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diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml index 731b4204..b2e1867a 100644 --- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml +++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml @@ -256,9 +256,11 @@ URLs: - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-eclipse-2 - https://youtu.be/06SVUSwu8Xk Commentary: |- - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) + + The <i>Midnight Crew</i> album was the first of our really high-concept releases with the fake bands, especially since we attempted to invent some kind of goth-jazz genre out of thin air, despite the team's minimal understanding of goth music or jazz. I opted to imitate Weather Report and the sort of spacey, insidious-sounding grooves they put together on Mysterious Traveler to create "Lunar Eclipse". I like the atmospheric nature of the track, plus Fenris' sax solo that I diced up and added a ton of digital reverb to, although Fenris has completely disappeared since recording the solo in 2009. - I opted to imitate Weather Report and the sort of spacey, insidious-sounding grooves they put together on Mysterious Traveler to create "Lunar Eclipse". I like the atmospheric nature of the track, plus Fenris' sax solo that I diced up and added a ton of digital reverb to, although Fenris has completely disappeared since recording the solo in 2009. + *(Continued in [[Hauntjam]]!)* <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/5/2017) @@ -288,7 +290,9 @@ Commentary: |- Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on [[track:haunt-andrew-hussie|a short fruity loop]] that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including [[track:hauntjelly|"hauntjelly."]] His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in [the Extras page](http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html) wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, [[artist:ian-taylor|Xerxes]] emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ. - <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> (co-composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) + + *(Continued from [[Lunar Eclipse]]!)* I also went ahead a dropped some good synths and fairly convincing drum part on Andrew Huo's "Hauntjam". |