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diff --git a/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml b/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml index 67bb4e74..682a97db 100644 --- a/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml +++ b/album/oceanfables-ethological.yaml @@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ Additional Files: Files: - Ethological_Album_Commentary.pdf Commentary: |- - <i>nights:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/album/oceanfables-ethological)) + <i>Nights:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/album/oceanfables-ethological)) Oceanfables: Ethological is a solo album by Witch's Cadence, featuring 15 original tracks based on the characters and story of the webcomic Oceanfalls. With accompanying cover artwork illustrated by Anxiee! - <i>nights:</i> (Bandcamp credits blurb) + <i>Nights:</i> (Bandcamp credits blurb) Album and music by [[artist:witchs-cadence|Witch's Cadence]]<br> Artwork by [[artist:anxiee|Anxiee]] @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Additional Names: For The Greater Good Annotation: >- [YouTube album in-video](https://youtu.be/YolNQv9QbJQ?t=0) -Duration: '02:24' +Duration: 02:24 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/for-the-greater-good Commentary: |- @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ Commentary: |- I think I also had another song on my mind, but I can’t remember for the life of me what it was... Oh well. Over time while working on this, I realized that it might be more interesting to make it more of a song for the general theme of “actions done backed by questionable morals”, and then BAM, it hit me, my album’s theme should just be that! I decided to use the main motif from this as a main theme throughout as many of the tracks as I could (though I kind of ended up forgetting about it a lot, and it only ended up in four other tracks. Whoopsies...) --- Track: Unfavorable Outcome (For You) -Duration: '03:05' +Duration: 03:05 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/unfavorable-outcome-for-you Referenced Tracks: - Ambiguous Amnesiac - Yellow and Purple -- You Gained A Level! +- You Gained a Level! Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -81,9 +81,11 @@ Commentary: |- The demo song was made to be a generic Nino theme since he surprisingly doesn’t have very many songs associated with him, or at least just him specifically. Also, at 2:07 you can hear the Oceanfalls lick. (Here’s a secret, that lick is hidden all across the music for Oceanfalls! Try and find all of them, will you?) I also put in the earthbound level up in at the end, just because, I mean, why not? --- Track: His Torment -Duration: '01:20' +Duration: 01:20 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/his-torment +Referenced Tracks: +- Royal Blood Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -92,14 +94,19 @@ Commentary: |- This was actually one of the last few songs I made for the album, because I wasn’t getting any good ideas for how I wanted to do it. Initially I was considering doing something like [[track:school-deltarune|“School”]] from [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost|Deltarune]], but I just didn’t I guess, haha. Eventually, I finally sat down (because it was the only song left lol) and started off with the old reliable “silly Vegitales like low womp womps”, what does that mean? Well, if you’ve ever heard [the Vegitales intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MreUtmdNqpc), and then you listen to the beginning of “His Torment”, I think you’ll understand what I mean. After I did that, it hit me, I could make this the stupidest thing ever and it would be amazing, so I made some of the notes off a bit, added wrong notes, trumpet, and the real kicker, Ukulele and claps. It’s the best thing ever, I swear to god. However, I’m sure you’ve noticed how halfway through, the song gets more serious. In the intro half I imagined it like this: different scenes where Ruit is bullying Suvillan, he like pokes and prods him, maybe he scares him once, and all while this is happening Lune is the one clapping lol (deadpan, of course). At 0:39 it shifts to where all of these memories are floating around Suvillan’s head, until it reaches the climax, where it swells up to lead into... +Referencing Sources: |- + <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331024851338661919), excerpt, 1/20/2025) + + HIs torment also references [[track:sovereign-domain|sovereign domain]], though it probably makes more sense to say it references [[track:royal-blood|Royal Blood]],<br> + Since I made it after royal blood and it's based off of my re-interpretation of soverign domain that is in royal blood --- Track: Royal Blood -Duration: '02:17' +Duration: 02:17 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/royal-blood Referenced Tracks: - For the Greater Good -- Sovereign Domain +- Rigid Reflex Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -111,12 +118,12 @@ Track: Raze in Vitriol Additional Names: - Round 2 (original name) - Riven and Razed (suggested