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diff --git a/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml b/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f9cf390 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/a-memory-finds-its-name.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,811 @@ +Album: A Memory Finds Its Name +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: March 30, 2021 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/a-memory-finds-its-name +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Additional Files: +- Title: Album Booklet + Files: + - A Memory Finds Its Name - booklet.pdf +Color: '#FAD7AD' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I dedicate this album to everyone I’ve ever loved. + + Thanks for checking out A Memory Finds Its Name! It means a lot. I have a fraught relationship with my voice. It’s partly vocal dysphoria, partly low self-esteem from criticism as a teen. In 2014, my self-doubt resulted in me removing every single track containing my voice from Bandcamp, and replacing it with an instrumental version. + + It has taken me almost ten years to finally feel at home with my voice, despite the mismatch with what I wish it sounded like. Getting a new mic this January also helped—I can now produce almost studio-standard work from my bedroom! + + Here’s a collection of both brand new songs and songs from as far back as 2011, whose lyrics are finally seeing the light of day. A lot of them explore the twilight between joy and parting, between love and loss. The title is about me breathing new life into old songs, but it is also about rediscovering and putting names to things once lost. + + Many thanks to [[artist:chichii|Emmara]] for collabing with me on Summer Heat, and to everyone whose enthusiasm has spurred me to finish this in record time! +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Summer Heat +Duration: '03:41' +Contributors: +- CHICHII ! (additional vocals) +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/summer-heat-feat-chichii +Lyrics: |- + Two, three, four + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Won't you say that you'll hold me + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + but for now it feels so right + + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Won't you say that you'll hold me + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + but for now it feels so right + + Oh, her burning eyes + Cut me like a knife + She could kill me, I + Would thank her for it + She will never see + While she's near to me + I will always be + Trapped in her orbit + + She could break me in two + She'll remake me anew + If she said, me and you + Could you take it + Ooh, I would bow in defeat + Lay myself at her feet + From the day that we meet + My life is forfeit + + Oh, just one dance (Oh, her burning eyes cut me like a knife) + And I know (She could kill me, I would thank her for it) + In a glance (She will never see while she's near to me) + I love her so (I will always be trapped in her orbit) + If I dared (She could break me in two, she'll remake me anew) + I'd let it show (If she said, me and you, could you take it) + But I'm scared (Ooh, I would bow in defeat, lay myself at her feet) + To let her go (From the day that we meet, my life is forfeit) + + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Won't you say that you'll hold me + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + but for now it feels so right + + Summer heat (Oh, just one dance) + Draw your blade on me (And I know) + You know that beat (In a glance) + Won't you say that you'll hold me (I love her so) + Summer rain (If I dared) + In the air tonight (I'd let it show) + I'll regret it someday (But I'm scared) + But for now it feels so right + + Summer sky + Tell me where to find her + 'Cause in my eye + I would hold her forever + Summer rain + Show me to my future + The day we met + It's like I always knew her + + Two, three, four + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Won't you say that you'll hold me + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + but for now it feels so right + + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Has me wanting your body + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + But let's dance in the moonlight + + Summer heat (Oh, her burning eyes cut me like a knife) + Draw your blade on me (She could kill me, I would thank her for) + You know that beat (She will never see, while she's near to me) + Won't you say that you'll hold me (I will always be, trapped in her orbit) + Summer rain (She could break me in two, she'll remake me anew) + In the air tonight (If she said me and you, could you take it) + I'll regret it someday (Ooh, I would bow in defeat, lay myself at her feet) + but for now it feels so right + + Summer heat + Draw your blade on me + You know that beat + Won't you say that you'll hold me + Summer rain + In the air tonight + I'll regret it someday + but for now it feels so right + + Summer heat (Oh, just one dance) + Draw your blade on me (And I know) + You know that beat (In a glance) + Has me wanting your body (I love her so) + Summer rain (If I dared) + In the air tonight (I'd let it show) + I'll regret it someday (But I'm scared) + but let's dance in the moonlight +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I am always chasing the summery bubblegum pop sound, and this track, I feel, is the closest I’ve ever come to hitting the mark. + + Despite the cheerful outward appearance, I wanted to capture an undercurrent of hopeless longing and ephemerality—when you know the excitement is bound to end too soon, but you enjoy it anyway, almost in defiance of that knowledge. + + The bird you hear midway through is an Asian koel, which I associate strongly with the dusk (when its cries are heard), nostalgia, and now with my home in Singapore. + + I’m really happy that I got to get my friend Emmara to sing on this song! She’s an amazing vocalist and musician; you can check out her YouTube channel here. +--- +Track: Life's a Mind Game +Duration: '04:35' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/lifes-a-mind-game +Lyrics: |- + That's just how, how it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + That's just how, how it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + She says she's not looking for a partner + Next month she's dating someone hotter + I'm cute to everyone but not her + That's how it goes + + He says you wanna bang for one night + I say not my idea of fun, like + Next day he goes makeouts are fine, right + That's how it goes + + Everywhere I go, Everyone I know, + Just another comedy about to start + Won't someone tell me how to play my stupid part + Look like I belong + Try to learn the words by heart + Then I say them wrong + + I used to think there was a trick, that there was a key + Something everybody knew but me, but I've come to see + Life's a circus and we're doomed to be + Clowning until we kick the bucket and then we're free + + That's just how, how it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + That's just how + How it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + Breakup was back in 2019 + Since then I've fallen in a routine + See someone new, no words, break down + The saddest thing you've ever seen + + It's like a shitty B-rate movie + So bad you feel a little sorry + For everyone who's in the show + And I would know + + I guess I'll get lost in a story + Roleplay's the way, I won't be sorry + Then bam, DM gives us a hottie + And I'm too scared to flirt (Goddammit) + + I guess I'm doomed to make no progress + Let's face the truth, I'm just a hot mess + I'll probably always be anxious + And life will always hurt + + That's just how, how it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + That's just how, how it moves + Life's a mind game, with no rules + You will win till you lose + Same old story, same old news + + (One) + That's just how, how it moves (She says she's not looking for a partner) + (Two) + Life's a mind game, with no rules (Next month she's dating someone hotter) + (Three) + You will win till you lose (I'm cute to everyone but not her) + (Four) + Same old story, same old news (That's how it goes) + (That's how it goes) + + (One) + That's just how, how it moves (He says you wanna bang for one night) + (Two) + Life's a mind game, with no rules (I say not my idea of fun, like) + (Three) + You will win till you lose (Next day he goes makeouts are fine, right) + (Four) + Same old story, same old news (That's how it goes) + + That's just how, how it moves (She says she's not looking for a partner) + Life's a mind game, with no rules (Next month she's dating someone hotter) + You will win till you lose (I'm cute to everyone but not her) + Same old story, same old news (That's how it goes) + + That's just how, how it moves (He says you wanna bang for one night) + Life's a mind game, with no rules (I say not my idea of fun, like) + You will win till you lose (Next day he goes makeouts are fine, right) + Same old story, same old news (That's how it goes) + (That's how it goes) +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This song came to me as I was waiting for the bus, the day after someone I barely knew hit on me, even though I had not remotely expressed interest—and then tried it again after I told him no. + + The song quickly evolved into a great big vent about the year and a half starting in late 2019, a period that was chock full of romantic encounters that were almost hilariously terrible in hindsight. + + There are times when life just feels like playing a game without knowing the rules, and nowhere more than in the realm of romance and dating. I’m just too socially-inept to know how to handle all this confusing nonsense. + + I hope the song is enjoyable; it would be the one good thing to come of all of it. +--- +Track: When All Is Gone +Duration: '04:22' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/when-all-is-gone +Lyrics: |- + I am a child of rain and fire + Born from the blight, bound by a birthright + Buried in the centuries of dust and daylight + + I am the daughter of a woman + Who shone brighter than the sun + She gave me her chain, told me to run + Not one day passes where I don't say her a prayer + + In every stream, I see my home + In every dream I dream, I roam + Beneath the sky, everything I've known + Is doomed die, while I wander on + When all is gone + + In shadow since the world was shattered + The lands are in decay + In the ruins you know better + Than hope anything will stay but + + I dared to love, to love another + held tight to all that I held dear + I always knew she'd disappear + + Everywhere, every mile + In every shadow, her smile + I still bear every trial in this barren exile + + In every stream, I see my home + In every dream I dream, I roam + Beneath the sky, everything I've known + Is doomed die, while I wander on + When all is gone + + I go on, I go on, there's more road ahead + Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left for dead + Not until, not until all is done and said + I defy, I defy, till I bleed out red + + I go on, I go on, there's more road ahead + Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left for dead + Not until, not until all is done and said + I defy, I defy, till I bleed out red + + In every stream, I see my home + In every dream I dream, I roam + Beneath the sky, everything I've known + Is doomed die, while I wander on + When all is gone (Till I bleed out red) + + In every stream (I go on, I go on, there's more road ahead) + I see my home (Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left for dead) + In every dream (Not until, not until all is done and said) + I dream, I roam (I defy, I defy, till I bleed out red) + Beneath the sky (I go on, I go on, there's more road ahead) + Everything I've known (Nothing left, nothing left, nothing left for dead) + Is doomed die, while I wander on (Not until, not until all is done and said) + + When all is gone +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Not to be a total nerd, but this song is about my Dungeons & Dragons character. + + Specifically, it is about Ajai, the paladin I play in my main D&D campaign (yes, the one I referenced in [[track:lifes-a-mind-game]]). I couldn’t find any music accurately reflecting her aesthetic for her playlist, so I took matters into my own hands and wrote the song I wished I could find. + + Sentimental and protective, Ajai clings to the memory of every person she’s loved long after they have left. Despite the bleakness of the horizons she pursues, she continues to be full of compassion. + + The richer vocal style playing off the sharp plucked strings is precisely the sound I associate with Ajai. +--- +Track: From a Windchime +Duration: '02:18' +Referenced Tracks: +- From a Windchime to Its Long-Lost Owner +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/from-a-windchime +Lyrics: |- + Where the robins flew late last summer + Eggshell blue, ripped asunder + Call me too, softly call me back to where you lay + Asleep in dew, dreaming of the answer to + Why the truth is never true + Why the winter's colder every day + + I hope you're free, how far westward lies the sea + Tell me, do you dream of me + Nameless tune forever left behind + Why do I sing, when my world is shattering + When I've broken everything + Are these tears or am I only blind + + Where's that winding war, by the tide beyond the shore + I have tried to try before, but I was so blinded by the sun + You tell me forever now for nevermore + Will I bear what once I bore + Have you thought the glass might hide the gun + + I know you're free, have you gone beyond the sea + I still hear you call to me, even though I'll never find you now + But still I sing, for our summer, for our spring + For my world, for everything + Till I fade, till I've forgotten how + + I hope you're free, how far westward lies the sea + Tell me, do you dream of me + Nameless tune forever left behind + Why do I sing, when my world is shattering + When I've broken everything + Are these tears or am I only blind +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I wrote this song way back in 2011, under the far longer title From a Windchime to its Long-Lost Owner. + + It has remained a huge favourite for the decade it has existed, so much that I’ve made five versions of it, one of which you can hear on my 2013 album [[album:compass]]. + + This is the fifth, and likely final, version: I finally feel like I’ve realised the vision I had all those years ago. The lyrics of this song alone made it worth remaking this many times. At long last, you can hear them! + + The lyrics are based on an old short story I wrote at around the same time, about a windchime left behind in a house that has long been abandoned. Even back then, I adored that tone of hopeful melancholy that you see in a lot of my work. +--- +Track: Oceanic Flight +Directory: oceanic-flight-a-memory-finds-its-name +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '04:56' +Referenced Tracks: +- Oceanic Flight +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/oceanic-flight +Lyrics: |- + For years and years I yearned for the sea + I felt the world was turning around me + Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory + And dreamed, and cried, free me! Free me! Free me! + + For years and years I yearned to be free + I knew the world was changing beyond me + And I was disappearing, if only + Someone would just hear me! Hear me! Hear me! + + [Distorted vocal] + + For years and years, I drowned in the sea + I felt the waters turning upon me + She thrashed, I steered, we tangled and slowly + Our colours ran, mixing permanently + + In tears, in fears, I drowned her and she + Became my world, my life and my story + And I was disappearing, if only + Someone would just, hear me, hear me, hear me + + For years and years I yearned for the sea + I felt the world was turning around me + Through cracks and tears I peered at its glory + And dreamed, and cried, free me, free me, free me + + For years and years I yearned to be free + I knew the world was changing beyond me + And I was disappearing, if only + Someone would just hear me, hear me, hear me + + For years and years I drowned in the sea + Till you reached out and dragged me to safety + Beyond the stars, their light burning softly + When will someone hear me, hear me, hear me + + For years and years I yearned to be free + I will not let her hate take it from me + I live, and I refuse to be sorry + And no one can take me, make me, break me +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Am I infringing on copyright by saying that this song was inspired by Steven Universe? + + To be very vague, it’s a story-song about someone who spent most of her centuries-long life trapped against her will, and then in a damning duty she took upon herself to protect her newfound friends. + + There’s a sense of...optimism? and desperation? mingled here that culminates in the cries of “free me” and “hear me”. + + This was, hands down, one of the hardest songs I’ve ever produced, taking almost a year of fiddling, and then more ahead of this release. Little wonder: it’s the biggest track on this album too, in terms of instruments and length. +--- +Track: You Are You +Directory: you-are-you-a-memory-finds-its-name +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '04:04' +Referenced Tracks: +- You Are You +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-you-2 +Lyrics: |- + You're a blessing, you are you + You are someone's light + You're a wish that someone had each time they cried + You're an angel, you're the sky + You're the joy that you deny + And there's nothing, nothing that can change that now + + You're a blessing, you are you + You are someone's light + You're a wish that someone had each time they cried + You're an angel, you're the sky + You're the joy that you deny + And there's nothing, nothing that can change that now + + I watch you walk without a light + Hopeless, lost, tangled in the night + Can it be someone rained on your show + Hate can be sharp as a knife I know + But tell me why do you turn away + And tell me who left these scars + You say your sky is dark and dead + But in your eyes I see the stars + + You're a blessing, you are you + You are someone's light + You're a wish that someone had each time they cried + You're an angel, you're the sky + You're the joy that you deny + And there's nothing truer, don't you know? + + You're not nothing, you are you + Let them tell their lies + This world you are the world in someone's eyes + Don't you say it's not deserved + You're the axis of their love + And there's nothing nothing that can that now + + There may be questions that no one can answer + And there may be pain you don't understand + But you'll survive if you trust in the joy + That you haven't known + + Don't say you are