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Dean 
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
 Posted: February 08 2010 at 19:18 |
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My website's down ...
 I'm currently looking for a new host.
I've updated the covers from PhotoBucket and the mp3 Downloads are still okay.
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SaltyJon
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 08 2008 Location: Location Status: Offline Points: 28772 |
Posted: January 16 2010 at 14:12 |
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I'm enjoying Moments so far, Dean, it sounds great to me.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: January 16 2010 at 03:32 |
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I've downloaded Moments and Metamorph tonight to listen to (tomorrow at the earliest, I need to get to sleep soon since it's now 4:30 AM), from what I've seen people saying in this thread it seems like the kind of stuff I'm interested in.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: January 13 2010 at 03:23 |
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Intro Red - Video This is a video I put together for the last track on the last album I made (Intro Red from Stateless). It was filmed using an old Fuji finepix digital camera that only allowed 1 minute bursts of filming and the individual scenes were put together using some freeware editing package whose name escapes me at the moment.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: December 13 2009 at 16:29 |
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Trilithon 2004  Trilithon (pronounced Tri-Lith-on) is a single track composed in three movements that was partly inspired by an earlier CoL album (Antiquarian), 2001 A Space Odyssey and Stonehenge. It was a concept album that proposed the idea that the solitary monolith found on the Moon in Kubrick's 2001 was in fact part of a larger structure that was an exact replica of Stonehenge. (Full story >|here|<).
The length of the track is 62:26 ... not a coincidence, though not particularly significant.
"Instruments" on this album were Reason 2.5, Oberheim OB12 and some odd bits of electronics. I'd call the musical style Electronic With Percussion.
download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MC3NBSEV
Edited by Dean - March 18 2011 at 08:18 |
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Dean
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: December 13 2009 at 14:56 |
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^ The server where the covers are stored is a bit erratic - usually a refesh or show-pictures will reveal them.
If anyone wants the complete artwork for any album drop me a PM - Moments has the full set of artwork (booklet & jewelcase tray) in the zip-file, the others haven't.
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The Quiet One
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Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
Posted: December 13 2009 at 14:41 |
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THANKS!
Downloaded Antiquarian will listen it as soon as I finish what I'm listening. Edited by The Quiet One - December 13 2009 at 14:52 |
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The Quiet One
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Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
Posted: December 13 2009 at 14:29 |
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Hey Dean, could you please "update" the cover-works from some of the albums? You know how prog fans are when choosing an album, they look at the cover-work first If it's too much of a problem then don't worry, I'll download some of them which cover-work can be seen. Edited by The Quiet One - December 13 2009 at 14:40 |
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progkidjoel
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Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: September 12 2009 at 21:26 |
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Just finished listening to TESSELLATION BOULEVARD for the first time - Great work Dean
-Joel |
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progkidjoel
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Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: September 12 2009 at 03:37 |
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Evenin' Dean!
As per J-Man's advice, I'm currently downloading METAMORPH
I'll drop in later and tell you what I thought
Thanks! -Joel 
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el dingo
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Joined: October 08 2008 Location: Norwich UK Status: Offline Points: 7053 |
Posted: September 02 2009 at 17:27 |
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Hi Dean
Just downloaded Moments - real smooth download (free artwork too
 ) and from a 30-sec burst sound quality is pretty damn reasonable. Just got a new 8-gig Walkman phone and coincidentally I'm taking Mrs Dingo to the hospital tomorrow so an hour or so wait in the car park seems an ideal time to try out both the phone and your music!I didn't even know you did this sort of thing - first thirty secs said Tangerine Dream to me but I guess I'd better hear the rest as well
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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J-Man
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Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
Posted: September 01 2009 at 18:56 |
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^^ Joel,
Also pick up Metamorph. That album is phenomenal! And that really is saying something because I generally don't like electronic or math music. -Jeff |
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progkidjoel
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Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: September 01 2009 at 05:30 |
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^^
Need to get that one soon! So far I've only got MOMENTS (Which I love), but over the next couple of days, I'll grab a few more. Good work Dean
-Joel |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 30 2009 at 09:31 |
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I promised myself I'd leave this thread alone for a few months, but I'm terrible at keeping promises, especially to myself.
 Cast A Long Shadow, sample track from unreleased CD, Edge
 My third album was supposed to be a concept album with vocals provided by several of my friends - I wrote and recorded all the music for the album, but with one thing and another recording the vocals went a bit sideways and it never got finished. Most of the problem was my self-conscious insecurity with the lyrics themselves - I should thrown out the words and have just asked Becki to vocalise over the whole thing.
Cleaning up my harddrive the other day I found two of the tracks that did get the vocal treatment, and I present one of them here - it was never intended to be the final version of this particular song, and I think the vocals probably are too high in the mix, but I quite like it as it is.
