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diff --git a/album/ithaca.yaml b/album/ithaca.yaml index dbe91821..23d545fe 100644 --- a/album/ithaca.yaml +++ b/album/ithaca.yaml @@ -5,22 +5,60 @@ Date: January 1, 2012 Date Added: February 12, 2021 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca +- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lYknNHJL8lxjOMGGPFqMizSSGGlM0hE4w +- https://open.spotify.com/album/65y17Yhs5MLLSjryV2onOF +- https://music.apple.com/album/ithaca/1410902562 Cover Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman Color: '#c82537' Groups: - Michael Guy Bowman - Beyond +Art Tags: +- Michael Guy 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), sometime 5/20/2012 - 10/20/2012) + + <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), sometime 10/21/2012 - 2/7/2013) + + <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), sometime 6/12/2016 - 7/14/2016) + 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), sometime 8/14/2016 - 5/23/2017) + + 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: +# - photo_1.jpg +# - photo_2.jpg +# - Title: Album Credits +# Files: +# - credits.jpg --- Track: Old Buggy Now -Duration: '3:35' +Duration: 3:35 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/old-buggy-now +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVnoZnLnNI +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3dKIjxtMC1YRpeYBAOd8vE +- https://music.apple.com/album/old-buggy-now/1410902562?i=1410905010 Lyrics: |- Riding through the night like a jaded vagabond No one else in sight I could be the only one @@ -36,9 +74,23 @@ Lyrics: |- Here inside my car I could be the only one Somewhere in the sky a satellite on high Watches with its lonely eye +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + this song i heard the chorus of in a dream when i was probably like 7 or 8<br> + so i wrote around it + + <i>Ucklin:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + wow, that's really neat!<br> + Was it just the words in the dream, or a melody with it? + + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + melody and words i remember, and the idea that it was like a big synthpop song. i think maybe i'd just seen "a goofy movie" so powerline is swimming around in my psyche at that age. in this dream i'm watching this guy sing this song, and then i'm literally being lifted in the air by the singer (being a small kid) and the song is being delivered to me. in the morning he's exhausted from singing his heart out and sleeping in the garage. before we get a chance to talk to him he sneaks away in a golf cart. i interpret this as being a meeting between myself as a child and myself as an adult. like a self-fulfilling thing --- Track: Ascension -Directory: ascension-ithaca +Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman @@ -48,9 +100,12 @@ Contributors: - Andrew Huo (violin) - Solatrus (lead synth) - Paige Turner (synth solo) -Duration: '3:55' +Duration: 3:55 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/ascension +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ8O8dfRhw +- https://open.spotify.com/track/27rAc1HTr5IsFL015AZ6Rs +- https://music.apple.com/album/ascension/1410902562?i=1410905012 Lyrics: |- Long before there was you and I The ancient ones lived in the sky @@ -83,9 +138,12 @@ Track: Come With Me Contributors: - Thomas Ferkol (guitar solo) - Tavia Morra (backup vocals) -Duration: '4:47' +Duration: 4:47 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/come-with-me +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBw8qOl44sU +- https://open.spotify.com/track/5RN6bLrx8c8huBI1FzNKHz +- https://music.apple.com/album/come-with-me/1410902562?i=1410905015 Lyrics: |- Your weak young heart keeps playing its part for show And though you never say never you never say yes or no @@ -113,9 +171,12 @@ Contributors: - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing) - Nick Smalley (additional sequencing) - Richard Gung (additional vocals) -Duration: '2:15' +Duration: 2:15 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/tacit-blue +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m10LaZrlpEk +- https://open.spotify.com/track/7FuKiazYwMXeEUpw1RYMRG +- https://music.apple.com/album/tacit-blue/1410902562?i=1410905017 Lyrics: |- Back in the lab I'm running the test If you won't fly then I won't rest @@ -155,9 +216,12 @@ Lyrics: |- Track: Rodeo Clown Contributors: - Marcy Nabors (flute) -Duration: '4:09' +Duration: 4:09 