From d38e4a4bda282c7ddb23e7670add88f0b236804c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:09:42 -0300 Subject: palokrai general review --- album/lofam.yaml | 2 +- album/palokrai-i.yaml | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- album/palokrai-ii.yaml | 14 +++++++------- artists.yaml | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/album/lofam.yaml b/album/lofam.yaml index 573c3830..c609f12c 100644 --- a/album/lofam.yaml +++ b/album/lofam.yaml @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ Commentary: |- [1] Sometimes the B, S and J are flopped around each other because the name has never really been fixed; pronunciation is IPA except that <j> is /ʔ/. - [2] The entire album is called Palokrai and is cut into two parts. The reference to the alphabet was not planned out at first; instead the first few pieces I wrote just happened to avoid each other by first letter and I thought to continue that down that road until it ends. Letters are picked without decision. As described later, M is picked 3rd from the end. Looking at the album art of the others, it appears that the box at the bottom is to ensure that the presence of the box and the colour together uniquely determine which song in the album it is. + [2] The entire album is called Palokrai and is cut into [[album:palokrai-i|two]] [[album:palokrai-ii|parts]]. The reference to the alphabet was not planned out at first; instead the first few pieces I wrote just happened to avoid each other by first letter and I thought to continue that down that road until it ends. Letters are picked without decision. As described later, M is picked 3rd from the end. Looking at the album art of the others, it appears that the box at the bottom is to ensure that the presence of the box and the colour together uniquely determine which song in the album it is. I *believe* that every piece has a four-syllable name, and if it won't fit on one line in the default font then it's split into two visually. There is however never a space in the name. diff --git a/album/palokrai-i.yaml b/album/palokrai-i.yaml index 097351c4..e8c96154 100644 --- a/album/palokrai-i.yaml +++ b/album/palokrai-i.yaml @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Commentary: |- [[album:palokrai-ii]] will have 13 songs as well, and should be available next June. - I'll like to thank H/S in general and [[group:official|its constituent musicians]] for getting me to do this in the first place. I would have never gone this far to do so. + I'll like to thank H/S in general and its constituent musicians for getting me to do this in the first place. I would have never gone this far to do so. {1} As funny as this looks, this isn't a semi-open interval. It's a square mouth followed by a parenthesis. @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ Commentary: |- Inspired by H/S
Made possible by MuseScore and my unending bathroom composing sessions
Creation secured by the Pseudoans and their Invention Double Reacharound. + + Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor, 9/16/2025) + + This album is dated on Bandcamp with a custom release date of 12/23/2010. According to the internal data which Bandcamp makes available in any JavaScript console (`TralbumData.current.publish_date`), the album was actually first published twenty days earlier: 12/03/2010. + + Tracks across this album have custom release dates, which are visible on the track pages on Bandcamp, and reflected here, too. There are some asterisks: see [[track:istojabego]], [[track:cforenso-ii]], [[track:cforenso-iii]]. Also, the final track, [[track:vejisto]], has a notable publish_date, 12/23/2010 - the same as the album's custom release date. (The track is also custom release dated 12/23/2010, and its written lyrics are expressly set on that particular date.) + + All together, this suggests that the album initially had only twelve of its thirteen (main) tracks, and [[track:cforenso-ii]] and [[track:cforenso-iii]] were at the end of the album, the same as bonus tracks typically are. But the tracks still don't self-describe as "bonus tracks", so we're still describing them as just "hidden tracks" here. It's also possible that the album really was published on 12/23/2010 and Bandcamp's internal wires work some way we're not aware, hypothetically e.g. publish_date always recording the earliest publish date, even though an album was un- and later re-published. (That's speculation. We have no record to tell either way, for this album.) --- Section: Main album --- @@ -44,7 +52,7 @@ Duration: 2:13 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/akdoyvonren Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/akdoyvonren)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/akdoyvonren)) The first and foremost piece has two versions; this is the second of them. @@ -59,8 +67,15 @@ URLs: Track: Istojabeȝo Directory: istojabego Duration: 1:14 +Has Date: false URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/istojabe-o +Commentary: |- + Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor, 9/16/2025) + + Most of Palokrai's tracks have custom release dates on Bandcamp, which we represent here, despite the tracks within the albums themselves actually being released all or almost all at once. This track is missing a custom release date! However, its lime label fits [[track:maibasojen-lofam|the numbering system]] used across Palokrai: 3.03.02 places it after 3.02.02 ([[track:baptikonyen|the previous track]]) and before 3.04.02 ([[track:saltovahr|the next