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diff --git a/album/in-isolation.yaml b/album/in-isolation.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..161f00c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/album/in-isolation.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,354 @@ +Album: In Isolation +Artists: +- David Ellis +Date: October 30, 2013 +Date Added: January 29, 2025 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/album/in-isolation +Cover Artists: +- Tom Yorath +Wallpaper Artists: +- Tom Yorath +Wallpaper Style: |- + opacity: 0.5; +Color: '#7c78ff' +Groups: +- Beyond +Art Tags: +- Earth +Commentary: |- + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/album/in-isolation)) + + A concept album about a generation ship. + + Recorded in February 2011<br> + Additional overdubs and mixing done in 2012/2013. + + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Bandcamp credits blurb](https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/album/in-isolation)) + + Words and Music by [[artist:david-ellis]] + + [[artist:malik-refaat]]: Saxophones on [[track:our-choice|'Our Choice']] and [[track:last-message|'Last Message']] + + Artwork by [[artist:tom-yorath]] + + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([Tumblr](https://alunaticsdaydream.tumblr.com/post/65531001748/in-isolation-by-a-lunatics-daydream-i-now-have), 10/30/2013) + + <b>[In Isolation by A Lunatic's Daydream](https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/album/in-isolation)</b> + + <b>I now have an album you can listen to and download!</b> + + In Isolation was written and recorded back in 2011. It's a concept album about a generation ship and the people who travel on it. This was the first 'Daydream' project I did (the latest being 'The Seashore') + + The album goes through a number of styles. From the opening instrumental [[track:launch-in-isolation|'Launch']] through the laid back electronic [[track:homesick-in-isolation|'Homesick']] to the electronic/orchestral [[track:generations-in-isolation|'Generations']], the prog rock centrepiece [[track:outside-in-isolation|'Outside']] to the piano ballad finale [[Another World|'Another World']]. + + Also [[artist:malik-refaat]] makes an appearance playing saxophone on [[Our Choice|'Our Choice']] and [[Last Message|'Last Message']]. + + Artwork by [[artist:tom-yorath]]. +--- +Section: Main album +--- +Track: Launch +Directory: launch-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 5:09 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/launch +--- +Track: Eclipsed +Directory: eclipsed-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 2:26 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/eclipsed +Lyrics: |- + Out here, sun eclipsed by the earth + Out here, receive our second birth + How could we take away our fears + How could we leave and escape here + + Don't breathe out + Don't break in + Don't hold on for too long + Just break out + Just breathe in + For now we sleep amongst the stars + + We watched the burn as we set off + We left the earth now it's our past + Our past +--- +Track: Explorers +Directory: explorers-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 4:57 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/explorers +Lyrics: |- + We were born to be explorers + Like our ancestors who'd navigate the globe + We've already seen its corners + So we left the earth to find ourselves a home + Mountains and seas are all gone + + Now the sun's so distant from us + In the empty space we know which way we'll go + And we're feeling like Columbus + On a trip to find our own America + So far out here all alone + + We'll make our own map of the stars + Spend our lives in space so far apart and alone + All alone + + Well the stars are all around us + They look to the sky closely and see our path + Maybe someone else will join us + So we listen for a message from our past + + Though we still believe it set us free + We'll make a new discovery + But we'll never see our home + + We'll make our own map of the stars + Spend our lives in space so far apart and alone + All alone + Alone + All alone +--- +Track: Homesick +Directory: homesick-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 2:25 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/homesick +Lyrics: |- + I miss the sunrise, the first light on the countryside + I miss the cold nights, huddled round a fire + And I miss the wind + + I miss the city, the busy sound of people all around + I miss the open sky, the sun's rays on my skin + And we're homesick +--- +Track: Generations +Directory: generations-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 4:23 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/generations +--- +Track: We Turned Around +Duration: 2:13 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/we-turned-around +Lyrics: |- + Lost lifetimes in deepest space + Old pathways that we retraced + All planets were empty shells or fiery hells + Nowhere to settle down + So we turned around + + Films showing us bluest skies + Reality to our eyes + Escape from these sterile halls to creature calls + And all life will surround us + 'Cause we turned around + + The old world found 'cause we turned around + + In moments we'll make our pass + Eyes pressed up against the glass + We'll count down to our