Busted Piano is the result of playing around on the Plink platform, and in the video you can see the visualization used on the platform – a moving line, waveform of little blobs. I chose a particularly whiny, mechanical sounding synth for an instrument on Plink. To my ears, it sounded like a badly maintained player piano, or a wonky honky-tonk. To get the clips to sound more musical, I worked in a couple of bass guitars, a sax, some crooning vocalizing and an Afro-Cuban Piano – an instrument in Logic which is suitably analog-sounding.
In the end, the track reminded me of something you’d hear coming out of a dark, smoky bar somewhere, where the singer perches on the piano and the pianist – bowler hat on head, chewing on a cigar – hammers away at the keys. I probably have an over-active imagination, but it’s how I got the song’s title. (I do not advise mutilating the keys of your piano with stiletto heels.)
Lyrical Video – Busted Piano
Track: “Busted Piano”
Audio: ©Cōdae 2022
Audio: ISRC CBAKR2203006
Album: Painting Music
Mixing & Mastering: Banana Llama Studios
Lyric Video Design and publishing: Red Pennant Communications Corp.
Music Visualization made on: “Plink” A.I. app by DinahMoe
Musician footage from: Pexels.com by
– Yan Krukov
– Cristian Rojas
– C-Technica
– Cottonbro
– Rodnae Productions
One thought on “Track 6 on “Painting Music” – “Busted Piano””