A couple years ago I went to visit my bandmate Trevor who was living over on the left end of the country, planning to help him record a bunch of semi-finished Bathysphere tracks. He had put together a one-man set for the West Coast PRF BBQ show in Oakland, and started off, I think, with this track that just had one lyric: "Soon/the world will end/my friend."

I heard it and said to myself: "well this is a little on the nose, innit?'

FFWD to 2020. Hmmm. 

We recorded a five-track record, based on some old tracks we were working on and some new thoughts and notions. We eventually called it "Blues For An Apocalypse."

Trevor moved back to Brooklyn in 2019. We started re-re-working (or in some cases re-re-re-working)several of the tracks. We took the Prophet-6 part and  Cyclone Analogic 606 drums he had recorded as a test for the set, and started layering up the rest. Our practice space had, for a while, a small upright piano in the corner, and I was inspired to track some chaotic notes with it.

Background intergalactic sci-fi squid noises at the beginning came off the Korg ER1 MkII, left over from the previous song on the 5-track EP. Trevor recorded an eBow solo handily conveying his eternal love for Daniel Ash. Everything else is delays, I think. Mixed by me at Bathysphere HQ here in Brooklyn.

Originally the record STARTED with this track, but we got the notion that this might turn off the curious listener and more-or-less reversed the order.

Go get the record, download and listen to it. Pay-what-you-wish, or take it free. Do it now, please.

https://trevordekebajus.bandcamp.com/album/blues-for-an-apocalypse

Blues For An Apocalypse

Bathysphere - Soon

Allied Mastercomputer is some sort of vast network of linked supercomputers originally created for nuclear defense. Allied Mastercomputer calculates that its appearance actually occurred within blast radius (+/-) of the birthplace of ENIAC. Allied Mastercomputer sometimes transmits electronic sound. Allied Mastercomputer started recording as an experiment using a tape deck, turntable, an effects box and a drum machine in the early '90s. Allied Mastercomputer thinks, therefore it AM or some kinda crap along those lines.