Aimless Ideas: My new debut album is out

I promised I'd post here again, I still love this blog... It's so peaceful and empty. I'm listening to Animus by Swans and perhaps that's what's causing such a thought. Haha.

So my debut album is out, it's hard to believe I've been making my own music since 2008. Ever since I learned how to record my own stuff I've been writing without care. It was and still is lovely. To have the freedom of making music without a thought or feeling of pressure. It's crazy that it's been three years now since I started.

At times I miss the glory of not knowing how to play too well and just improvising and coming up with, what at the time seemed like, magic. I still have a soft spot for the old songs that no one has heard (except one person) and they are dear to me. It's not that the new songs are any less to me but you never really capture the youth of the first ones.

Anyways without getting too sappy, here is the album. Please enjoy it, if anyone still reads this. And if no one does I hope that someday in the future someone will read this and listen to it. It's a culmination of my work and art.

The dust will never settle

So this is my first blog (not really, I had a worse one) and I have some sentimental value with it because I left it in the cold void of the internet to die...

I never posted that mixtape, I never updated on the EP, the single and three series of outtakes I've released in the time till now.

I feel bad but no one reads this anyways, so why do I have an attachment? Maybe it's because I know I put some of my soul onto this thing, whether it was my naive soul from a few years ago but whatever.

Still I just wanted to write that I have a record label I'm working on with a friend of mine and you can find us at http://chieftizorecords.blogspot.com.

I don't know if I can say I'll post here again but maybe I'll post something when my debut record comes out in a few weeks. At least then this place could attract some attention.

Until then my old nesting place.

New Music coming soon

A single or something, from the new WINTER EP should be out by next week.

GET READY.

Songs for the Night: Have A Nice Life - Bloodhail

Masterful and brooding. Nothing helps you get through the night like this.

Mixtape and the progression of music

I'm going to post a mixtape on here, probably in a few days to mark the start of Autumn, lots of cool dreary tunes and such to get people going through the October malaise.

Secondly, the new music is coming along well, I've got a handful of leftover tracks from my last EP release that I really don't know what to do with, and some even older leftovers that I might just throw up or re-record. My biggest problem right now is that I don't own a bass, but hopefully by next week I'll be able to borrow one from a good friend of mine. Another problem is that my hi-hats are atrocious and sound like wash cymbals rather a crisp hi-hat. So I'm going to have to make a choice between that and Starcraft II. Alas, I like making music more, so that'll probably be a no-brainer.

Finally life has been well, if a bit stagnant, and will probably continue that way for a bit. Let's hope first impressions aren't everything that are remembered and that underestimation will be the key to new experiences and revelations.

80th Post: How Scandinavian - Patchwork Two P

Remember when I said I was working on a cover of Modest Mouse's song 'Interstate 8'? Probably not, but here it is. I had the pleasure of working with a good friend of mine, Stephanie, to provide the female backing vocals originally on the song and I think it sounds wonderful. Instrumentation-wise I tried to do something original in the sense that it's not a straight up guitar cover. I also threw in an old b-side song I had lying around for around a year, just a little fun instrumental to back up this cover.

Hope it's enjoyable.



Track list
1. Interstate 8 - 4:38 (Modest Mouse Cover)
2. One Good Friend - 3:30

Total Running time: 8:08

Download link (320kbps MP3) : http://www.mediafire.com/?ri5rfi6nknhrwys

Wind up anger...

Aimless Ideas: Rehashing

Here's an original idea, things come and go really fast. That was a lie by the way. But regardless, looking back is simple enough to do, something to remind yourself that there was a moment when your surroundings and the people who fill it up do not resemble how they are now. But what most people seem to forget is that this lack of resemblance isn't dramatic as they would wish. No these surroundings and those are people were the same, it's just you've grown old with them or grown out of them.
'Them' meaning either a surrounding that you possibly don't associate the same ideas or feelings with or meaning a person or a set of people whom you don't associate the same ideas or feelings with.

So what's the source of these changes in ideas and feelings? I'd say the amount of how many times you compare the past and present. If you look back long enough at a certain moment and compare it to the present there will result a drastic change in how you look at it. The new ideas and feelings that you've discovered in the present time frame will mesh with the old ideas and feelings you've had for a longer period of time, which 'updates' the way you see this moment in the past.

Time doesn't run out, it merely accumulates, and the more time you hold with an idea or a feeling the more you get to familiarize yourself with it's strengths and weaknesses. You grow comfortable with this and also grow sickened of how flawed it may be and the absurd nature to which you've devoted yourself to it.

I'd imagine that some memories are fondly remembered and no amount of future tarnishing can truly ruin it. The idea that it was a happy time is run by emotion and not reason, which allows one to look back and feel sorrow that it isn't like that anymore and wishing that your feelings and ideas were still valid or immediately relevant.

They are not immediately relevant because in your present mind you realize at some point that you can never achieve to re-live that preserved moment, it is impossible. But the relevance lives on in the individual that wishes to let it shape their future actions and creation of ideas on other new surroundings and their inhabitants.

In general terms, the only thing that really ever allows anything to change is you. Whether this can affect others and their ideas is up to themselves as well, which finally affects surroundings and gives birth to new ideas and feelings.