name) -Duration: '03:06' +Duration: 03:06 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/raze-in-vitriol Referenced Tracks: - Contritum -- Swaying Chains +- Sage Chains - Ambiguous Amnesiac - track:illusions-oceanfalls - Kiss of Death @@ -128,15 +135,23 @@ Commentary: |- I decided to go right into the main Contritum riff, (with just a little bit of industrial percussion) and go all out with some crazy synths and good old shreddage. If anything, I tried my hardest to make it as bombastic but menacing as possible. Then it slows down a bit, to build up for the first big motif, [[track:swaying-chains|“Swaying Chains”]] by [[artist:wights-end|Wight]], and then I just made it go ham again, haha. I think the industrial “ting” adds to the feeling of confidence that I think Corona has. During the middle section I had a little break for the Nino motif from that demo song (still gonna get to that) and Aria's motif from [[album:oceanfalls-vol-1|Volume 1]]. Then I decided to bring in the next major motif, this time from [[track:kiss-of-death|“Kiss of Death”]] by [[artist:keyboard-cait|keyboard cait]]. It was kind of funny, because I asked her what the idea behind that song was, and she said “the concept's pretty vague, i composed it just to be ‘a song that fits corona killing people with total ease’”, to which I responded “that’s perfect lmfao”. I actually brought back the exact same choir chords to this part because it just sounded so good here. After that it’s pretty much just crazy solo on the nes pulse wave and then it ends with one sound falling in parallel to how Nino falls in the first fight with corona, and one sound staying on top. I just thought that was a cool idea, I guess. Now the funny thing is, I then realized after making this song that it was kind of similar in structure to [[track:the-sunderers-reprisal|“Sunderer’s Reprisal”]] by Wights end in that it goes “Corona goin’ crazy section” “break section with aria and Nino motifs” “Corona goin’ crazy section but more”, and even worse, I had named the song “Round 2”. Like, whoopsies. Big oops, wtf have I done lol. So, I just decided to change the name. I asked wight for name ideas and he suggested “Riven and Razed” and then I thought of the word vitriol (which is such an awesome word, we should use that word more) so now it’s called “Raze in Vitriol” which is honestly a better name than “Round 2” I think. +Referencing Sources: |- + <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331024268678660130), excerpt, 1/20/2025) + + Okay so the one on ethological that is wrong<br> + Is Raze in Vitriol<br> + That might be because I said the wrong song in the commentary<br> + It says [[track:swaying-chains|swaying chains]] when the real song it references is [[track:sage-chains|sage chains]]<br> + Which is easily confused because of the name and them being right next to each other on vol 2 lmao --- Track: Just Me and My Boyfriend -Duration: '02:01' +Duration: 02:01 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/just-me-and-my-boyfriend Referenced Tracks: - Luigi Puzzle 1 -Sampled Tracks: -- pretty sure this is mario paint meows +# Sampled Tracks: +# - pretty sure this is mario paint meows Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) @@ -147,7 +162,7 @@ Commentary: |- I’m quite happy with this song, also I didn’t realize until after I made it, but it sounded kind of not major or minor, and it turns out it’s in Dorian, So, uh, cool!! With the first idea I had I wanted to put the [“Popple Battle”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxy3_iEumk) from superstar saga in it, but I never made that version, so it didn’t happen. Instead, I ended up accidentally referencing [[track:luigi-puzzle-1|that one toby fox picross song]]. I really liked how it sounded so I didn’t take it out when I noticed, haha. --- Track: Blood Pact -Duration: '03:25' +Duration: 03:25 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/blood-pact Referenced Tracks: @@ -162,14 +177,14 @@ Commentary: |- After the intro it just kind of goes... I don’t know, somewhere. I was kind of still a bit sick when I was finishing this song, so I don’t really remember much of my thought process on it. I do, however, remember that it ends by zoning in on [[track:right-hand|Lune’s theme]]. Perhaps it is a flash back of the history of the Umbra clan, and then it goes through the timeline until it ends up on Lune, who knows! I don’t remember. --- Track: '"EIDOLON", Pirate of the Seven CPUs' -Duration: '02:37' +Duration: 02:37 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/eidolon-pirate-of-the-seven-cpus Referenced Tracks: - Beloved Little Prodigy -Sampled Tracks: -- It's so sharp, and so simple, you've done it already. (sampled from some unknown movie) https://gowlermusic.bandcamp.com/track/short-and-simple -- Now I'm not in the habit of- unknown sample +# Sampled Tracks: +# - It's so sharp, and so simple, you've done it already. (sampled from some unknown movie) https://gowlermusic.bandcamp.com/track/short-and-simple +# - Now I'm not in the habit of- unknown sample Lyrics: |- (It's so sharp, and so simple, you've