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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 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989	Posted: June 27 2010 at 13:18
	Your comments make me interested, guys. I'll check out this band soon

pigboat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: October 21 2009 Location: Silverdale, WA Status: Offline Points: 16	Posted: June 30 2010 at 19:46
	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

VanVanVan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 756	Posted: July 04 2010 at 16:34
	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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