting this blog of mine. Checking out my blog each and everytime expecting it to update on its own. That's just ridiculous. Clicks on my 'link' hyperlink, checks out other's blogs such as 'Syazwan', 'Sazali', 'Sadali' and 'Elkrados'. Why am I even sharing with you guys how I go about surfing blogs anyway? Anyway, I don't bloghop, frigging lazy to do that. What's the fun in reading the blog of some unknown person anyway? Call me anti-social, but I prefer knowing the person first before judging them from what they've penned on their blogs. At least that'll save the two of us some huge misunderstanding if it ever occurs.

By now, you know that's not really what I wanted to share with you guys today right? I've been delaying this post for so long cause I couldn't garner enough courage to actually type this out. Ethel has well, I really don't want to say its broken up, but entering an indefinite hiatus. Though lucky for you peeps, we actually bothered making a parting gift, 3 new songs has been recorded and being made. Ok Zali, I know you'll be mad at me, but can you just drop off the name of the 3 songs on my tagboard. Thanks. I only remembered that one of them is called 'Running Away'. That's just because I created the guitar riff for that.

Guess we've come to a cross road, and there's multiple roads appearing before us. Some of us will take the path that'll diverge from the rest, but I really hope it will converge, some way or another when another phase of our life is done.

What I'm trying to say is that, well, hope that, when everythings down and simmered, maybe, I'm just saying, maybe in the near future, Ethel will come back again and create more songs. I dare not say we broke up cause Hafiz's departure was a mutual one. We agreed upon it, and we realised that hey, National Service is coming up soon anyway. Ok fine, I know Hafiz didn't say anything about the possibility of getting back together again in the future. Though it's not wrong to hope, right? When everything's calm and settled, when we have a grasp on the new things that comes crashing right to our face, maybe we can sit down, and laugh, and praise each other, while we create songs. I hope.

I definitely, definitely won't go down the path of being disappointed on his decision cause somehow, deep in me just knew this point of life would occur. Being friend's with him for close to half a decade made me realise that, I knew he'd choose that path, somehow or another. Therefore, it didn't really come about as something shocking, or painful.

Good luck guys, to whatever we're attempting, here on then. We've parted ways once, and we've got back together. Who says it couldn't happen the second time?

Labels: Ethel, hiatus

arfandi used up his time at 3:47 PM

Monday, April 09, 2007

'Why~'

This song has been released close to a month but I was able to acquire it only yesterday. That was rather apathetic. Though the title of the song has been changed to 'Scar's Remain', the file name has been stated 'Why'. So I won't go over the whole debating about which it should be called and named it 'Why (Scar's Remain)'. Or either way you want to put it. Alright?

Original drafting of the song was made way back 4 years ago. The only song I felt wasn't trash back then. Though the rest of the band felt the contrary. Lyrics was changed from the emo melodramatic, written by Firdaus to a rather still melodramatic minus the emo, written by Sazali. Added in the solo one day before the whole recording. Yes, it was a last minute thing. Though I like the way it sounded.

I have been trying to create a myspace account for the band though someone actually took the name ethel already. The catch is, that person isn't even a band. Dammit, I was so infuriated. The fact that she/he just chose 'Ethel' cause it sounded cool. If I did continue with the naming, it'll have to turn out to be either 'E=thel' or whatever variations you can find. Corny? Yes. Super corny. Therefore, I'm foregoing the myspace account till I get the whole band's opinion on the naming.

Till next time, enjoy.

Labels: Ethel, Scar's Remain, Why

arfandi used up his time at 3:55 AM

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

"i'm falling, i'm falling down. i'm screaming, i'm screaming now..."

Yearp, 'Falling' has finally been released but still far from complete. ~~Scratch~~ that, I don't really know if they're really final or in-progress tracks. 'Scar's Remain' is the only song currently within the clutches of Razali and desperately trying to escape to our ears. We still have to wait for that. Anyway, won't make you guys wait anymore, here's 'Falling' from Ethel.

Our band, Ethel, is currently coming to complete 'Running Away'. Title is still under judgement, its not decided yet whether we're gonna title it as that.

Extra Bit
An insight on the current activities of Ethel, which is creation of original songs has dated way back when we were still in Secondary School. Sazali and I were pretty psyched about creating our own songs as we realised the harshness of having to emulate other singer's vocals for bands. We got to a point where we felt the only way to feel comfortable singing to a song is, well, singing to a song you created yourself. Since they're created based on your vocal limitations, you don't need to push yourself when you know you can't reach a certain note or pitch.

So we got about trying to create our own songs but felt that we needed to decide on a rhythm first. Sazali, Firdaus, Fadhli(surprisingly) and I started off with such a simple chord and 'Why' was created, which tentatively got revamped and improved to become 'Scar's Remain'. The rest, is history.

Bands broke up and formed, finally it solidified to Ethel, basically Scarlet Soul minus lead guitarist, Mahathir. Original line up and still original creative minds. 'Falling', 'Take it All Away' and 'Virgin's Said' were created respectively.

Current line-up consisting of:
Sazali percussions
Arfandi bass/rhytm guitar
Hafiz rhythm guitar/bass
Farhan vocals/piano

We were able to contact with Mahathir again since he's undergoing NS. The great lead guitarist that we respect and awe.

That's it for this time's post. More updates on the band's activities in future post's.

Labels: Ethel, falling

arfandi used up his time at 7:43 PM

Friday, March 02, 2007

Ok, I can't believe I've switched to beta. It's like what Zali told me, he was forced well, to switch to beta. There are quite a few things about beta that I can never come to terms with.

The lousy ugly thing on the top that was already evident on the previous version was much hideously bigger this time and it ruined my previous skin. Thus, the reason why I'm with the current layout that you're actually seeing. Hope I don't get the same problem Zali had we he tried to create a post which would be rather lengthy to try and describe here.

Ethel Recording Session went great, we played tremendously well, way better than we usually do. Perfect? Definitely not. Maybe its the fact that we were cutting our songs to tracks made us well, pulled up our socks? Our lead vocalist, sang well, as he usually do. The final cut for the three songs we recorded on that day is still going through tweaking by our, hrm, I have no idea how to put him. Introducng, Razali, who kinds of remind me of Firdaus if he actually becomes older. His passion, stature reminds me of him. Credits to both Sazali and Razali for giving our band this opportunity to show case our talents and cutting it into tracks. Somehow, deep within me, I've always wanted to do something like this, or maybe not. Haa.

The three songs that we recorded are:
- Take it all Away
- I can't believe I forgot the second song's title
- Originally called 'Why' but changed to something else which I am ashame to admit that I forgot too.

So, I wanted to let you guys have a taste of how it sounds like since I have the raw sound of Take it all Away on imeem but guess I decided against it. Don't want you guys to hear on an incomplete item. So patience people.

Thats it for today's post, till next time.

Labels: Ethel, Recording

arfandi used up his time at 6:50 PM

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