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diff --git a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml index 0d492b03..bcec5a30 100644 --- a/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml +++ b/album/comfortable-bugs.yaml @@ -15,10 +15,21 @@ Groups: - Michael Guy Bowman - Beyond Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130307093543/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/comfortable-bugs), 1/29/2013) <i>A very cozy effort (as the title implies). A combination of classic rock sounds of the 70's and some modern electronic tricks to create the mix-tape you always wanted to hear.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130429132724/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/comfortable-bugs), 3/12/2013) + <i>This album is as faux-retro as Bowman gets. I dig deep into classic sounds of the 70s, approaching soft rock, fusion, soul, and other vinyl-age styles from a modern angle to create a very intimate experience. Comfortable Bugs is an album fine-tuned for living room speakers everywhere.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160802045459/http://bowman.bandcamp.com:80/album/comfortable-bugs), 7/21/2016) + After spending part of the year doing a lot of different kinds music for commissions, I honed in and got personal on Comfortable Bugs. Flavors of Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, Roxy Music. I wanted the sounds time forgot. This an album for you and the stereo. Get comfortable. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/comfortable-bugs), 2/28/2017) + + Get comfortable. + <i>Tavia Morra:</i> (<i>original cover art</i>) <img src="media/misc/comfortable-bugs-alt.jpg" width="350"> diff --git a/album/hush.yaml b/album/hush.yaml index c680dcd7..eedfc8f0 100644 --- a/album/hush.yaml +++ b/album/hush.yaml @@ -17,8 +17,13 @@ Groups: Art Tags: - Bowman Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20151103064947/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush), 10/27/2015) + + Hush is my first new record in a few years, and it's just as shotgun as ever. There's dance tracks, rock tracks, and ballads all mixed and cross-pollinated to create this album. The songs are about communication, secrecy, transformation, madness, and silence. No guests this time - just me and my big ego. Fall in the Hush. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush), 4/7/2016) Fall in the Hush. + # Additional Files: # - Title: Photos and Track Listing # Files: diff --git a/album/ithaca.yaml b/album/ithaca.yaml index 8eeae5c1..9b028aed 100644 --- a/album/ithaca.yaml +++ b/album/ithaca.yaml @@ -17,10 +17,32 @@ Groups: Art Tags: - Bowman Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20120109045529/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 1/1/2012) + <i>Experimental aircraft, lost civilizations, mythic quests, the Philippines, true love, utter loss, and the transience of life - the many subjects of Ithaca, the first independently released Bowman album. Scattergun in its genre and chaotically retro in its fashion, Ithaca is an eclectic mix of songs both personal and abstract. Bowman once again brings his familiar voice and ever-changing production style along with several friends from the Homestuck music project and elsewhere. Ithaca is calling.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20121020190218/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 9/16/2012) + + <i>The indie-as-hell solo effort by Bowman. 12 tracks of rock, pop, and experimental goodness. Bowman will try anything he can get away with and then some.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130207154201/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 1/29/2013) + + <i>The "travel" album. 12 tracks pulling from a million influences - Eno, Sinatra, The Pixies - in an utterly shotgun effort. Embellished by a huge cast of guest musicians.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160714044946/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 7/2/2016) + After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. It's a freaky affair. - The ideas came from everywhere. There's a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ([[Old Buggy Now]]). There's one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ([[Tacit Blue]]). There's a carriage ride through a Manila's Chinatown district ([[Kalesa In Binondo]]). The title track [[Ithaca]] recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends. + + The ideas came from everywhere. There's a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ([[Old Buggy Now|"Old Buggy Now"]]). There's one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ([[Tacit Blue|"Tacit Blue"]]). There's a carriage ride through a Manila's Chinatown district ([[Kalesa in Binondo|"Kalesa In Binondo"]]). The title track [[Ithaca|"Ithaca"]] recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends. + + Twelve songs to listen to. Ithaca is calling. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20170523033734/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 3/20/2017) + + After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. + + Ithaca is calling. + # Additional Files: # - Title: Photos # Files: @@ -376,7 +398,7 @@ Lyrics: |- That moment now has gone My heart still a restless sea where Ithaca is calling --- -Track: Kalesa In Binondo +Track: Kalesa in Binondo Contributors: - Nick Smalley (kalesa driver, additional sequencing) Duration: '3:57' |