nothing, I would give the world for you + You may be flawed but you're no mistake + Take a deep breath till there's no sorrow left + And look up above, it's the sky you love + + Can't you see your starlight? + + My dear, please be my light + Oh, my dear, it's still the night + Don't think you are any less than wonderful + + You're a blessing, you are you (My dear) + You are someone's light (Please be my light) + You're a wish that someone had (Oh, my dear) + Each time they cried (It's still the night) + you're an angel, you're the sky (Don't think you) + you're the joy that you deny (Are any less) + and there's nothing nothing that can change that (Than wonderful) + + Angel, you're my sky + let them tell their lies + In this world you are the world in someone's eyes + Don't you say it's not deserved + You're the axis of my love + And there's nothing nothing that can change my mind +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I remember, when I first wrote this song in 2012, that it was meant to be a song about “things I wish someone would say to me.” + + I struggled a great deal with my mental health back then, with some family tragedies happening around that time, as well as a looming final exam that seemed like life or death. + + I used to hate this song in particular, because I was deeply dissastisfied with how the vocals came out. Despite the warm compliments I received on the lyrics and composition, the vocals were a sticking point. Soon after posting it, I removed the vocal version (along with many others) from the internet. + + In some strange way, my position is reversed now. I feel more like the person speaking the words of the song than the person it is addressed to, and I adjusted the lyrics to match (and also to match my new lyrical style). +--- +Track: The Banner I Unfurl +Directory: the-banner-i-unfurl-a-memory-finds-its-name +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '01:22' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:the-banner-i-unfurl-instrumental +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-banner-i-unfurl +Lyrics: |- + I'm not that strong, but I'll fight + I belong at her side + When the darkness starts to stir + She's so much more + While I live, I am sure + I would give my very life for her + + 'Cause + She's the axis of my world + She's the banner I unfurl + I shall raise it for the eyes of the world to see + You could take all that I own + I don't need it now I've known + A love like the sea + + 'Cause + She's the axis of my world + She's the springtime of my soul + Flowers bloom beneath the skies through the centuries + You could take all that I own + I don't need it now I've known + Her love for me +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I wrote this song for <a href="https://youtu.be/bIyjzum7Hjk">an animation</a> I made for an undergrad stop motion class in 2015, but ultimately (as always) swapped it for a fully instrumental version. + + The animation is of a noblewoman and a knight who are in love, surprise surprise. The noble is snatched away by a flying beast and her partner gives chase on a horse, before a fun magic battle happens. + + Let’s be real, the “plot” of this one-and-a-half-minute animation actually doesn’t make any sense, but it was always meant to be music-led—visuals echoing the feel of the music. + + The lyrics themselves are actually some of my favourites that I’ve written—lines such as “she’s the springtime of my soul” are hopefully as resonant for others as they feel to me personally. + + I will be honest: it began as a Steven Universe fan song, but then grew into its own thing as I worked on it. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (lyric video illustration) + <img src="media/misc/the-banner-i-unfurl-lyric-video.JPG" width="380" length="214"> +--- +Track: The Queen In Between +Duration: '04:00' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-queen-in-between +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + The only track on this album with no lyrics is this one: the background track of my game, In Between. + + It takes place in an ancient, ruined desert town in the realm between Heaven and Hell—despite its great age, it is still populated, by strange creatures that seem neither alive nor dead, and a Queen who has been siphoning the souls of her subjects to prolong her own life. + + In the game, I wanted to explore the concept of shifting between various combinations of instruments as you move from one location to another, with the number of instruments building gradually as you approach the end of the game. + + I tried to emulate that sense of building in this version of the track, but you can <a href="https://circlejourney.net/in-between/">play the game</a> to get the full experience. +--- +Track: Memorialisation +Directory: memorialisation-a-memory-finds-its-name +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '03:41' +Referenced Tracks: +- Memorialisation +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/memorialisation +Lyrics: |- + I've forgotten her face + I don't remember her voice at all + What is she to me, anyway + Why should I care that I don't recall + So all my pride was misplaced + How could I have been so blind + What use is a memorial in your mind + + Walls break, windows crack + Trees die, and don't grow back + If you wait, the leaves will all turn black + + And she also forgot me + At last the whole truth has come to light + It was all just a gambit + A surrender and not a fight + For all these years, she bore my weight + For love, for hate, she tolerated me + "Just wait for me," she'd say to me, "Just wait" + Until she left that night + That endless night + + Walls break, windows crack + Trees die and don't grow back + If you wait, the leaves will all turn black + Don't you know + Overgrown houses fall + All they've known, no trace at all + A bird sends up its mourning call alone + + I've always known how to make things + But not how to break them + I don't know how to take it + When they can't be repaired + I've always known she's gone, + She's gone, she's gone, she's gone + She never cared + + Who am I, who was I, to you, my mother + Answer me + + Walls break, windows crack + Trees die and don't grow back + Suddenly, everything goes black + Songs end, seeds decay + You can't pretend the grief away + Oh, if I could send a reply with the things I'd like to say + I'd say I'm sorry that I wasted my childhood away + But you're not here, and you can't watch me + Destroy this memorial today +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Back in 2016 or so, I planned on writing a whole stage musical based on my novel, <a href="https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/">Eagles and Swans</a> (which will forever be unreleased, at the rate I’m going). This was the only song that actually materialised in full. + + I’m fond of writing songs about fictional characters (moreso than about my own life), especially characters that I created myself. This one’s about Ruthenia, the main character of Eagles and Swans, at a time when she’s questioning everything about her past. + + It’s definitely the hardest one to sing on this album, and honestly I feel it was made for the penultimate position. I’m happy to finally have the chance to channel my inner musical theatre lover, and would love to write more for this musical whenever I’ve got the time. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (track cover) + <img src="media/misc/memorialisation-track-cover.JPG" width="250"> +--- +Track: Year In, Year Out +Duration: '03:30' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/year-in-year-out +Lyrics: |- + Year in, year out + Learn to live without, oh + What stays, what's true + Seasons pull me from you + 'Cause + + I'm moving, you knew it + Years fearing this minute + A planet, a comet + I break from your orbit + + I take my heart and fold it + Move out to the cold + Out of your city + Out of your world + + By the time I see you + Will I still know your face + By the time we meet + Amid the stardust and space + I would rather be + About any other place + That is closer + One of these years + One of these days + + Year in, year out + What do we even talk about, oh + The heat, the moon + The sound of birds in the afternoon + 'Cause + + Three autumns, three winters + Of stories in letters + Three springs and three summers + Lose track of the numbers + + Where's the line + When do I + Pass the point + When should I say goodbye? + + 'Cause + By the time I see you + Will I still know your face + By the time we meet + Amid the stardust and space + I would rather be + About any other place + That is closer + One of these days + + 'Cause + By the time I see you + Will I still know your face (still know your face) + By the time we meet + Amid the stardust and space (stardust and space) + I would rather be + About any other place (any other place) + That is closer + One of these years + One of these days + + Year in, year out + Learn to live without, oh + What stays, what's true + Seasons pull me from you +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I’ll be honest, I get a little choked up every time I sing this song. It draws deeply on an emotion I’ve grown very familiar with over the past couple of years: of missing someone I used to be around all the time, and of drifting away. + + I haven’t been home since February 2020—it’s been more than a year. I can’t help wondering how my home, family and friends have changed since I last saw them. If they’ll even feel like the same people when we next meet. + + The shadow of the memory of being close to people I care about—a complex, multivalent thing—continues to loom over most of my waking hours. It is a bittersweet feeling: the relief of being untethered, stirred in with the quiet dread of time passing, of distance growing, when you’re looking away +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Summer Heat (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:41' +Referenced Tracks: +- Summer Heat +--- +Track: Life's a Mind Game (Instrumental) +Duration: '4:37' +Referenced Tracks: +- Life's a Mind Game +--- +Track: When All Is Gone (Instrumental) +Duration: '4:16' +Referenced Tracks: +- When All Is Gone +--- +Track: From a Windchime (Instrumental) +Duration: '2:19' +Referenced Tracks: +- From a Windchime +--- +Track: Oceanic Flight (Instrumental) +Directory: oceanic-flight-instrumental-a-memory-finds-its-name +Duration: '4:58' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:oceanic-flight-a-memory-finds-its-name +--- +Track: You Are You (Instrumental) +Duration: '4:05' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:you-are-you-a-memory-finds-its-name +--- +Track: The Banner I Unfurl (Instrumental) +Directory: the-banner-i-unfurl-instrumental-a-memory-finds-its-name +Duration: '1:24' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:the-banner-i-unfurl-a-memory-finds-its-name +--- +Track: Memorialisation (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:36' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:memorialisation-a-memory-finds-its-name +--- +Track: Year In, Year Out (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:30' +Referenced Tracks: +- Year In, Year Out diff --git a/album/between-sky-and-sea.yaml b/album/between-sky-and-sea.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8f1576f --- /dev/null +++ b/album/between-sky-and-sea.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +Album: Between Sky and Sea +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: January 24, 2016 +Date Added: December 26, 2023 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/between-sky-and-sea +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#C8F6DC' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + My fourth album, Between Sky and Sea, is perhaps my most inspired to date. It is half an hour of uplifting synth orchestrals with a handful of contrasting tracks thrown in. + + Several of the tracks here are among my favourites ever, including Like Flying, Fuchsia Moonrise, The Journey and Acquiescence. + + This album could not have been possible without the Undertale soundtrack, which inspired about 30 minutes of the music here (all composed in a single month). +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Like Flying +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Duration: '05:21' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/like-flying +--- +Track: Fuchsia Moonrise +Directory: fuchsia-moonrise-between-sky-and-sea +Always Reference By Directory: true +Originally Released As: Fuchsia Moonrise +Duration: '03:56' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/fuchsia-moonrise +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Composed for the Homestuck fan album, Beforus. Do not publicise before the album's release! +--- +Track: Watching The Leaves Turn Red +Referenced Tracks: +- Watching The Leaves Turn Red first draft +Duration: '03:45' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/watching-the-leaves-turn-red +--- +Track: Electric Wolves +Duration: '03:54' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/electric-wolves +--- +Track: The Journey +Referenced Tracks: +- Like Flying +Duration: '04:52' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-journey +--- +Track: Nostalgia +Duration: '04:34' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/nostalgia +--- +Track: Chrysanthemum Waltz +Duration: '01:41' +Referenced Tracks: +- Not Quite An Overture +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/chrysanthemum-waltz +--- +Track: Not Quite An Overture +Duration: '00:57' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/not-quite-an-overture +--- +Track: Something Forgotten +Duration: '01:01' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/something-forgotten +--- +Track: Marin +Referenced Tracks: +- The Horizon +Duration: '00:52' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/marin +--- +Track: Solitaire +Referenced Tracks: +- The Horizon +Duration: '00:42' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/solitaire +--- +Track: Love on the Doldrums +Referenced Tracks: +- The Horizon +Duration: '01:28' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/love-on-the-doldrums +--- +Track: Nocturna +Duration: '01:22' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/nocturna +--- +Track: Goodbye +Directory: goodbye-between-sky-and-sea +Always Reference By Directory: true +Referenced Tracks: +- Like Flying +Duration: '01:25' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/goodbye +--- +Track: Acquiescence +Referenced Tracks: +- Like Flying +Duration: '02:39' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/acquiescence +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Like Flying Breakdown (bonus) +Duration: '4:08' +Referenced Tracks: +- Like Flying +--- +Track: Like Flying 8-bit +Duration: '3:20' +Referenced Tracks: +- Like Flying +--- +Track: Through The Window +Duration: '1:03' +Referenced Tracks: +- Acquiescence +--- +Track: Watching The Leaves Turn Red first draft +Duration: '0:33' \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/cartographer-symphony.yaml b/album/cartographer-symphony.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3429c28f --- /dev/null +++ b/album/cartographer-symphony.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Album: Cartographer Symphony +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: August 30, 2017 +Date Added: December 27, 2023 +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/sets/cartographer-symphony +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#5A949F' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + I've always wanted to write a symphony...so I finally did that. And dang, was this an involved project, although it took much shorter than I was anticipating (six days). + + Compositionally, it's where I want it to be; production-wise, I don't see myself spending more time on it. Perhaps I'll polish it someday, but this is what you have for now. +--- +Track: 'Movement 1: Archipelagos' +Referenced Tracks: +- The Pursuit of Justice +Duration: '05:46' +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/movement-1-archipelagos +--- +Track: 'Movement 2: The Open Sea' +Duration: '04:33' +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/movement-2-the-open-sea +--- +Track: 'Movement 3: Mountains' +Duration: '05:10' +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/movement-3-mountains +--- +Track: 'Movement 4: Journeys' +Duration: '06:04' +Referenced Tracks: +- 'Movement 1: Archipelagos' +- From a Windchime to Its Long-Lost Owner +- 'Movement 2: The Open Sea' +- Skies of Skaia +- 'Movement 3: Mountains' +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/movement-4-journeys diff --git a/album/coastal-dreaming.yaml b/album/coastal-dreaming.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72a9419a --- /dev/null +++ b/album/coastal-dreaming.