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diff --git a/album/beforus.yaml b/album/beforus.yaml index 898b35b..9aee9ec 100644 --- a/album/beforus.yaml +++ b/album/beforus.yaml @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Art Tags: - Cronus - Meenah - Beforus +- Frog Temple Commentary: |- <i>Blackhole:</i> The music here is one of three short bookend pieces I wrote for the start of each Disc, each a section of a longer piece, "Preludes to Beforus". They are not particularly exciting in and of themselves, so instead I'll speak a little about Disc 1 itself. Disc 1 is the part of the album initially designed to contain the twelve "principal tracks", invisaged as the main theme for each of the twelve Beforan trolls. At the start of the project, musicians could actually reserve these spots, but a lot of shuffling happened towards the end. Eventually, each troll ended up having multiple themes on the album, but Disc 1 still contains what can probably be considered their "main" theme, due to its location at the start of the album. With only twelve tracks and the short bookend piece, Disc 1 is far smaller than the longer Disc 2 section. @@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Bronze Rebel - The Lost Child - iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE -- track:penumbra-phantasm +- Penumbra Phantasm - Doctor Commentary: |- <i>Rhyselinn:</i> @@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - English - track:MeGaLoVania Commentary: |- - <i>VeritasUnae:</i> + <i>Veritas Unae:</i> I wanted to deal with mixed elements of Meenah's character. It has similarities to [[Hate You]], which I considered a primary inspiration, though I also drew inspiration from the Splatoon soundtrack for the opening section. "Killer Beach" explores Meenah's love of gold and cash, as well as her malicious tendencies, to aspects we see throughout the latter half of Act 6, including her brief romance with Vriska. You might note the Megalovania reference in the ending guitar. Coupled with Rex Duodecim Angelus (their session's defeat of the Black King) and English (her alternate self's employment by Lord English), this piece covers Meenah in her entirety. At the end, Meenah is reflecting. She sees herself as evil. Reminded of her final moments in her session, as she detonates the bomb sending all of them as ghosts into the Farthest Ring, she severs ties with Vriska, and returns to lead an army. @@ -384,6 +385,7 @@ Art Tags: - Meenah - Horrorterrors - Dream Bubbles +- Victory Platform Commentary: |- <i>Blackhole:</i> Disc 2 is the longest Disc in Beforus. Unlike Disc 1, which consists of individual themes for each of the trolls, Disc 2 is a narrative depiction of their story. Each song, be it a theme for a particular aspect of a character, a soundtrack for a particular event, or else a scene-setting piece, has been arranged so that Disc 2 roughly forms a narrative story in chronological order, which can hopefully be seen in the music and artwork. @@ -609,7 +611,7 @@ Art Tags: - LoPaH - 'cw: blood (abstract)' Commentary: |- - <i>Puala Vieira:</i> + <i>Elanor Pam:</i> This track was my third composition for the coloUrs and mayhem contest; I'd recently discovered FL studio and basically went nuts over it. Perhaps because I finally had so many options and tolls at my disposal, this track was by far the hardest for me to realize, not helped by the fact that it was originally a theme for my favorite character, Karkat. I wanted it to be perfect! Or at least awesome! This perfectionism meant I could never settle on what I wanted. Over the years I kept coming back to it, tweaking here, poking there, always feeling like it was incomplete (or perhaps over done); in the end I shaved off several bars, redid the percussion line and tweaked velocity until I cried uncle. Is it better know? I don't know! It's been looping for so long I can't even tell anymore... <i>Rebecca Peason:</i> This song definitely brings me the image of the Land of Pulse and Haze, but in kind of a chill meandering kind of way. It feels more like some kind of exploration than a time sensitive game track to me. So I wanted to try to get that feeling, appreciate the landscape and have a Vantas presence but an ambiguity to who it is exploring this landscape. I also wanted to go with something that looked more like it came from the cmoic than some other pieces. I know I'm quite pleased with the result and had a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind revisiting some other lands in future pieces. @@ -659,12 +661,13 @@ Cover Artists: - JulietCee Art Tags: - Damara +- LoQaM Commentary: |- <i>Ollie:</i> I did this track way back in 2013 I think? Maybe early 2014 back when my computer with my music program still worked. Hah. It all sort of originated with a wager, that I couldn't produce a better Tavros song than the one on the official album. And of course, being the huge procrastinator that I am, I never did. But I did however get the idea to do my own album for the songs of the Beforan Trolls. Again, procrastination got the better of me, but this project came along and almost took the workload I had give nmyself off my shoulders and still gave me an opportunity to showcase what I had done for Damara. It does have the traditional Eastern Asian sound to it with the pentatonic scale, and that's what the song was based upon. Also ghosts. Because spoopy. <i>JulietCee:</i> I wanted to reflect the sort of spooky feel of the