Plasma Snake Barrel Roll i is an avant-garde/free instrumental project I started a while back and I am looking for some feedback on it. I am not a professional musician, and I do not inspire to be, so take it for what it is. All of the music is synthesized. I have produced 7 albums so far, all of which I am putting up for free download. Please let me know what you think!
(I apologize for the slow downloads; I don't know a faster place to upload them)
Album #1: The Strain of Thought
The Strain of Thought is the first album I did, and I think that it is still one of the best. It is a pseudo-concept album about the difficulty of creative expression and communication. It begins a trilogy about the various aspects of life, this album representing the mental.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UD8IYYCL
Album #2: Liquid Light
Liquid Light presents a sort of out of order story, from the moment of creation until the final crystallization of the universe represented in a single life. It is by far the most philosophical of the albums, and it is the second part of the trilogy, representing the spiritual.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CYXODENE
Album #3: La Trahison des Musique
LTDM is named in homage to Magritte's La Trahison des Images, a picture of a pipe with the inscription "this is not a pipe," his point being that it was merely a picture of a pipe. All of the music on this album was improvised (with the exception of the final track, which is a mashup of music contained on the first three albums) and as such it represents a similar idea. The tracks are not music, then, by any traditional sense, they are merely images of music: notes and rhythms arranged willy nilly.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PJYVGV6C
Album #4: The Extraordinary Chaos of an Ordinary Day
This album contains two epic length tracks, the theme of both being essentially explained by the title of the album and the songs' individual titles.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7QC9IS85
Album #5: Orbis Terrarum: Meus Sententia Procul Nox Noctis
The title translates roughly from Latin as "The World: My Thoughts at Night." It is a single 55-minute drone/free track, and it represents the relative importance to me of my own thoughts. It is not really meant to be musical in any traditional sense, it is meant to be merely there.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AZMVMP2R
Album #6: CANCER
Cancer was written after my grandfather's death from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. As such, it is not a happy album at all, emotionally ranging from anger to sorrow. It is, like Liquid Light, an out of order musical narrative representing the moment of diagnosis until death. It completes the trilogy started by the first two albums, representing the physical.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5CKUJHSX
Album #7: Absurdity
Absurdity is everything that the title implies. Containing two average length tracks and two epic length tracks, I feel that it really defies easy description. The second track, "Pleasuredome," is a sort of free tone-poem, and I personally feel that the last track, "Tetanus and Ladybugs," is the best I have ever created.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5O4T2SX5
I apologize for my pretentiousness, but hey, we're all prog fans here, right? If you have the patience to go through and listen to them all, I thank you, but if not I completely understand. If you listen to any of it Please Please Please tell me what you think, good or bad. I thank you for your time and hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it!
If you like what you hear you can find us on facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Plasma-Snake-Barrel-Roll/169674220347?ref=ts
P.S. I wasn't sure if this should go here or in the musician's exchange, so if this is in the wrong place I apologize.
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