Wow.. nice chords, lovely pads and loving the voices. This one hits hards. I don’t want to analyze it too much (mind versus heart) but it has a lot of emotions in it that resonates within me. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️

☄️so great☄️ &  just in my playlist: Beep Beep ☺️

Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)

Because the old world is really going insane, we need a new one!
Voices were recorded in hostels in South Korea (Seoul and Gyeongju) with companions from Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Germany, England... Thank you all!
This track is an extract from our upcoming EP: Time Zones, to be released in January 2024! 
Painting by Malka (detail).
Free Palestine!

Time Zones

A New World

Music by Kontra Sz & Val Akey.
- Kontra Sz: plays rythm guitars, lead guitars;
- Val Akey: drums-, bass- and keys programming (mixing and mastering) + cover art.
Many thanks Kontra Sz for the fantastic guitar play! https://soundcloud.com/kontra-sz

Release date:
12 January 2024

Captive Of Time (collab)

Magic Box

Jellyfish Palace

Portal To Another World

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, lyre, vocals
Ron Thomas: Autoharps, Drums

Production notes:
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Very early on we wanted to use autoharps on this song to create a sort of swirling backdrop, reminiscent of the harps in Indian/Bollywood soundtrack songs of the seventies.

Right away there were challenges because the song is in B flat and is not wholly diatonic to begin with, utilizing a chord built on the augmented lydian scale in the choruses. So rather than transpose the song to a more amenable key (since the chromatic bits weren't going to work no matter what key we used) we instead re-tuned the autoharp. Moving through the strings one by one we tuned them either up or down a half step where applicable to bring them into key. Where the augmented chord hit in the choruses, we excluded those notes so that the autoharp was filling the diatonic parts of the chords and omitting the accidentals. It took us several tries to get it right. In the end we arrived at a chord progression that could be strummed on the autoharp and the modified chords could be played with existing dampers.

We also tuned the lyre so that the top half of the strings included the chromatic augmented notes while the lower register of the lyre was tuned using the diatonic, so the lyre could play the melody all the way through both parts of the song.

The inspiration for this song was essentially fourfold:
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First, H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying necromancer Joseph Curwen (from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") who masked his true identity in order to thwart suspicion from his fellow townsfolk. He has many secrets lurking in his underground catacombs where he performs acts of necromancy most foul, extracting the "salts" of the dead in order to raise them at will and learn the secrets of ancient eldritch deities.

Second, a poem by Rudyard Kipling titled "En-Dor" which was a warning against the rise of spiritualism and the cost of communion with the dead in the early 20th century.

Third, the biblical Saul who traveled in disguise to visit a witch at the city of Endor in order to summon Samuel from the dead and garner advice on defeating the Philistines, but who only prophesies doom for Saul. Saul dies later the next day in the battle of Gilboa.

Lastly, the story of Odysseus communing with the underworld where he enlists the help of Tiresias to have a chat with the dead and secure for himself a safe journey home.

They all seek communion with the dead for one purpose: to gain knowledge which only those who have crossed over between realms might possess. 

Lyrics:
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A mask may reveal what it’s meant to conceal
From those who are standing beside us
Armor of pride, so we learn to abide
By the monsters which hide deep inside us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us
Oh, how they scratch and they bite us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us

Only to know what the professor knows

Eating black bread, wearing clothes of the dead
The soil soaked in honey around us
For fear if we failed, leave the ogre unveiled
And it’s back in the grave where they found us
Back in the grave where they found us
Freed from the ties which had bound us
Back in the grave where they found us

Only to know what the professor knows

In the catacomb vaults, we extracted the salts
From cadavers to lengthen our youth
Chanting the names at the edge of the flames
And a mirror to show us the truth
A mirror which speaks only truth
See how it seeks not to soothe
A mirror which speaks only truth

Only to know what the professor knows

In the underworld maze, in the night of no days
Concocting the plan we’re devising
Much to endure on the road to En-Dor
And to snatch from Elohim arising
To snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Professor

For more on this disquiet junto prompt, see https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0655-soothing-sounds-ii/67983

Congrats to the new parents in the Junto!

Technical stuff:
Made with SuperCollider and processed in Audacity. The background paddy stuff is a chorused morphing wavetable synth and the foreground is a perc-enveloped FM synth, both playing notes from the same chord throughout.

dream, kiddo (disquiet0655)

Inspired by a haiku and made with iOS and Bitwig.  Thank you Naviar Records for the opportunity.

Indivisible

Indivisible [ naviarhaiku554 ]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
557

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku557-i-write-erase-rewrite/

2024-09-05

I Write, Erase, Rewrite ( Naviarhaiku 557 )

A track made for the Naviar haiku challenge #557 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku557-i-write-erase-rewrite/

Early-morning improvisation on a Roland JX-3P.

write, erase, rewrite

Write, Erase, Rewrite (naviarhaiku557)

Underbelly

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0662: Spin Cycle

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0662 discussion thread on Lines:

I imagined two cyclists on a banked velodrome. They would take turns occasionally pulling ahead of each other. Toward the end, they both race at the same speed, and leave the velodrome together. Hopefully I was able to convey that scenario here.

I used MIDI sequences generated by a web based version of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse by software developer Tero Parviainen. After editing the MIDI notes in Ableton Live, I created two tracks representing the two riders, each using a different instrument preset in Slate+Ash Choreographs. Cableguys ShaperBox 3 was used to create rising and falling volume levels – one every 8 bars and the other every 16 bars. This was done to mimic the cyclists pulling ahead and falling behind each other. Three other MIDI tracks were created for percussion, bass and counter melody using Choreoraphs and Teletone Audio Ondine. Effects used were Valhalla Room and Phonolyth Cascade reverbs. Star trails image by David Becker via Unsplash.

More on the 662nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Spin Cycle — The Assignment: Record a piece of music that pits one bicyclist against another — at https://disquiet.com/0662/

Revolving Roundabout [disquiet0662]

Subator Toentury

Averseite Burgura

glory

Imagine the picture, the story & the beautyfull planet of this film

eXoWorld (part 13)

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

We have completed our "Time Trilogy"... 1 album and 2 EPs now available on CD! https://zuunzug.bandcamp.com/merch/time-trilogy-3-cd

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Zuunzug

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