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diff --git a/album/time-and-tide.yaml b/album/time-and-tide.yaml index 39864ed9..42f506b2 100644 --- a/album/time-and-tide.yaml +++ b/album/time-and-tide.yaml @@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ Groups: - Circlejourney - Beyond Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide)) + An album one year in the making. <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + TO THE PERSON READING THIS, Thank you for listening to Time and Tide! (If you’ve somehow come upon this booklet by itself, here’s a link to the album.) @@ -62,9 +64,9 @@ URLs: - https://music.apple.com/album/timekeeper/1477359846?i=1477359847 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - I have always believed that [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation + I have always believed that [[Frost and Clockwork]], an earlier track of mine, was a good concept wasted on sub-par production. For that reason, I’ve made numerous variations on that concept ever since. Timekeeper, with its tongue-in-cheek former title Ice Horologue, is perhaps the most fully-realised variation - It features the “[[track:never-gonna-give-you-up|Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek) rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) + It features the “[[Never Gonna Give You Up]] progression” that I’ve become mildly infamous for overusing. That progression represents a very particular mood to me, shaped by Vanessa Carlton’s [A Thousand Miles](https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek) rather than Rick Astley’s classic. (Prepare to find out over the course of this booklet just how big of a fan I am of mainstream pop.) The character in the illustration to the left is the first of a few track gijinka that I’ve designed for this album. They’re some sort of deity whom I refer to as the Timekeeper, a being in charge of keeping the inner mechanisms of time well-oiled and running. @@ -104,12 +106,13 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/5e55Gg5rDMqmL1QrxBlbsj - https://music.apple.com/album/cosmic-significance/1477359846?i=1477359849 Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> - This track was also released on the Vast Error fan album, [[album:vast-error-vol-3]]. + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-significance), excerpt) - [Vast Error](https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror) is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:sparaze|Sparaze]] that can be read here: [mspfa.com?s=2302](https://mspfa.com/?s=2302) + This track was also released on the Vast Error fan album, [[album:vast-error-vol-3]]. + [Vast Error](https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror) is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:sparaze|Sparaze]] that can be read here: [mspfa.com?s=2302](https://mspfa.com/?s=2302) <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + I wear my Celtic Woman influence on my sleeve. The solo violin on harp/string ensemble gradually joined by drums, the frequent borrowing from Dorian mode...yeah, that’s Celtic Woman-style, alright. To understand what the track is really about, you have to read Austinado and Sparaze’s comic, Vast Error. It’s good, I highly recommend it. In summary, this track is about the players of the game looking on at their universe-changing destiny, which has existed eons longer than they have, and wondering how they will contend with it. @@ -204,10 +207,12 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/1sAaZUelC1rhcADnCtDUSV - https://music.apple.com/album/chariot/1477359846?i=1477359852 Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/chariot)) + This track will be released on a [[album:solar-sessions|future Handshake Collaborations album]]. <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) + Speaking of Celtic-inspired new age music… Chariot is about the sun. The title references the god Helios, and the track itself is a riff on the structure and style of [Reel Around the Sun](https://youtu.be/HHNZuj6U8jo), one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching. @@ -272,10 +277,11 @@ URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/track/405ULaWeoi2PDBglOTbfXc - https://music.apple.com/album/emptiness/1477359846?i=1477359855 Commentary: |- - <i>Circlejourney:</i> + <i>Circlejourney:</i> ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/emptiness)) + This track was also released on [INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness](https://web.archive.org/web/20201114054951/https://inhospitable.bandcamp.com/album/inhospitable-volume-1) - INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at [inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com](https://mspfa.com/?s=18681&p=1). + INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at [inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com](https://mspfa.com/?s=18681&p=1). <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track was part of a music compilation for INHOSPITABLE, a comic by my friend Roxe. It’s a image-rich, dialogue-light story, and you’ll come to notice the eerie greyscale static and the silence that characterise a great part of the webcomic. @@ -335,7 +341,7 @@ URLs: - https://music.apple.com/album/frosted-glass/1477359846?i=1477359857 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - Another track from the same abandoned project that [[track:the-world-as-we-know-it|The World as We Know It]] was meant to be released on, Frosted Glass quotes two of my old tracks: Frost and Clockwork (again) and Hyalomancy. The title is a combination of the titles of both. I always thought the two were oddly compatible, and this piece bears that out. + Another track from the same abandoned project that [[The World as We Know It]] was meant to be released on, Frosted Glass quotes two of my old tracks: Frost and Clockwork (again) and Hyalomancy. The title is a combination of the titles of both. I always thought the two were oddly compatible, and this piece bears that out. Just like the previous track, Frosted Glass is nostalgic in both style and content, sort of an account of gazing through broken windows into a blurry past with a distinct sense of loss for what one left behind there. @@ -346,9 +352,14 @@ Commentary: |- Track: Shipwreck Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true +Additional Names: +- Name: >- + Shipwreck (ft. SerialSymphony) + Annotation: >- + [Bandcamp](https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/shipwreck-ft-serialsymphony) Artists: - Circlejourney -- SerialSymphony +- SerialSymphony (featuring) Duration: 04:47 URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/shipwreck-ft-serialsymphony @@ -445,7 +456,7 @@ Has Cover Art: false Duration: 2:35 Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) - Originally the album’s opener, I ultimately set it aside as I made new tracks that were similar in style but exceeded it in quality. Several people have mentioned that it sounds like something from Undertale; personally I just see it as yet another variation on the [[track:frost-and-clockwork|Frost and Clockwork]] theme (F&C was also referred to by many as being reminiscent of the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale soundtrack]], so that’s no surprise). + Originally the album’s opener, I ultimately set it aside as I made new tracks that were similar in style but exceeded it in quality. Several people have mentioned that it sounds like something from Undertale; personally I just see it as yet another variation on the [[Frost and Clockwork]] theme (F&C was also referred to by many as being reminiscent of the [[album:undertale-soundtrack|Undertale soundtrack]], so that’s no surprise). --- Track: Waterside Sunset Has Cover Art: false |