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VanVanVan 
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Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 756 |
 Topic: Fractal Rock (The Band)Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:34 |
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Well, needless to say, I was/am very impressed.
 Really an excellent job combining original material with the source piece.Just wouldn't be prog if there wasn't some 11/4 in there...
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: June 30 2010 at 19:46 |
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VanVanVan,
We're happy that you liked "The Cyclone", not many people are familiar with the work of Modest Mussorgsky. Indeed we are listed on that Wikipedia page as doing a version of that piece. This song was developed primarily from disparate guitar pieces... Dave Hawkins wrote these syncopated 6/4, 5/4 and 11/4 patterns, so i recorded them, and then spent about 2 weeks trying to mesh something with it... "Night On Bald" seemed to work quite well, of course like most of our tunes, I chopped up and re-arranged the classical input, to suit our needs... I dare say, we lean on much classical music for parts and pieces... We write our music so as not to be too...overtly complex, but more palatable to the average person... of course we have no interest in creating pop music, but do... want to draw the listener into the song because of the Rock'n'Roll familiarity... this tendency is made apparent by the length of our songs: shorter more vignette like compositions. Dave and I have been the core writers, and we make the music move through tonal/colour changes, i.e. manipulating the Timbre of the overall sound by pushing instrumental voicing left and right forward and back within the mix, and using complex automated patch switching on the guitar, bass, and keyboard processors, to achieve tonality changes. There are 5 different Guitar patches in "The Cyclone", and 14 distinctly different keyboard parts/patches. The 11/4 section is really the climax of the song, and if you listen carefully, what appears to be a random drum line is actually a repeatable pattern in 22/8, right... our drummer had to sub-divide 11/4 into 22/8... he's gets pretty focused on the mathematics of our music... cheers, Joel
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harmonium.ro
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989 |
Posted: June 27 2010 at 13:18 |
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Your comments make me interested, guys. I'll check out this band soon
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VanVanVan
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 756 |
Posted: June 27 2010 at 12:43 |
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Listened to the whole album through and I have to say that this is one of the most interesting albums I've heard in a while. The blend of styles (especially the Jazz influence) was phenomenal. Especially interesting to me was "The Cyclone," as I have wanted to hear a rock arrangement of "Night on Bald Mountain" for a long time and you really did a nice job with that.
Very well done!
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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Marty McFly
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2009 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 3968 |
Posted: June 25 2010 at 17:50 |
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Indeed Keishiro, very fantastic. At first I was shocked, surprised and pleased, all of this at once. 4(+) is my result. And it was hard to decide what the hell it actually is, but it's great :-)
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
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DamoXt7942
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Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: June 25 2010 at 17:46 |
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Oh, I've not found this thread sorry, and now am listening to your stuffs ... very fantastic!
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Marty McFly
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Posted: June 25 2010 at 15:26 |
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Great, you will have your review from Marty soon :-) EDIT: And here is promised review Edited by Marty McFly - June 25 2010 at 17:25 |
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my |
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: June 23 2010 at 20:53 |
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Completed the last song a week ago, and we put up the whole CD including all the artwork for free download... download site: http://fractalrock.pigboatrecording.com/
thanks to Olav Martin Bjørnsen aka WINDHAWK for puting us up in the new release area and the database: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5661 hope you enjoy...comments welcome Edited by pigboat - June 23 2010 at 20:54 |
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pigboat
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Posted: April 24 2010 at 21:49 |
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16 Songs up 1 left to go for the CD
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: January 20 2010 at 18:53 |
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We put up a new song: "Purgo Mens Mentis" - http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_3171330
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: November 21 2009 at 15:07 |
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We put up a tune today titled: "Gossamer Thread" - http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/song_2851697
Cheers, from Fractal Rock
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Rivertree
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Posted: November 19 2009 at 13:24 |
... sounds familiar |
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: November 19 2009 at 07:12 |
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I was a music student in High school and College -- 30 years ago... studied Classical Performance, composition, all the usual stuff..., so my inspiration comes from decades of listening to prog and merging classical, jazz and rock.... I never thought about the actual sub-genre... The guitarist and I just sit around and tinker constantly with goofy-ass ideas until we get something going, the music comes out the way it comes out -I guess it could be avante-garde
BTW, we all have day jobs so we can afford to give the music away... however, my wife isn't happy about that since I spend every waking moment in the "Man Cave" i.e. Studio.
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JLocke
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Joined: November 18 2007 Status: Offline Points: 4900 |
Posted: November 18 2009 at 23:12 |
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Y'know, this stuff sounds very RIO-inspired. Is that what you would consider yourselves? An Avant-Garde Prog band?
Edited by p0mt3 - November 18 2009 at 23:12 |
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JLocke
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Posted: November 18 2009 at 23:09 |
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I see. Well, it's still good to be your myspace friend, anyway! haha.
Very generous of you to give away your work like that. I know many musicians who are doing that these days. I wish I could afford to do that with my music, and maybe someday I can. I think a lot of pro musicians are really looking at the whole download culture in absolutely the wrong light, but that's just me. Having a listen to that new track now. --Micah |
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pigboat
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Posted: November 18 2009 at 19:45 |
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we just put up one of our "in your face" jazz-rock fusion tunes, cameo's our violinist "V".
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: November 16 2009 at 07:27 |
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p0mt3
we appreciate your comments... we still have 11 other songs to push out, we are mixing constantly, stay tuned...
we probably won't use myspace because they have a 10 song limit, and we intend on posting all the tunes.
Once we go through our critical listen phase, tighten up any loose ends on the mix, we are going to give the whole CD away free, via Bit Torrent download...
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JLocke
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 22:12 |
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Thanks. It will be easier this way for me to keep up on the news regarding you guys. You've definitely gotten a new fan in me.
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pigboat
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Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16 |
Posted: November 14 2009 at 22:07 |
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http://www.myspace.com/thefractalrock is our page...
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JLocke
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Posted: November 14 2009 at 19:04 |
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It's very unusual, but cool! The vocals mixed with the guitar groove really had me head-boppin' by the two minute mark.
Do you have a myspace? If so, I'll friend request you from my own music page, if that's alright. Or if you don't, I'll just bookmark your reverbnation page. --Micah Edited by p0mt3 - November 14 2009 at 19:04 |
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