And there it is, the squelch of metal crushing metal.
Pyes - an experiment in getting moist squelches out of dry rust bucket metallic sounds
nice reprise
The storm ends, only to carry on soon, I imagine!
There's a whole range of pieces I have done like this over the past few years - one day I'll knit them all together to make a dark Symphony!
I sense the insanity of a seven hour album in your future!
seven is an important number for me right now, so your suggestion is very prescient; I need to become a bit more insane.
It's something worth doing at least once. Just the mastering on the damn thing took almost a month though!
that was tubular!
: I wanted that high pitched to sound like a mad violin!
finale fit for an iron king
Extra harmonies on the riff with one of the harmony tracks swathed in reverb - that is actually the original riff, so the source ... the Ur Riff. I like the Iron King bit, certainly the kind of atmosphere I was after - that blurring between the mythic past and the dystopian future
Yeah. That's exactly the space we inhabit at the historical and cultural moment.
Yeah, time is moving so fast now that we are living through the decline and fall - we are in ancient Rome now, in the latter stages of the declining empire - what took centuries then will only take years now - these are the doom tubes - its a rocky ride - these sounds reflect the angst of the zeitgeist ... inevitably
well, that's rather animate
: scalloped guitar, so wringing that neck and shoving that whammy
and a riff!
Yeah it happened only once at the end - but I liked it so much a re-used and revamped it throughout the piece - it became the 'gates', or the 'doom' of the tube which thrusts through - or tries too
ah, a thickening agent
: harmonising the riff in fourths and fifths etc.
it's Band of Gypsies from Elsewhere
: I have definitely been listening to Band of Gypsies stuff - as Miles Davis said, Jimi did swing when he played with Buddy [but not with Mitch, with whom he rocked!]. But it's also in the BofGypsies bass - Billy so different to Noel, Billy pulled out some ripe sounds there ... so you heard something there ..
yes, you are groovin'
a little swing
I'm always looking for that somewhere - it don't mean a thing!
There's a careening grace to the crash I know is coming.
that anticipation is doom
light finds it's way, trickling to the tubes... Excellent
Ah, beautiful image - you are such a poet - I can see the guitar sounds like molten, mercurial light flowing into giant test tubes, or doom tubes!
The machine revs up for its last gasp, and then falls silent.
Trains of all directions! Brilliant!
- there is the sense of 'tube train' in there too - as a Londoner I'm on and off those nightmarish tubes; I was thinking of 'boom tubes', which are kind of star gates, but then got struck by the concept of doom tubes etc., I don't like to limit images and their myriad associations
lyrics
Rites of passage
Rights of Way
Star Gates and Jump Gates
Boom Tubes and Doom Tubes
It was a bumpy ride through Space.
There is always pain in passing through ...
credits
from The Dark, Secluded Path,
released November 23, 2017
Bill Boethius, guitars, bass & drum machine
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