Merritt Gant Music. A Place holder for collaborations, experimentation, and commissioned work. All music recorded , mixed, and produced by Merritt Gant.
Merritt Gant
A work in progress. This is my place holder for collaborations, experimentation, and commissioned work that I produce.

SMOOTH
Song: All Night Long
 Info: My wife Joy singing on this R&B type thing. This whole song took about 15 minutes to write. Most everything including vocals are done in one take. Mr. Kuntz sat in on some guitars as usual. Kabisko recently updated the song with a rap section in the middle (9-4-06)
Date: November 25, 2003

Song: Slow Ride
 Info: Scott Gallagher and I slapped this one together one cold winter night. All instruments are done by us, Bass by Scott Seabock.
Date: December, 2005

Song: les merveilles
 Info: Hip Hop tune featuring Kabisko. While visiting from Massachusetts he stopped by to lay this one down. Hailing from Africa, he is not only a great free-style rap artist, but an excellent djembe player. He did the entire song to a basic beat that he picked just for tempo. Since he was on a tight schedule, none of the music got layed down until after he left. I threw out the old beat, brought in some new samples, layed in a little piano and cello line and this is what came out of it.
Date: September 4, 2006

Song: guinea
 Info: Another idea Kabisko layed down freestyle. I added all music and beats later.
Date: November, 2006

Song: Transitional
Info: Scott Gallagher and I put this Quentin Tarantino sounding piece together. Sean Shropshire played the Congas. I captured them with a Boss 1600CDR one day at Music Central.
Date: April 22, 2005

Song: just lay low
 Info: A little ditty using kompakt sound bank for instruments and battery loaded with nskit for drums.
Date: August 28, 2003

Song: empty
Info: Just some crap I put together testing out plugsound free by spectrasonics.
Date: August 10, 2003


FUNK AND FUSION
Song: the big nasty
 Info: Started with a drum sample taken from an Andre Williams LP. Guitars done by myself and Paul Kuntz. Many different guitars and lots of tube. Bass by Paul Kuntz. All other sample material done in ACID synced to SX. Loads of fun doing this one.
Date: October 26, 2003

Song: Top Chunk
Info: An eight pack I made for acid planet. The restrictions on this are eight tracks with no effects. All of the guitar loops were made by me. The other samples are mangled sonic foundry libraries.
Date: July 26, 2003

CHRISTIAN MUSIC
Song: Lord You Are Holy
 Info: Original music written by Jason Parmer, worship leader of Faith Bible Church in Vineland.
Acoustic Guitar and Lead Vocals: Jason Parmer
Bass Guitar: Scott Seabock
B3 Organ: Scott Seabock
Backing Vocals: Brittany Barreca
Electric Guitar: Merritt Gant
Drum Programming and Production: Merritt Gant
Date: March 28, 2007

Song: How Great Is Your Love
 Info: Original music written by Jason Parmer, worship leader of Faith Bible Church in Vineland.
Acoustic Guitar and Lead Vocals: Jason Parmer
Bass Guitar: Scott Seabock
Djembe: Sam Allen
Backing Vocals: Brittany Barreca
Drum Programming and Production: Merritt Gant
Date: March 28, 2007

Song: Thou art mine
 Info: Vince Strozyk performing an original praise piece. I love doing basic recordings like this.
Date: June 20, 2005

Song: Amazing Grace
Info: My wife on vocals and me on all guitar. The stand up bass and piano are midi files through kompakt.
Date: May 23, 2004

Song: Change My Heart Oh God
 Info: I did one simple nylon string guitar track with Joy on vocals. The accompanying bass track is being run into a sampler.
Date: July 14, 2004


ACOUSTIC BASED
Song: subsistentia
 Info: Back to basics. Two microphones and one nylon guitar. String samples for the bed were played by myself and Paul Kuntz. Aside from some mild compression and ambiance I left everything as natural as my eager hands would allow.
Date: October 14 2003

Song: OITC acoustic
Info: Joey, Shane, and Chris perform a one take session. The idea was to have this sound exactly as it was recorded. Just three guys jamming in a room.
Date: August 14 2003

HEAVY METAL

Song: Face
 Info: Unreleased Blood Audio material. Scott provided vocals along with my wife. I did one guitar track using my 1 Watt FireFly Kevin built. Some stereo guitar crap in the bridge and an overdubbed solo. Bass, drum programming, etc..by me.
Date: October 27 2005

Song: Blood Line
Info: Guitars using 1watt FireFly, Drums using EZdrummer. Needs bass and vocals.
Date: March 4, 2005

Song: Velocipes
 Info: Just some unfinished scratch. Some cool drum samples. No vocals here.
Date: March 4, 2005
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Song: brokencity
 Info: Drudging, doomy, sloth like vibe. Who knows where this is going.
Date: September 3, 2003

REMIXES
Song: Cheermix
 Info: A cheerleading team from Albuquerque, NM needed a remix of some supplied songs for a national competition. I cut up the songs they supplied, inserted some samples they wanted and made this remix for them to use. They won the competition.
Date: August 30, 2003

Song: Planet Thing
Info: A remix I did using a cappella tracks from "Galvanize" by the Chemical Brothers. The track also features Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. Beats are various loops and samples on hand.
Date: February 10, 2005

OTHER
Song: Horse
Info: Rebecca Renee Gant at the age of 3 recording with Daddy.
Date: 2003

Song: john and mert
Info: I had the opportunity to jam with my father in law and friend John while in Kansas City. We captured this with two realistic microphones, a realistic mixer, and cool edit pro.I brought it home and did some editing in SX. The progression went on for quite some time. This is a small excerpt. He's playing a strat through a vintage Gibson amp, I am playing a acoustic 12 string.
Date: September 11 2003

Song: OITC intro
 Info: Rock band One In The Chamber needed a new intro for their live shows. I put this together using a Jimi Hendrix sample, Kompakt VST, Plugsound Free, and some other samples on hand.
Date: August 14 2003

 

 

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