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +Album: Coastal Dreaming +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: April 21, 2015 +Date Added: December 26, 2023 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/coastal-dreaming +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#C9CF4B' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This is, in some ways, a departure from my style in my previous two albums. Alongside the orchestral pieces and upbeat pop, you have some experiments with new sounds. True to the title, there is no shortage of nautically-inspired tracks in this album (as usual, really). +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Rose in Light +Duration: '05:05' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/rose-in-light +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The way sunlight glows through rose petals. +--- +Track: You Say +Duration: '03:31' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/you-say +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Originally planned to have lyrics, but scrapped the idea. A self-empowerment type deal. +--- +Track: Adventure +Directory: adventure-coastal-dreaming +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '01:53' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/adventure +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The feeling of entering the first dungeon in a game. +--- +Track: Coastal Dreaming +Duration: '04:16' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/coastal-dreaming +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Sailing a small boat along the coast. +--- +Track: Voyage +Duration: '04:10' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/voyage +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + You're on a large ship crossing the ocean, and the night sky is clear and deep. You're navigating by the stars. +--- +Track: Rainy Day Conversation +Duration: '00:31' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/rainy-day-conversation +--- +Track: Waterside Sunset +Duration: '03:05' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/waterside-sunset +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Sipping a cocktail at the deck's edge while watching the sun set on the river. +--- +Track: Get Ready +Duration: '03:16' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/get-ready +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Inspired by 90's anime theme songs. +--- +Track: Jalan Senja +Duration: '00:56' +Referenced Tracks: +- Thousand Tribes River +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/jalan-senja +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Commissioned by Felicia P Natasha. The title means "Afternoon Walk". Looping walk music. +--- +Track: 'Ruins: Crack in the Sky' +Duration: '00:58' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/ruins-crack-in-the-sky +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Commissioned by Felicia P Natasha. Looping boss battle music. +--- +Track: Rural Mystery +Duration: '03:23' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/rural-mystery +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Misty ruins in a pastoral landscape +--- +Track: Glory +Duration: '01:08' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/glory +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A victory march kind of track. +--- +Track: Despite This Existential Loneliness +Duration: '01:44' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/despite-this-existential-loneliness +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Background music for a game I was working on. Feeling alone in the world. More specifically, alone in a small log cabin at the top of a mountain. Imagine the crackle of fire in the background. +--- +Track: The Banner I Unfurl (Instrumental) +Duration: '01:18' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-banner-i-unfurl-instrumental +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Background music for an animation I did. It's about pledging one's life to another. +--- +Track: The Horizon +Duration: '04:37' +Referenced Tracks: +- Compass +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-horizon +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A ship gets lost and finally reaches the horizon. The climax of the Compass story. +--- +Track: Unconditionally - Katy Perry (Music Box Arrangement) +Duration: '03:12' +Referenced Tracks: +- Unconditionally +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/unconditionally-katy-perry-music-box-arrangement +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Coastal Dreaming Breakdown +Duration: '3:15' +Referenced Tracks: +- Coastal Dreaming +--- +Track: The Horizon Breakdown (bonus) +Duration: '5:15' +Referenced Tracks: +- The Horizon diff --git a/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml b/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b8ba9b5e --- /dev/null +++ b/album/compass-original-soundtrack.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +Album: 'Compass: Original Soundtrack' +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: June 17, 2020 +Date Added: January 01, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/compass-original-soundtrack +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#FEFFB3' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Original soundtrack for Compass, an interactive comic about two travellers sailing to the edge of the world. Finally complete after 4 years, read Compass at: <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">compass.circlejourney.net</a> ! +--- +Track: Compass +Directory: compass-ost +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '04:15' +Referenced Tracks: +- Compass +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/compass-2 +--- +Track: Memory of the Sea +Duration: '01:38' +Referenced Tracks: +- Setting Off +- The Horizon +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/memory-of-the-sea +--- +Track: Solitaire +Directory: solitaire-ost +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '01:33' +Referenced Tracks: +- Love on the Doldrums +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/solitaire-2 +--- +Track: Belowdeck I +Duration: '01:17' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/belowdeck-i +--- +Track: Setting Off +Duration: '01:42' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/setting-off +--- +Track: Harbours +Duration: '00:52' +Referenced Tracks: +- Compass +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/harbours +--- +Track: Musdahm +Duration: '01:23' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/musdahm +--- +Track: Mucëvher +Duration: '00:50' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/muc-vher +--- +Track: Fontana +Duration: '01:09' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/fontana +--- +Track: Marin +Directory: marin-ost +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '00:56' +Referenced Tracks: +- Marin +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/marin-2 +--- +Track: Stargazing +Duration: '01:46' +Referenced Tracks: +- Setting Off +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/stargazing +--- +Track: Belowdeck II +Duration: '00:39' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/belowdeck-ii +--- +Track: Circumnavigation +Duration: '00:58' +Referenced Tracks: +- Setting Off +Sampled Tracks: +- Memory of the Sea +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/circumnavigation +--- +Track: The Horizon +Directory: the-horizon-ost +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '04:39' +Referenced Tracks: +- The Horizon +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-horizon-2 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/compass.yaml b/album/compass.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..539bf56f --- /dev/null +++ b/album/compass.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Album: Compass +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: February 27, 2013 +Date Added: December 26, 2023 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/compass +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Default Track Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Track Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#E7BD75' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This is the compilation of my MIDI compositions, featuring everything from when I began using soundfonts (2008) to last December (2012). +--- +Track: Dreamt +Duration: '04:13' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/dreamt +--- +Track: Compass +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '04:21' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/compass +--- +Track: Lost Road to Heaven +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:54' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/lost-road-to-heaven +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (unused lyrics) + There is a harmony to all that I see + An unopened window to eternity + Still kept bolted shut by a fear of the dark + A fear for things that have yet to be + + There is a map that keeps record of the song + The keys from divinity, untouched so long + They're enfolded deep in the veils of the sea + Now could it be that to free them was wrong? + + For they are our + Road to heaven, lost forever + Our only chance to catch a fleeing swan + A stream of sorrow, dream unbidden + Just an unremembered feather drifting in the sea + + Your love unfolded seven oceans to me + There's three made of glass, three made of melody + And we saved the last for our midnights alone + They were my window, my map and my key + + Love, this is our + Road to heaven, lost forever + Our only chance to catch a fleeing swan + A stream of sorrow, dream unbidden + Just an unremembered feather drifting in the sea + + But I never threw my anchor when I could + I feared, and inevitably + The keys were lost, engulfed by frost + Wrenched from my fingers + Gone, our + + Road to heaven, lost forever + Our only chance to catch a fleeing swan + A stream of sorrow, dream unbidden + Just an unremembered feather drifting further + Every moment + + Road to heaven, lost together + Our chance is gone, the swan has flown away + A stream that longs to be a river + Just an unremembered feather drifting in the sea +--- +Track: The Long Road Home +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '03:21' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-long-road-home +--- +Track: Firebird's Fury +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:48' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/firebirds-fury +--- +Track: Sparrows by the Door +Duration: '02:44' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sparrows-by-the-door +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Written for the NEA Songwriting Challenge 2011. +--- +Track: Sky +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:02' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sky +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Something short. +--- +Track: Fly Away +Has Cover Art: false +Referenced Tracks: +- track:fly-away-2010 +Duration: '03:37' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/fly-away-2 +--- +Track: Seasons of the Sky +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '03:33' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/seasons-of-the-sky +--- +Track: New Year Fireworks +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '03:45' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/new-year-fireworks +--- +Track: From a Windchime to Its Long-Lost Owner +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:22' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/from-a-windchime-to-its-long-lost-owner +--- +Track: LT +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '00:39' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/lt +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Created from the three instruments generated randomly by my friend LiTing. +--- +Track: Chasing Wind +Duration: '01:36' +Referenced Tracks: +- Sparrows By the Door +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/chasing-wind +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Composed for my friend Darren's Touhou mod, a remix of sorts of Sparrows by the Door. +--- +Track: Hymn of Those Destined to Die +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '05:29' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-of-those-destined-to-die +--- +Track: High Spirit +Duration: '04:54' +Referenced Tracks: +- Westminster Quarters +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/high-spirit +--- +Track: You Are You +Duration: '03:46' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-you +--- +Track: Enthronement (Instrumental) +Duration: '04:48' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/enthronement-instrumental +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The filler instrument track for Enthronement. I haven't written the lyrics but I plan to. +--- +Track: 'Sparrows by the Door (Karaoke)' +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:44' +Referenced Tracks: +- Sparrows By the Door +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sparrows-by-the-door-karaoke +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Minus one track for Sparrows by the Door. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/dreamers-diarchy.yaml b/album/dreamers-diarchy.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..93313595 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/dreamers-diarchy.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Album: Dreamer's Diarchy +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: December 30, 2023 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/dreamers-diarchy +- https://open.spotify.com/album/5fbFy6HpjqrzC92dDmSjTC +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Art Tags: +- Prospit +- Derse +Color: '#cc44cc' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Fandom +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A Homestuck fan release about Prospit and Derse. + + I have had these track drafts sitting on my hard drive as MIDIs since 2017, and I'm pleased that they are finally seeing the light of day. They were originally made for a concept album about celestial bodies in Homestuck, but all the other tracks got released elsewhere, so I'll be releasing the last few in parts. +--- +Track: Promenade +Duration: '03:52' +Color: '#ffcc00' +Referenced Tracks: +- The Golden Towers +- Prospit Dreamers +- Center of Brilliance +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/promenade +- https://open.spotify.com/track/4yU8NRU1fp7Uj0tRpm7bKc +--- +Track: Dirge +Duration: '03:52' +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Art Tags: +- Derse +- Prospit +Referenced Tracks: +- Derse Dreamers +- Showtime (Original Mix) +- Even In Death +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/dirge +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0cgqt4eyNs0UhZi7tLWZjy \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml b/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c13e5849 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/fate-and-choice-music-for-stardust.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Album: Fate and Choice (Music for Stardust) +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: April 7, 2023 +Date Added: January 05, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/314vNU3uiSzjeZYwpXQ1il +- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ks1gy3y283pUMU42akWuc4mztk5Kze32Q +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#7EA2A2' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1644911237539696641)) + New EP! Music for <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148">Stardust</a> by Holly France. +--- +Track: Means To An End +Duration: '00:36' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/5z3L5mjoX2k8jbKUklojbK +- https://youtu.be/oeiApkEdm0g +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1202265927183548416)) + Music commission delivery! This is a short opening theme for Holly France's project <a href="https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/stardust/list?title_no=416148">Stardust</a>. +--- +Track: I Wouldn't Worry +Duration: '03:25' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/38RgdP2kxmn7BsQt63jWOX +- https://youtu.be/athLdBRNoGQ +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1280162485970952193)) + A theme music commission for Holly France, for the comic Stardust (http://instagram.com/stardust.comic)! Commissioner said it's an ending theme, heheh. + FL project preview: https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1279997207932833793 +--- +Track: Blood, Dirt and Coffee +Duration: '02:44' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0Y27Jj2toNE0tXxP039quj +- https://youtu.be/cni2iyGsg5Q +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1346452097500209152)) + Blood, Dirt, Coffee--a commission for Holly France! It's always a joy working with a jazzy feel in my music, and I'm very happy with how this came together. Thank you again for the commission! +--- +Track: Destiny's Traitor +Duration: '03:17' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/5D9uBLFC1hTP8W0q8vVd5o +- https://youtu.be/GW9uDr9BMKA +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Blood, Dirt, Coffee--a commission for Holly France! It's always a joy working with a jazzy feel in my music, and I'm very happy with how this came together. Thank you again for the commission! diff --git a/album/fly-away.yaml b/album/fly-away.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0ab7c28 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/fly-away.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Album: Fly Away +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: August 18, 2019 +Date Added: January 04, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/4cztzE16rgDifdpthOyoD8 +- https://youtu.be/XEOtnhzLxlY +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#A6AAB0' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +--- +Track: Fly Away +Directory: fly-away-single +Duration: '03:35' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:fly-away-2010 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0JvEVDdh3r7B4AYIYlZ8XX +- https://youtu.be/XEOtnhzLxlY +Lyrics: |- + Oh must this be? + Is this the end? + After this day will we really leave these things behind + + Don't you cry + Look at the sky, oh + Can't you see it smiling down at you? + + No, I thought we would be forever + Why must we end this way? + + But dearest child you can't look back + You've lived your whole life for this day + + Sometimes it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But till you've learned to let you go + You'll never know how to fly + + Child, you must know this nest is + Only a place to rest and learn + Learn to be strong + Someday when you have flown + This I have always known + I'll pray you find a place you belong + + Yes it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But wherever you go + we're under the same blue sky + You must go, you must leave this nest + Take flight, see the very best + Of life, seek out that echoing song + + Am I ready, am I too weak? + Will I find this song I seek? + Somehow I fear to lose my way + How can I let the wind whisk me away? + (How can I let the wind whisk you away?) + + Trust yourself + + You've taught me well + + Take the sky + Trust your compass + + Yes, it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But till you learn to let go + You'll never know how to fly + Birds don't forget how to sing + No matter how far they might stray + Don't you know there are some things + That time can't take away + + I'll learn to let go + These memories don't have to die + 'Cause wherever I go ('Cause wherever you go) + We're under the same blue sky + You have taught me to sing + And someday I'll find you that song + This is farewell, I suppose + But who said this is the end? So long diff --git a/album/flyways.yaml b/album/flyways.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..22744052 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/flyways.