New release from Brotherhood of the Machine coming
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Topic: New release from Brotherhood of the Machine coming
Posted By: Davesax1965
Subject: New release from Brotherhood of the Machine coming
Date Posted: November 18 2019 at 07:59
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Hi all, I'm very surprised to say that after a long break from music (building a modular synth or two) a new album is in the offing. Provisionally titled "Omnivac", some preview music is on the website. At the moment, it's all rough ideas and needs major polishing, but it'll be released "when it's done". Featuring analogue modular synths, string synthesizers and whatever we can get our hands on, it's sort of psychedelia meets krautrock meets Eastern influenced / Arabic music. Or whatever. Category schmategory.  ------------- |
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Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: November 18 2019 at 08:05
Track list, personnel etc to follow. One half of the album is taken up with a half hour modular synth jam (for those of you following the thread in Tech Talk, we've built two huge modular synths and now design our own equipment). Two other tracks are finished with a third - the title track - in the pipeline.  ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: November 18 2019 at 08:07
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So, if you want to hear what all these damn transistors sound like, stay tuned. We are of course at https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/ Oh yes, this is NOT going to be a free release. Cough up, you cheapskates.  ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: November 18 2019 at 08:41
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A more specific preview here. Lots of polishing and finishing to do. If you like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, it's probably right up your street. https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/coming-soon-omnivac" rel="nofollow - https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/coming-soon-omnivac ------------- |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 22 2019 at 06:11
I'm not one for political correctness ... but honestly, I think you should tone this down ... it makes me think that you are not going to attract the edgewise listeners, because the comment is ... (.....whatevahhh!!!) ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Davesax1965 wrote:Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: November 30 2019 at 10:07
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Mind your own business, you senile old fart. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: November 30 2019 at 10:08
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Whoops, political correctness slipped a bit there. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 30 2019 at 10:35
For one awful moment there, I thought you were announcing the release of another Brotherhood of Man album. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 01 2019 at 02:30
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Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 01 2019 at 10:12
Oh, Jesus, no. ;-) Once was far too many times..... Well, so far, I seem to have about 50 minutes recorded, a lot of it (including the preview track) is very rough (the timing is awful on some parts) but !! It's all polishing up, slowly. Suddently had an idea earlier. You all might have heard Edvard Artemiev's "Meditation" - the theme to Tarkovsky's "Stalker". Unfortunately, Azerbaijani tar's are a little hard to find in Macclesfield, so I was wondering if I could find a way of doing a sort of version of it with some similar sounding instruments. Aha !! Right, use a resonator - add lots of reverb and delay. Working so far in some test pieces I've done. There's a synth pad background (although I may end up using a string synth) and I really should blow the dust off a flute I've got, although, to be honest, it needs a bit of a re-pad. I might end up seeing if I can get away with using a wind synth instead.  ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 01 2019 at 10:14
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PS if anyone's waiting for a slide guitar piece, keep waiting. I only have one soul to sell and that went on saxophones. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 01 2019 at 10:16
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This being Artemyev's "Meditation". ;-) Incidentally, if you've not seen "Stalker", it's a fantastic film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4 ------------- |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 01 2019 at 16:03
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Will it come in a physical form (LP,CD, MC...)? |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: December 02 2019 at 10:17
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No plans to do anything other than digital, to be honest. I'd love to do a CD but the experience of most people I know whose bands produce CDs is that they end up just sitting around with a pile of full jewel cases. As for vinyl, too much outlay, even smaller market. Shame, but there y'go, that's the economics. ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: April 19 2020 at 03:29
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Finally released the Omnivac album on Bandcamp. If you mail [email protected] , the first 50 replies get a free digital download ! The album includes a live 25 minute jam session using two modular synths. We eagerly await comments from Mosh about how he'd do it differently. ;-) https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/omnivac-2" rel="nofollow - https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/omnivac-2 ------------- |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 03 2020 at 10:42
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Just headphoned Omnivac this morning while cooking a big batch of breakfast burritos. Fantastic work. I saw 'Time and Space' on the track list and was wondering how you were going to interpret the Gnidrilog classic. Have to say what it turned out to be was an even better surprise. Anyway, I just purchased. Sorry I didn't catch it before May 1 when Bandcamp was waving their fees. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: May 07 2020 at 10:26
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Thanks, Tapfret, really glad you liked it ! ;-) Cheers for the purchase, it's much appreciated. We're not waiting years to release another, by the way. (All the soldering is done. ;-) ) (He lied, I'm building a phaser.) The next release is titled "Central", done when it's done. It's going to be VERY old school Tangerine Dream and virtually exclusively involve the modular synths. And the phaser. When it's finished. Only 40 more wires to solder up. ;-)  ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: May 07 2020 at 10:27
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PS Don't wait up as I have no idea where 5 of the wires are going. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 07 2020 at 12:41
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That's no phaser. This is a phaser.  What you are building is clearly a tri-corder.  ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: May 08 2020 at 03:52
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This might explain it. Skip to 4.30 in. ;-) ------------- |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: May 08 2020 at 03:57
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The issue here is not so much building the electronics, but determining the wiring. The bloke who designed it thoughtlessly died and it's impossible to work out what he was on about. On top of that, the PCB has gone through several revisions and as a result, it's all going to be the result of guesswork. I hate wiring. Wiring hates me. I'm vaguely toying with the idea of building one of these - a Ray Wilson / Music from Outer Space Soundlab Ultimate plus expander. Three problems. Ray has also joined the Choir Invisible, the wiring is an absolutely explosion in a spaghetti factory and calibrating the oscillators on this (so it plays in tune) is about as easy as plaiting fog. This is not a cheap piece of kit to build, so it's all balancing expense versus risk. Sounds most jolly, though. ------------- |