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.

Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay - Live at Bryan's Garage: 01-05-2010 (2010)

So since I finally finished my latest EP (download link is below somewhere) I've been looking through the archives to upload some fun stuff. So I decided to tackle my side band "Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay" with members Mark Gross and Justin Cirar, a post-hardcore tribal music affair. Unfortunately, we don't have any real studio tracks as we record mostly in a live take with one one mic to preserve that whole DIY aesthetic of the band. But early this year we opened for my own band (redundant) 'Cape Crusaders' and had the equipment to recorded at least slightly in a professional manner (Yeah right). So here is the awesome result of the live show, I particularly am in good spirits here for some reason and so is the crowd. While our opening time slot is short and we didn't perform all of our original material (which will come up in a few days here if you are curious) it was a fun gig to play and definitely one of my fondest memories with the group. So here for the first time is the Live at Bryan's Garage: 01-05-2010 mini-LP.

Personnel:
Keyboard, Percussion, Vocals - Justin Cirar
Drums, Percussion, Vocals - Mark Gross
Guitar, Keyboard, Drums, Vocals - Bryan Santizo

Track list:

1. Intro/Jokes Section - 3:00
2. Oh Yo - 1:24
3. It's the E-Flat Thing - 0:45
4. Lighten Up - 4:17
5. Creep - 4:23
6. Be Wary of the Cord - 1:21
7. Kira, Give Us Your Camera - 3:02
8. Oh Yo (Reprise) - 0:55

Running time: 19:09

Download Link MP3 VBR: http://www.mediafire.com/?jl1g16sl9glp211

Notes: The Creep climax is one of the best moments ever.

Stuff to Download: Slint - Spiderland

I'd like to say everyone needs to listen to this, but they don't cause they wouldn't understand it and would lay down names to this album that it doesn't deserve. So if you think you can handle some pretty creative music, give this a try.



download link : Click here for a new adventure

How Scandinavian - Smiles Without Mirth EP

Finally, here's the music I've worked on for pretty much a good part of 2010 on. It's been a long journey but here it finally is. I think this is my most cohesive work yet and trumps my debut EP (I still like that one though) and gives a bit of a glimpse into what sort of music I'll begin to make later on. (Also who knows, maybe I'll have to remaster this one too next year if I get better with mixing.) So here it is!

Track List
1. Common Convenience - 3:49
2. Jay Fantini - 3:43
3. Left Field Cult Film Theme Song - 3:05
4. Philander - 3:09
5. For a Living - 5:51
6. The Colors Ran - 4:13
7. Elated - 3:29
8. Nancy - 4:09
9. Old News - 3:44

Total Running Time: 35:12

Download link VBR MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?q0qpoweypkfojvw

Also be on the look out for another single release in a few days or so, cause I've got three more B-sides to throw out before this whole Smiles without Mirth Era ends. Additionally, like the last EP release, if you want this on CD, just ask and bring your own CD and case and I'll give it to you. If you want custom art, bring a few bucks.