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Album: Flyways +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: October 30, 2021 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/flyways +- https://open.spotify.com/album/4rRKL4xpJMlTAz345Cb4A2 +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#6CB8EA' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This is a song about migrating and starting life over after hitting a breakpoint - a single continuous 15-minute track in four parts, structured like a symphony (and yet not). +--- +Track: Rise With the Sun +Duration: '04:11' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/rise-with-the-sun +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0Rs1ukzGvGo4AOmBw4cUm7 +--- +Track: Growing Without You +Duration: '03:15' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/growing-without-you +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0QxX7jG1jHGxww2VTJLTQb +--- +Track: Walk Into the Light +Duration: '02:46' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/walk-into-the-light +- https://open.spotify.com/track/6rRa6WpKxvdZxYeMc0Ptgo +--- +Track: How Far You've Wandered +Duration: '04:47' +Referenced Tracks: +- Rise With the Sun +- Growing Without You +- Walk Into the Light +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/how-far-youve-wandered +- https://open.spotify.com/track/25vi2UJlSv7hzkIIUhOSyU +--- +Track: Flyways (Full) +Duration: '15:02' +Sampled Tracks: +- Rise With the Sun +- Growing Without You +- Walk Into the Light +- How Far You've Wandered +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/flyways-full +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + It's all four tracks in a single file...if you prefer to listen to it like that without the breaks \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml b/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe5ca031 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/if-one-shall-indulge.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Album: If one shall indulge +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: April 30, 2022 +Date Added: January 05, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/5WW3C5RBc3yyyWJv9g2Shh +Cover Artists: +- lipeka +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#F3C0AB' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +--- +Track: Sans merci +Duration: '01:57' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/05Zt21t2Bf4Se1MkKnFpsa +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5PaIZawWE +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A theme for Beatrice commissioned by <a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/">Josefin B</a>. +--- +Track: This is not a pipe +Duration: '02:13' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3CNhNJnmfEw19wuDqCQeHA +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-iSphH7bA +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A theme for Cecil commissioned by <a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/artist/josefin-b/">Josefin B</a>. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/laknat-suria.yaml b/album/laknat-suria.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7aaf2503 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/laknat-suria.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Album: Laknat Suria +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: May 24, 2021 +Date Added: January 05, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/6SyoeZROFD50mh8I41jHqj +- https://youtu.be/jS1G-AvLvIw +Cover Artists: +- Farid Nad +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#FF948E' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1399718547991891969)) + Another music commission from May--a battle theme for @farideacs' D&D OC Ida (art also by him)! I've never thought of traditional Malay instruments, electronic and rock combined like this and love how well it works. Thank you for the comm! +--- +Track: Laknat Suria +Duration: '02:58' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gg1reDCVog5w1UQqU73vd +- https://youtu.be/jS1G-AvLvIw \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/lofam4.yaml b/album/lofam4.yaml index 0a28ac51..d0e01baf 100644 --- a/album/lofam4.yaml +++ b/album/lofam4.yaml @@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ Track: Frost and Clockwork Artists: - Circlejourney Duration: '3:11' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:frost-and-clockwork-worlds-await URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/frost-and-clockwork - https://youtu.be/3Bf_au1-r9A diff --git a/album/lofam5.yaml b/album/lofam5.yaml index 21c7afb8..9077bd82 100644 --- a/album/lofam5.yaml +++ b/album/lofam5.yaml @@ -922,8 +922,9 @@ Commentary: |- I had a minute where I wanted to put shakuhachi in everything I did á la [[album:homestuck-vol-6|HS Volume 6]] --- Track: Sailing (In The Sea Of Stars) -Artists: -- Circlejourney +Directory: sailing-in-the-sea-of-stars-lofam5 +Originally Released As: track:sailing-in-the-sea-of-stars +Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '4:22' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/sailing-in-the-sea-of-stars-2 @@ -932,10 +933,6 @@ Cover Artists: - Awkward Art Tags: - The Theseus -Referenced Tracks: -- The Doom of the Planets -- Fuchsia Moonrise -- The Thirteenth Hour Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> A theme for the post-Epilogue crew(s) sailing through space. @@ -1755,8 +1752,9 @@ Commentary: |- I loved the ending to Pesterquest and wanted to do a track on it. --- Track: A Story That Consumes Itself -Artists: -- Circlejourney +Directory: a-story-that-consumes-itself-lofam5 +Originally Released As: track:a-story-that-consumes-itself +Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '3:02' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/a-story-that-consumes-itself diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml index 403d9f49..acb60fbc 100644 --- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml +++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml @@ -494,6 +494,17 @@ Duration: '2:49' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/plazmataz/dusk-for-the-age-of-miracles --- +Track: Emmy +Artists: +- Circlejourney +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/emmy-for-asteriddle +Referenced Tracks: +- Battle! (Lorekeeper Zinnia) +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/emmy-for-asteriddle)) + A commission for asteriddle's character <a href="toyhou.se/721835.emmy">Emmy</a>! Quotes Battle! Zinnia by Shota Kageyama. +--- Track: Endless Space Artists: - SolusLunes @@ -595,6 +606,17 @@ Duration: '1:28' URLs: - https://toriscrow.bandcamp.com/track/featherlight --- +Track: Fly Away +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Directory: fly-away-2010 +Always Reference By Directory: true +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.net/files/fly-away-2010.mp3 +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Fly Away is a track I made for my secondary school graduation ceremony. That was back in 2010... I've remade this track maybe 2 or 3 times, because I always liked it, but I never felt like my skills quite matched up to the vision I had for it... It's meant to be a duet between a student and a teacher, that was the original intent of it... As a graduation song, it's kind of bittersweet, and, uh, I had some friends tell me they cried when they heard it. I guess it was just, like, the context and everything. +--- Track: Fruity Pebbles Jingle Artists: - Scott Stutzman @@ -1279,6 +1301,14 @@ Duration: '3:21' URLs: - https://loftlocked.bandcamp.com/track/thunderhead --- +Track: ⭑✶✦ TILL TOMORROW ✦✶⭑ +Artists: +- Circlejourney +- SerialSymphony +- Machina Solis +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/machinasolis/till-tomorrow +--- Track: Winterfall Artists: - Blackhole @@ -1895,6 +1925,19 @@ Duration: '0:55' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQq2v6kBKSM --- +Track: Battle! (Lorekeeper Zinnia) +# Official release: +# Nintendo 3DS Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Super Music Complete +# ニンテンドー3DS ポケモン オメガルビー・アルファサファイア スーパーミュージックコンプリート +# Reference: +# https://vgmdb.net/album/48057 +Artists: +- artist:pokemon +- Shota Kageyama +Duration: '3:04' +URLs: +- https://youtu.be/PjZvJZ6wRe8 +--- Track: Battle Tower (Pokemon Diamond & Pearl Versions) # Official release: # Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl: Super Music Collection @@ -20016,6 +20059,66 @@ Lyrics: |- (Too hip) Can't watch this (Get me outta here) Can't watch this --- +Track: I Forgot That You Existed +Artists: +- Taylor Swift +Duration: '2:51' +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1cEvNn88jM +Lyrics: |- + How many days did I spend thinking + 'Bout how you did me wrong, wrong, wrong? + Lived in the shade you were throwing + 'Til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone + And I couldn't get away from ya + In my feelings more than Drake, so yeah + Your name on my lips, tongue-tied + Free rent, living in my mind + + But then something happened one magical night + + I forgot that you existed + And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't + And it was so nice + So peaceful and quiet + I forgot that you existed + It isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference + I forgot that you + + Got out some popcorn + As soon as my rep started going down, down, down + Laughed on the school yard + As soon as I tripped up and hit the ground, ground, ground + And I would've stuck around for ya + Would've fought the whole town, so yeah + Would've been right there, front row + Even if nobody came to your show + + But you showed who you are, then one magical night + + I forgot that you existed + And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't + And it was so nice + So peaceful and quiet + I forgot that you existed + It isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference + I forgot that you + + Sent me a clear message + Taught me some hard lessons + I just forget what they were + It's all just a blur + + I forgot that you existed + And I thought that it would kill me, but it didn't + And it was so nice + So peaceful and quiet + I forgot that you existed + I did, I did, I did + It isn't hate, it's just indifference + It isn't love, it isn't hate, it's just indifference + So, yeah +--- Track: I Knew You Were Trouble Artists: - Taylor Swift @@ -22542,6 +22645,73 @@ Lyrics: |- You can do anything you set your mind to, man --- +Track: Lovefool +Artists: +- The Cardigans +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms +Lyrics: |- + Dear, I fear we're facing a problem + You love me no longer, I know and + Maybe there is nothing that I can do + To make you do + Mama tells me I shouldn't bother + That I ought just stick to another man + A man that surely deserves me + But I think you do + + So I cry, and I pray, and I beg + + Love me, love me + Say that you love me + Fool me, fool me + Go on and fool me + Love me, love me + Pretend that you love me + Leave me, leave me + Just say that you need me + So I cry and I beg for you to + Love me, love me + Say that you love me + Leave me, leave me + Just say that you need me + I can't care 'bout anything but you + + Lately I have desperately pondered + Spent my nights awake and I wonder + What I could have done in another way + To make you stay + Reason will not reach a solution + I will end up lost in confusion + I don't care if you really care + As long as you don't go + + So I cry, and I pray, and I beg + + Love me, love me + Say that you love me + Fool me, fool me + Go on and fool me + Love me, love me + Pretend that you love me + Leave me, leave me + Just say that you need me + So I cry and I beg for you to + Love me, love me + Say that you love me + Leave me, leave me + Just say that you need me + I can't care 'bout anything but you + (Anything but you) + + Love me, love me + Say that you love me + Fool me, fool me + Go on and fool me + Love me, love me + I know that you need me + I can't care 'bout anything but you +--- Track: LRAD Artists: - Knife Party @@ -25415,6 +25585,84 @@ Duration: '2:03' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXE1ovCbhJw --- +Track: Rasputin +Artists: +- Boney M +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrtgtHOrP94 +Lyrics: |- + There lived a certain man in Russia long ago + He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow + Most people look at him with terror and with fear + But to Moscow chicks, he was such a lovely dear + He could preach the Bible like a preacher + Full of ecstasy and fire + But he also was the kind of teacher + Women would desire + + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + + There lived a certain man in Russia long ago + He was big and strong, in his eyes, a flaming glow + Most people look at him with terror and with fear + But to Moscow chicks, he was such a lovely dear + He could preach the Bible like a preacher + Full of ecstasy and fire + But he also was the kind of teacher + Women would desire + + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen + There was a cat that really was gone + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine + It was a shame how he carried on + + He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Tsar + But the kazachok, he danced really wunderbar + In all affairs of state, he was the man to please + But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze + For the Queen, he was no wheeler dealer + Though she'd heard the things he'd done + She believed he was a holy healer + Who would heal her son + + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen + There was a cat that really was gone + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine + It was a shame how he carried on + + But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger for power + Became known to more and more people + The demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder + + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey + + "This man's just gotta go", declared his enemies + But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please" + No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms + Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms + Then one night, some men of higher standing + Set a trap, they're not to blame + "Come to visit us", they kept demanding + And he really came + + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen + They put some poison into his wine + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine + He drank it all and he said, "I feel fine" + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen + They didn't quit, they wanted his head + Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine + And so they shot him 'til he was dead + + Oh, those Russians +--- Track: Ready Let's Go Duration: 1:00 Artists: @@ -29523,6 +29771,58 @@ Lyrics: |- The yellow tape surrounds the fate Don't have a face, so now you late, open the gates --- +Track: Unconditionally +Duration: '3:48' +Artists: +- Katy Perry +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjwZAa2EjKA +Lyrics: |- + Oh no, did I get too close? + Oh, did I almost see what's really on the inside? + All your insecurities + All the dirty laundry + Never made me blink one time + + Unconditional, unconditionally + I will love you unconditionally + There is no fear now + Let go and just be free + I will love you unconditionally + + So come just as you are to me + Don't need apologies + Know that you are worthy + I'll take your bad days with your good + Walk through the storm, I would + I'd do it all because I love you + I love you + + Unconditional, unconditionally + I will love you unconditionally + There is no fear now + Let go and just be free + I will love you unconditionally + + So open up your heart and just let it begin + Open up your heart and just let it begin + Open up your heart and just let it begin + Open up your heart + + Acceptance is the key to be + To be truly free + Will you do the same for me? + + Unconditional, unconditionally + I will love you unconditionally + And there is no fear now + Let go and just be free + 'Cause I will love you unconditionally, oh yeah + + I will love you (Unconditionally) + I will love you + I will love you unconditionally +--- Track: Uneven Compromise Duration: 10:58 Artists: diff --git a/album/skaias-the-limit.yaml b/album/skaias-the-limit.yaml index 81d2c130..959892f0 100644 --- a/album/skaias-the-limit.yaml +++ b/album/skaias-the-limit.yaml @@ -176,13 +176,12 @@ Commentary: |- Vriska Did Nothing Wrong --- Track: The World as We Know It +Originally Released As: track:the-world-as-we-know-it +Directory: the-world-as-we-know-it-sahcon +Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '3:09' -Artists: -- Circlejourney URLs: - https://sahcon.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-as-we-know-it -Referenced Tracks: -- Homestuck Anthem Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> I was thinking about Earth B before the game began. I composed this track in 2018, hence the old productionless piano soundfont style. diff --git a/album/solar-sessions.yaml b/album/solar-sessions.yaml index 4fa3dcaa..ac302065 100644 --- a/album/solar-sessions.yaml +++ b/album/solar-sessions.yaml @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ Commentary: |- Organized by [[artist:helena-ruth|Helena Ruth]] and [[artist:psithurist|Jo Latta]]. Based on an idea by [[artist:poisonedelite|PoisonedElite]]. --- Track: Sun ☉ Chariot -Artists: -- Circlejourney +Originally Released As: track:chariot Duration: '4:45' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpLycFnFNc diff --git a/album/some-other-horizon.yaml b/album/some-other-horizon.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5a758a29 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/some-other-horizon.