track in this piece, so I thught "what better way to do it than drawing The Scratch, with all those flashing blue lights?" It was a lot of fun to draw, and I like drawing Damara. - <i>Blackhole:</i> + <i>Blackhole:</i> (album organizer) (Blackhole here! Just dropping in to point out that, as the Witch of Time, it does make sense that Damara would have the only achronological track art of Disc 2! I suppose she's getting ahead on the timeline action by jumping back to earlier in the session. The Scratch is yet to come!) --- Track: Caligomancy @@ -755,7 +758,7 @@ Commentary: |- 3 days before the finalization of my track marked one year since I took on to music production. I formed a soundcloud with a friend and we went from there. To this day I have no real definitive style (neither of us do really), but I wanted to work on Hardstyle to get my foot in the door. I wasn't all too successful, and I often don't ever finish projects. Once I saw news of the fan album, it gave me reason to create a track. This track was a twice failed and shelved project. It finally bloomed into what it is now. Really I just want to thank the Beforus team for having me here. THis endeavor really gave me hope and reason behind my production. This is my first major step into the realm of music production. Shout out to Xavier, you're like a brother to me. <i>Lovisa Lassen:</i> For Skaia Ad Infinitum I wanted to include the classic spirograph defense portal symbol (in purple as opposed to the Alternia trolls' blue ones, for its symbolism) and Skaia itself, while also showing some tidbits of the Beforus trolls' session of Sgrub that we know about through the portal, since the track is about Skaia watching over the session. As the track art took on a center focused composition I also included the planets and moons of the session, and it also tied it back to Skaia again with it in the center. - <i>Niklink:</i> + <i>Niklink:</i> (wiki editor) The artist conveniently forgot to mention that this track is in fact a midi swap of a [[track:corrupting-tranquility|completely unrelated song]]. --- Track: Formant (Sprite Chorus Mix) @@ -867,6 +870,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Kankri - Meteor +- Veil - 'cw: corpse (abstract)' Commentary: |- <i>Ducky Senpai:</i> @@ -928,6 +932,7 @@ Art Tags: - Meulin - Latula - Horuss +- Gate Commentary: |- <i>Willow Ascenzo:</i> Dan (also known as aradia-symmetry, author of <a href="https://aradiawheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/">aradiawheresheshouldbe</a> and <a href="https://rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com/">rosewheresheshouldbe.tumblr.com</a>) commissioned me back in October 2013 for a song about Damara Megido. The song ended up quite spooky, because after all, he did commission it on October 31. I relied on the shakuhachi and cello and, per Dan's request, a pulsing synth bass to create the brooding, melancholy atmosphere I felt best reflected Damara's inner coldness and despesrate nihilism. @@ -981,6 +986,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Damara - Rufioh +- Beforus Referenced Tracks: - Rust Maid - psych0ruins @@ -1006,6 +1012,7 @@ Art Tags: - Damara - Rufioh - Horuss +- Beforus Commentary: |- <i>rest✩taurus:</i> Parsing this one out makes "Damn" "Iterations" + a horse pun. This track was the one that hung around in concept the longest of any of my tracks, but came together the last of them. The original idea was to explore Horuss' own introspections, but that alone wsn't compelling me nearly enough. In the end, connecting Damara's and Horuss' struggles in one musical trainwreck was what propelled me forward. Rufioh takes a back seat to the insecurities and raw emotion of his past and present lovers, existing in tandem. I get the feeling that the session itself weighed heaviest on these two, one doomed to undo it at every turn, and the other to be swallowed up whole in pieces of hismelf. I aimed to convey this through the uncanny, grating musical landscape of the track. It is probably my favorite of the bunch. @@ -1031,7 +1038,7 @@ Art Tags: - Damara - Meenah Commentary: |- - <i>Anna Marcus-Hecht:</i> + <i>articulatelyComposed:</i> With the Fishes is a piece that shows the turmoil that Damara went through directly after her breakup with Rufioh and whilst Meenah was bullying her. The vibraphone represetns Damara and her actions, the bell-like sounds showing how fragile she is feeling, while the loud, brash chords of the marimba shows Meenah's incessant cruelty. The final chord, or more accurately, cluster of notes, is Damara's final snap. It is the thing breaking inside her leading her to attack Meenah and Rufioh. The title "With the Fishes" has a dual meaning in this case: the obvious meaning of Damara interacting with Meenah, and that "sleping with the fishes" is a phrase that signifies that someone's dead, which seemed appropriate since Damara's experiences have left her almost dead inside. I hope you all enjoy this piece! <i>VT Stark:</i> I wanted to really capture Damara's pre-snap personality here. She's got orange cloth over her eyes, representing how she feels she's been blind regarding what Rufioh has been up to. Meenah's hand is holding onto her throat, yet Damara remains oddly tranquil. SHe's fighting to work through all of this no matter how much it hurts. But in the end, she can only hold on so much for so long. And that's when the expression is less peaceful, more internally dead. @@ -1053,7 +1060,7 