Shred Room III

rushfan4 wrote: Ben, our socks are mismatched in the What Are You Listening to Now? thread.

That's great!  I really need more Henry Cow. I might have to find money to get the boxset.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: June wrote: I'm back, what did I miss? Plants dying from demonic vocals. I revived them with some Epignosis. That'll do it.

Okie, so...

Ex Anima - at least two times better than In Anima, super cello contributions, fine intelligent experiments (slipping, inevitably, into freaky spooky noodling), console keyboards still there (guess you don't have money for a Korg hahaha) and it seems you took a trip to China to learn of their specific percussion rituals. And I think it's a concept album, depicting the loss of Boris in the forest of natural sounds.

Overall, I liked it!

Now, genre-wise, I'd say Eclectic can wash its hands, because this Ex enhances the experimental, electronic/cosmic, slightly avant-garde-istic, indie post-rock side of your music overall. Genre-wise, you're still in danger of not fitting the niche of a particular PA genre. It seems you're unique - orrr, not necesarrily connected to progressive rock.

MovingPictures07 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Ben, our socks are mismatched in the What Are You Listening to Now? thread. How's Unrest?

Ricochet wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm like a musical Captain Planet... I had once a beautiful console game of Captain Planet and his n00by sidekicks. There was a level in which I had to carry elephants with helicopters, I was never able to complete it. I lost the game...

Is that the game where the first level was flying the yellow ship over water?

Yeah, I never made it past the first level...

rushfan4 wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Ben, our socks are mismatched in the What Are You Listening to Now? thread. How's Unrest?   This is only my 2nd listen.  My first impression was that the first few songs are OK, but it kind of goes downhill from there.  We'll see if that impression changes with this listen.  I also downloaded IPOL and Western Culture from eMusic so you will see those getting first listens in the next week or so.

All of the Henry Cow albums took me 5-8 listens for me to really start enjoying them, and that was when I had a more deep musical background in avant, so that's entirely understandable and expected.

Hope you enjoy it!

Epignosis wrote: Ricochet wrote: Epignosis wrote: I'm like a musical Captain Planet... I had once a beautiful console game of Captain Planet and his n00by sidekicks. There was a level in which I had to carry elephants with helicopters, I was never able to complete it. I lost the game... Is that the game where the first level was flying the yellow ship over water? Yeah, I never made it past the first level...

I don't remember the levels.

I lost about five console games in my life. This one, Hook and Bucky O'Hare among.

That still leaves about 30 other games in my collection.

I played Bomber King (one of my favorites) every day of summer vacation.

...oh, when I was 11.

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Okie, so... Ex Anima - at least two times better than In Anima, super cello contributions, fine intelligent experiments (slipping, inevitably, into freaky spooky noodling), console keyboards still there (guess you don't have money for a Korg hahaha) and it seems you took a trip to China to learn of their specific percussion rituals. And I think it's a concept album, depicting the loss of Boris in the forest of natural sounds. Overall, I liked it! Now, genre-wise, I'd say Eclectic can wash its hands, because this Ex enhances the experimental, electronic/cosmic, slightly avant-garde-istic, indie post-rock side of your music overall. Genre-wise, you're still in danger of not fitting the niche of a particular PA genre. It seems you're unique - orrr, not necesarrily connected to progressive rock. Thanks! Glad you liked it. Hopefully the genre discussion can get back going and we can figure something out. At this point, I just want it to be in a category that makes some sense. None do, quite frankly. Seriously now, what inspired you to bang so many drums and tin cans in this one? I was very intrigued.

The concept is more of a rigid story that entwines itself with the vague overview of In (both stories are parallel with each other, actually), and it also heavily involves itself with two things:
1. Religion
2. Individual v. collective

So I wanted to expand sonically and every note that I ever play on each album has a strict purpose to it. I wanted to get a more organic drum/percussion sound, and I'm going to expand on that on one song for Album 3 as well.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Okie, so... Ex Anima - at least two times better than In Anima, super cello contributions, fine intelligent experiments (slipping, inevitably, into freaky spooky noodling), console keyboards still there (guess you don't have money for a Korg hahaha) and it seems you took a trip to China to learn of their specific percussion rituals. And I think it's a concept album, depicting the loss of Boris in the forest of natural sounds. Overall, I liked it! Now, genre-wise, I'd say Eclectic can wash its hands, because this Ex enhances the experimental, electronic/cosmic, slightly avant-garde-istic, indie post-rock side of your music overall. Genre-wise, you're still in danger of not fitting the niche of a particular PA genre. It seems you're unique - orrr, not necesarrily connected to progressive rock. Thanks! Glad you liked it. Hopefully the genre discussion can get back going and we can figure something out. At this point, I just want it to be in a category that makes some sense. None do, quite frankly. Seriously now, what inspired you to bang so many drums and tin cans in this one? I was very intrigued. The concept is more of a rigid story that entwines itself with the vague overview of In (both stories are parallel with each other, actually), and it also heavily involves itself with two things: 1. Religion 2. Individual v. collective So I wanted to expand sonically and every note that I ever play on each album has a strict purpose to it. I wanted to get a more organic drum/percussion sound, and I'm going to expand on that on one song for Album 3 as well.

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what?

Magma on!