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +Album: Some Other Horizon +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: September 1, 2016 +Date Added: December 26, 2023 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/some-other-horizon +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Default Track Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Track Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#C64947' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Titles, Glories and Other Inconsequential Things +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '04:54' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/titles-glories-and-other-inconsequential-things +--- +Track: Hyalomancy +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '04:14' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/hyalomancy +--- +Track: Interstellar Space +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:48' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/interstellar-space +--- +Track: Idyllic +Duration: '03:41' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/idyllic +--- +Track: Sundae +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '04:51' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sundae +--- +Track: Break the World +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '02:10' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/break-the-world +--- +Track: Crescent +Duration: '03:11' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/crescent +--- +Track: Bee Safe +Directory: bee-safe-some-other-horizon +Always Reference By Directory: true +Cover Artists: +- Lovisa Lassen +Referenced Tracks: +- Bee Safe +Art Tags: +- Damara +- Cronus +- Beforus +Duration: '01:01' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/bee-safe +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This was also featured on the album Bee-forus: Seatbelt Safebee by unofficialmspafans. +--- +Track: Saturday Nights at the HQ +Has Cover Art: false +Referenced Tracks: +- Lovefool +Duration: '01:55' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/saturday-nights-at-the-hq +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Inspired by this comic: <a href="three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288">three-legged-cow.tumblr.com/post/148266429288</a> +--- +Track: Memorialisation +Artists: +- Circlejourney +- magnoliajades +Duration: '03:33' +Referenced Tracks: +- Memorialisation (Demo) +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/memorialisation-ft-magnoliajades +Lyrics: |- + I've forgotten her face + I don't remember her voice at all + What is she to me, anyway? + Why should I care that I don't recall? + + Well, all my pride was misplaced + How could I have been so blind + What use is a memorial in your mind? + + Cups break, windows crack + Trees die, and don't grow back + If you wait + The leaves will all turn black + + And she, too, forgot me + At last the whole truth has come to light + It was all just a gambit + A surrender and not a fight + + And for all those years, she bore my weight, for love, for hate, she tolerated + Me, abandoned me, a worthless scrap to her, until she died that night + That endless night + + Cups break, windows crack + trees die, and don't grow back + If you wait, the leaves will all turn black + + Don't you know, + overgrown houses fall + all they've known, no trace at all + a bird sends up her morning call + alone + + I've always known how to make things + but not how to break them, + I don't know how to take it + when they can't be repaired + I've always known! She's gone, + she's gone, she's gone, she's gone... + She never cared + + Who am I, who was I + to you, my mother? Answer me! + + Cups break, windows crack + trees die, and don't grow back + suddenly, everything goes black + + Songs end, seeds decay + You can't pretend the grief away + Oh, if I could send a reply with the things I'd like to say + I'd say I'm sorry, that I wasted my childhood away + + But you're not there + And you can't watch me + Destroy this memorial today. +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Maggie's art/personal blog can be found at <a href="https://magnoliajades.tumblr.com/">magnoliajades.tumblr.com</a>! +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Titles, Glories and Other Inconsequential Things (Breakdown) (Bonus) +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '2:15' +Referenced Tracks: +- Titles, Glories and Other Inconsequential Things +--- +Track: Memorialisation (Demo) +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '3:33' \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/summer-by-the-sea.yaml b/album/summer-by-the-sea.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09320068 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/summer-by-the-sea.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Album: Summer By The Sea +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: March 24, 2019 +Date Added: January 04, 2024 +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/summer-by-the-sea +- https://open.spotify.com/album/2dWX1KRGx5U0szlc3DMl1A +- https://youtu.be/ll-0cKI6TmA +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#E78839' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (SoundCloud commentary) + I think of this as Pala's theme song. Nostalgic and summery the way her design and story always felt to me. +--- +Track: Summer By The Sea +Duration: '02:24' +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/summer-by-the-sea +- https://open.spotify.com/track/4N33mROfdaPX61BA4Cwuo8 +- https://youtu.be/ll-0cKI6TmA +Lyrics: |- + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer (always summer) + Always summer (by the sea) + Waiting for change (like I'm in) + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer (in a summer) + In a summer (fantasy) + Come float away with me diff --git a/album/the-changing-light.yaml b/album/the-changing-light.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1d941d16 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/the-changing-light.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@ +Album: The Changing Light +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: December 7, 2019 +Date Added: January 01, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-light +- https://open.spotify.com/album/4DPfqpH4BiMvtsIVq1Zzso +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#FFB97B' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + So this is a bit different. About half a year ago, I was made aware of the existence of concept albums. The idea seemed incredibly cool, so I figured I would try making one for my next album...or, well, EP. + + It was an organic process, fuelled by the act of living in itself (which is more inspiring than I gave it credit for). There are some songs that could have been on this album but aren't. + + The bonus version of the album gets you instrumental versions of the songs as well as the originals. Enjoy! +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Summer by the Sea +Directory: summer-by-the-sea-the-changing-light +Originally Released As: track:summer-by-the-sea +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '02:24' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/summer-by-the-sea +- https://open.spotify.com/track/2P9J0BfXXfqMnntCuSWZdN +Lyrics: |- + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer, always summer + Always summer by the sea + Waiting for change like I'm in + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer, in a summer + In a summer fantasy + Come float away with me + + It's always summer (always summer) + Always summer (by the sea) + Waiting for change (like I'm in) + Someone else's story + + We're in a summer (in a summer) + In a summer (fantasy) + Come float away with me +--- +Track: Winter Without Snow +Duration: '03:07' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/winter-without-snow +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3Osckl2qBUh5cxmBjSDlAO +Lyrics: |- + It's just like winter without snow + It all turns blue before you know + I stood and watched the fading glow + Where did you go, where did you go + + Why did you go + Where I can't go + I see your shadow + In the snow + + It's just like winter without snow + It all turns blue before you know + I stood and watched the fading glow + Where did you go, where did you go + + It's just like winter without snow (It's just like winter without snow) + It all turns blue before you know (It all turns blue before you know) + I stood and watched the fading glow (I stood and watched the fading glow) + Where did you go, where did you go (Where did you go) + + Why did you go +--- +Track: Everything Goes +Duration: '04:24' +Referenced Tracks: +- Summer by the Sea +- Winter Without Snow +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/everything-goes +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3EJkR3glddsgrlhTZtU4w6 +Lyrics: |- + Everything comes and everything goes + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + Thought turns to memories, memories to shadows + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + + Brakes off that winter, we were + Spinning towards our end + We thought we feared no looming goodbye + That year we thought that we could fly + + The city in the summer + Fades in and out like a mirage + The smell of burning leaves and fireworks + Nobody grieves but I + + Everything comes and everything goes + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + Thought turns to memories, memories to shadows + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + + I'm in your bed the sunset lies + In bars across my face and I + Begin to fall asleep, why can't I keep + The days from passing by + + I know these nights are numbered + I count them down until you go + One year from now you'll disappear + Like dragonflies and summer snow + + Everything comes and everything goes + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + Thought turns to memories, memories to shadows + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + + Everything comes and everything goes + I don't want to lose this moment to the breaking light + Thought turns to memories (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + memories to shadows (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + I don't want to lose this (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + moment to the breaking light (Always summer by the sea, just like winter without snow) + + Everything comes (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + And everything goes (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + I don't want to lose this (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + moment to the breaking light (Always summer by the sea, just like winter without snow) + Thought turns to memories (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + memories to shadows (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + I don't want to lose this (It's always summer, it's just like winter) + moment to the breaking light (Always summer by the sea, just like winter without snow) +--- +Track: About You +Duration: '02:28' +Referenced Tracks: +- The Moon in the Afterglow +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/about-you +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0F6DYPn8YkacDsBKGtoUf0 +Lyrics: |- + With a word we let these cities + Turn into traps of memories + Every summer that we shared + Has left its footprints everywhere + My heart remembers every street + But it's all poison to me + + In the dark, do you dream about me + However far you walk on without me + Years apart, you're still all around me + You left a scar and I'll always wear it proudly + + In the dark, I still dream about you + However far I walk on without you + Years apart, I'm still learning how to + Live with the scar of years spent afraid to doubt you + + In the dark, do you dream about me + However far you walk on without me + Years apart, you're still all around me + You left a scar and I'll always wear it proudly + + In the dark, I still dream about you + However far I walk on without you + Years apart, I'm still learning how to + Live with the scar of years spent afraid to doubt you +--- +Track: The Moon in the Afterglow +Duration: '05:32' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-moon-in-the-afterglow +- https://open.spotify.com/track/45s2AOlL0tStcEXxTQ4f65 +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Summer by the Sea (instrumental) +Duration: '2:22' +Referenced Tracks: +- Summer by the Sea +--- +Track: Winter Without Snow (instrumental) +Duration: '3:07' +Referenced Tracks: +- Winter Without Snow +--- +Track: Everything Goes (instrumental) +Duration: '4:24' +Referenced Tracks: +- Everything Goes +--- +Track: About You (instrumental) +Duration: '2:28' +Referenced Tracks: +- About You +--- +Track: Winter Without Snow (last chorus) +Duration: '0:33' +Referenced Tracks: +- Winter Without Snow diff --git a/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml b/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4789468 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,409 @@ +Album: The Sky Beyond Our Bay +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: February 14, 2023 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-beyond-our-bay +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#BDD0CC' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + "You make me feel like I'm flying." An album themed around my latest novel project, <a href="https://circlejourney.net/offshore/">Offshore</a>, a concept album themed around the sailing duo at the heart of the story, and the the struggles and highs of their lives. +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Seastorm +Duration: '03:42' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/seastorm +Lyrics: |- + Life goes on, days fleet by + Yeah, they’re gone, with no goodbye + With every run that I survive + I turn to the sun to know I’m alive + + Frame up every loss, a memento of how I fought + Yesterday's a day I can cross off of the page + + So when I go out tomorrow, just for the day + I'm gonna drown my sorrow, dance it away + And if you decide to follow, tell me you'll stay + Even if our sky begin to grey + + And everything turns forever, moves to the rhythm + Of the heart, love is our axis and axiom + Everything's now or never, this is our anthem + Yeah you know, we'll love and love again + + The sparkle of the blue untouched by me and you + We'll sail the skies and say we left all our battles behind + Now the tears of yesterday a thousand miles away + We'll sail the skies all day + Never knowing which nameless sea we'll find + + Years ago + (Gotta go, gotta be at the start line + Gotta know, want the sea and the sunshine) + I was lost + (Make it so, sailing off at the shoreline + Let it go when I know what is mine, oh) + Did I know + (Gotta go, gotta be at the start line + Gotta know, want the sea and the sunshine) + How much it cost + (Make it so, sailing off at the shoreline + Let it go when I know what is mine, oh) + I shrug off the chains + (Gotta go, gotta be at the start line + Gotta know, want the sea and the sunshine) + That guarded my heart + (Make it so, sailing off at the shoreline + Let it go when I know what is mine, oh) + A new age begins + (Gotta go, gotta be at the start line + Gotta know, want the sea and the sunshine) + It's time to restart + (Make it so, sailing off at the shoreline + Let it go when I know) + + So when I go out tomorrow, just for the day + I'm gonna drown my sorrow, dance it away + And if you decide to follow, tell me you'll stay + Even if our sky begin to grey + + So won't you come out and join me, dance to the thunder + Let the rain fall like we fell for each other + I know it's temporary, but till it's over + Promise that we'll go it hand in hand + + The sparkle of the blue untouched by me and you + We'll sail the skies and say we left all our battles behind + Now the tears of yesterday a thousand miles away + We'll sail the skies all day + Never knowing which nameless sea we'll find + + Every sea and sky and every song and sigh + I write the names that I still recall tonight +--- +Track: Shallow Shores +Duration: '02:10' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/shallow-shores +Lyrics: |- + Wade in the waves when the tide is low + You hear them lapping at your door + Here, it's deceptively clear but you don't know + Just what you're lookin' for + + There's always more than what meets the eye + So dive in deep beyond the shore + And, let the sand keep you high and dry + But watch out as breakers roar, yeah + + Things always lie closer than they appear + There's grand secrets lost on ocean floors + Beware every ripple, as they draw near + The riptides of my shallow shores + + I stay low, though I'm sure we could go + I'll wait for her call to know, mustn't pull her under + No, always submerged in her glow + She holds back, she's afraid of flying + I change tack, guess it's worth trying + Lightning crack, am I still denying + My hull breakin' on her + + Hundreds of things you don't see + Constellate as the history of me + + There's always more than what meets the eye + So dive in deep beyond the shore + and, let the sand keep you high and dry but + watch out as breakers roar, yeah + (Go with the flow) + + Things always lie closer than they appear + There's grands secrets lost on ocean floors + beware every ripple, as they draw near + the riptides of my shallow shores +--- +Track: Tell You My Story +Duration: '03:44' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/tell-you-my-story +Lyrics: |- + I used to watch for passing ships + As if I might see the same one twice + And I waited with breath bated on my lips + As if someday I might hear his voice + + All the seeking and the drawn out sighs + Couldn't prepare me for that night + When he said move on, he'd been ready to fly + And like a star in the sky he was gone + + Someday maybe I'll tell you my story + There's a whole library of regret for the things I'll never do + Oh, I've tried to close that book of rue + But if you're down to try, I'd reopen those pages with you + + There's a corner in my heart for plans we didn't start + The time we spent apart didn't fade his words away + And ever since that day, I've let his shadow stay + A haunting in the places I don't look at anymore + But when the sunset pours in I can't keep my eyes open + It's like outside me, everything has moved forward + While I'm rereading foreword, hopin' + + Whoa-o-o-oh + Someday maybe I'll tell you my story + There's a whole library of regret for the things I'll never do + Oh, I've tried to close that book of rue + But if you're down to try, I'd reopen those pages, yeah + Someday maybe I'll let myself weigh heavy + There's an inventory of the things from my past that stay with me + Even if you don't know what to do, if you're still not afraid + There's a world I would trade in for you + + Telling the truth is half the fight + Bring every secret to the light + Unfinished manuscripts with half written promises + Every surrender and strife + Every love lost in my life + Fight my fear, lay it out + Where would I be without you + + Tell me how to begin 'cause + + Someday baby I'll tell you my story + There's a whole library of regret for the things I'll never do + Oh, I've tried to close that book of rue + But if you're down to try, I'd reopen those pages with you + Someday baby I'll let myself weigh heavy + There's an inventory of the things from my past that stay with me + Even if you don't know what to do, if you're still not afraid + There's a world I would trade in for you +--- +Track: The First to Leave +Duration: '04:46' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-first-to-leave +Lyrics: |- + We knew it wouldn't last + Your eyes were hollow + An omen of sorrow + + This is the bed we made + A slow burn explosion + A crash in slow motion + + And I took the pains, I drew my crosses + I took my gains, I cut my losses + I braced myself for when it hit + I braced myself to let go + + I watched it fall, the sky and all + I saw it coming but it just hit harder + Burned my wings and broke my strings + I fell and fell into the rolling thunder + + Let you make your play, I thought you'd say + you want to stay despite it all + but it went as written + and all was blown away + + Weeks, a blur of fears + I've lived a minute for years and years + Climbing through the ruins + I've wasted centuries rebuilding towers from my tears + + Tried to fit each piece into the other + I broke myself to match another + You fought