descent and soon we'll spend + Our days under the clouds + 'Cause we turned around + + We'll feel the ground 'cause we turned around +--- +Track: Outside +Directory: outside-in-isolation +Always Reference By Directory: true +Duration: 6:54 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/outside +Lyrics: |- + Before we look outside + The image in your mind + Surrender it this moment + We've arrived + + Will we believe our eyes + and let the visions die? + We find it's not a world we recognise. + + And they said that we were lunatics + with daydreams to touch the stars. + + But how can we release + the cities in our dreams + and reconcile the truth with our belief. + + So we see it's not our home any more. + Is this real? + Have we reached the distant shore? + Is this real? + + What if the world is not what + we believed in when we were young? + When we stared at pictures on screens + of a life that just doesn't exist any more. + Just in dreams + In our dreams + + But we just can't break down + and let their daydreams drown. + Because we can't accept this earth we found. + + And they called our parents lunatics + with daydreams to touch the stars. +--- +Track: Our History +Duration: 3:14 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/our-history +Lyrics: |- + Set on this path since we were born out here + Always preparing for our landing + And when the planet they called home appeared + We found we could not understand it + + Can we let it go? + Spend out lives back out there all alone + We've been set free + No longer tethered to our history + + We've seen the photographs and films they made + The work of those historic artists + They couldn't show us how the world would change + The shifts that came since we departed + + Can we let it go? + Spend out lives back out there all alone + We've been set free + No longer tethered to our history +--- +Track: Our Choice +Duration: 3:24 +Contributors: +- Malik Refaat (tenor saxophone) +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/our-choice +--- +Track: Last Message +Duration: 5:53 +Contributors: +- Malik Refaat (alto saxophone) +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/last-message +Lyrics: |- + So we packaged up their hopes + but we watched them one last time + If we send them with a note + then will we be free? + Will we be fine? + + So we watched them go away + but we're still inside + + And we found their dreams weren't stolen + but carried with us as we float. + If every action we do for them + then how will we see? + How will we know? + + So we sent our last message + back to earth so we can leave it all behind. + Still we won't forget it + 'till we die. + + Now we sit here cold and broken + as our plans all fall apart. + But there's an old one we have chosen + Now that it's time + we must depart + + And we've sent our last message + back to earth so we can leave it all behind. + Still we won't forget it + 'till we die. +--- +Track: Another World +Duration: 4:17 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/another-world +Lyrics: |- + Now, we're far away + it's just a pale blue dot in space. + We count the days + but their meaning slowly fades. + Drifting in this metal cage + Heading out toward our fate + + So we sing: + While we're trapped inside, + the stars can't touch me. + So let's take our lives to another world + I don't know how we spent so long in isolation + when there's so much out there to find. + + So, let's make this shell our home for now + we've got so long to go before we can set down. + But now we're free + we've reached [[Your Orbit|escape velocity]], + we're past the termination shock, + on to another ancient rock. + And we've said all our goodbyes + + So we sing: + While we're trapped inside, + the stars can't touch me. + So let's take our lives to another world + I don't know how we spent so long in isolation + when there's so much out there to find. + + While we're trapped inside, + the stars can't touch me + So let's take our lives to another world. + I don't know how we spent so long in isolation + When there's so much out there to find + + So let's set our course for a distant planet. + A place out there to make our home. + No longer holding on in quiet desperation + 'cause we just watch the stars go by. +--- +Section: Bonus track +--- +Track: Your Orbit +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + Your Orbit (Bonus) + Annotation: >- + [full title](https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/your-orbit-bonus) +- Name: >- + Escape Velocity (Bonus) + Annotation: >- + [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/a-lunatics-daydream/escape-velocity-bonus) +Sampled Tracks: +- track:tunnel-ambience-timbre +Duration: 2:44 +URLs: +- https://alunaticsdaydream.bandcamp.com/track/your-orbit-bonus +Lyrics: |- + Am I set on course through space and time + Will I be pulled into your orbit or just watch as we float by + + Will I drift away towards a distant star + Or will the sun pull me back 'round so I can make another pass + + And I'd give all I knew for one more night with you. +Credit Sources: |- + <i>David Ellis:</i> ([SoundCloud description](https://soundcloud.com/a-lunatics-daydream/escape-velocity-bonus), excerpt, 3/7/2011) + + Creative Commons samples:<br> + [[track:tunnel-ambience-timbre|"Tunnel Ambience"]] by [[artist:timbre]] |