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - track:MeGaLoVania - track:fuchsia-ruler -- track:penumbra-phantasm +- Penumbra Phantasm - Flare - Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! Commentary: |- @@ -1087,6 +1094,7 @@ Art Tags: - Kurloz - Cronus - Meenah +- Tumor Commentary: |- <i>Sean William Calhoun:</i> <code style="color: #3796c6">ARANEA: You look into the future and see a life lasting for may8e thousands of sweeps, with nothing to look forward to,"</code> @@ -1107,6 +1115,7 @@ Cover Artists: - oxfordroulette Art Tags: - Damara +- LoQaM Referenced Tracks: - Hate You - Theme @@ -1127,6 +1136,8 @@ URLs: - https://youtu.be/gS0IKk1MVO0 Cover Artists: - Scarodactyl +Art Tags: +- LoQaM Commentary: |- <i>Laurent Désautels-Séguin:</i> This song is divided in 3 parts: everything is sad and not going well - They enter the palace for the Scratch and it's mysterious - The Scratch begins and it's intense. For the sad part, it's just sad chords. For the mysterious parts, I used a lot of mysterious arpeggios and delay effects. For the Scratch, I used a lot of bitcrush, dramatic arpeggios, and I reused chords from the sad part and arpeggios from the mysterious parts because the Scratch is mixing things. I was inspired by the music of Steven Universe for the style of mysterious arpeggios. I think the music of the series did a great job with how they represent dangerous mystical stuff. I created all the sounds with NI Massive, used Replika for delay and Decimort for bitcrush. I had a lot of fun doing these songs and I hope that you liked it! @@ -1216,10 +1227,11 @@ Cover Artists: - YoItsCro Art Tags: - Cronus +- Dream Bubbles Commentary: |- <i>Dallas Ross Hicks:</i> Cronus Ampora is in love with the 1950's era of Earth but wishes he could be in love with somebody. Anybody. This song captures the style of music from that time, starting with Cronus's generally pleasant mood but giving way to his overbearing on-the-make obnoxiousness that invariably drives people away. This doesn't make his loneliness any less real, which is illustrated at the end of the tune by a slow, sad finale. I grew up listening to this kind of music on my parents' radio so I really enjoyed bringing elements of my favourites from the Fifties to life in this song! - <i>Cro:</i> + <i>YoItsCro:</i> It's amusing once more to be drawing Cronus; he's practically a staple for me. That being said, I had a challenging but workable idea of how I wanted to present the piece. Seeing Cronus on a quest for love but failing would eventually lead to that path of sulking, and that is presented within his gray, stormy scheme (that, and the 50's barely had much in color still). With the fact he's outside of a dream bubble (a watery, lily pad dream bubble) where a red string of fate passes, it's almost like he's fishing for a pirze without really getting any bites. T oget even deeper into this harshness, the fact that it's a dream bubble can only leave for his hopes to be trapped in that; a dream. Something that could come so close, yet so far, and he continues trying to get a fish to catch his hook. --- Track: STRONG Like Hoofbeast @@ -1274,7 +1286,7 @@ Art Tags: - Mituna - Latula Commentary: |- - <i>laptopstrummer:</i> + <i>laptopStrummer:</i> This song is about Latula and Mituna relationship, it's a 3 part song that tells a story. Don't count on me to expalin it to you though, but feel free to interpret as you like :) Thank you for listening !<br>laptopStrummer @@ -1515,7 +1527,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> Early last year, I wrote a song called "Featherlight." This is an extended and improved version of it made exclusively for the Beforus Album project and will not appear in any of my own albums. It serves as a mirror for the song [[Alternia]] in the album "AlterniaBound." This song is dedicated to Not-Terezi-Pyrope (Blackhole) for making this project possible. - <i>Blackhole:</i> + <i>Blackhole:</i> (album organizer) <3 <i>Elanor Pam:</i> Aranea once referred to the Green Moon as a "large(r) green interloper" that had never belonged to her world. Thus Beforus is represented by the Pink Moon standing alone in the sky; the Beforan players contemplate it from a tree branch of one of the Pyrope's forest. Is this a night before the end? A dreambubble illusion? As the track art for the last song on disk 2, the ambiguity seemed fitting. One way or another, it's now nothing more than a bittersweet recollection of simpler times. @@ -1620,6 +1632,7 @@ Cover Artists: - Quietserval Art Tags: - Rufioh +- Beforus Commentary: |- <i>MariEaster:</i> Tree Dwellers is about the Lost Weeaboos; a group of Beforan otaku trolls living in a secret forest village far away from normal troll society. The track was originally made to be a fan track for Nepeta, but I found the track to fit surprisingly well with the whole concept about the Lost Weeaboos. @@ -1758,6 +1771,7 @@ Cover Artists: Art Tags: - Rufioh - Damara +- Beforus Referenced Tracks: - Uptown Funk Lyrics: |- @@ -1858,6 +1872,7 @@ Art Tags: - Horrorterrors - Gate - Tumor +- LoQaM Commentary: |- <i>Toris Crow:</i> This song can be interpreted as being about the Scratch from the Beforus trolls' point of view. I wanted to write a song that had a suspenseful single-note intro, similar to in the song [[English]] from the Homestuck album The Felt. I wrote the song to be dramatic because the Scratch, for them, signifies the end of their roles as players in their session. |