wonderful tension and detail. i can hear the cosmic pulses inspiration
Posted 3 months ago3 months You say at 1:29:
Quite a work of Art I would call this Bill. It's certainly fascinating, intriguing, captivating and very interesting enough to keep one transfixed to the evil ride out of the gates of hell :)))))))))))))))))))))) Brilliant and very well enjoyed
Hendrix in hell man and what a blast this is....: I had been listening to the Axis Bold as Love album when doing this - Jimi is my main spirit guide.
Never a dull moment and loving this journey bill..... That's encouraging because with long instrumentals I often think - 'can anyone else go on this journey?' Or is it just me?
: I think longer tracks can be discouraging to many, but I myself am into Prog Rock and have a ton of albums that have tracks even 3 or 4 times longer than 10 minutes (LOL) So for me it's quite easy. This 10 minute piece kept my attention all the way it was so fascinating with everything that going on. That for me is really great music and what I love about music is the fact that it can speak to me, and when it does on this level I very much like to speak back at it..You done superb here my friend and very well done...
- music has it's own language, that's for sure.
Very cool transition and adds very well to the super story telling music ... I'm glad you think that worked. In actual fact, that is one part I did consciously construct, but only because I could hear it in my mid-brain. I could hear a kind of weird jazzy interlude, so I just tried to approximate that, and dropped it in - it had to work man because I had dreamt it first - it was already a part of my reality
Like being at the gates of hell dude and some very scary place this....
: I seriously don't know how things get to sound so forboding - od's blood, I don't try for that. I just tap into my subconscious and the sounds start to emerge like vapour, evil vapours for the most part! That's my reality, brother.
Very tasty use of guitar in this very cool dramatic setting.....
- I'm always trying balance understatement and overstatement - often the most outrageous sounds are created with just a slither of an effect.
Excellent ..Your a wild man !: That guitar right there is a cheap Rockster superstrat thing which has the most wicked sound
infinity is sending us the best wishes:): infinity is a child: little happy thing, yes:): innocent
we may need them to make up their minds quickly: they can't let go - homesick gods - see the quote from Lovecraft in my reply here to Strangelands.
great transition, and i'm loving that percussive almost mallet-driven sound.: I had the heavy doom laden stuff, and then I heard the need for a contrast, a kind of jazzy interlude. The percussive guitar is an Epiphone SG with only a contact mic on the headstock. The guitar itself isn't plugged in. I'm using a metal flat pick to get that incisive slice and scrape.: That is a *great* sound, and a great way to get it.: I got the idea from reading about Zappa putting a contact mic on his electrics in the studio and mixing that sound in with the normal sound. Here, this Epi SG has such a good acoustic sound for a solid body, I thought why not try just the acoustic sound of it? And it really zings - sign of a very good electric instrument, I think
*very* engaging and inviting opening.
: It's almost gauche and childlike: like me: and me
Another fascinating trip through the cosmos. .super work
cool descending lines here: Yeah - that line came out really nice through improvisation - it was so nice I had to repeat it in different registers! That's where improv becomes composition of sorts
great avant garde jazzy sequence: Thanks - I was going for that kind of sound -
love these notes here..bell-like: This was the original main theme, even as the piece grew it still stood out
Really nice distant guitar lines in the background. .give depth and expansiveness - often those distant guitars begin as lead guitars, but are pushed back by usurpers, and yet, as here, they actually fulfil a higher function in giving that depth we crave
and now i need to re-read some h.p.lovecraft!: I found this Lovecraft quote: "Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on remembered slopes."
They're out there absorbing energy from re-discovery: yes - all discovery is re-discovery - eternal recurrence
lyrics
Last days of the gods on Earth
Ye have not stopped
Believing in the gods ..
How could ye?
Nay, mortal, the gods
Are merely leaving this Earth.
They have ceased to believe ...
In you.
Look ye to the planets,
That’s where they now reside.