It's called Cast A Long Shadow, vocals are by Becki (Clark) and the random spacey guitar is by David (Stanton) - both of Prog Metal band Season's End.
Becki's vocals were recorded one hot summer's evening in 2002 in my attic where the temperatures where hitting 38ºC and it was only later I discovered that I'd clipped the signal on one of the high E's in the last verse - I underestimated the power of her voice and should have been more careful
 - (she has been known to blow stage monitors when a hapless sound engineer thought "oh, a girlie singer, I'd better wack the gain up") - I hadn't the heart to ask her to re-record it.this is Becki:
 A year after recording it I sent it to Future Music Magazine, this was their "review":
"Could be misconstrued as someone messing with an old analogue synth with someone singing over the top. One of the strangest jobs reason will ever be put too. Bit random but we can sort of see what you're doing." - Future Music (fm138) August 2003.
- I love that review - kind of gave me the encouragement that I was doing something right.
 So here it is - it's only 4:27 long....
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F0RBA8PR
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J-Man
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Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
Posted: August 11 2009 at 15:10 |
Wow, Dean. I really like Pilgrim! It's got to be one of my favorite that I've downloaded along with Moments and Metamorph. Very good stuff I know it's been mentioned, but you really should try to get on the archives. Edited by J-Man - August 12 2009 at 17:36 |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 09 2009 at 19:46 |
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PS: I don't think I like Pilgrim very much - some days I listen to it and almost enjoy it, but mostly I hate it. It wasn't what I set out to do when I started producing music three years earlier, and it certainly wasn't the kind of music I really wanted to make - somewhere along the way I seem to have wandered off course. I recorded one more album (Stateless - also available on LastFM), and in December 2005 I just stopped.
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 09 2009 at 19:24 |
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Pilgrim 2005
 This was the 50th and (to date) the penultimate album I recorded as The Cacophony Of Light. It is currently available as a stream on LastFM (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cacophony+Of+Light/Pilgrim) - I had intended the whole ablum to be downloadable from there, but something went sideways and only 2 tracks ended up as downloads.
Conceptually it is based around John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, though as an instrumental album it does not delve into storyline or attempt to depict any of the alegorical journey undertaken by Christian (and later by his wife Christiana) - if anything it is more about one of the secondary characters found in Part 2 of Pilgrim's Progress, Mr Valiant-for-Truth and his journey from The Dark-land to the Celestial Country.
1. Valiant Overture (3:48)
2. Dark-land (6:09) 3. The Slough of Despond (5:20) 4. Beelzebub Castle (4:48) 5. The Wicket Gate (5:25) 6. The Hill Difficulty (3:58) 7. The Valley of Humiliation (6:07) 8. Valley of the Shadow of Death (5:34) 9. Doubting Castle (3:36) 10. Who Would True Valour See (8:00) 11. The Enchanted Ground (4:50) 12. The Celestial Country (7:40) Total playing time: 65:23
(track 10 is based upon the hymn "To Be A Pilgrim" - music by Vaughan Williams)
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?tal7wsbus61ro8y [corrected download link - 31/12/2012]
/edit: in updating the covers due to a webhost failure, I discovered an alternate cover for Pilgrim:
 Edited by Dean - December 31 2012 at 12:56 |
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Chris S
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 09 2004 Location: Front Range Status: Offline Points: 7028 |
Posted: August 09 2009 at 18:51 |
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have been listening to Antiquarian Seems like a good prog fit to me.
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...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 09 2009 at 17:36 |
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Passing 2003
 Passing was the sequel to Moments, eventhough I tried quite hard not to make it Moments 2, it is a sort of Passing Moments, or a Moments Passing. Recorded in 2003 just before Antiquarian it was the 10th album I wrote & recorded and the 9th to be released (album #3 has yet to see the light of day).
passing...
...wind & whethering ...out the other side ...without due cause ...trade & industry ...issues ...currents ...broad thoughts from home ...whole life support ...sleep ...strangers in the rain Total Plaing Time: 51 minutes
Track 6 - Passing...Currents was the first and last of many tracks never to be recorded under the pseudonym of 'The Olde Oak Trio' - a fictitious wandering band of guitarists of indeterminate skill and dexterity.
The cover photograph was taken in the ruins of Christchurch Castle in Dorset, England - the young lady leaving the picture is my daughter, I don't know the name of the seagull, but there is a good chance it wasn't the same one that is on the Moments cover. Feeling rather good about the accidental co-incidence of having a seagull on two of my album covers, from this point on the bird appears somewhere on all my CoL covers.
Download link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NYKBIPDM Edited by Dean - February 08 2010 at 19:10 |
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: August 07 2009 at 12:19 |
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gosh, erm, thanks
...the picture was a bit of fun and a gentle reminder not to take myself (or my music) too seriously.
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