The Mad Monk and the Mountain

Review posted finally Colin

The CDs arrived. Great packaging on the cover too! Thanks. Reviews coming soon.

That's very kind of you, but I've already followed Torrod's advice, I've been making home movies over the last couple of years, and as a result of this thread I've tried something a little more ambitious. (I think I've posted these elsewhere on the site and you may have missed them





If you would still like to do a slide show, then "The Ends of the Earth" might be a good candidate.

TheGazzardian wrote: Hey Colin, I checked out one of your Oblivion videos. Unfortunately the video didn't work (out of town so I'm browsing on my phone while my wife sleeps) but the music was quite nice. I didn't know you did mods yourself. Back in the day, I used to mod a game called Myth II: Soulblighter, it's what I attribute to getting me where I am now (game developer/entrepreneur). I have to admit Ive never played Oblivion but I've heard a lot of good things about it from friends.

I started modding when I was at something of a low ebb with my music, and I continue to find it fascinating. These days I am getting more and more interested in 3d modelling. I can't afford 3dsmax, but am getting fairly proficient with blender, which is a pretty powerful piece of freeware. That then feeds back into my artwork,
it is all interesting, the main problem is I don't get the time to do everything I want to.

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The music is the most important here because Youtube is mostly used as a jukebox....... and an excellent jukebox it is too. Some black & white stills photos fading in and out is sufficient and a good video. Make a good one for free and you have Tate Modern Art Gallery banging on your door.  

I am looking forward to the interview.  

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I get the idea, but I might do a little better than black and white photos, unless of course I'm in one of my Berlin school minimalst moods.

I will do the interview straight after the washing up, (thats 1 on the to do list). You should get it later this evening.


Edited by Colin Masson - November 15 2010 at 11:50

Colin Masson wrote: Funnily enough I had already  started on a video (not that I knew anything about video parties!) but I left it as I was too ambitious and it got rather difficult, I could use some of what I've done in a rather simpler video however.

The music is the most important here because Youtube is mostly used as a jukebox....... and an excellent jukebox it is too. Some black & white stills photos fading in and out is sufficient and a good video. Make a good one for free and you have Tate Modern Art Gallery banging on your door.  

I am looking forward to the interview.  

Funnily enough I had already  started on a video (not that I knew anything about video parties!) but I left it as I was too ambitious and it got rather difficult, I could use some of what I've done in a rather simpler video however. 

Right now I'm finishing a rather complicated piece of artwork for a chap in Japan 
When that's done I'll make the video a priority.

Concerning the interview, It looks like I'll have to do it, Cathy gets rather bashful about doing interviews, and the rest of the band are somewhat spread around at the moment. (Our drummer appears to be hiding from the taxman). With a bit of luck I should be able to put it together tomorrow.
All the best.
Colin.

Hi guys, I.ve had a busy month thanks to your help, and things are going much better on the abum front, I,m also expecting reviews to come in from other sources fairly soon.
I've updated my website, to include excerpts from all your reviews, plus quite a bit more, there is also the music from the Oblivion game plus a couple of videos that you might be interested in.


http://www.colinmasson.co.uk

Just to say I'm back from Greece, and I've got a nice little pile of orders as well as some interest from a couple of wholesalers. So it certainly looks like the reviews have done their bit. Cathy and me are now thinking of doing a duo album, which is already halfway there as we have accumulated quite a few tracks over the years.
Also (Strikes while the iron is hot), about 18 months ago we did a collaboration with Max Hunt, the keyboard player for Fragile, and Tantalus, under the name of Artorius. The project, which is Max,s idea first and foremost, is a kind of potted history of the life of Arthur the King of the Britons. (We have no plans however to do it on ice.)  At the time we were all too busy to give the album the time it deserved, (Particularily Max who has been touring pretty well non stop for the last year), so it pretty well sank without a trace, but it had some interesting stuff on it so you might like to give it a listen.
Anyway A really big thanks to all of you for the attention and kind words, makin music is not always that easy, but I am now all fired up to do some more. If I can find Archie (The Morrigan's drummer ) who can be a bit elusive, there might even be another Morrigan album before we all fall over!

TheGazzardian wrote: Conor Fynes wrote: Colin, here's my review link: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=306524 Great review Conor  Let's hope this brings Colin some attention!