for me, I fought for you + But nothing seemed to stay + + I watched it fall, the sky and all + I saw it coming but it just hit harder + Burned my wings and broke my strings + I fell and fell into the rolling thunder + + Let you make your play, I thought you'd say + you want to stay despite it all + but it went as written + and all was blown away + + The first to leave, the last to let go + The last to let go, the last to get better + The last to grieve, the last to move on + The last to move on, the last to remember + The first to leave, the last to let go + The last to let go, the last to get better + The last to grieve, the last to move on + The last to move on, the last to remember + + I watched it fall, the sky and all (The first to leave, the last to let go) + I saw it coming but it just hit harder (The last to let go, the last to get better) + Burned my wings and broke my strings (The last to grieve, the last to move on) + I fell and fell into the rolling thunder (The last to move on, the last to remember) + + Gone, the city sights, the spurs and lights (The first to leave, the last to let go) + It hit and hit again but harder (The last to let go, the last to get better) + Burned my wings and broke my strings (The last to grieve, the last to move on) + I fell and fell into the darkness under (The last to move on, the last to remember) + + Let you make your play, I thought you'd say (The first to leave, the last to let go) + you want to stay despite it all (The last to let go, the last to get better) + but it went as written (The last to grieve, the last to move on) + (The last to move on) + The last to get better +--- +Track: Vanish +Duration: '03:41' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/vanish +Lyrics: |- + And it's always on these dusky days + That all these years you were gone + Still vanish in the rays + And the sun can lie but the moon will show + That after all this time I can't let go + + Someone tell me how to live this endless life + When each flower I give is answered by a knife + So the days go on and the world will turn + And every season still finds new ways to burn + + And it's always on these dusky days + That all these years you were gone + Still vanish in the rays + And the sun can lie but the moon will show + That after all this time I can't let go + + Someone tell me how to live this endless life + When each flower I give is answered by a knife + So the days go on and the world will turn + And every season still finds new ways to burn + + And it's always on these dusky days + That all these years you were gone + Still vanish in the rays + And the sun can lie but the moon will show + That after all this time I can't let go + + Someone tell me how to live this endless life + When each flower I give is answered by a knife + So the days go on and the world will turn + And every season still finds new ways to burn +--- +Track: Places Whose Names We Don't Know +Duration: '02:40' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/places-whose-names-we-dont-know +Lyrics: |- + Take my hand, we'll float away, in search of the sun + And then they, on land, can't say a thing when we've run + Fly, we'll see there's so much sky beyond our bay + Keep your eye on me, and I'll show you the way + + I'm tired of moving nowhere + They all say don't go there + All my dreams are threadbare + Head hung low + But since the day I met you + I just can't forget you + Baby can I let you know + + I want to go see the world together, forever, + Whatever the weather, we'll keep our course, so + Rained upon, snow or sun, when we've begun + We'll make a run for far-off places whose names we don't know + Oh, won't you go, come along, my summer song, the wind is strong + Can't go wrong, we're sailing on where they won't know we're + Soaring high, sinking low, anywhere that you may go + I'll come cause I love you so + + I'm tired of moving nowhere + They all say don't go there + All my dreams are threadbare + Head hung low + But since the day I met you + I just can't forget you + Baby can I let you know + + I want to go see the world together, forever, + Whatever the weather, we'll keep our course so + Rained upon, snow or sun, when we've begun + We'll make a run for far-off places whose names we don't know + Oh, won't you go, come along, my summer song, the wind is strong + Won't be long, we're sailing on where they won't know we're + Soaring high, sinking down, we'll make right what was wrong + I can cause I love you so + + In places that we don't know +--- +Track: Our Sky +Duration: '01:10' +Referenced Tracks: +- ⭑✶✦ TILL TOMORROW ✦✶⭑ +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/our-sky +Lyrics: |- + Kimi ga ano sora wo atashi ni okutta koto + Itsumademo zenzen wasurenai yo + Zensekai wa zutto henkashiteiru kedo + Aozora ga eien no + + So I carried my heavy heart beyond the shore + There I sank in the waves, just couldn't take anymore + Then I heard you call out and your smile broke the clouds + And I saw like I hadn't before + + Now from the day you turned to me + And said the sky was mine to pursue + I knew everything would be alright if I was with you + Time will change the whole world anew + Nothing will remain as we knew + But our sky will forever be blue +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Seastorm (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:45' +Referenced Tracks: +- Seastorm +--- +Track: Shallow Shores (Instrumental) +Duration: '2:10' +Referenced Tracks: +- Shallow Shores +--- +Track: Tell You My Story (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:44' +Referenced Tracks: +- Tell You My Story +--- +Track: The First to Leave (Instrumental) +Duration: '4:46' +Referenced Tracks: +- The First to Leave +--- +Track: Vanish (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:40' +Referenced Tracks: +- Vanish +--- +Track: Places Whose Names We Don't Know (Instrumental) +Duration: '2:41' +Referenced Tracks: +- Places Whose Names We Don't Know +--- +Track: Our Sky (Instrumental) +Duration: '1:10' +Referenced Tracks: +- Our Sky \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/the-sky-is-ours.yaml b/album/the-sky-is-ours.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..457c95ab --- /dev/null +++ b/album/the-sky-is-ours.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,220 @@ +Album: The sky is ours +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: August 18, 2020 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-is-ours +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#D8BBCF' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + 2020 has been a year of discovery and recovery. I hope this album captures the way it has felt for me. +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Bridge Across the Valley +Duration: '04:10' +Referenced Tracks: +- Bridge Across the Valley (Original version) +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-across-the-valley +--- +Track: I've been home all week (except to buy groceries) +Duration: '03:50' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/ive-been-home-all-week-except-to-buy-groceries +--- +Track: A Story That Consumes Itself +Duration: '03:04' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/a-story-that-consumes-itself +Lyrics: |- + Ten + Nine + Eight + Seven + Six + Five + Four + Three + Two + One + Zero +--- +Track: Sailing (In The Sea Of Stars) +Duration: '04:20' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sailing-in-the-sea-of-stars +Referenced Tracks: +- The Doom of the Planets +- Fuchsia Moonrise +- The Thirteenth Hour +--- +Track: Daughter of Drought and Rain +Duration: '02:52' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/daughter-of-drought-and-rain +--- +Track: Immortal +Directory: immortal-the-sky-is-ours +#Originally Released As: track:immortal-vast-error +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '03:26' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/immortal +--- +Track: Dance Like It's The 80s +Duration: '03:16' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/dance-like-its-the-80s +--- +Track: The Morning Fog +Duration: '04:18' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-morning-fog +--- +Track: The Light Left Under Trees +Duration: '02:20' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-light-left-under-trees +--- +Track: Nebula +Directory: nebula-the-sky-is-ours +#Originally Released As: track:nebula-vast-error +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '05:35' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/nebula-2 +--- +Track: While We Wait +Duration: '03:47' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/while-we-wait-2 +--- +Track: Fly Away +Originally Released As: track:fly-away-single +Directory: fly-away-the-sky-is-ours +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '03:32' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/fly-away +Lyrics: |- + Oh must this be? + Is this the end? + After this day will we really leave these things behind + + Don't you cry + Look at the sky, oh + Can't you see it smiling down at you? + + No, I thought we would be forever + Why must we end this way? + + But dearest child you can't look back + You've lived your whole life for this day + + Sometimes it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But till you've learned to let you go + You'll never know how to fly + + Child, you must know this nest is + Only a place to rest and learn + Learn to be strong + Someday when you have flown + This I have always known + I'll pray you find a place you belong + + Yes it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But wherever you go + we're under the same blue sky + You must go, you must leave this nest + Take flight, see the very best + Of life, seek out that echoing song + + Am I ready, am I too weak? + Will I find this song I seek? + Somehow I fear to lose my way + How can I let the wind whisk me away? + (How can I let the wind whisk you away?) + + Trust yourself + + You've taught me well + + Take the sky + Trust your compass + + Yes, it's painful I know + Watching these memories die + But till you learn to let go + You'll never know how to fly + Birds don't forget how to sing + No matter how far they might stray + Don't you know there are some things + That time can't take away + + I'll learn to let go + These memories don't have to die + 'Cause wherever I go ('Cause wherever you go) + We're under the same blue sky + You have taught me to sing + And someday I'll find you that song + This is farewell, I suppose + But who said this is the end? So long +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: Dreamt +Directory: dreamt-the-sky-is-ours +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '4:12' +Referenced Tracks: +- Dreamt +--- +Track: I Forgot That You Existed +Directory: i-forgot-that-you-existed-the-sky-is-ours +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '2:44' +Referenced Tracks: +- I Forgot That You Existed +--- +Track: Bridge Across the Valley + commentary +Duration: '4:10' +Sampled Tracks: +- Bridge Across the Valley +--- +Track: I've been home all week (except to buy groceries) + commentary +Duration: '3:50' +Sampled Tracks: +- I've been home all week (except to buy groceries) +--- +Track: Sailing (In the Sea of Stars) + commentary +Duration: '4:19' +Sampled Tracks: +- track:sailing-in-the-sea-of-stars-the-sky-is-ours +--- +Track: Immortal + commentary +Duration: '3:26' +Sampled Tracks: +- Immortal +--- +Track: Fly Away + commentary +Duration: '3:32' +Sampled Tracks: +- track:fly-away-single +--- +Track: Bridge Across the Valley (Original version) +Duration: '3:34' +--- +Track: Fly Away (Instrumental) +Duration: '3:32' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:fly-away-single diff --git a/album/time-and-tide.yaml b/album/time-and-tide.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7f2d2e00 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/time-and-tide.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,433 @@ +Album: Time and Tide +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: June 15, 2018 +Date Added: January 01, 2024 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Default Track Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Track Art File Extension: jpg +Additional Files: +- Title: Album Booklet + Files: + - Time and Tide Booklet.pdf +Color: '#B1DFEB' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + An album one year in the making. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + TO THE PERSON READING THIS, + + Thank you for listening to Time and Tide! (If you’ve somehow come upon this booklet by itself, here’s a link to the album.) + + Here’s what I was up to when I wasn’t responding to your Discord messages or toiling away at my freelance work. + + I’ve been putting out yearly music compilations for several years now, and this album is my slightly-late 2017 comp. You can expect a plethora of styles: synthpop, orchestral, jazz, and combinations of the above. + + I’m glad I’ve been able to put this together, even with my life taking new turns, and new obligations emerging constantly. Music is a comforting spot of familiarity amid all the change. + + To everyone who helped and supported me throughout the production of this album, whether by helping me or simply by encouraging me—[[artist:serialsymphony|Skip]], [[artist:veritas-unae|Veri]], Asprg, Kim, Yanperng, Yvonne, Alfonse, Hej, Waff, OP, Njike, the rest of the Root Crew, Split, [[artist:psithurist|Jo]], [[artist:tempest2k|Roxe]], Poize, [[artist:austinado|Austin]], Poe, my parents, and everyone else who was there for me in some way—my biggest thank you! + + Circlejourney + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Generally speaking, all the bonus tracks were originally intended to be featured on the main album. But things change, and sometimes you make enough decent tracks to displace this many to the bonus section. Think of it as a side B or a collection of album rejects. +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Timekeeper +Duration: '03:06' +Contributors: +- SplitSuns (production feedback) +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/timekeeper +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I have always believed that [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation + + It features the “[[track:never-gonna-give-you-up|Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s <a href="https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek">A Thousand Miles</a> rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) + + The character in the illustration to the left is the first of a few track gijinka that I’ve designed for this album. They’re some sort of deity whom I refer to as the Timekeeper, a being in charge of keeping the inner mechanisms of time well-oiled and running. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + Splitsuns for production feedback on this track! +--- +Track: Zeitgeist +Duration: '04:00' +Referenced Tracks: +- Rasputin +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/zeitgeist +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I had a lot of fun making Zeitgeist, possibly more than I did on any other track on this album. The bassline is inspired by (and indeed the creation of the whole track was precipitated by) the chorus of Boney M’s Rasputin. There you go, now you’ll never be able to unhear it. + + To me, the track evokes the feel of a decade past, although I can’t pinpoint which one that is. It has that funky bass, a twenty-piece string ensemble, an erhu, white noise effects, bitcrushing, goodness knows what’s going on in here. + + As a play on both track and title (“zeitgeist” literally translates to “time ghost”), the art features a clock and a hoverboard surfer straight out of Back To The Future. Probably a second-rate professional time-traveller. + + Nighttime cityscapes are a favourite subject of mine, and here I thought it would really fit the feel of the track: metropolitan, up-tempo, and retrofuturistic. +--- +Track: Cosmic Significance +Originally Released As: track:cosmic-significance +Directory: cosmic-significance-time-and-tide +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '03:53' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-significance +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This track was also released on the Vast Error fan album, [[album:vast-error-vol-3]]. + + <a href="https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror">Vast Error</a> is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:eliora-spar|Sparaze]] that can be read here: <a href="mspfa.com?s=2302">mspfa.com?s=2302</a> + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I wear my Celtic Woman influence on my sleeve. The solo violin on harp/string ensemble gradually joined by drums, the frequent borrowing from Dorian mode...yeah, that’s Celtic Woman-style, alright. + + To understand what the track is really about, you have to read Austinado and Sparaze’s comic, Vast Error. It’s good, I highly recommend it. In summary, this track is about the players of the game looking on at their universe-changing destiny, which has existed eons longer than they have, and wondering how they will contend with it. + + Who’s that in the art, then? To avoid unintentional copyright infringement, I decided to make it a drawing of me. + + CREDITS + + This track was also released on Vast Error Vol. 3. + + Vast Error is a webcomic by Austinado and Sparaze. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + Austinado and Sparaze for creating Vast Error, and for granting me the permission to include a track inspired by it on this album. +--- +Track: The Palace Greenhouse +Duration: '03:05' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-palace-greenhouse +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This track is a bit of an outlier: it’s almost purely a string ensemble piece with concessions to a bass drum and a snare, making it more exception than norm on this album composed largely of synth orchestrals. + + A tie-in to my novel <a href="https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/">Eagles and Swans</a> (which most listeners haven’t read, I wager), it’s a track about a garden within the greenhouse of the palace complex, where one of the main characters likes to read on weekends. It’s stately, calm, and gives way to an interlude with a solo violin melody that, in my opinion, is the highlight of the track. + + All in all, this is probably the closest thing to a filler track on this album, just something connecting two parts of the album together. The next track is more interesting, I guarantee you. +--- +Track: Sidecar Swing +Duration: '03:34' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/sidecar-swing +Lyrics: |- + Here's what I say, make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Here's what I say, make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Make away, I'll chase you through the mazes + Say what you may, today we're going places + Won't you stay, I'm crazy for you baby + Is today not simply the gayest? + + Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh + Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh + Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh + Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh + + Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh + Ooh, ooh, ooh +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This one’s got a bit of a story to it. I initially meant for Sidecar Swing to be a short, simple experiment with a 20s jazz-style piece, the sort you might hear playing at a party or in a saloon. + + The instant I had that imagery in my head, I started to picture mini-stories to accompany it, surrounding a speakeasy where people go to live the lives they may not live anywhere else. + + Pictured in the track illustration is a pair of characters from one of the ideas I had while pondering the setting: a couple of flappers who regularly meet at the speakeasy, romancing each other and parting only when the sun comes up. +--- +Track: Chariot +Duration: '04:45' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/chariot +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This track will be released on a [[album:solar-sessions|future Handshake Collaborations album]]. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Speaking of Celtic-inspired new age music… + + Chariot is about the sun. The title references the god Helios, and the track itself is a riff on the structure and style of <a href="https://youtu.be/HHNZuj6U8jo">Reel Around the Sun</a>, one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching. + + The art was initially created not for Chariot, but for a different track that was meant to be on this album, but which I am unable to release. I think the subject matters are similar enough that the image still fits. (I like making music about space, surprise surprise.) + + For those to whom this makes sense: Chariot is technically in the D-sharp Aeolian dominant scale, but I like to think of it as being in D-sharp minor with the tonic triad always being borrowed from D-sharp major. + + CREDITS + + This track will be featured on an upcoming charity album by Handshake Collaborations, with extended commentary. Handshake Collaborations is a group of artists, musicians and writers from around the world creating stuff together! + + SPECIAL THANKS + + [[artist:helena-ruth]] and the people at Handshake Collaborations for agreeing to let me feature this on Time and Tide before their album’s release. +--- +Track: Evening Song +Duration: '03:45' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/evening-song +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Evening Song is the only track on this album composed for the art rather than the other way around. + + Inspired by the intro of <a href="https://youtu.be/QnAXqEw6dUA">Tender</a> by Yvette Young, it was an experiment in a style that had so far eluded me, with a solo melody on top of guitar broken chords, completely devoid of drums. + + Ultimately, I still gave in to the temptation of sticking drums into the track, towards the end. + + The guitarist in the art is the imaginary guitarist of the track. If I’d had the idea sooner, I would have added some aural indication that the piece is being played at the seaside, as shown in the image. +--- +Track: Pick a City +Duration: '03:30' +Contributors: +- SplitSuns (production feedback, modulation help) +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/pick-a-city +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This was me noodling with the synths in FL Studio, trying to make something as sweet and bubblegummy as the shade of pink in the illustration. + + I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen if I tried. The title itself is based on a lyric from her song <a href="https://youtu.be/s5OG4uYx4Z4">Picture</a>. I can’t say what specific genre it’s reminiscent of, but it was a sincere attempt to make something that would sound vaguely at home on a J-pop playlist. + + There’s a bit going on here synth-wise: it was the first time I’d tried making a more complex strum pattern, which you can hear in the last third of the track. There’s also a generous helping of sound effects: bicycle bells, the crows synth (one of my favourites), and the water drop effect for example. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + Splitsuns for the invaluable production feedback on this track, and helping me iron out some modulations! +--- +Track: Emptiness +Duration: '04:22' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/emptiness +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This track was also released on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201114054951/https://inhospitable.bandcamp.com/album/inhospitable-volume-1">INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness</a> + + INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at <a href="inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com">inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com</a>. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This track was part of a music compilation for INHOSPITABLE, a comic by my friend Roxe. It’s a image-rich, dialogue-light story, and you’ll come to notice the eerie greyscale static and the silence that characterise a great part of the webcomic. + + Something about TV static inspires in me a sense of intrigue, about what’s hiding behind it, what message, garbled by interference from space, is struggling to take form and make itself seen. Emptiness is about all that, the lost information, the void, the spaces and silence. + + The character? Once again a representation of the music, gazing down upon a black hole as it guzzles light and information. + + NOTES + + This track was also released on INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness. + + INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by Roxanne Heikens. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + Roxe for creating the beautiful webcomic INHOSPITABLE, and for allowing me to include this track on the album. +--- +Track: The World as We Know It +Duration: '03:13' +Referenced Tracks: +- Homestuck Anthem +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-as-we-know-it +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + The World as We Know It was initially made for an earlier project, but when that fell through, I repurposed it for this one. + + This track is a wistful contemplation of the earth—temporary, fragile, full of vivid sensory experiences, but ultimately lonely. + + Would intelligent life from elsewhere know the beauty of the sunset? Would they even be able to perceive it, or fathom beauty at all? The notion must be confronted, then, that we may be the only beings who will ever experience what we call beauty. + + This tracks’ gijinka character is inspired by a cherry blossom petal, everyone’s favourite symbol of life’s transience. + + NOTES + + This track quotes Homestuck Anthem by [[artist:clark-powell]], released on [[album:homestuck-vol-5]]. + + Homestuck is a webcomic by Andrew Hussie. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + Clark Powell for granting me permission to include the track on this album. +--- +Track: Frosted Glass +Duration: '04:38' +Referenced Tracks: +- track:frost-and-clockwork-worlds-await +- Hyalomancy +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/frosted-glass +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Another track from the same abandoned project that [[track:the-world-as-we-know-it|The World as We Know It]] was meant to be released on, Frosted Glass quotes two of my old tracks: Frost and Clockwork (again) and Hyalomancy. The title is a combination of the titles of both. I always thought the two were oddly compatible, and this piece bears that out. + + Just like the previous track, Frosted Glass is nostalgic in both style and content, sort of an account of gazing through broken windows into a blurry past with a distinct sense of loss for what one left behind there. + + It’s inspired, as a lot of my work is, by the works of Joe Hisaishi, legendary composer of the soundtracks of such films as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. His work formed the soundtrack of much of my childhood and was one of several things that inspired my love for the major pentatonic scale. + + It was incredibly satisfying to draw and adjust blending modes on the glass shards in the image, which form a half-mask over the face. +--- +Track: Shipwreck +Artists: +- Circlejourney +- SerialSymphony +Duration: '04:47' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/shipwreck-ft-serialsymphony +Lyrics: |- + Letters, whose words I can't quite make out anymore + In the dust, the outline of what stood there before, and softly + Memories gathering at my feet like leaves on the floor + And I know it all too well + + It is too late to say I knew + I would regret not coming through + Wasted chances, traded glances + Threatening to mean something half-true + Gathering the shards I do + Find that I hope you miss me too + But I'm learning to stop yearning + I'm better burning every last trace of you + + Dark skies, I wake up and stare out the window + Even ice eventually thaws to dew below the sun and + Reveries sprout out all young and green, forgetting the snow + But the chill remains in the air + Waiting to kill all that dared to grow + + It is too late to say I knew + I would regret not coming through + Wasted chances, traded glances + Threatening to mean something half-true + Gathering the shards I do + Find that I hope you miss me too + But I'm learning to stop yearning + I'm better burning every last trace of + + You were my beacon through the night + Calling me homeward with your light + In the tempest, I was reckless + And I let your glow slip out of sight + And I know it's lost despite + All my attempts to set it right + It's all caving in, no use saving it + Let it sink away in the whitewash tide + + You'll never know + Just turn and go + + Oh, the sunlight from above will fade these marks away + All you love and don't love will wash away + + It is too late to say I knew + I would regret not coming through + Wasted chances, traded glances + Threatening to mean something half-true + Gathering the shards I do + Find that I hope you miss me too + But I'm learning to stop yearning + I'm better burning every last trace of + + You were my beacon through the night + Calling me homeward with your light + In the tempest, I was reckless + And I let your glow slip out of sight + And I know it's lost despite + All my attempts to set it right + It's all caving in, no use saving it + Let it sink away in the whitewash tide + + Oh, the sunlight from above will fade these marks away + All you love and don't love will wash away +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Here is the obligatory sea-themed track on this album! + + Moving on is a common theme in songs, and I thought this made Shipwreck particularly fitting as a closer. + + This was written about confronting the departure of someone who used to be an anchoring force in your life. I did have two particular people in mind when I wrote the lyrics, but the specifics of that don’t quite matter. + + The vocals, being mine, are far from what I’d like them to be (and in all honesty it’s still difficult for me to share my singing voice), but I hope you like it nevertheless! + + NOTES + + Additional composition and production by SerialSymphony. + + SPECIAL THANKS + + SerialSymphony for your tireless help, support and enthusiasm for my projects. <3 +--- +Section: Bonus tracks +--- +Track: All Things Grow Towards the Sun +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '2:35' +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Originally the album’s opener, I ultimately set it aside as I made new tracks that were similar in style but exceeded it in quality. Several people have mentioned that it sounds like something from Undertale; personally I just see it as yet another variation on the [[track:frost-and-clockwork-worlds-await|Frost and Clockwork]] theme (F&C was also referred to by many as being reminiscent of the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale soundtrack]], so that’s no surprise). +--- +Track: Waterside Sunset +Has Cover Art: false +Directory: waterside-sunset-time-and-tide +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '3:06' +Referenced Tracks: +- Waterside Sunset +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + A rearrangement of an old piece of music under the same title, found on my album [[album:coastal-dreaming]]. I was always fond of the melody and instrumentation on that piece and it was the first thing I tried remaking after upgrading my instruments. The track sounds a lot closer to what I envisioned now, though I miss the in-your-face timbre of the original instruments. +--- +Track: Dirty Dirge +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '2:46' +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + This one was made for no rhyme or reason; the melody came to me, and I liked it and built the rest of the track around it. Brash and very hard-rock, I didn’t feel like I could do it justice until I got my hands on some better instruments. It was almost a year before I took it the draft and finished it up. Later on, I decided to make it a song played by a band formed of a few of my characters. +--- +Track: Wineglasses +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '1:32' +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + A soft lounge jazz piece that’s just missing the sound of clinking glasses over it. Its original title was Wineglasses on Red Stone, conjuring a very specific image (or at least intended to) of a table made of blood-red stone. I made the whole thing on a whim and it materialised in barely an hour; I’m not letting it on the main album by virtue of how little effort it took. +--- +Track: Sidecar Swing (Instrumental) +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '3:34' +Referenced Tracks: +- Sidecar Swing +--- +Track: Shipwreck (Instrumental) +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '4:42' +Referenced Tracks: +- Shipwreck diff --git a/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml b/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7999684d --- /dev/null +++ b/album/whats-soon-to-be-lost.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Album: What's Soon to be Lost +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: April 8, 2023 +Date Added: January 05, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/04OBVoO2WDVJjwKGXPZXQ2 +- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxSarqbcPdhVglp_sLiVkTwzStXgEUPCo +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#E44089' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1645799436084461578)) + What's Soon To Be Lost 🌅 a mini compilation of some of my favourite past commission work (with an electronic flavour). Featuring music made for @yuzusprout and @asteriddled! + Album preview video: https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1645799436084461578 +--- +Track: Neither Here Nor There +Duration: '03:12' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZxXrUexozgulTXBKV9o0u +- https://youtu.be/XsV-yjsQPcs +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1491599177721081858)) + OH I never posted this! It's a commission for @yuzusprout for their character Miyu and it continues to be one of my fave commissions I've done. Had so much fun exploring synths and effects and pushed my skills a bunch with this one. Enjoy! +--- +Track: Seeking +Duration: '04:22' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/78rChE7AEz50nb6l9PldG4 +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/seeking-commission-for-yuzusprout +- https://youtu.be/uM7cNtk5Wrc +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Twitter commentary](https://twitter.com/circlejourney/status/1398818616615735298)) + It's not always I'm commissioned to make something 4 minutes long with >7 instruments, but this track for @yuzusprout's characters Miyu and Eden was a pleasure to work on and I'm excited about how it came out! +--- +Track: Nightmarish Dreamweaver +Duration: '02:08' +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/4Dy2HtC6fxWiUk2k6j9Wfe +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/nightmarish-dreamweaver-commission-for-asteriddle +- https://youtu.be/bmF4cEXBz-0 +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/nightmarish-dreamweaver-commission-for-asteriddle)) + Character theme for asteriddle's character <a href="https://toyhou.se/769490.aster">Aster</a>. +--- +Track: Battle! Champion Renee +Duration: '02:48' +Referenced Tracks: +- Emmy +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/20pHd7qnzmONXiDiVlK5lg +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney-comms/battle-champion-renee-for-asteriddled +- https://youtu.be/RmWnMQZgSVc +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Character theme for asteriddle's character <a href="https://toyhou.se/769484.ren-e">Renée</a>. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/wherever-you-were.yaml b/album/wherever-you-were.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7fc6fd34 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/wherever-you-were.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +Album: Wherever You Were +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: August 8, 2023 +Date Added: January 03, 2024 +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9gw8ylcb8CAsPtxjFKlP +- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_muCHX2NVAuxcZbkIlzRkEX5nt_fQipjto&si=WJf_sCVyK-5UbbK4 +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#EEB9FD' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + ☁️🌊 the sky and the sea try for centuries to reach each other. + + This is a character song for Marin and Cielo, the leads of my webcomic <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">Compass</a>. Many thanks to Céleste for lending her vocal talents to the song and taking on Marin's part so wonderfully 💙 Check out her music and other works at: https://pinkie.horse + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (Tumblr commentary) + I'm proud to share Wherever You Were, a song about Marin and Cielo from my webcomic <a href="compass.circlejourney.net">Compass</a>! The sea and the sky, gazing at each other since the start of time, yet unable to reach each other. + + My friend @irlpinkiepie sang Marin's part, I couldn't be happier that we got to collaborate. Check out her music and other works <a href="https://pinkie.horse">here</a>! + + + OK so. I typed up a big ramble about the process of making this song, which was more complicated than almost anything else I’ve ever done - gonna tack it on here, in case that interests anyone… + + <b>THE SONGWRITING BIT</b> + + I didn’t know what this song would become when I started it. It was just a piano doodle that eventually became the 8-bar refrain in the intro. Almost off the bat, though, I began to feel like it was showing my Vienna Teng + 2010s Broadway influence - you can really hear the <a href="https://youtu.be/BBbVUPf6NOw">Stray Italian Greyhound</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/ss7aFUbwzec">Harbor</a> in it, with a side of…something else, maybe <a href="https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek">A Thousand Miles</a>? + + It became apparent that the instrumental was missing a melody, so I also started to draft one by humming (it’s how I do it on most of my music now). The first line <i>“All my life / I’ve sought a safer seashore”</i> emerged pretty quickly. + + With the melody + rhythm that was forming, I wanted an AABBA rhyme scheme starting with this line - like a limerick, but with the last few lines way more clipped. <i>“And felt like I wanted something more / Than to watch the days go by / What am I / Waiting here for?”