aziz as.is

always time for the new

paulaziz.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:15:58 +0000

Here is a new track with lots of guitar layers, I picked up the bass last night and before I knew out came this song. Comments are always appreciated.

Click on the title below to listen

always time for the new

Free album will be available until Midnight on Sunday October 18th

paulaziz.com — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:56:53 +0000

Digital Download of my entire 2nd album “Pushing through the Pull Door” will be available until Midnight on Sunday October 18th

Get your FREE download on the music page!

(make sure and click “Download Album”, not “Download” by the track name” for free download)

Pick Hop

paulaziz.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:20 +0000

A brief history…
Pick Hop is a genre of music that started painfully slow, the original song was recorded in the summer of 2008 in Boulder, CO and then another in the fall of 2009 in San Francisco. It wasn’t until 2010 that its pioneers convened all into a place called (insert city)…that it really began to take flight.
and as Tom Petty said…
“The Future is Wide Open”

the Ruff mixes-Click on title to listen

Pick Hop

Boris Castro

Art needs to congeal

paulaziz.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:20:07 +0000

Like the flow of blood to arteries
Like oil fresh on a painting
Like ink on paper
It is not until the lifeline of an artistic endeavor
is completely cutoff that it congeals and
begins to take its true shape

Painting from the MOMA SF

“Pushing through the Pull Door” release date set for September 17th

paulaziz.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:57:20 +0000

Paul Aziz’s sophomore album “Pushing through the Pull Door” is a predominantly instrumental album filled with lavish layers, plump beats and elements of glitch. It has been described as “fluid for your ears” from beginning to end.
Yet another concept album, these songs carry a heavy emotion about simply stopping what you don’t like in life and starting what you do like. It is about following your passions, learning from the trials and tribulations and shedding truth, awareness and light while doing so.

In other news the entire first album “Turnaround” is now available to hear streaming on this site. Lyrics from this album have been posted for the first time as well.

More info by clicking on the music link above or the image to the left.

Happy Friday, Free Song Downloads, and a New Website

paulaziz.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:32:03 +0000

It's a Sunny Day... I'm gonna waste it away...

First the free music:

These songs are temporarily not available (all songs can be heard streaming on the music page)

I decided to make these two tracks available for free download based on a some valuable feedback from good friends (thanks all). These two tracks are from my first album Turnaround which was released a little over two years ago. If this is all new to you there is more information on the music page.

As for the website, I redesigned it to combine my old music site with my travel blog so I can put all my creative ideas in one place. I can now put my energy and focus back on finishing up my second album (more details like album name and release date are coming soon).

Enjoy the tracks and even if you have heard them before I encourage you to forward this link, spread the music, tell your friends, put it on your iPod, etc…you get what I mean.

Thanks a lot!

Instructions for Download:

Click on Song Name above
Right Click on Download the MP3 and Select “Save Link as..”
Save song to desired location

Let the experiment begin

paulaziz.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:17:12 +0000

Well in this crazy day and age of internet business, music and marketing, I am trying to get a hold on how the heck to go about all this stuff and sometimes it is easy to forget just why and what I am doing it all for? And when I remind myself that it is simply to be able to make music, be creative and to share with people, it makes everything so much easier.

So rather than sitting around and constantly perfecting the master plan, I think I will just be my own lab monkey and just try out all of my questions. That being said I created a new music profile at Reverb Nation and uploaded a near completed track called “Peer Funk”. One other thing, the Sax in the track is courtesy of Peter Gavin of Moped. Comments are appreciated.

This track can now be heard on the music page

Could I give an album away if I tried?

paulaziz.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:34 +0000

I have had an album idea near completion since about the end of last Summer (08). Besides a few minor tweaks here and there, I can’t seem to get over a few semi-finished portions of work (aka. mental blocks), which leaves a bunch of hard-work and unheard music sitting on my computer. I constantly hope that I will finish it before I get totally sick of it and/or lose total interest in it.

Here is a list of my semi-finished portions of work (mental blocks):
Mixing
Mastering
Album Artwork
Trying to Market it and sell it.

This sounds like a lot of unfinished business, but the truth is that my strength and my creative process is in making the music. The other stuff I find it to be much more arduous and now have completely realized is stopping me from moving forward.

Even if I do go through all the motions to perfect every step of the process, how much would that really affect people downloading/listening to the music.
So say I decide to take the route of giving a digital album away, would I be selling myself short on what I am capable of or would I be moving past a road block that I created? and more curiously…

Could I give an album away if I tried?

your thoughts…?

Big Sur-Monterey

paulaziz.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:26:32 +0000

Patterns

paulaziz.com — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:30:56 +0000

Patterns- Everywhere
are they connected
do they have meaning
they are in the tiniest cracks
and in the vastness of the universe

I was walking around the city today looking for something bigger, far away, planning the next big adventure. I then started to take photographs of anything that struck my eye. It wasn’t until the end of the walk and after I started looking back at the photos that I realized that patterns, beauty and symmetry exist everywhere and that I had been walking past this simplicity for a long time now.