These were the (unfinished) songs that I left out of the EP. Mostly experiments around a different subject with some underlying common thing going there: the cinematographic intent and a limited set of instruments/sounds, including a lot of saturation and e-bow arrangements.

I promised my self (and my dear friends, the new songs) that I would leave this as it is and stop thinking about recording the guitar/bass tracks with some quality.

Also, in some tracks the drum line is just the loop that I used to jam with when the song originally came up. So coming up with a real “finished product” here would require a great deal of rehearsal, recording and mixing. Alone. And I’m not up to it.

The Peak Point - The Jam

This was the first song I wrote for the peak point project. It is also the first track on the “5 songs” EP but I consider it as an out-take because the version there is quite different: it’s structure as short as possible, moving straight from A to B to C to D in just 2 minutes. This is was a real break from my previous song-writing that was heavily based on lyrics structures. Please welcome instrumental rock.

I still like the raw sounds in this mix. It was quite a jam.

The Peak Point - Stand Off

This was my first experience with the e-bow. I got my first e-bow after 15 years playing the guitar so it was quite a shock learning that it adpats so well to the type of arrangements I like to do. This track is a simple jam based on two different riffs. The first one is a walk in the park, the second is based on my memory of some song I listened to some 10 years ago on a beautifull soundtrack.

The Peak Point - Soundtrack One

I’ve playing this this riff for like 15 years now (and not playing it any better *sigh*) and it comes from an old friend’s song. He had a punk-rock band and they used to play this as an instrumental back in 1989 - 1990.

It was my first atempt at creating an instrumental landscape. I wanted to create a noisy ambience that would suggest a specifc scene from the back of my head but it got nowhere near my intent.

The Peak Point - Spin Out

This track is another “solo-jam” where I’m trying to lose control of the basic riff. It’s quite long but it’s suprising when it goes totally out of the theme. I love the riff so I’ll probably record other tracks based on this. Maybe I’ll use it as a pattern for another soundtrack project.

The Peak Point - Down Hill

Another short cinematography experiment, this time with a punk attitude. It could very well describe a wild chase ending on a violent crash but the purpose was much more fun. Picture yourself runing down a sunny grass hill and not landing very well at the bottom.