Socioradio decay and musical mirages tuned to the majestic despair of our times. Analog synthesizers, AM and shortwave, spring reverb, effects. Home recordings cut up and rearranged throughout 2024. Part III

ROTRADIO III

Releases 12.25.2024 by Beam Nine

DOWNLOAD FREE: https://crow96.bandcamp.com/track/theres-something-on-the-mountain

Recorded in autumn of 2024, this single takes a more electronic approach than Crow 96's previous body of work. Working around his infant son's naps, the artist created the majority of this song within the confines of headphones, recording guitars via digital modeling as opposed to mic'd amps. The artist's passion for analog synthesis was able to shine through the song's rhythm and lead synth portions.

LYRICS

There's something on the mountain
Can you see it
There's something there again
Can you hear it
There's something on the mountain
Can you feel it
Can you get near it again

There's something on the mountain
Can you see it
There's something there again
Can you hear it
There's something on the mountain
Can you feel it
Can you get near it again

There's Something On The Mountain

This is my Gen X, mid-life crisis, electronic ambient record, made primarily with analog synthesizers, drum machines, many guitar pedals (mostly EHX), and plugins. Very much inspired and influenced by Boards of Canada, Suzanne Ciani, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, and Fans of Collision.

Dronescape 2600

Polysix wave

Electronic winter

Twilight creepers

Night wave

Twinkling lights (interlude)

Drone rise

Some more synthwave with additive and fm synthesis together with atmospheric electric grand piano. Tried to find also some oldskool 80s and 90s computer game / demo lead sounds. In this I was mostly using Air Loom II, Surge, and Ultra Analog VA-3 for the sounds, combining everything around simple layered 2-layer (2x2 fm oscillators) arpeggio repeating through the entire piece...

Galactic Teardrops

Crow 96 is the most recent iteration of solo lo-fi recording projects by a musician and composer in Nevada. In part due to a relatively transient lifestyle, the artist has been releasing music under several monikers across the United States since 2007.

Started making music with 8bit and PC computers in 80s & 90s inspired by the time C64 and Amiga music and demo scene composers. Composers and artist who have mostly inspired me during the years include people like Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze etc. In addition to ambient and synth music, my life at early stages at home was affected by 50s and 60s instrumental rock i.e. in Finnish "rautalankamusiikki" and Finnish rock and pop from 70s and 80s.    

Now-a-days I am trying to play guitar, bass and synths, and singing...from other instruments, flutes and pipes are close to my heart too.

Seattle based visual artist and sound composer. His work has been heard in Iancu Dumitrescu's 1st Annual Computer Music Festival in Bucharest, and the Center on Contemporary Art's People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too.

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