Somehow reminded of Jacob Marley haunting Scrooge for some reason!
Superb collaborative effort! Screams to the sky
Such depth and beauty in this abyssal spaceplace
There are lots of guitars which are just thrown down there en masse, drenched in reverb but are barely audible ... but they are there!
Love that deep detuned (?) riffing and those distant spawning events of solar creativity .... glad you picked up on that - that is my own riff which is a kind of grotesque prefigure of Heather and Sammy of Solar Max's awesome bass riff which comes in shortly and dominates the rest of the track. I usually tune down to low D anyway.
On this riff I used an Epiphone SG with a contact mic on the headstock, that sound mixed in with the usual sound. The guitar has heavy gauge tape-wound strings, giving a baritone vibe - I then triple tracked it, down a 5th and down an octave [I think] - all that for a few minutes of detuned riffing - you have great ears Nick
And thanks for coining the term 'Boethiusesque' [only works if you pronounce the first dipthong]
This is a beautiful sentence... Boethiusesque and dipthong .. a rare and fascinating aural treat! :))
Perfect ending, as the sludge cools, coagulates ... we have witnessed the death and birth of a world ... we are gods ...
Huge and lumbering star - That's Sammy of Solar Max's riff - he easily surpasses Sunno))) with his bleak riffage
There are the sun dogs
Ah - thank you as ever, Jonathan - I had to look the term up on Wiki, just to savour it - here's the start:
"Sun dogs (or sundogs), mock suns or phantom suns, scientific name parhelia (singular parhelion), are an atmospheric phenomenon that consists of a pair of bright spots on either horizontal side on the Sun, often co-occurring with a luminous ring known as a 22° halo. Sun dogs are a member of a large family of halos, created by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as two subtly colored patches of light to the left and right of the Sun, approximately 22° distant and at the same elevation above the horizon as the Sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but they are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and are most conspicuous when the Sun is close to the horizon."
Now that you know, you'll see them often enough. For some reason I associate them more with winter, but I don't think it's scientific reason.
Sun dogs ... and sky dogs ...
Expansive and fractured horizon - its reaching out in its fragility
orchestral in design - you put your finger on it as I had been thinking how the orchestra creates sounds by amassing a panoply of similar and different sounds, most of them small in themselves, but dovetailing together, they create big deep and broad sounds. So there's an attempt to do that with guitars here.
Impressive track, a hell of the trip of sounds - I keep going until it starts to sound like a trip - then I know it's 'finished'
The voices!
Your riff brings them all into being
:
Savor the cold - yes - you have it - this is the dark side of the sun
- a series of accidents made purposeful
lyrics
Prelude ... behind the sun
The beginning is here ...
Pandora’s box and mojo hand.
Trouble and bad luck
All begun behind the sun.
The prelude to our blues ...
Collaboration with Solar Maximum, incorporating their 'Raven's
Eye'.
credits
from There are Sun Dogs,
released May 2, 2016
Heather and Sammy of Solar Maximum, bass guitars, synth and percusssion.
Bill Boethius, guitars.
Written by Salazar, Salazar and Boethius
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