Discography/ Music

"Desert
Opuses"
Released
in 2008/ 2009
Instrospection Records
News
April 8, 2009-- "Desert Opuses" cds have arrived. The cd version has
two songs that aren't on the vinyl: "Evilution" and "Stripped Ruins",
and there's a few ways that the cd and vinyl version differ--including
some different art designs and layout.
Purchase "Desert Opuses" now--vinyl or
cd-- and get a limited edition download
for a "Mountains Of the Pharoahs" 5 song EP,
including one new song, one song dating back to the "Night Songs"
sessions roughly from 2004, one atmospheric demo song going
back to
1997, and an orchestral remix of "Mountains of the Pharoahs". Also
included are photos of scratch lyric sheets and some other information
about the songs on how they were written and mixed, as well as some
other technical information.
Track listing
(all
songs are clips and are 320 KBPS for
maximum sound quality)
Full tracks available at Last
Fm
MP3's available for $.49 cents at Cd
Freedom and $4.00 for the complete MP3 album (available also
through ITunes, Napster, Amazon MP3, EMusic and Rhapsody)
Based on a Middle Eastern theme, both
musically and lyrically, it ups
the tempo and aggression level of "Night Songs" ' heaviness, while
increasing the mechanical, robotic feel of it's predecessor. Shorter,
more concise and a bit less epic (but still epic nonetheless), the
songs are at once more immediate and still melodic, never relying only
on pure heaviness for it's sonic bludgeoning. "Desert Opuses" ' world
is one of drum machines versus acoustic drums; tubes versus
transistors; live performances versus studio effectation; eras past
versus the future/ now. Sonic paranoia never sounded so good.
It
is
on translucent gold 140 gram
vinyl (400 copies only), and includes one track not on the cd release,
"The Desert Winds", and a different mix of "Obliteration" (not
available via digital download/ cd, only by
dropping the needle to the groove). Purchase of vinyl entitles one to a
free coupon for a digital download of the release, including a track
not
on the vinyl, "Stripped Ruins".

"Night
Songs"
Released in 2007
Instrospection Records
Track
listing (all songs are clips and are 320 KBPS sound for
maximum sound quality)
Full tracks available at Last
Fm
MP3's available for $.49 cents at Cd
Freedom and $4.00 for the complete MP3 album
(available also through ITunes, Napster, Amazon MP3, EMusic and
Rhapsody)
Revolving around a dark sound, the
critically acclaimed "Night Songs"
is appropriately indebted to the night in spirit. With songs
representing various times of the night, ending at "Sunrise" in the
morning, it is an appropriately--and intentionally--bleak album with
occasional shades of light and optimism. Combining a tribal attack
merged with Phil Spector grandeur and spacy psychedelic sonics, it's
slow Sabbath meets Spacemen 3 grind is both indirect and mechanical,
yet alluring and oddly organic, revealing shades and textures rather
than colors and obvious rock conventions.
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