Weather Channel Mashup *Featuring* Three Six Mafia

With a bunch of awesome guests:

StarSystems on the supporting guitar textures, as well as the groovy solo on the bridge (well, one of the bridges ;)

Michael Riehlman with the vocals.

Benjamin Bailey, the [insert genre here] band JOYWAVE, with the absolutely ripping synth solo on the outro. Did it surprise you? ;)

Falling Down (feat. StarSystems, Michael Riehlman, Benjamin Bailey)

I've been writing fairly consistently over the past month or two, although my progress is typically slow at the best of times. Apologies for mediocre MIDI piano and bass! This time around, having a bit of an idea of what I'll be [hopefully] capable of in terms of recording or fleshing out any given arrangement, it's been interesting to be able to envision a more 'complete' texture, rather than just having piano ideas and then having to stumble forward from there.

This is a spacey middle section to a song I recently just about finished up the first demo of. I'm trying to be a little more patient in presentation of ideas for the next album. Rather than having each section be succinct, just throwing ideas consecutively at the listener, giving more sections time to breath and develop. Some of my favorite moments on the first ep are when I manage to pull back from the freneticism in the piano writing, allow it to be occasionally more textural than always at the forefront.

Additionally, one of the goals of the new set of writings is to have a little more creativity with the process of recording itself, whether with layering or adding in prepared piano sounds. To that extent, as you can hear here, there's 2 piano tracks, panned hard left+right which are ALMOST identical, but when they deviate there's a sudden flutter of harmony, that I hope will translate as a neat effect.

6.13.2015 Clip - Spaaaace

W4 Teaser

These Freaky Blues (Warning)

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I. SELDON CRISIS

II. RED DWARF
life - and death
we suspend every breath
light - and shade
all things shall be unmade

ten thousand years
soon disappears
witness the universe slow its turning
galactic entropy

dancing - so entrancing
(even the best song has its end)
bright sun fades colder
(will dead stars ever live again?)

rumination, calculations made
prophesy the ending of time

psychohistory ends the mystery
finds that the truth lives in the lie

light will lead us to life

III. GRAVITATIONAL LENS

IV. AXIS OF SYMMETRY

V. TERMINUS
fading night of the last star's light
blistering it boils away

time stand still
from my window sill to the Void
this final day

without a rhyme or any reason
bloated, it burns away
the final light of completion
into decay

out among the darkness
Growing, undetected
dimly in the starshine
frail and unprotected

Terminus they named it
edge of all creation
gathering of knowledge
laying the Foundation

light will lead us to life

Galactic Entropy

Hellelujah

Drowning Pool "Hell To Pay'

Eagle Ridin

Reverse (2012)

All art credit for track images goes to Irma and Helmut Hinghofer-Szalkay at www.ihs9art.com!

Weather Channel Mashup Featuring Three Six Mafia

Galactic Entropy

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