that Foreshadows is still available from here, and as an e-book from here – so, if you desire a copy, get across there and bag yourself one.
There’ll be some more music news coming up soon, but in the meantime here are a couple of new tracks:
Yield No Ground
Silent Pool
Just a quick post to say I’ve put Exteriors up, as the the header for this post would suggest, at Digital Vomit (the link to the page on the site is here) – the files themselves are at Archive.org – the link for that page is here. The usual choice of formats can be found there as well as a handy ZIP file of VBR MP3 files.
The link below for the MP3 ZIP file has been removed as I’ve taken it off Mediafire.
…can be found here – at least until I find a permanent home for it. So if you want to hear it, grab it now as it won’t be there forever.
Edit: Link now removed. see next post…
I got my copy of Foreshadows in the post the other day and it really is a fine-looking piece of work – I’m so glad it’s actually happened after several years of false starts. Now, all I’ve got to do is actually read the thing, although I’m really looking forward to that part. I’ve listened to the audio already and it’s come out really well.
There’s also an E-book version available as well now – get over to Foreshadows.net for all the details.
I’ve edited the post below, so there are a few tracks linked – more information coming soon about the album and also a link to a complete zip file – once I’ve uploaded it somewhere, that is…
It’s all over for another year…
The album is titled Exteriors and the track-listing is below
1: The Tape Is Dissolving (1:21)
2: Reality’s Trapdoor (3:05)
3: 100 Scorpions (6:21)
4: Coiled And Luminous (1:58)
5: Blades Of Silver Glint In Moonlight (5:06)
6: …And Then The Skin Peeled Away (3:27)
7: Closer (Than You Thought) (3:26)
8: Souvenir For A Tourist (3:32)
9: Medusa Revisited (6:43)
10: Cosmic Stalker (4:18)
11: The Mule Knows The Way Home (4:20)
12: Slowly Slowly (3:19)
Only 12 tracks on the album this year – but there are a few longer ones than usual. There were also a few out-takes as well which will most likely end up somewhere in the future. Once again, I decided against the double CD – maybe that’ll be the plan for next year. I’ll post up some of the album tracks when WordPress is behaving itself – so possibly never – and once I’ve actually decided what I’m going to do with this year’s album I’ll post that here as well. Right now, I’m leaning towards the Bandcamp / Kunaki route I’ve taken in the last couple of years, but we’ll see how it pans out. I’ll be back with some more info about the tracks when I can actually post some links to them. Links posted for six tracks…
Forgive the lack of updates this month, it isn’t that I’ve been avoiding this place or anything but I have been really busy and I’m been working hard on tracks. There’s also the small matter that it’s been virtually impossible to log on here and actually post anything for a while – the post below this one took about two hours to get online. I’d love to tell you how one e-mail to WordPress support sorted everything but, as of writing this, I’ve still received no reply to the message I wrote last Sunday (although I can get in here now and post stuff so they may have done something – I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they did, OK?)
So, anyway, I’ve got 14 finished tracks – more than enough for an album – but I’m still plugging on, as I’ve not entirely forgotten that I said that this might be the year that I submit a double CD. It may well happen – I’ve got 11 days still. This is also the first year since 2008 that I haven’t been away for at least a couple of days during the challenge, which means I haven’t been working on tracks in a hotel room on my laptop this year. Not a bad thing in itself as, now I’ve got all this extra computing power it’s nice to put it to use – but sometimes I come up with stuff sat about late at night in odd places that I’d never get here at home.
Still, here are 3 finished tracks:
Closer (Than You Thought)
100 Scorpions
Slowly Slowly
I’ve also got a working title for the album as well (if I do get enough tracks for a second album, it’ll be called something else) but I’ll keep it to myself until it’s actually set in stone.
I should also mention that Foreshadows gets its proper release this week (on Tuesday in fact) and, in their ongoing Facebook promotion campaign they’ve got round to mentioning me and my ‘cough’ ‘highly ambitious musical output dreams’ – personally, I think 100 albums is more than possible – actually the plan is 101 (excluding compilations, reissues and live albums – and that’s released, not just recorded) – it’s something to aim for, right? Even if, at the present rate, it takes me another 37-odd years to achieve…
I’m closing in on this thing again – so far I’ve got 9 finished tracks and another 4 very nearly there. That’s pretty much an album if I chose to use all of them – and there’s still half a month left to go. In previous years, I’ve said that I might actually make a double album and, although it’s never happened in the end, this year may well be the year it happens…
None of the finished tracks have been mastered or even have proper titles yet, so I’m got going to post anything until that’s been done. Then, of course, it’s the routine of having to come up with a title and sort out some cover art. I’ve only got access to a black-and-white printer right now, so there won’t be anything flashy accompanying the CD I send to RPM – but that shouldn’t affect anything I post online.
Edit: Still having major issues with this site but here’s a work-in-progress. I’ve no idea exactly where this one came from but here it is anyway:
Ranch (First Rough Version)
Work continues – that’s about all I can say right now. I have 16 tracks in various stages of completion, but nothing 100 % done yet which is pretty much unheard of. By this time next week though I expect have a pile finished, especially as I have some time to work on them uninterrupted (I hope). Here are some more rough tracks:
Apse (First Rough Version)
Igloo (Very Rough Version)
Ledge (First Rough Version)
All working titles, of course – and I’m not sure if these are going to make the final cut. In lieu of anything intelligent to add, here’s one of those animated gif things that the kids go wild for these days on teh interwebs. One especially for all those classic rock fans out there…
There hasn’t been too much free time so far this month to post very much about this year’s challenge. It’s going ok actually, 12 tracks started, but so far only one that’s nearing completion. Or at least, close enough that I’ve got a rough MP3 of it to post:
Exit (First Rough Version)
The other 11 are in various states of completion and are sounding pretty good in parts, although it can be difficult to tell from half a backing track. I had a good solid day working on things today and hopefully I shall have a fair bit of time this coming week to move things on. Even more if we get all the snow that’s forcast and I can’t go to work.
And here’s another Digital Vomit online compilation that I’ve got a track on – this one is called Dead Can’t Dance and is a ‘Zombie-inspired rhythmic noise compilation’ or ‘A vile conglomeration of undead tracks from the DV crew’ – here’s a full track-listing:
1. The Engineer – Solypsis
2. Compost Required – Teuthis Galore
3. Naming It Was A Mistake From The Start – ANE
4. Giant Miniature Squirrels – Daniel Lambert
5. Some Things Never Really Die – Thee Crumb
6. The Z Word – Alien Hand
7. Hemorrhage – Pulverized Fontanelle
8. Ossuary – Beytah
9. The Unrelentless March Of The Living Dead – Larsen FX
10. Plastic Rhino – A1K3M1
11. A Fist Of Droning Flies – Teuthis Galore
12. Feeding Time – Zombie Possum
13. Temporal Tantrum – Solypsis
Grab it from here