track]]). + + Unfortunately, since the custom track dates on Bandcamp are the *only* source for these track dates (the numbering system does *not* represent specific dates, and the album was prepared on Bandcamp mostly after its tracks were created), the date used for this track is arbitrary. So... this track has no date at all. Eep! --- Track: Saltovahr Date First Released: July 24, 2010 @@ -80,7 +95,7 @@ Duration: 2:01 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/zerehanda Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/zerehanda)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/zerehanda)) The very first using the pentatonic scale. I guess that should be poignant because I'm Chinese be begin with! --- @@ -96,7 +111,7 @@ Duration: 3:13 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/quensindara Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/quensindara)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/quensindara)) This is a three-in-one medley consisting of Quistrodose, Quenzeyodu and Quelesósta. --- @@ -124,17 +139,23 @@ Duration: 2:09 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/cforenso --- -Section: Bonus tracks +Section: Hidden tracks --- Track: Cforenso II +Date First Released: December 2, 2010 Duration: 2:09 Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Artworks: - Cforenso Referenced Tracks: - Cforenso +Commentary: |- + Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor, 9/16/2025) + + Since these two tracks are hidden on Bandcamp and only available as part of the album download, they don't have custom on-site track release dates. However, the artwork for [[track:cforenso]] indicates multiple parts to Cforenso itself, so we're going out on a limb and reusing the date for that track, here. --- Track: Cforenso III +Date First Released: December 2, 2010 Duration: 4:17 Cover Art File Extension: jpg Referenced Artworks: @@ -143,6 +164,10 @@ Referenced Artworks: Referenced Tracks: - Cforenso - Cforenso II +Commentary: |- + Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor, 9/16/2025) + + See [[track:cforenso-ii]]! Since the artwork for [[track:cforenso]] indicates multiple parts to Cforenso itself, so we're reusing the date for that track, here. --- Section: Main album, continued --- @@ -150,12 +175,8 @@ Track: Vejisto Duration: 6:02 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/vejisto -Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/vejisto)) - - This is the first time I added any lyrics. Don't get to excited though -- I haven't sang any. - - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp lyrics blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/vejisto)) +Lyrics: |- + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([artist's lyrics](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/vejisto)) Intro @@ -201,3 +222,7 @@ Commentary: |- December 24th, he's gonna have some fun. Outro +Commentary: |- + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/vejisto)) + + This is the first time I added any lyrics. Don't get to excited though -- I haven't sang any. diff --git a/album/palokrai-ii.yaml b/album/palokrai-ii.yaml index 39ce42fb..e8216716 100644 --- a/album/palokrai-ii.yaml +++ b/album/palokrai-ii.yaml @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Duration: 2:17 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/rahonida Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/rahonida)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/rahonida)) First of the R-J-L Trilogy of Chiptunes. @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Duration: 2:19 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/jeltagnoya Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/jeltagnoya)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/jeltagnoya)) Or, how not to vary tempo. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Duration: 2:03 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/yalafura Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/yalafura)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/yalafura)) Sorry, no Chinese New Year special. This isn't even completely done, as there seems to be a bit of a problem with songs that start with Y. So stay tuned for more. --- @@ -91,15 +91,15 @@ URLs: --- Track: Maibasojen Additional Names: -- Maisabojen (composer suggestion) -- Mausajoben (composer suggestion) -- M (composer suggestion) +- Maisabojen (artist's suggestion) +- Mausajoben (artist's suggestion) +- M (artist's suggestion) Date First Released: March 5, 2011 Duration: 3:13 URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/maibasojen Commentary: |- - Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/maibasojen)) + Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/track/maibasojen)) The unspellable track! You can call it "Maisabojen", "Maibasojen", "Mausajoben" or just "M". --- diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml index f62aed01..db46c7e2 100644 --- a/artists.yaml +++ b/artists.yaml @@ -6444,7 +6444,7 @@ Artist: Isoraķatheð Zorethan F. Directory: isorakathed-zorethan-f URLs: - https://isoraqathedh.bandcamp.com/ -- https://twitter.com/isoraqathedh +- https://bsky.app/profile/isoraqathedh.com - https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com - https://isoraqathedh.github.io --- @@ -15969,4 +15969,4 @@ Artist: 菊地武 Directory: takeshi-kikuchi --- Artist: 青海川猩々 -Directory: shojo-omigawa \ No newline at end of file +Directory: shojo-omigawa -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5