I also released an album today on bandcamp (experimental shit)

[meanwhile]

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Denatured Machinery | meanwhile

over the past month and then some, i set out to make my most ambitious project to date. i gathered my friends, and together we made a 44-minute long piece that honestly has so many sounds and influences, i don't even know how to describe it. some of the influences are gurun gurun, tim hecker, coil, and めめ, while some of the styles it explores are free folk, ambient, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, ambient, drone, microsound, etc.

approaching this project, i had one goal in mind: to make something instrumentally dense that made extensive use of live instrumentation and synths to create a music piece that is warm, natural, playful and free flowing, while simulatenously being cold, dark and mechanical. personally, i think we succeeded at that.

i would be very grateful if you gave it a listen! let me know what you think of it, and maybe share it with people you know

[Perogi Palooka]

Giving it a listen now. Not really great with C&C stuff musically, but I'll give an opinion when I finish. I at least can say at this point congrats in putting this out! It was probably a bunch of hard work, and it's commendable that you started and saw a project like this through.

[meanwhile]

thanks for listening! i'm glad you enjoyed most of it!

not gonna lie, i love making music that does weird things to people's ears, which is exactly why i added the high frequencies in the second movement. i do feel like the vocals could've been done better, but (un)surprisingly it's actually really hard to find someone willing to sing over a free improv piece, so i took what i could get.

the last movement happens to be my favourite too, but that's because i'm an ambient/drone nerd, and i had a lot of fun making the drone that fills the final 14 minutes.

also your criticisms are just as valid as anyone elses, so you don't need to defend anything.

[meanwhile]

thanks for listening! i can't say i didn't expect that synth at 24 minutes to hurt some ears, but personally i believe inducing pain is a pretty powerful tool when making music with atmosphere in mind. overwhelming the listener to the point where it can become really uncomfortable, and even painful is great for immersing them in a sinister atmosphere, in my opinion at least. i like noise music and my main musical output is noise, so it carried a pretty heavy influence when i was putting this project together