With my spaceship still refuelling, I decided in the meantime, to explore the hidden oceans of this planet.
My chosen craft was my submarine called ‘Ringwood’.
The Hollow Earth theory may just hold water!
I know, I have been there, and these are the sounds I bring back from the Crystal Hollow Oceans.
Bill Boethius, guitars, basses and synths.
www.theguardian.com/science/2014/ju…that-on-surface
"Earth may have underground 'ocean' three times that on surface
Scientists say rock layer hundreds of miles down holds vast amount of water, opening up new theories on how planet formed
The water is locked up in a mineral called ringwoodite about 660km (400 miles) beneath the crust of the Earth, researchers say.
Ringwoodite acts like a sponge due to a crystal structure that makes it attract hydrogen and trap water."
Great sounds you're getting...
excellent atmosphere and instrumental work
your new guitar, bill ?
Fairly - it's the Dean V I got about a month ago and debuted on the track Flying-wand
The seas hold some secrets still it seems!
The universe itself could be a sea within a sea, and that overarching sea could be in the centre of the Earth - we are sitting upon infinity!
A Russian puzzle doll of earths!
I could see living in this sea, avast and briny deep though it may be to crippled landlubbers!
The first inspiration was from the Doors 'Horse Latitudes', the working title was - 'True Sailing is Dead'! I kid you not!
Heh, that's good. I'm in the middle of a few pieces where the song title is all based on another song title of something I've loved.
This submarine has pianos that double as morse code machines apparently!
Of course - one must have ways of communicating with the landlubbers!
Funhouse mirrors, vintage curved portholes, and the monsters of the deep: which will reflect first?
Great images - you made me think of a sea wreck on the bottom of the ocean. I suspect that this is the answer to the Bermuda triangle: those lost vessels are at the bottom of the hidden oceans of the ringwoodite Hollow Earth
That would make sense. Freighters, aircraft, pirates. It'd be like Waterworld without Dennis Hopper.
I was unaware the Nautilus had a house band, sir!
Ha ha! I might say it was the UK Subs!
Down on the farm, indeed.
Hard to say that any one is one of your best, but, for me, this one is.
for now, anyway… i'm always waiting for the next installment.
you're only as good as your last failure!
: It's strange though, the 'best' tracks definitely have their time, their niche - they catch the zeitgeist. Robbed of that later, they become something else - certainly no longer the'best'. Moral: change thy spotlight!
right here... I just spent a week breath-hold diving and spearfishing Atlantic waters. wish I'd had this for a soundtrack. I, sort of, did, only I couldn't yet hear it clearly.
That's why I did this track for you!
oh, does that guitar spit and splat
The Dean V, picked with the fingers through crazy levels of nasty fuzz
great palette already
- there you have a Boss guitar synth which starts it, a bass and drum machine track, as well as another solo bass, and then ebowed guitar. They're mixed at various levels, and some are doubled and loaded with 'verb etc.,
pushing the boundaries, every time. ..fascinating
- this piece had been on the back burner while I did some blues, but it suddenly came together when I began to experiment with levels of distortion, trying to sculpt the ugly into pretty deformity. T
wonderful sour piquancy here
exploiting some microtonal things there to get those sour sauces
oh that's gorgeous sustain .. perfect placement
It was a sudden whim to grab the Ebow, but as you hear it trails off into globules of distortion because the battery died! But rather than replace the battery and do another take I carried on, using the distorted splutters after. But that sustained line before the battery gave is my favourite moment in the piece.
The happiest of accidents! A spluttering ebow :) love it..those 9 volt batteries! Wish I'd invented the buggers..I'd be rich and retired
Incredible watery feel..bubbles, muffles, swooshes, light sprinkles..
- there are whole tracks on this which are put down low in the mix, some of them with 'wet' only reverb, but they bubble up here and there - main ingredients are different levels of distortion and reverb
You put an incredible amount of craft into these pieces, Bill
back from blues to your wonderful dystopia, I hear..though this time submarine. ..a post-astral period, perhaps?
- yeah - deep space and deep ocean are similar environments; they take the Outside and pull it Inside. Blues though takes the inside and keeps it inside. I suppose it's dystopic though, whether the topos be here or there.
There are not many people that I would contemplate listening to for over 10 minutes, but I always know that I am in for one hell of a ride with your tracks, Bill. You dream where others merely plagiarise. Magnificent!
tasty earth
Distortion with a crumbly earth like texture, yes
electric body
There are two bass guitars on this, the TBird double tracked - that is heavy body
surrealismo - a movement I feel very close to: Surrealism but with a touch of Expressionism
great guitar timbre, remind me of Robert Fripp
This is done on Ebow, but the battery dies after a few seconds, but I kept going, using those deceased sounds. I think Fripp was a pioneer. In early Crimson he was using angular lines, odd intervallic leaps, and yes - pioneering the quest for infinite sustain. No Pussyfooting was so groundbreaking too.
atómico
Handy having a metal plectrum
terapia
sounds are my therapy!
nicely cascading lines you play here (with delay) ?
- I think I doubled the lines with the delay on the double only, which was slightly lower down in the mix.
great textures
Lovely anti-mainstream! A bit bordering to late Zappa, which I am a fan of!
The mainstream is a bit tedious isn't it? Better to take unbeaten paths like this down to the hidden oceans. Different doesn't necessarily mean good, but different is different is different
I totally subscribe to all you said!
