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allicorn
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 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: Shameless plug |
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Do you folks know Lulu.com?
Been hoping to make some use out of it for some time now. A buddy of mine recently had them produce 300 page of glossy band photography, and it looks totally awesome. Now they've got the ability to fabricate audio CD's, I just couldn't resist.
...and I found an excuse to use ol' squiddy... 
In Remote Places
Alli
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Quinjet
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Very cool site, 
just what budding artists etc need.
I wouuld like to put my CD on there but I would have to pay people £7 to take it 
Q.
My brain is so fried that I didn't wish you good luck with the album. Puts me in mind of R'lyeh Re-risen that was on Yog Radio which I liked a lot. Let us know when it hits the top 40 of the Mythos charts, it's always good to know a successful muso.
Q.
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Reverend Speed
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hey man! I'd actually been hanging around your Myspace site for a while there (getting me some Death of Star Survival action) and I noticed your note on setting up a Lovecraftian music project...!
I'm rather excited about that, actually.
Gonna download the demos now...
--RoB
EDIT:
Where Alien Polyps Throng is... 'chilling' is the word. I recently played Lost Planet on a friend's 360 - a game which takes place on an ice planet - so this probably explains the imagery my brain produced upon listening to the CD.
One imagines an enormous icy cavern, incredible in scope... I can imagine sitting awestruck in the snow, the cold fusing my hands to the ground and slowly killing me... and not taking the slightest notice, my sanity blasted by hovering, twisting, twitching blasphemies which glide through the air in the centre of the cavern...
Please take this the right way - the music reminded me of one boss from Devil May Cry 3, a creature who filled entire rooms and made the main character look like a matchstick in comparison. The bass of the track, the strains which approach and recede, approach and recede put me in mind of this awful worm.
It's absolutely wonderful - alien and threatening. Beautiful work.
Fantastic ending, also.
Okay, onto the second...
Alright... the second track. I'm worried that the following notes are going to sound hilariously emo, so feel free to ignore. Regardless, these were my thoughts...
99 Seconds in the Court of Azathoth is disturbing.
Like the last track, I closed my eyes, sat back and just allowed the music to summon some appropriate imagery.
I may have nightmares tonight.
The heartbeat was inspired. The maddened, random flutes... the sickening bubbling miasma...
Christ, I saw mouths, I saw razor teeth. I'm not joking, a giant empty space, except for things I couldn't quite see clearly, then a distant amber flickering light, then a growing mass... mouths, maws, shifting flesh and bone and a sharp, acid smell. I think I was drawn to the enormous mass - and around this point, I started to try to think of nicer things.
The suggestion of Azathoth, the associations it brings (especially having recently studied Johnathan Coulthard's artwork) - when attached to your music... that was genuinely affecting.
I'd rather not go into how the images ended, but I can vouch for the track - it's very atmospheric and rather scary.
Wow. I actually feel a little sick. Hmm.
I don't currently have a credit card, but I'm going to see if I can get a friend of mine to buy the CD for me. On the basis of those samples, this is going to be a rather wonderful experience. Well, if wonderful is the right word.
Out of curiousity, have you tried getting your work played on the late-night BBC shows? I tend to listen to a lot of BBC 1 (as, sadly, most Irish radio is rubbish) and I think you might find some kind of audience there... perhaps on Rob Da Bank's programme?
Okay. Gonna... sit back for a bit, now...
--RoB
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allicorn
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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First off, thankyou thankyou thankyou! Barely know what to say, your comments are the best confidence-booster I could have! 
Second, don't buy it! Everyone on the team is welcome to have the freebie download version if they'd like - I'm uploading to yousendit at the mo.
| Quote: | | Where Alien Polyps Throng is... 'chilling' |
So totally stoked now because YES! thats exactly the kind of imagery I was trying to put into the thing. This is the oldest track in the collection at nearly a year and it came right off the back of playing Dark Corners. So, I was feeling very inspired by the Temple of Hydra and the Polyp bridge.
