Pathological Head Bobbing

Feb 282012
 

I finished the fourth song on the forthcoming album. Due to the way Bandcamp works, you can’t actually see it. So, yeah, fun times. I think this is a completely ass-backwards way of doing an album, though. But in the end I find it quite funny.

How to make an album?

  1. Decide on a name for your album and your songs.
  2. Put it on pre-order.
  3. Compose.
  4. Profit?

Not that I have any doubts of problems. When I make music, I work fast and consistently. It’s the starting a new project that’s an issue. Or finishing any old project that has been untouched for more than a month.

So, anyway, this song. It’s a little short, and I think it could have been probably twice as long and repetitive because I just love that beat. But I figure I’ll make sure I won’t wear out my welcome. 80 minute album might be a little too much. I did promise 12 songs, after all. Assuming a decent 45 minute length, that would make for a little below four minutes per song.

Incidentally, I’m really looking forwards to the next song. I have some really cool ideas, but I don’t think I’ll get enough time to work on it the next few days. Thursday is my best bet, but I don’t think I’ll finish it then. But if all my ideas work out, it’ll be really cool.

New Album, Pre-Order, Et Cetera!

Feb 272012
 

So, yeah, I made an off the cuff decision to remove the ability to download these songs for free.

Since you can already listen to the songs for free, I don’t think it’s that big of a problem.

I did more than that, though. I also made it an pre-order album of 12 tracks. I had already planned out these tracks. I even have several of them already made, but majority of them only exist in my mind. However since I made four and half songs in less than two days, I have no fear that I won’t be able to make the release date which is over two months away (5/5/12). Additionally I also renamed the album from “Solo Material” in to “Seed” which was the title of the painting I use in the cover art.

If you pre-order the album you will get the three finished songs for free, and I will also redo that painting for the final cover and give you a full poster-size image file for you to print or use in any non-commercial fashion you like.

Right now things are a little in the flux, but let me work on it tomorrow some more and I’ll have something more concrete. I didn’t have enough time to do all the changes I wanted today because I was in the gym, so I had only few hours on the evening for all this stuff.

New Song: Heartroots

Feb 262012
 

Another song! It seems that once I got past the initial block, the floodgates burst open. I literally can’t stop making music, especially this style of music. I love working on “projects” and this “album” is definitely one. I like what I have going on right now. I am planning on making 12 songs of this stuff, but we’ll see if I change my mind and end up with less songs.

But regardless, here’s the heaviest song of all the three so far. I call it “Heartroots” and all it lacks is a distorted guitar and it’d be pure metal. It’s getting to be rather intense. The previous song I made “Phonetic” was already much heavier than the first “Slacker”. I personally prefer the heavier stuff, but I suppose the slowness of “Slacker” gives a nice breather.

Anyway! About this song. It was made with the same “template” that I used for all the other songs, and largerly with the same synths. I used mostly Kore and Razor. I love Razor, it’s a great synth to program. Even though I sometimes end up being lazy and using just a preset. Sorry about that. No presets in this song, however.

New Song: Phonetic

Feb 262012
 

So, I couldn’t help myself. I made another song. In a… er, very short time.

This one is much better in my opinion and I definitely played it much tighter. It’s also much more typically my style. The “template” is more or less the same as the previous song. I did add a drum machine to get some more bass out of the kick. This one seemed to require some more oomph. It’s also much more “danceable” song than the previous one.

All in all, it’s just like the previous one but has 95.6% more of me in it. And I retired my own blog audio player, here’s Bandcamp’s embedded one:

New Song: Slacker

Feb 262012
 

So, I have tried to make some new music but I have always failed. After multiple tries, I decided that this was because of my templates. Y’see, I do a lot of my music based on templates. Which are basically a ready mixes of drums and bass, et cetera. But I haven’t made any new templates for a while, since we haven’t been working on an album or any other major project.

So all of my stuff from those templates ended up not sounding right. To fix this, I decided to make a new template. Or at least start from a scratch. I spent two hours making a new bass sound tweaking knobs and then finding proper reverbs and equalizations on computer. Once that was done I started working on some basic drums. Before I noticed, I had a new song. I call it “Slacker”. Probably a reference to the bassist.

The song is a little atypical for me, but also has parts that are basically archetypical for me. So, go figure. I’d classify it somewhere around “Electronic Rock”. Nothing too heavy, but rather dark (surprise).

Bandcamp

Feb 252012
 

So, I have news. King Fear isn’t dead, but only because I think it’s a cool name. I will publish all my personal music under the name “Jyri Straechav” but they will all be published in Bandcamp. I will give you previews of the songs here, but the downloads are only available on the bandcamp page.

Now, you can name your own prices for the songs or download them for free. But if you want to get the songs for free, I will require an valid email address. I think it’s a fair trade that you at least see enough trouble to enter your email address in order for me to give you the songs for free. You can already listen to them for free both here and on bandcamp.

If you have ever felt like donating, either in order to help me with my art or music, you can name your own price for the albums or songs. I appreciate all money.

Also, in future Kingfear.com will redirect to bandcamp page, and I will have a URL there that directs to a special dedicated page on this blog for the band.

All the money I receive from the music will go directly to support my future musical ideas, and will be appreciated more than you know. I am a poor man, and only reason why I can do music is because I don’t own a car and I don’t use money to partying or buy anything excess. Like clothes and food.

I will not store, nor use, remember, or do anything at all with the email addresses that I receive in return for you to download my songs for free. I merely consider the slight effort you have to see in order to enter the email address as a payment for the free song.

Things I Like: A Desert Life

Feb 252012
 

Sometimes I wish…

So what’s up?

Feb 232012
 

So, what’s up?

Nothing much. I am juggling some crazy ideas and notions. I am mostly, however, in a slight impasse. I feel like I should do something, but all I can think about is what I could do with a saxophone and how I would use it. But, as it happens, I don’t have one yet.

I’ve been making some visualization and I’m coming up with a fairly interesting selection of instruments that I think I will want to employ in future.

Parts of this list should be obvious, since I have been extolling the virtues of bamboo sax. I have always loved Saxophones, but only after getting the bamboo sax I have entertained the notion of getting one for myself.

Now, quickly, the list of instruments I need is as follows: Continue reading »

Writing again

Feb 122012
 

I’m here! Amazing.

It’s been months, and months. Officially, King Fear isn’t dead yet, but I think it will be soon. It’s not that I don’t still do music with El. I did that just yesterday. But if we do something, I might as well release it here in my blog.

I’ve been up to many things, none of which I can really publish.

On my free time I’ve started writing a book. So that takes some of my time. Whether it will ever see the daylight is a whole another thing. But it’s something that sucks up my time.

Sorry about that.

On the art side of things I’ve also painted, but they’re all physical paintings (acrylics) so I can’t show them because all the photos suck ass.

On music side, I got myself a Bamboo Sax! It’s amazing. I play it every day. It’s so easy that it’s ridiculous. Took me a day to be able to play a scale on it, but after that it’s been great. I’ve had it for two weeks now and I can play songs on it. Tonguing is difficult, at least if I want to do it “invisibly”. On a bad side of things, the Bamboo Sax is not tuned. It’s in tune with itself so it’s fun to play, but I can’t record it. At least not if there’s anything else playing.

Been there, done that, didn’t work.

Now I am going to get myself a new bamboo sax, this time tuned. Then I am going to start saving money for a saxophone. Yeah. That’s right. Jazz is coming this way. Or at least Bohren & Der Club of Gore. Also, listen to Ulver’s “Perdition City”. I might do that kind of stuff.

 

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