time to close the series :-) and move somewhere else. I wish everyone a pleasant listening. M

2021-10-26

Saturday

Winter

After releasing the very much guitar drone based album "Haptics" album back in May, I decided that I should next do a release with melodies and a more positive sound at the forefront. The first track in almost 2 years that I've put together without the use of at least one guitar is "Scintilla". It's s produced purely on various different software apps and also with the use of a Micro Korg and a Yamaha Tenori-on.

"Scintila" is one of the tracks that will be featuring on the new EP "Iridescent". Clocking in at 11 and a half minutes, It's one of the longest tracks I've written, but also one of my most unique ones to date In my opinion. I always like to try a different approach to song structure and used the melodies in this kinda as building blocks if that makes sense. Stacking them on top of each other until at one point during the song they were all layered in alongside each other before fading back out again.

You can download the full "Iridescent" EP at bandcamp for £1.99

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/iridescent

Scintilla

"Deep Blue Solace" is the closing track from the new Fragile X album "Moana". A journey from the waves to the depths of the sea and back again. Headphones recommended.

Released on the 18th of May.

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Deep Blue Solace

Take a Break

The Canticle of Brother Sun, also known as Canticle of the Creatures is a religious song composed by Saint Francis of Assisi near or around 1224. It was written in an Umbrian dialect of Italian but has since been translated into many languages.  

This contemporary composition by the same namesake mirrors the unqualified love Frances had for all creatures, great and small. 

The song along with reflecting on verse can have a profound effect on the inner soul and being of those who seek a journey of peace and calmness. 

A note:  The Canticle of Brother Sun debuted at the Annual Southeastern Regional Meeting of Secular Franciscans August 9, 2025.

Pax et bonum (Peace and all good)

The Canticle of Brother Sun

A track dedicated to the the worlds loneliest whale, 52 Hertz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150415-the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world

In May 2015 I released the underwater concept album "Moana". It's my interpretation of a journey from the waves through the depths of the ocean and back to the surface. The album covered many different styles and moods. Mainly ambient, drone and techno.  I uploaded the tracks "Deep Blue Solace" and "Sonic Depth Finder" to soundcloud last year.
https://soundcloud.com/fragilex/deep-blue-solace
https://soundcloud.com/fragilex/sonic-depth-finder-1

A year later and I've made a new bonus track for the album. "52 Hertz" is more along the lines of sound design rather than an actual structured track but in it's 11 minutes it manages to uphold all the elements from the Moana album into one soundscape. Headphones recommended.

You can grab the original album here @https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/moana 

52 Hertz

Radio Noir

Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/track/1TWmLq4Dyvph7Ump6T3p3K?si=7882ea9ef7314d7e
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/tr/album/memory/1585557017?i=1585557018&l=tr
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Qrjs6jAkU&ab_channel=Orix
Bandcamp: https://orix.bandcamp.com/track/memory

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Memory (Demo)

Here's a demo of "Private, I" from the upcoming album "Honne and Tatemae". This is only a demo of the song. I hope to re-record it again soon. I just wanted to get some new music up on the page.

I understand that the words are probably quite indecipherable to people and i also have a bad habit of mumbling. So here are the lyrics:

PRIVATE, I

I asked if you were crying
And you said "It's just the rain."
But it's easy to tell the difference between water and your pain.
Plasters laced in salt are littered across the hall
And the barely open door through which you always fall.

You've left the heating on
To warm up your feet
I see you're playing your favourite song
It's always on repeat.
That one you love about running away.
But you care too much not to stay.

And you only look your best for love and death.
And you stay in rags for the rest.
Yeah, you always look your best for love and death.
But you stay in rags for the rest.

Private, I

Abstract Counterpoint Improvisation (disquiet0474)
Getting together through music,  in times of isolation...
I recorded here (France)upright bass over the duet by Chris Ledwidge (Ireland): piano and Michael Ash Sharbaugh (USA) synthesizers. 

I improvised over the original track twice, first take was a disaster, second was slightly better but still I couldn’t figure out what the piano was doing so my notes are bad and my timing is also bad.
 I mean, I'm following the sort of pulse but I'm not playing in the right spots, I'm afraid...


So, to save the thing from the trash lid I decided to label my ramblingness as an “abstract impro”, a tag that can excuse or justify many “out of focus” things. I added another thing that I use to bury sloppy things and pretend they are avant-garde brilliant statements: Valhalla Supermassive.
And I did a very creative use of the Delete button


DISQUIET0474 With Michael Ash Sharbaugh And Chris Ledwidge
For this late January 2021 junto:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

Original track:
https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/the-wolfs-baleen-michael-ash-sharbaugh-and-chris-ludwidge-disquiet0473-part-2-of-3

Photo by DD

@michael-ash-sharbaugh
@chrisledwidge

Abstract Counterpoint Improvisation (disquiet0474) with Chris Ledwidge and Michael Ash Sharbaugh

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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