Triangle of new tunes

The streak of grind burst continues. Combination of frustration and having let the ideas for songs be boiling for longer time seems to be a winning combination. Like yesterday, I'm really happy with the songs I laid down today. Perhaps even more happy today.

The song lengths can give again some kind of idea of how the songs are. First two songs, even that they are totally different by structure, ended up the exactly same length (1 min 33 sec - though there are few seconds of empty space in all the songs, rough mixes as they are). The third one is the shortest song so far, being around 50 seconds long only.

About this forthcoming SF album which is under work:

This album will not go past 30 minutes mark, quite certainly. At least that's the aim for now. There is a chance though, that the space/scifi elements might make it over 30 minutes long but that remains to be seen. At this point it feels that there won't be long space elements in this package, could be that the space soundscapes are built inside the songs, more likely. Where possible / where it fits to the content of the song musically and perhaps lyrically speaking. It looks like there will be about 20-25 songs overall if the song lengths keep staying around that 1 min 30 sec length. Currently it's over 14 minutes already with the 10 song bases - though there are several seconds extra time per song at this stage.

Also, what I've written in past, still counts; Timo quite probably has no time for Scumfusion during 2011, so this album will be fully worked during Spring 2012. Which feels fine, no need to rush for change. And it's better that way since we will be trying live drums with dubbing for extra extremity factor. We'll see what happens with that, and when. Gonna be an interesting experiment for sure.

... and the creation continues.

I felt it already at work today, that tonight some grind composing will happen. You can just know it sometimes, the gut feeling. Well, the feeling was certainly right: I composed two new song bases tonight and I'm really satisfied with how these two songs feel.

First of these two was actually just bit over 40 seconds long at first, but as I was listening the initial rough mix of it, I felt it needs to be worked bit further. It sounded (and felt!) so good. After re'working the song it's about one third longer, bit over 1 minute long. The second new song will have bassguitar opening (and perhaps some space soundscapes) to it, before launching into high speed. It's aroud 1 min 30 sec long, might turn out bit longer than that.

Also, check out the pic below.

One piece of cake more

Created one new song base tonight. This time not out of frustration feelings, but simply got inspired from old Nasum material - and the result is really nasty song base.

Funny little observation; the song lengths aren't of course in final form at this early stage, but all the five songs are pretty much the same length what I bothered to check - they all are around 1 min 30 seconds long or so. I have a feeling it could well continue in that vein because the material will be definitely more grind ('n'crust if you may) and less deathy. Partially intentional, but as much a result of "what just happens". Feels good that way.

Two more

Thanks to recent events in personal life, I had a very fitting mood for composing two new song bases for SF tonight. Both of the songs came out out of nowhere so to speak, meaning that they were composed very fast and easily. Both are rather ... well, noisy and furious. The first of the songs is full of rage with unsual break in the middle (guitar'wise speaking) while the second song might not be total grind, but then again it has very mad guitar riffs, like a storm rolling on the fretboard. I'm quite satisfied how these two new song bases came out.

Music video for "Dimension shift"

The funny little idea for making a Lego themed music video came only yesterday, but the music video was just finished. Chose "Dimension shift" (from 'a Lossidian threnody' 2010) as it's bit less chaotic song and as this video also serves as a test for more complex Lego themed video that might happen in the future. This video was done really quickly; took some ~40 pictures of Lego men (astronaut guys of course, ha!) using mobile phone, handheld - but the result is way more entertaining than I believed it could be. Even added the lyrics into the actual video itself, too.

Check it out at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozyTCcik1uc

About creating new material - still haven't continued saving the song bases I've been toying with, but there's no rush for anything. Lots of other things going on at the moment, but you can expect update when there's something to report. In the meanwhile, go have a laugh or two with that Lego scifi grind video. ;)