From d8d3ad11ba9b6d78f2839dedf8242bbe785a3d74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lilithtreasure <62890895+Lilithtreasure@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:33:04 -0400 Subject: IT'S A MICHAEL BOWMAN REMIX - added How to Bronze Bowman from iambowman (in a similar vein to New Homestuck album! blog entry) to Vol. 6: Heir Transparent - added missing leading paragraph from Bowman's blog post about Vol. 5 (New Homestuck album!) and added "Continued in!" (and also additional "Continued in!" links elsewhere) links for Bowman's Vol. 5 contributions which are addressed, and "Continued from" links for pretty much... uh.. oh god am I doing this right - added IAMBOWMAN (Music and Stuff) sources to track commentary for Squiddle Samba, Tangled Waltz, Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles, Hauntjam, Lunar Eclipse (with missing leading paragraph added back in from said source, was missing from commentary txt file from MSPA Prophet), I Don't Want To Miss A Thing, Greenhouse, How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version), Ruins (With Strings) (new), Hardchorale (new), Happy Cat Song! (new), Sburban Jungle (both plain and (Brief Mix), Ohgodwhat Remix, Chorale for Jaspers, Pony Chorale, Explore, Harlequin (Rock Version) - adjusted formatting for LoFaM 2 cover art commentary --- album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead.yaml') 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: |- - Michael Guy Bowman: + Michael Guy Bowman: (co-composer, from [Music and Stuff](https://web.archive.org/web/20110326020456/http://www.iambowman.com/music.html)) + + The Midnight Crew 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]]!)* Michael Guy Bowman: (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. - Michael Guy Bowman: + Michael Guy Bowman: (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". -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5