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diff --git a/album/time-and-tide.yaml b/album/time-and-tide.yaml index 7ad185d..32cbfda 100644 --- a/album/time-and-tide.yaml +++ b/album/time-and-tide.yaml @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ 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 - 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 href="https://youtu.be/Cwkej79U3ek">A Thousand Miles</a> 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 “[[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.) 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. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> This track was also released on the Vast Error fan album, [[album:vast-error-vol-3]]. - <a href="https://www.deconreconstruction.com/vasterror">Vast Error</a> is a webcomic by [[artist:austinado|Austinado]] and [[artist:sparaze|Sparaze]] that can be read here: <a href="mspfa.com?s=2302">mspfa.com?s=2302</a> + [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](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. @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This track is a bit of an outlier: it’s almost purely a string ensemble piece with concessions to a bass drum and a snare, making it more exception than norm on this album composed largely of synth orchestrals. - A tie-in to my novel <a href="https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/">Eagles and Swans</a> (which most listeners haven’t read, I wager), it’s a track about a garden within the greenhouse of the palace complex, where one of the main characters likes to read on weekends. It’s stately, calm, and gives way to an interlude with a solo violin melody that, in my opinion, is the highlight of the track. + A tie-in to my novel [Eagles and Swans](https://circlejourney.net/writing/eaglesandswans/) (which most listeners haven’t read, I wager), it’s a track about a garden within the greenhouse of the palace complex, where one of the main characters likes to read on weekends. It’s stately, calm, and gives way to an interlude with a solo violin melody that, in my opinion, is the highlight of the track. All in all, this is probably the closest thing to a filler track on this album, just something connecting two parts of the album together. The next track is more interesting, I guarantee you. --- @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Commentary: |- <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 <a href="https://youtu.be/HHNZuj6U8jo">Reel Around the Sun</a>, one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching. + 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. The art was initially created not for Chariot, but for a different track that was meant to be on this album, but which I am unable to release. I think the subject matters are similar enough that the image still fits. (I like making music about space, surprise surprise.) @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) Evening Song is the only track on this album composed for the art rather than the other way around. - Inspired by the intro of <a href="https://youtu.be/QnAXqEw6dUA">Tender</a> by Yvette Young, it was an experiment in a style that had so far eluded me, with a solo melody on top of guitar broken chords, completely devoid of drums. + Inspired by the intro of [Tender](https://youtu.be/QnAXqEw6dUA) by Yvette Young, it was an experiment in a style that had so far eluded me, with a solo melody on top of guitar broken chords, completely devoid of drums. Ultimately, I still gave in to the temptation of sticking drums into the track, towards the end. @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> (booklet commentary) This was me noodling with the synths in FL Studio, trying to make something as sweet and bubblegummy as the shade of pink in the illustration. - I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen if I tried. The title itself is based on a lyric from her song <a href="https://youtu.be/s5OG4uYx4Z4">Picture</a>. I can’t say what specific genre it’s reminiscent of, but it was a sincere attempt to make something that would sound vaguely at home on a J-pop playlist. + I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen if I tried. The title itself is based on a lyric from her song [Picture](https://youtu.be/s5OG4uYx4Z4). I can’t say what specific genre it’s reminiscent of, but it was a sincere attempt to make something that would sound vaguely at home on a J-pop playlist. There’s a bit going on here synth-wise: it was the first time I’d tried making a more complex strum pattern, which you can hear in the last third of the track. There’s also a generous helping of sound effects: bicycle bells, the crows synth (one of my favourites), and the water drop effect for example. @@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ URLs: - https://circlejourney.bandcamp.com/track/emptiness Commentary: |- <i>Circlejourney:</i> - This track was also released on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201114054951/https://inhospitable.bandcamp.com/album/inhospitable-volume-1">INHOSPITABLE Volume 1: Consciousness</a> + 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 <a href="inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com">inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com</a>. + INHOSPITABLE is a webcomic by [[artist:tempest2k|Roxanne Heikens]] that can be read at [inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com](inhospitablecomic.mspfa.com). <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. |