</i> These got written quite effortlessly as well. + + I really liked the play on expectations with <i>“What am I… / waiting here for?”</i> earlier, so I echoed that structure in the second half, with <i>“Going where… / ever you were.”</i> + + * Second half of the chorus is my favourite part of this whole song btw. One of my favourite set of rhymes that I’ve ever written. + + Up till this point, I wasn’t sure what the song was about, other than dreaming of travelling on the ocean. I actually thought it would turn into an Offshore song at first. But as it went, the second half of the chorus mentioned the POV character sailing in search of something, and I went…that doesn’t make sense, why are they waiting on the shore in the first half, and then sailing in the second half. What if it were two characters…wait that’s just <i>Compass</i>? + + Once I knew it was about Marin and Cielo, I distinguished the voices: Cielo’s part would have the “soaring” notes and Marin’s would be an octave below. I also threw in the melodic quote from [[track:coastal-dreaming]] (which is very near and dear to me). After the chorus I pulled my favourite key change (tonic major to submediant major) and then, moved into the verse. + + I have to confess: the first 2.5 lines actually wholesale quote a less-known Homestuck fan track I made, appropriately titled [[track:on-an-island-far-away]]. Doubly appropriate because the Compass comic has a few Homestuck references, too. + + At this point, most of my lyrical and musical choices were trying to convey a sentiment of, to quote the venerable Ms Jepsen, “before you came into my life, I missed you so bad.” I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of longing for, or missing, something you have never known, or a sense of déjà vu, which Compass is also very much about. Quoting my older music that I haven’t listened to in a while was a personal indulgence of that feeling. + + Following on that, I did a mirrory thing again with this verse’s lyrics: + + * <i>“What is forecast”</i> <=> <i>“What’s this memory”</i> + * <i>“What is glowing out at sea”</i> <=> <i>“What is gazing from the shore”</i> + * <i>“Voice from the past / My future bliss”</i> <=> <i>“Voice from a dream / A truth I miss”</i> + * Combining the rhymes of these two halves with <i>“For me”</i> (“for” rhymes with “shore”, “me” rhymes with “sea”) + * I was going for the visual of Marin and Cielo looking longingly out at the shore / the sea, but not quite sure what they’re longing for? + + This verse actually also gestures to the Coastal Dreaming lyrics I had in my head for years, though I never wrote them down: <i>“for I am sailing between our worlds / you are the light waiting on the shore for me / you are the sky spreading out its endless wings / and I’m the sea // for I am sailing, alone on the tide / you are the bells of the port, ringing for me / you are my journey, and every story / is a dream I dream”</i> + + I wrote the bridge with the AABBA rhyme scheme, and the line “I will bend… …time to find you” to once again echo that structure I mentioned farther up. All of this lyric stuff happened almost effortlessly, I didn’t have to think too hard about the rhymes, they were just always right there. Which never happens. Wild. + + <b>THE PERFORMANCE/PRODUCTION BIT</b> + + I sang both parts in the demo, but I found that I couldn’t reliably hit the B2 in Marin’s part. I didn’t like the way it sounded with my voice, so I began to consider collaborators. I thought of @ irlpinkiepie first because she’s read <i>Compass</i> and also has known my music for a long time. I had heard her singing once (incidentally the song in question was appropriate to making the connection too) - anyway if you’re reading this post rn, thank you so so much for agreeing to collab. You absolutely killed it and I was so pleased hearing those harmonies for the first time. + + Something about having different vocalists for different characters <i>really</i> cements it as a character song, and for that reason I was happy I got to do Cielo’s part (he’s one of my all time OC faves), and as an actual duet instead of harmonising with myself as usual. + + Pinkie’s part was recorded with a webcam mic, which meant certain frequencies had to be “unearthed” from the audio while others (e.g. certain resonant frequencies) had to be punched out (literally, I used very narrow EQ bands to poke out certain frequencies). + <img src="media/misc/frequency1.PNG" width="299" length="96"> + <img src="media/misc/frequency2.PNG" width="299" length="96"> + + (Yeah, two instances of Parametric EQ, because there were just not enough knobs for everything I wanted to do) + + I’m actually really really happy with how much I was able to match it up with my recording, despite taking it in a dead-end direction for half a day (and having to start over from an older version of the project). The effect stack is #MusicCrimes though: + <img src="media/misc/musiccrimes.JPG" width="294" length="295"> + + Having the vocal parts slightly stereo panned also made way for me to make a visualiser video with Marin and Cielo on the correct side of the screen. So, this does bring up the small issue that I’m losing hearing in my right ear, meaning I was constantly flipping the left/right channels as I worked on it, and till now I still second guess whether the audio is properly balanced…another quirk of the production making its way into the song’s final form, I guess. + + In the course of putting the track together, I also made an a capella version for fun. It’s not as refined (I tuned down the instrumental to match the slightly off-key singing lol), but I was going for the rough choral feel, so it probably works. But it’s a bit weird playing the OG song and this version one after another, because of the slight detune. + + Aaaand that’s become a 1000 word essay. Circlejourney OUT +--- +Track: Wherever You Were +Duration: '04:07' +Contributors: +- Trixie Sonata (Marin vocals) +Referenced Tracks: +- Coastal Dreaming +- track:on-an-island-far-away +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3Y0zkZaKqe7MePjCufjjh8 +- https://youtu.be/12-X6UEjOHw +Lyrics: |- + stump +--- +Track: Wherever You Were (Choral) +Duration: '04:07' +Contributors: +- Trixie Sonata (Marin vocals) +Referenced Tracks: +- Wherever You Were +URLs: +- https://open.spotify.com/track/4edm7OODBowexeREFq9JUP +- https://youtu.be/9xVNP3PkzTw +Lyrics: |- + stump \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/album/worlds-await.yaml b/album/worlds-await.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0a3f56ae --- /dev/null +++ b/album/worlds-await.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +Album: Worlds Await +Artists: +- Circlejourney +Date: November 17, 2013 +Date Added: December 26, 2023 +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/worlds-await +Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Cover Art File Extension: jpg +Default Track Cover Artists: +- Circlejourney +Track Art File Extension: jpg +Color: '#EC91F8' +Groups: +- Circlejourney +- Beyond +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Music is amazingly compact. It is strange how twelve hours of work could go into a four minute track. It's as if one could hide an entire world within each. + + And that's what I feel music is. Hearing a new piece of music is like discovering a new world, feeling its wind and basking in its honey sun. + + This album features no shortage of works inspired by fiction: tributes, rearrangements, commissions and tie-ins for my projects. But more importantly, each track here is a place captured in sound, and I hope you can discover it as you listen. +--- +Track: Worlds Await +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '04:13' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/worlds-await +--- +Track: Spin +Duration: '05:19' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/spin +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + This was composed as a tie-in for my novel project <a href="https://rd.circlejourney.net/">Revolving Door</a>. Through the shifts in style and mood, and the interaction of theme melodies, I try to recreate personalities and relationships of various characters in musical form, telling a multiplicity of stories. +--- +Track: Vesper +Duration: '01:57' +Referenced Tracks: +- Spin +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/vesper +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + An extension of the fourth theme featured in Spin, belonging to the character Vesper, a soldier who has devoted her life to service and whose leaderly drive is rivalled only by her loyalty. +--- +Track: Time Corridors +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:25' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/time-corridors +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A maze that leads through past and future. A chase by a nameless entity yet to exist. +--- +Track: Guiding Light +Duration: '03:42' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/guiding-light +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Another tie-in for <a href="https://rd.circlejourney.net/">Revolving Door</a>, this time relating to a chapter of the same title. A girl has just been saved from prison by a young man she does not know (and a rather well-dressed one, at that), and he is taking her to see the city she has not laid eyes on for years. +--- +Track: MIDNIGHT BLACK +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '03:26' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-black +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + I relate this piece to a certain black-haired Mage in Of the Dragon, of the Stars. +--- +Track: Frost and Clockwork +Directory: frost-and-clockwork-worlds-await +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: '02:18' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/frost-and-clockwork +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + My tribute to the webcomic Homestuck, which changed me in the best way. The melody came to me while I was reading, and the title is a reference to the names of two characters' planets. +--- +Track: Over the Hills +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:22' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/over-the-hills +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + A circling dance, a ritual fire, a folk tune sung to drums and wine. Somewhere over the hills. +--- +Track: Thousand Tribes River +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:12' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/thousand-tribes-river +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Commissioned and titled by my friend Felicia Prasaja Natasha for a trailer project she was working on. +--- +Track: 'Ruins: Crumbled Staircase' +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '00:37' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/ruins-crumbled-staircase +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Commissioned and titled by my friend Felicia Prasaja Natasha for a trailer project she was working on. +--- +Track: Marketplaces +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:25' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/marketplaces +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Composed as background music for my visual novel <a href="https://compass.circlejourney.net/">Compass</a>. Travellers seeking strange wares at a faraway coastal marketplace. +--- +Track: Common Test 2 +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:16' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/common-test-2 +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The repeating piano motif features my 2012 CT2 grades. +--- +Track: "'A' Levels" +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '01:43' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/a-levels +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The repeating piano motif features my 'A' levels grades. +--- +Track: Of the Morning +Has Cover Art: false +Duration: '03:28' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/of-the-morning +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + The theme for Zethis, the White Knight in Of the Dragon, of the Stars, evoking the pastel colours of morning. +--- +Track: Unsaid +Duration: '01:04' +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/unsaid +Commentary: |- + <i>Circlejourney:</i> + Written for my a midterm assignment Flash comic. It is the culmination of a story about friends who have grown apart, to the point that they cannot utter a sincere goodbye though one is about to leave the country. + + <i>Circlejourney:</i> (unused lyrics) + So it comes to this, this parody of + Everything we used to be, my friends + I'm not hurt, I'm just afraid + This is how it ends + + Please don't cry, I'm not mad + Don't know why I have no tears + It's kind of sad that the fire will die without a sound + Now the wheel's turning round + And all I feel is the pounding of a thousand words unsaid \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml index 9f6cbc14..cc307811 100644 --- a/artists.yaml +++ b/artists.yaml @@ -644,6 +644,12 @@ Artist: Astrom URLs: - https://alliebirdseed.tumblr.com/ --- +Artist: AstuteBiscuit +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgSKJjuw5do4mmIXUvblTTA +- https://twitter.com/AstuteBiscuit +- https://www.twitch.tv/astutebiscuit +--- Artist: aswfs Dead URLs: - https://aswfs.tumblr.com/ @@ -1060,6 +1066,15 @@ Artist: Bobby Prince --- Artist: Bomberman --- +Artist: Boney M +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/@boneym.official +- https://open.spotify.com/artist/54R6Y0I7jGUCveDTtI21nb +- https://music.apple.com/ru/artist/boney-m/2357209 +- https://www.instagram.com/boneym.official +- https://www.facebook.com/BoneyM.de/ +- https://lnk.to/BoneyM +--- Artist: bould URLs: - https://www.tumblr.com/bbouldd @@ -1483,6 +1498,12 @@ URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/chesswanderlust-sama - https://www.artstation.com/chesswanderlust-sama --- +Artist: CHICHII ! +Aliases: +- Emmara +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/@daH3mmara3 +--- Artist: Childish Gambino --- Artist: Chillindude829 @@ -2758,6 +2779,13 @@ URLs: - https://music.apple.com/us/album/fantomenk/426984733 - https://facebook.com/fantomenk --- +Artist: Farid Nad +URLs: +- https://twitter.com/farideacs +- https://farideacs.itch.io/ +- https://ko-fi.com/farideacs +- https://farideacs.xyz/ +--- Artist: Fatamogo URLs: - https://twitter.com/fatamogo @@ -2878,6 +2906,11 @@ URLs: --- Artist: FloodGate Renewal --- +Artist: Floweramon +URLs: +- https://floweramon.tumblr.com/ +- https://floweramonsworkshop.tumblr.com/ +--- Artist: fluidvolt URLs: - https://fluidvolt.bandcamp.com/ @@ -3711,6 +3744,22 @@ Artist: Jack McMenamin --- Artist: Jackie Lee --- +Artist: JacobTheLoofah +Aliases: +- Jacob Scherer +- Premium Value +URLs: +- https://premiumvalue.bandcamp.com/ +- https://www.youtube.com/c/JacobTheLoofah +- https://twitter.com/jacobtheloofah +- https://jacobtheloofah.tumblr.com/ +- https://www.instagram.com/jacobtheloofah/ +- https://www.tiktok.com/@jacobtheloofah +- https://bsky.app/profile/jacobtheloofah.bsky.social +- https://mastodon.social/@loofah +- https://ko-fi.com/loofah +- https://linktr.ee/jacobtheloofah +--- Artist: Jake Gamelin Aliases: - characomposer @@ -4808,6 +4857,13 @@ Artist: Linkslittlefriend --- Artist: Linnet --- +Artist: lipeka +URLs: +- https://www.tumblr.com/l1p3k4 +- https://www.tumblr.com/lipeka +Dead URLs: +- https://twitter.com/l1p3k4 +--- Artist: Lipps Inc. --- Artist: Liquid T. @@ -5002,6 +5058,14 @@ URLs: --- Artist: MACARONI☆ --- +Artist: Machina Solis +Context Notes: |- + Machina Solis is a musician group made up of two members operating under a single artist name. Its members are: + - [[artist:circlejourney]] + - [[artist:serialsymphony]] +URLs: +- https://soundcloud.com/machinasolis +--- Artist: Macintosh Plus Aliases: - Ramona Andra Xavier @@ -6032,6 +6096,15 @@ URLs: Dead URLs: - https://twitter.com/nysnamovois --- +Artist: The Cardigans +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/@TheCardigansVEVO +- https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tqZaCwM57UFKjWoYwMLrw +- https://music.apple.com/ru/artist/the-cardigans/259828 +- https://www.instagram.com/thecardigansofficial/ +- https://www.facebook.com/TheCardigansofficial/ +- https://lnk.to/TheCardigans +--- Artist: The Cranberries --- Artist: The Eagles @@ -8527,6 +8600,14 @@ URLs: - https://tristanscroggins.bandcamp.com/ - https://www.tristanscroggins.com/ --- +Artist: Trixie Sonata +Aliases: +- Pinkie +- Céleste +URLs: +- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrIwwDpsKjvjeP36I_2O9Q +- https://pinkie.horse/ +--- Artist: Trufflemeep --- Artist: Tsubusare BOZZ diff --git a/groups.yaml b/groups.yaml index 7d614209..48166389 100644 --- a/groups.yaml +++ b/groups.yaml @@ -117,6 +117,17 @@ Description: |- Category: Solo musicians Color: '#fc9003' --- +Group: Circlejourney +URLs: +- https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/ +- https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney +- https://www.youtube.com/@Circlejourney +- https://soundcloud.com/machinasolis +Description: |- + Works include [[track:after-the-sun]], [[track:fuchsia-moonrise]], and [[track:frost-and-clockwork]]. They're currently a manager of [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans]], and have helmed various community projects, such as [[album:songs-from-the-planet-earth]]. + <hr class="split"> + Solo electronic artist from Singapore, with influence from East Asian and Celtic folk music, film soundtracks, and synthpop. When they're not making music, they are also a professional artist and web developer. +--- Group: Clark Powell URLs: - https://clarkpowell.bandcamp.com/ |