done it already.) (PIRACY) @@ -207,18 +222,33 @@ Commentary: |- I like to imagine that this whole song would play out while she’s pirating like Super Mario World, but she imagines herself as this epic hacker “hacking into the mainframe”, whatever that means... Also, I put her theme in the beginning [[track:beloved-little-prodigy|from Volume 4]]. I don’t know if you noticed or not... --- Track: Bastard Contract -Duration: '03:21' +Duration: 03:21 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/bastard-contract +Referenced Tracks: +- Know Thyself +- The Cavern of Illusions +- Yellow and Purple Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) This song has a kind of funny story, but it really only works in two parts. Sadly, this is part two and the episode just ended, so you are going to have to watch the ending credits, and then see episode one later. Basically, this is a Cape Nino song. I wanted to make something very upbeat and... cool, for him. Also, [[artist:wights-end|Wight]] sent me this weird Christmas ambience plugin that apparently [[group:toby-fox|Toby Fox]] used on a couple of his songs, which was a gold mine discovery, and I ended up using it for ambience and a little melody bit in the ending. The plugin is hilarious in that he just sent me it as a random .dll file and then when you open it it’s all of these crazy functions that do nothing lol (at least as far as we know right now). +Referencing Sources: |- + <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331025024445841540), excerpt, 1/20/2025) + + Also bastard contract is missing all of the references in it on the page<br> + I think I just never mentioned it in the commentary so it got glossed over + + So, bastard contract references: + + - [[Know Thyself]] + - [[The Cavern of Illusions]] + - [[Yellow and Purple]] (the oceanfalls motif) --- Track: Brilliance Sharp as Steel -Duration: '02:14' +Duration: 02:14 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/brilliance-sharp-as-steel Referenced Tracks: @@ -231,10 +261,11 @@ Commentary: |- I really don’t know why I chose a genesis soundfont for the drums, but I did. Also, they have a lot of triplets if I remember correctly, so they are kind of weird just in general. The chord progression is also kind of weird. Honestly the whole thing is just weird. Kind of like Zachery. I think my favorite part is 1:08, where the piano really feels like a part in a Danganronpa song. I don’t know, Danganronpa just has really good music. Also, this is one of the songs I actually put the “For the Greater Good” motif in, so, there’s that. --- Track: Done With Your Nonsense -Duration: '03:32' +Duration: 03:32 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/done-with-your-nonsense Referenced Tracks: +- Ambiguous Amnesiac - Kaji's Theme - For the Greater Good Commentary: |- @@ -254,6 +285,11 @@ Commentary: |- So uhhhh. . . Whoops again lol. Either way I now know not to do that, and he sent me a great free multiband compressor, so I completely redid the master on every song. (So, make sure to thank Wight for why it sounds so much better than it would have) +Referencing Sources: |- + <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331026395496710155), excerpt, 1/20/2025) + + Done with your nonsense is missing the reference to [[track:ambiguous-amnesiac|ambiguous amnesiac]]<br> + Which should be first on the list --- Track: Judgement By Genocide Additional Names: @@ -262,7 +298,7 @@ Additional Names: Annotation: >- [YouTube album timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolNQv9QbJQ), [YouTube album in-video](https://youtu.be/YolNQv9QbJQ?t=1758) -Duration: '07:30' +Duration: 07:30 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/judgement-by-genocide Referenced Tracks: @@ -316,13 +352,19 @@ Additional Names: (BONUS) - LUNE FUMO REAL Annotation: >- [YouTube album timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolNQv9QbJQ) -Duration: '01:32' +Duration: 01:32 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/lune-fumo-real-bonus +Referenced Tracks: +- Right Hand Commentary: |- <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> (booklet commentary) It’s just a song I made because Nights drew a Lune Fumo, not much to say to be honest. +Referencing Sources: |- + <i>Witch's Cadence:</i> ([HSMusic Discord](https://discord.com/channels/749042497610842152/779895315750715422/1331026535137808549), excerpt, 1/20/2025) + + LUNE FUMO REAL references [[track:right-hand|"Right Hand"]] from vol 1 --- Track: Ambiguous Amnesiac Additional Names: @@ -335,7 +377,7 @@ Additional Names: (BONUS) - Ambigious Amnesiac Annotation: >- [YouTube album timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolNQv9QbJQ) -Duration: '01:45' +Duration: 01:45 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/ambiguous-amnesiac-bonus Commentary: |- @@ -354,7 +396,7 @@ Additional Names: (BONUS) - Oceanfalls Rap Annotation: >- [YouTube album timestamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolNQv9QbJQ) -Duration: '02:30' +Duration: 02:30 URLs: - https://nightslights.bandcamp.com/track/oceanfalls-rap-bonus Lyrics: |- |