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diff --git a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml index 6d73db54..1899825e 100644 --- a/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml +++ b/album/cosmic-caretakers.yaml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Commentary: |- <b>AFTERWORDS</b> <i>Blackhole:</i> The concept for this album had its origins more than two years ago, and its basic blueprint was drawn up by me as a follow-up to [[album:beforus]]. Back then it was known as "Rubric of the Guardians", and while that was later changed, and due to management upheavals I wasn't personally involved with its development as "Cosmic Caretakers", I am excited for what the project has become and what these fantastic musicians have in store for us. A comprehensive Guardian album was an idea straight out of my original list of fan-album concepts circa 2015 that spawned Beforus, and now finally the dream of having themes for all of them is realized. Vava la Guardians! (V-l-G, perhaps? Or perhaps not. :P) - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> This album dedicated to the classic fanmusic album reality of progress stalling for months, followed by the completion of half the administrative work in the final three days before release. Seriously, I wrote this afterword 1 hour before the album stream. But if you're reading this, I hope you've enjoyed every last minute of it, because I know I sure did. All our work and unwork was not in vain. <i>Ucklin:</i> Putting together the booklet for this album made me realize just how ambitious the project was. We have said goodbye to a few old faces over the long production time of the album, and some have questioned the team's motivation. However, I think it is a testament to the enduring strength of the team that we have been able to stick with this project, despite delays, until its release. I want to thank everyone who stuck by it, even when it would have been easy to write it off. It's been a long haul, but we've learned a lot about how to avoid similar delays in the future, and the team is facing the next project with renewed enthusiasm. @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Nanna's New Groove Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '3:48' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/nannas-new-groove @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Homestuck Anthem - track:nannaquin Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> At first I considered making this track electroswing, but that's a bit out of my range. I think this works well as a compromise! Think of this as the soundscape to an elderly clown grandma (clownma?) throwing pies at you forever, but in a good natured way, a way where you both laugh at the absurdity of it all, except when the fifth pie is thrown you laugh a little less hard because the joke is starting to get stale, and by the time the tenth pie is thrown you start to want to go home and wonder if the clownma still finds it funny, and she does, still not in a mean spirited way, not because of the pie and not because of the frown on your face, but because she knows the joke is stale and you know the joke is stale and yet it keeps happening in spite of its staleness and that mutual understanding really only underlines the absurdity of it all. The clownma is pretty good at pranks, all things considered. @@ -281,13 +281,13 @@ Commentary: |- The primary melodic motif opens the piece on the solo violin - a rousing tune representing the character of Alpha Rose and her rebellious aspirations. The trumpet then introduces the secondary motif - that of The Thirteenth Hour, a melodic backbone representing (erroneously?*) the novels to which she devoted the greater part of her life. It rises and dips, shifting between lyrical solos, brassy full-orchestra segments, and percussive interludes. Two of Rose's motifs, Aggrieve and Endless Climb, are also briefly quoted. In all, creating The Light's Rebellion was a joy and a challenge, and possibly the first and last track of its style that I'll ever do. *The video from which I'd heard The Thirteenth Hour featured the cover of Complacency of the Learned, leading me to associate the track with Calmasis and CotL. In retrospect it was probably more about Calliope's Calmasis-like trollsona (i.e. the thirteenth "troll") than Calmasis, but here we are. (Calliope is named for the muse of epics, Mom wrote epics, it works...) - <b><i>ndividedbyzero:</i></b> + <b><i>keyboard cait:</i></b> Her hair is like the sun, rebelling against the oppressive shadow of the night sky. Not complacent, but sure as hell learned enough to punt you down a waterfall with stabby needles. --- Track: The Dave Strider Experience Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '3:54' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/the-dave-strider-experience @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Lyrics: |- What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish and then he starts hugging people like a drunken (WAOW) next thing he's pickin' fights with his best friends, then he starts with the hugging again (unintelligible) IT'S THE SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW! WHOAAAAAAAAa Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> wilson for wisdom. stiller for power. glover for courage. with the tripartite decree of america's three greatest heralds, backed by a rendition of beatdown so terrifying it can only be described as psychological warfare, the stage has been set for the star of the show. the experience behind the experience. but such titles do not ascribe what importance this fiend deserves. nay, they COULD not ascribe the requisite importance, for only one title suits the hero, the madman, the director and architect to a hall of fame of utter shit. he is THE BIG MAN, and we are all in his court. heads are about to roll. @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Singularity Artists: -- ndividedbyzero +- keyboard cait Duration: '4:55' URLs: - https://unofficialmspafans.bandcamp.com/track/singularity @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: - Isle Unto Thyself Lyrics: Then all the planets fell to dust Commentary: |- - <i>ndividedbyzero:</i> + <i>keyboard cait:</i> This track originates from an idea I had in 2014 to make a track about Calliope and Caliborn's parents. Five years later, it's finally done, stitched together from the composition and/or actual audio clips of like 4 FLPs (I went through about 6, all in all). Funnily enough, the scribbles I had for this song in 2014 then are completely different composition-wise from what ended up being made, but the narrative loosely remains in this track: the cherubs' mother drifts through space, searching for her mate. She spots him, taking off at full speed, following him as he leaves a trail of destruction across the universe. Their eventual meeting is tense, cold. Saying nothing, they transform into unfathomable astral serpents, and battle to create the most innocent muse and most shitheaded gremlin to ever exist. I attribute the latter half of this track to listening to a lot of Hawaii: Part II, which is also sampled at the end. Listen to Hawaii: Part II. <b><i>Ephemerald:</i></b> |