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/rodeo-clown +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beWrYV5T6Og +- https://open.spotify.com/track/6194InOjrkvi9XD1ZZ2m7q +- https://music.apple.com/album/rodeo-clown/1410902562?i=1410905019 Lyrics: |- I'm just a good machine You turn me on and I'll get by @@ -192,9 +256,12 @@ Lyrics: |- Why can't you see? --- Track: Cerulean Skies -Duration: '3:22' +Duration: 3:22 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/cerulean-skies +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuTN5OQ1-MA +- https://open.spotify.com/track/3JJOizXdqHGtrmday4Jdj6 +- https://music.apple.com/album/cerulean-skies/1410902562?i=1410905020 Lyrics: |- I never had the best of health Just a lot of time and a little wealth @@ -211,7 +278,7 @@ Lyrics: |- I never spoke, I only screamed As the men upstairs shot down my dreams - Come on (come right on) + Come on (come right on) Come on (sit down with sin) Come on (no way to win) 'Cause if you can't kiss ass then you can't begin @@ -242,11 +309,14 @@ Lyrics: |- And I'd never once tried to fight for myself --- Track: Noun -Directory: noun-ithaca +Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true -Duration: '5:14' +Duration: 5:14 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/noun +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXQLTWeyro +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0Nf5vZtF5D2YrwvydsaiB9 +- https://music.apple.com/album/noun/1410902562?i=1410905142 Lyrics: |- Somewhere in a jungle grove a candle burns denoting Saint Therese A prayer that those we've left behind are troubled not with heart and mind at peace @@ -276,11 +346,18 @@ Lyrics: |- Familiar signs have gone away I'm sure if it was not today I'd be there now - I'd find my way +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 9/1/2017) + + i'm surprised riki saw the potential for [[track:noun-astro-kids-pronoun-remix|a club track]] in noun but he has always been very sensitive to the remix as a format. i think that's how i relate to him best, he understands the intrigue of how a concept can be developed in alternative directions. you're sort of remixing the work already as you write it anyway, going through revisions. that's why it takes me a while --- Track: Ithaca -Duration: '4:04' +Duration: 4:04 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/ithaca +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKaR0A3Gtxw +- https://open.spotify.com/track/7uIsUt6dErtDoeh3ySjJVO +- https://music.apple.com/album/ithaca/1410902562?i=1410905143 Lyrics: |- I spent the best years of my life waiting For this moment @@ -321,12 +398,15 @@ 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' +Duration: 3:57 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/kalesa-in-binondo +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahGmTt-U-E +- https://open.spotify.com/track/68a30NhXWuqXrbfVHxSfH4 +- https://music.apple.com/album/kalesa-in-binondo/1410902562?i=1410905144 Lyrics: |- (That will be fifty-two dollars, please.) --- @@ -335,9 +415,12 @@ Contributors: - Katie Carrell (backup vocals) - Tavia Morra (backup vocals) - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing) -Duration: '2:33' +Duration: 2:33 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/underneath-it-all +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEC91MQub5A +- https://open.spotify.com/track/0ESrioUyuQNtBobrLVT06p +- https://music.apple.com/album/underneath-it-all/1410902562?i=1410905145 Lyrics: |- Moving on is hard The more I fight the more I have to lose @@ -365,17 +448,23 @@ Lyrics: |- I would have known that you know what I really mean --- Track: Laughing Forest -Duration: '2:18' +Duration: 2:18 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/laughing-forest +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8F-Q8dLvVE +- https://open.spotify.com/track/7eusGSMWJTd8YSqcJTPlyO +- https://music.apple.com/album/laughing-forest/1410902562?i=1410905146 --- Track: The Roamin' Bowman Contributors: - Erik Scheele (piano) - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing) -Duration: '3:59' +Duration: 3:59 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/the-roamin-bowman +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ceVzbvony8 +- https://open.spotify.com/track/1NRhyLCGfGkTanogDAg0Hm +- https://music.apple.com/album/the-roamin-bowman/1410902562?i=1410905147 Lyrics: |- Tangled in the ropes that have strangled All the hopes that were dangled in front of my eyes |