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diff --git a/album/ithaca.yaml b/album/ithaca.yaml index 8eeae5c1..9b028aed 100644 --- a/album/ithaca.yaml +++ b/album/ithaca.yaml @@ -17,10 +17,32 @@ Groups: Art Tags: - Bowman Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20120109045529/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 1/1/2012) + <i>Experimental aircraft, lost civilizations, mythic quests, the Philippines, true love, utter loss, and the transience of life - the many subjects of Ithaca, the first independently released Bowman album. Scattergun in its genre and chaotically retro in its fashion, Ithaca is an eclectic mix of songs both personal and abstract. Bowman once again brings his familiar voice and ever-changing production style along with several friends from the Homestuck music project and elsewhere. Ithaca is calling.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20121020190218/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 9/16/2012) + + <i>The indie-as-hell solo effort by Bowman. 12 tracks of rock, pop, and experimental goodness. Bowman will try anything he can get away with and then some.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20130207154201/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 1/29/2013) + + <i>The "travel" album. 12 tracks pulling from a million influences - Eno, Sinatra, The Pixies - in an utterly shotgun effort. Embellished by a huge cast of guest musicians.</i> + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20160714044946/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 7/2/2016) + After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. It's a freaky affair. - The ideas came from everywhere. There's a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ([[Old Buggy Now]]). There's one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ([[Tacit Blue]]). There's a carriage ride through a Manila's Chinatown district ([[Kalesa In Binondo]]). The title track [[Ithaca]] recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends. + + The ideas came from everywhere. There's a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ([[Old Buggy Now|"Old Buggy Now"]]). There's one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ([[Tacit Blue|"Tacit Blue"]]). There's a carriage ride through a Manila's Chinatown district ([[Kalesa in Binondo|"Kalesa In Binondo"]]). The title track [[Ithaca|"Ithaca"]] recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends. + + Twelve songs to listen to. Ithaca is calling. + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20170523033734/https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca), 3/20/2017) + + After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. + + Ithaca is calling. + # Additional Files: # - Title: Photos # Files: @@ -376,7 +398,7 @@ Lyrics: |- That moment now has gone My heart still a restless sea where Ithaca is calling --- -Track: Kalesa In Binondo +Track: Kalesa in Binondo Contributors: - Nick Smalley (kalesa driver, additional sequencing) Duration: '3:57' |