Also, Lost Planet does sound intriguing and oddly enough a buddy was enthusing about it last night. That said, I've heard some negativity about it too. Certainly interested to give it a try.
| Quote: | | 99 Seconds in the Court of Azathoth is disturbing. ... Wow. I actually feel a little sick. Hmm. |
Wow - I should put a health&safety warning on maybe - certainly not my intention to force the listener to make actual SAN checks
The imagery you describe though, beautiful, in a kind of revoltingly horrible but poetic way. I'd just re-read The Black Tome Of Alsophocus before writing 99 seconds and I'd had this dream - thankfully much more vague and hazy than the images you describe. The dream went along the lines of the story but ended much earlier with a kind of lucky escape. The idea being that, through whatever forbidden readings or dark meditations, the protagonist (presumably me) had projected away across the outer spaces of the Dreamlands and had alighted just at the very margin of Azathoth's Court. Morbid curiosity draws him towards the music but thankfully, the vision doesn't persist and the Dreamer is drawn back to reality - perhaps as Lovecraft put it "he awoke that morning, an older man", but still a lot better off than the protagonist in Alsophocus.
| Quote: | | Out of curiousity, have you tried getting your work played on the late-night BBC shows? I tend to listen to a lot of BBC 1 (as, sadly, most Irish radio is rubbish) and I think you might find some kind of audience there... perhaps on Rob Da Bank's programme? |
I'm kinda surprised by that. TBH, I haven't listened to any radio for about 20 years, but I had the impression that Radio #1 was all rather poppy and mainstream?
I'm definitely hoping to try to really market this one a bit though. I'm waiting until I actually get my copy of the CD from Lulu so that I can be satisfied with the quality. Once that's done (couple weeks apparently) then I'm thinking I'll buy a banner ad slot on YSDC. I have a couple other ideas I might try too.
Alli
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Reverend Speed
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Glad the comments were useful. To bring you down a little, remember that I don't have much in the way of musical training - my opinions are those of an enthusiastic amateur with a love for Lovecraft. Another downside - as you've found out, I can be a little erratic when getting back to people with comments on the work, so I might take a little time to get back to you on the rest of the music...
Kicking sounds, though...! =) I will download the free version, but I'll see if I can get onto my friend about this.
Lost Planet & Where Alien Polyps Throng - I can't really out-and-out reccomend Lost Planet on the basis of my go on my friend's 360. The most impressive thing (and most appropriate to your music) is the scale (you are literally DWARFED by the locations and some of the monsters) and the ever-present threat of deadly cold (you need to kill enemies to stave off a constantly decreasing thermal counter, taking their bodywarmth to stay alive).
So I basically thought of some of the caverns in Lost Planet and went from there... Not very Lovecraftian on it's own, though.
Haven't read "The Black Tome Of Alsophocus"... looking it up on wikipedia, that looks really interesting. Must find a copy. The title '99 Seconds' definately suggests the scenario you were thinking of... I'm afraid my imagination didn't allow me a lucky escape, however. Became thankfully vague towards the end, though...!
The whole BBC1, mainstream & Irish Radio thing... Well, keep in mind that most radio in Ireland has a commercial tinge - we simply don't have the population size to support a channel with no ads. That point of view then continues to contaminate things, so our radio is (generally) VERY poppy. There are some notable exceptions, but since I got my lovely, lovely broadband *strokes internet lovingly* I've been trying all kinds of internet radio.
Now, from this background Rob Da Bank's show is rather refreshing. It's not that we don't have something like it over here, but that show in particular seems to have a rather wide purview - and a rather wide audience.
It's entirely possible that I'm completely wrong about the show, but perhaps you could have a listen. Granted, most of the music tends towards pop or whole 'songs', but I've heard ambient and atmospheric music played on the channel (perhaps not all on that show). Try it out.
Marketing? Go for it. I'm looking forward to listening to the tracks later on today... perhaps I'll be able to suggest some more ideas after that.
Go for it, dude. Onwards.
--RoB
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Quinjet
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Can I stop listening to it now please!
Been listening to it on loop mode while mapping.
Very, very good. What more can I say.
Nice to hear the return of the Dark Young and this is the only tiniest negative point I can think of. That is one brave bird in the background. I keep expecting it to squawk off with an alarm to its mates. Other than that I would say that the tracks with a bit of beat are my preference out of the bunch, if I had to rate tracks that is.
Keep up the good works,
Q.
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